Jury members Scott Belyea (top left), Meaghan Brander (lower left), and Gordie Haakstad (lower right) are joined by Festival Director Terry Scerbak (top right) as they announce the award winners and honorable mentions for 2022. Click here to watch the 10-minute announcement video. All seven juried and audience choice award winners screened in the Best…
Fest Trailer Fest Pass & Event Tickets The Fest Pass and event tickets are available to purchase! Schedule & Event Tickets Film Trailers Extreme Measures | On the Job | Criminal Intent | Psycho Shorts & Pizza Party | Sprouts for Kids Tuesday, April 26 7:30pm: Extreme Measures – Presented by 989 Rewind Radio; 14+…
About the Reel Shorts Film Festival The 15th Reel Shorts Film Festival brings the best of the world’s short films to Grande Prairie with screenings at Grande Prairie Live Theatre April 26 to May 1. More details can be found at Schedule including information about buying tickets or a Fest Pass. Friend of the Fest…
Fest Pass – $49 ($44 students, $39 members) No need to buy individual tickets! With a Fest Pass, you’re a VIP and have access to every screening and party April 26 to May 1 (does not include access to the Virtual Fest May 2-8). Arrive at least 15 minutes before start time to save yourself…
Predict the Oscar Winners Test your Academy Award predicting abilities on Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5 at the Oscar Shorts presented by Rewind Radio and the Prairie Mall. Prizes to be won are valued at $650 including $300 in Prairie Mall gift cards! Cinematically travel the world by seeing all ten Oscar-nominated animated…
The deadline is Monday, January 31 for Peace Region filmmakers to submit their short films to the 15th Reel Shorts Film Festival taking place in-person April 26 to May 1 at Grande Prairie Live Theatre, and online in Canada May 2-8. This extended deadline applies to films made in the Peace Region of northeast BC…
FREE online workshops These Doc Ignite workshops are presented by Hot Docs, in collaboration with the Reel Shorts Film Festival, and are generously supported by Netflix. Making the Local Story Global 6:30pm – 8:00pm MST, Tuesday, January 11, 2022 Presenter: Julian Carrington, Distribution Manager, Hot Docs Funds “The paradox of arriving at a truly universal…
Francophones can enjoy over a dozen French-language films in the 2021 fest, but these films can also be enjoyed by everyone else since they are subtitled in English. Click on Register for the 2021 Reel Shorts Film Festival for information on how to sign up for FREE! Here are the film packages that contain French-language…
Jury members Scooter Corkle (top left), Bonnie Thompson (lower left), and Scott Belyea (lower right) are joined by Festival Director Terry Scerbak (top right) as they announce the award winners for 2021. Scroll down to watch 3 of the films as well as the 9-minute announcement video. Read the web version of the program here.…
Grade 1-12 Film Packages – FREE Teachers can screen 6 film packages for their students in their in-person or online classroom from April 26 to May 9. Register as a Virtual Fest Member here – it’s free – and you’ll be able to log in to watch the films on demand. Read the 46-page program…
How To Fest From the comfort of your own home anywhere in Canada and beyond, you can enjoy the 2021 Reel Shorts Film Festival April 26 to May 9! Register as a Virtual Fest Member here – it’s free – and you’ll be able to log in starting April 26 to watch as many of…
Chef Flynn has been added to the Reel Shorts Virtual Cinema which now has SEVEN feature-length documentaries to enjoy! We have teamed up with Toronto distributor Blue Ice Docs to offer curated online streaming of great feature-length documentaries which are not available to watch on any other streaming platform in Canada. Half of the net…
Software NFB StopMo Studio Until June 30, 2020, the NFB StopMo Studio can be downloaded for FREE. Use stop-motion animation to encourage your kids or students (or yourself) to explore a different way of creating and sharing experiences through storytelling. The app requires iOS10/iPad 2 and above. It’s designed for both casual and experienced users.…
The Reel Shorts Virtual Cinema has SIX feature-length documentaries to enjoy! We have teamed up with Toronto distributor Blue Ice Docs to offer curated online streaming of great feature-length documentaries which are not available to watch on any other streaming platform in Canada. Half of the net proceeds from the on-demand streaming fee of $9.99/film…
The Reel Shorts Virtual Cinema has FOUR feature-length documentaries to enjoy! We have teamed up with Toronto distributor Blue Ice Docs to offer curated online streaming of great feature-length documentaries which are not available to watch on any other streaming platform in Canada. Half of the net proceeds from the on-demand streaming fee of $9.99/film…
The Reel Shorts Virtual Cinema opened on Friday, May 1st with the first two feature-length documentaries. Each Friday two new documentaries are added. We have teamed up with Toronto distributor Blue Ice Docs to offer curated online streaming of great feature-length documentaries which are not available to watch on any other streaming platform in Canada.…
The 14th Reel Shorts Film Festival has been postponed from our originally announced dates of May 4-11, 2020 to our new dates of April 26 to May 3, 2021. All of the films selected for this year’s festival will be invited to screen at next year’s festival. Huge thanks to Rebel Bent for the theme…
