Congratulations to all the nominees for the 2017 Goya Awards for short films! Yesterday we finally heard the news—it’s something to be very happy about. Getting this far is very difficult.
These are the nominated shorts:
Best Fiction Short Film
- Bla, bla, bla
- On the Rooftop
- Graffiti
- The Invitation
- Timecode
Best Documentary Short Film
- Talking Heads
- Hope
- Candy Words
- The Resurrection Club
Best Animated Short Film
- Darrel
- Set
- Made in Spain
- Uka
Seeing the nominations, I think the time has come to put together a roundup post with all the content published in recent months; a lot has happened: new rules, changes, corrections, long conversations, etc. Without a doubt, it has been one of the years in which we have talked most about the Goya Awards for short films.
These are the posts published about the new rules and the strategy to reach submission.
I published the first one on June 17, one day after the rules were published. Here I analysed the changes and talked about some mistakes, which were fixed a week later:
Successes and mistakes in the new rules for the Goya Awards for short films
This post had many visits; it was also published by the magazine Cortosfera and helped the Academy correct the lists of international festivals.
After such a radical change, the entire strategy for national festivals had to be rethought, in fiction, animation, and documentary.
In these two posts I analyse the strategy for fiction, the first published on June 27 and the second on October 18:
Strategy in national festivals for the 2018 Goya Awards
Strategy in national festivals for the 2018 Goya Awards from January onwards
After the first one on fiction, Carlota Coronado wrote two guest posts about animated short films, the first on June 30, and the second on July 11:
A filter at the Goya Awards for 24 animated shorts?
Figures for Spanish animated short films in 2015
To close the analysis by genre, on July 25 I published a study on the complicated situation of documentary short films. In the end, more short films have come in than it seemed; even so, it is the genre that has suffered most from the new rules:
Analysis of the situation of Spanish documentary short films for the 2017 Goya Awards
A few days before the submission deadline I was talking about documentaries again; it seemed that the nominees would not be filled:
The countdown to the 2017 Goya Awards
On October 26 the short-list was announced. Without a doubt, one of the most controversial in the entire history of the awards. In this post, published a day later, I asked myself several questions about an Academy decision that was hard to understand.
Questions about the selection of short films for the Goya Awards
For the second time in a few months, the Academy had to correct itself. In the end, more shorts were added, some of which are now nominated.
I hope these publications have helped you understand the rules and prepare your festival strategy; whether we like it or not, the Goya Awards for short films are one of the most important goals in short film distribution.