Biography

Short Film News (http://www.shortfilmnews.com), as the first news network on short films and documentaries in Iran & Asia, was established in 2004 by Riahi sisters as a non-governmental independent institution. Considering the activities of thousands of filmmakers on short films and documentaries and producing 3 thousand short films and documentaries each year by Iranian filmmakers, it was necessary to have a professional network media to cover the related news to this field.

Since, in the last decades, the most success of Iran cinema in the international events belongs to Iranian short films and documentaries, and on the other hand, the audiences of short films are increasing all over the world due to new medias (internet, mobile phone, etc.), we decided to activate the English page of our website in 2005 as well.

Our main goal is to make an international network for independent filmmakers all over the world where they can find the related news to festivals, short films and documentaries events in different parts of the world. We publish all news relating to short film and documentary in any part of the world and filmmakers and festival directors can contact us for publishing their news in our website.

Introducing Iranian shorts and documentaries to the festivals and other showing programs is another service we can arrange. We can provide a collection of the best Iranian shorts and documentaries for the events and festivals interested in screening Iranian films.

Also there is the possibility for the filmmakers to be a member of film section of our website to introduce their works.

During these 4 years, SFN had been the news sponsor of the following festivals and events:

- Kish International Documentary Film Festival, Iran

- Kabul Documentary and Short Films Festival, Afghanistan

- Cinema Verite Documentary Film Festival, Iran

- Tehran Short Film Festival, Iran

- FIKE Documentary and Short Film Festival, Portugal

- MOTELx Film Festival, Portugal

- DepicT! Short Film Competition, UK

- On & Off Short Film Festival, Spain

- Third Eye Asian Film Festival, India

Our website is visited more than 20 thousand times per day from different countries and the traffic rank of our website increases quickly. At the time being we are the sole professional network medium on short films and documentaries in Asia who is ready to cooperate with the international events.