Visit Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada Grande Prairie (population 69,000) is 464 km northwest of Edmonton on Highway 43, about a 4.5-hour drive. As the centre of the region, it supports a surrounding population of 260,000 people. Flights to Grande Prairie Both WestJet and Air Canada offer daily direct flights between YQU (Grande Prairie Airport) and…
The deadline is Friday, March 6 for Peace Region filmmakers to submit their short films to the 14th Reel Shorts Film Festival May 4-11 in Grande Prairie. This extended deadline applies to films made in the Peace Region of northeast BC and northwest Alberta, and for those made anywhere in the world by filmmakers who…
No need to buy individual tickets! With a Fest Pass, you’re a VIP and have access to every screening, party, workshop, and panel taking place May 4-11, 2020. Early Bird Fest Pass $50 Until the end of February, enjoy the Early Bird price of $50 for a Fest Pass. Regular price of $65 ($55 students)…
Test your Academy Award predicting abilities on Saturday, Feb 8 at the Oscar Shorts presented by Q99 and the Prairie Mall. Prizes to be won are valued at $700 including $300 in Prairie Mall gift cards! If you want to dress up in your red carpet finery for the 7:30 show, you could win one…
Enjoy several award-winning films from past Reel Shorts Film Festivals that are available to watch online! They were selected for the Audience Choice Award, Youth Audience Choice Award, or the juried awards for best animated, documentary, and live action shorts. There’s also a fest-produced youth film that won awards at two other festivals! Shown in…
Congratulations to the award winners of the 2019 Reel Shorts Film Festival! These films were showcased in the Best of the Fest package presented by Big Country and the Sandman Hotel. For a pdf of the 48-page program, click here. Juried Awards Jury members (above from left) Evan DeRushie from Toronto, Scott Belyea from Vancouver,…
No need to buy individual tickets! With a Fest Pass, you’re a VIP and have access to every screening, party, workshop, and panel taking place May 6-13. Check out the 48-page program pdf here. Buy Fest Pass Arrive at at least 20 minutes before start time to guarantee a seat. The reserved seats for pass…
Learn the refined and delicate art of making a giant bloopy mess, also known as stop-motion animation, in this two-day Stop-Motion Animation workshop the weekend of May 4-5 from 10:00am to 5:00pm. With support from Telefilm, it is offered in partnership with PRIMAA (Peace Region Independent Media Arts Association) and GPRC (Grande Prairie Regional College),…
Grande Prairie (population 69,000) is 464 km northwest of Edmonton on Highway 43, about a 4.5-hour drive. As the centre of the region, it supports a surrounding population of 260,000 people. Flights to Grande Prairie Both WestJet and Air Canada offer daily direct flights between YQU (Grande Prairie Airport) and YEG (Edmonton International Airport) and…
Calling all Peace Region filmmakers – the chance to make a 2-6 minute film during an adrenaline-filled weekend is here! Presented by Decca Industries and The Distillery Film Company, the 6th Frantic48 is a collaboration between PRIMAA (Peace Region Independent Media Arts Association) and the Reel Shorts Film Festival. Grab some friends, form a team,…
The deadline is Thursday, February 21 for Peace Region filmmakers to submit their short films to the 13th Reel Shorts Film Festival May 6-13 in Grande Prairie. Over 5,000 submissions from 116 countries have been received by the regular submission deadline, but there is an extended deadline for films made in the Peace Region of…
Test your Academy Award predicting abilities on Sunday, Feb 17 at the Oscar Shorts presented by Q99 and the Prairie Mall. See all ten Oscar nominated short films – FIVE of them directed by Canadians. Tickets can be purchased online or at the door for $1 more. Oscar Animated Shorts – rated 14A – Sunday,…
Develop your skills as a filmmaker during a filmmaking weekend in Grande Prairie Oct 12-14 for youth ages 16-24, a 48-hour filmmaking challenge anywhere in the Peace Region Oct 19-21 for youth and adult teams, and a Producer Accelerator weekend in Red Deer Oct 20-21 for emerging and mid-level producers! Make a Film in a…
STORYHIVE has provided funding for several Peace Region projects since 2016 – scroll down to watch two of my favorites – so I was pleased to learn that Gross Indecency: The Everett Klippert Story, a Telus Original, won the Best Alberta Short award and $2,500 at the 2018 Calgary International Film Festival which took place…
FREE EVENTS We are co-presenting two great events with PRIMAA (Peace Region Independent Media Arts Association) as part of Alberta Culture Days! On Beat, Off Beat Fri, Sep 28 from 9:00am to Sun, Sep 30 at 5:00pm Montrose Cultural Centre Foyer On Beat, Off Beat – a video art installation presented by PRIMAA (Peace Region…
We are grateful to all the filmmakers and distributors who submitted their films to our 2018 festival: 5,352 submissions were received from 129 countries. In addition, 367 other films were considered for a total of 5,719 short films from which we selected 80 to share with our audiences. It was a fantastic program! For more…
FREE workshop for emerging screenwriters, producers, and filmmakers Saturday, September 22, 9:00am – 5:00pm Pomeroy Hotel & Conference Centre, 11633 100 Street, Grande Prairie Workshop Leader: Lila Z Rose LIMITED TO 20 REGISTRANTS! This game-changing narrative screenwriting workshop is presented by ESIO (Edmonton Screen Industries Office) with support from TELUS STORYHIVE to enhance the storytelling…
