A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. Although no consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits".
Shorts can also be used to experiment with an idea or home in on a specific tone or feel of something, often making shorts much more open to more serious darker themes and characters than feature films, as with low budgets they have nothing to loose. Below are two examples of short films, one at the very high end of the scale; large cast, crew, budget etc. The other much smaller in scale, but both won lots of awards at short film festivals.
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