Want to learn filmmaking by working on a real film set in Grande Prairie? We are excited to offer the 2018 Shoot for Reel made possible with support from Community Futures, the City of Grande Prairie, the County of Grande Prairie No. 1, and the Swan City Rotary Club. During this 5-day internship training program,…
Congratulations to the award winners of the 2018 Reel Shorts Film Festival! These films were showcased in the Best of the Fest package presented by Big Country and the Sandman Hotel. For a pdf of the 48-page program, click here. Juried Awards Jury members Gordie Haakstad from Edmonton, Alex Zahara from Vancouver, and Dominique Keller…
Grande Prairie (population 68,000+) is 464 km northwest of Edmonton on Highway 43, about a 4.5-hour drive. As the centre of the region, it supports a surrounding population of 260,000 people. Both WestJet and Air Canada offer several daily direct flights between YQU (Grande Prairie Airport) and YEG (Edmonton International Airport) and YYC (Calgary International…
Six film packages for schools ($6/person) are available to book by emailing Terry at terry@reelshorts.ca. Homeschooling families and members of the public are welcome to attend – admission is $6/person at the door. The films in these packages have been evaluated by teachers on the programming team to ensure that they have ties to curriculum…
There is a wealth of opportunities over the next few weeks for aspiring, emerging, and veteran filmmakers to develop their filmmaking skills here in Grande Prairie. The first of eight workshops is tomorrow. The last one is Saturday, May 12 during the Reel Shorts Film Festival. PRIMAA Workshops with Ava Karvonen Friday and Saturday, April…
Test your Academy Award predicting abilities on Sunday, Feb 25 at the Oscar Shorts presented by Q99 and the Prairie Mall. Prizes valued at $662 to be won! See all ten Oscar nominated short films at GPLT (Grande Prairie Live Theatre) – the Oscar Animated Shorts at 3:00pm and the Oscar Live Action Shorts package…
An award-winning Canadian documentary – Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World – kicks off the 2017-18 season of the Reel Shorts Movie Series on Sunday, October 1 @ 2:30pm at GPLT (Grande Prairie Live Theatre). As part of Alberta Culture Days, admission is FREE! It’s rated PG (Coarse Language, Nudity). This powerful documentary exposes…
Two great opportunities are coming up for aspiring and emerging filmmakers to develop their skills in Grande Prairie: A Filmmaking Hothouse – a FREE weekend workshop August 25-27 at the Ernie Radbourne Pavilion presented by Sandi Somers and Corey Lee with support from Telus Storyhive DD 1082 – Introduction to Video Production – a 15-week…
We are grateful to all the filmmakers and distributors who submitted their films to our 2017 festival: 5,074 submissions were received from 131 countries in addition to hundreds of other short films that were seen at other festivals or requested for consideration. See How do we evaluate films? to read about our evaluation process and…
Congratulations to the award winners of the 2017 Reel Shorts Film Festival! These films were showcased in the Best of the Fest package presented by Big Country and Hansen Ford Lincoln. For a pdf of the 56-page program, click here. Jury members (left to right) Dylan Pearce from Edmonton, Gordie Haakstad from Edmonton, and Scott…
Aspiring and emerging filmmakers can develop their skills in cinematic storytelling techniques and gain insight into the new frontier of virtual reality and transmedia during the Filmmaker Insights Symposium May 13-15 at the Ernie Radbourne Pavilion (see Locations). Presented in collaboration with PRIMAA (Peace Region Independent Media Arts Association), jury members and filmmakers share their…
We are very pleased to announce the jury members who will determine the award winners for Best Live Action Under 15 Minutes, Best Live Action 15+ Minutes, Best Animated Short, and Best Documentary Short. Scott Belyea is a Vancouver filmmaker who grew up in Grande Prairie. In 2016, he directed HE LOVES YOU NOT, a…
On Saturday, Feb 25, the Oscar Animated Shorts package of 8 films will screen at 3:00 pm and the Oscar Live Action Shorts package of 5 films will screen at 7:30 pm at GPLT (Grande Prairie Live Theatre) – see location info here. See below to view the trailers for 12 of the 13 films…
The Reel Shorts Movie Series kicks off with an award-winning zombie movie from South Korea – Train to Busan. When a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, a father and his young daughter struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan. Won Best Film at the 2016 Fantasia Film Festival; and Best…
Enjoy two great events this weekend: (1) Virtual Reality Experience, in collaboration with PRIMAA, is a drop-in event at Muskoseepi Pavilion between 6:00pm and 8:30pm on Friday, Sep 30 when a 360 video camera and 5 VR headsets with a variety of content will be available to try out while award-winning Edmonton Director Dylan Pearce…
Calling all filmmakers! We are accepting submissions until Monday, December 12. Peace Region filmmakers have an extended deadline of Tuesday, January 31, 2017. Submission details can be found on our Submit page. There is no submission fee and we pay screening fees to filmmakers for selected films. Official Selections are eligible for four juried awards:…