Balinale Film Festival

The XXI Short Film Festival Competition debuted in 2013, from March 21 to March 24 at Epicentrum XXI, and welcomed an audience of 3,438 people. Out of 730 short films that registered for the competition that year, 29 made it as finalists to present their film on Cinema XXI’s big screen. The finalists competed for various award categories.

The winners of XXI Short Film Festival 2013 got a scholarship from Universitas Bunda Mulia, Canon digital camera, and cash prize. For the Best Short Documentary, Best Short Fiction-Narrative, and Best Short Animation, the winning films were screened on a roadshow by Cinema XXI to give opportunity for viewers outside Jakarta area to watch them as well and therefore encourage more talents to participate in the 2014 competition.

Apart from finalists’ works, the XXI Short Film Festival 2013 also screened films from the non-competition program, such as a short retrospective film Focus On Director, produced by 2 talented directors B.W. Purbanegara and Ifa Isfansyah whose short films have gained international recognition. There were also 2 workshop sessions, namely Distribusi Film Pendek (Short Film Distribution) workshop and Rock your Short! workshop, which shared about short film distributions and music illustration usage in short films.

Kompetisi XXI Short Film Festival pertama kali digelar tahun 2013 pada 21 hingga 24 Maret di Epicentrum XXI. Total penonton XXI Short Film Festival 2013 tercatat sebanyak 3.438 orang. Total 730 film pendek mendaftar untuk mengikuti kompetisi ini dan 29 finalis terpilih untuk menayangkan karya mereka di layar lebar Cinema XXI. Para finalis berlomba untuk memperebutkan berbagai kategori penghargaan.

Para pemenang XXI Short Film Festival 2013 mendapatkan hadiah beasiswa dari Universitas Bunda Mulia, kamera digital Canon, dan uang tunai. Khusus untuk Film Dokumenter Terbaik, Film Pendek Fiksi Naratif Terbaik dan Film Pendek Animasi Terbaik, film mereka ditayangkan secara road show di Cinema XXI untuk memberikan kesempatan penonton di luar area Jakarta melihat karya-karya tersebut dan menumbuhkan bakat baru lainnya agar dapat berpartisipasi di kompetisi tahun 2014.

XXI Short Film Festival 2013 tidak hanya menampilkan karya dari para finalis saja. Program non-kompetisi juga hadir, salah satunya bertajuk 'Focus On Director' yaitu retrospektif film-film pendek karya 2 sutradara berbakat B.W. Purbanegara dan Ifa Isfansyah yang memiliki karya film pendek yang diakui oleh negara lain. Selain itu, terdapat pula 2 sesi workshop yaitu workshop Distribusi Film Pendek dan Rock your Short!, yang menjelaskan mengenai cara penyebaran film pendek serta penggunaan ilustrasi musik di film pendek.

2013

XXI Short Film Festival, a nationwide short film festival, was held by Cinema XXI for the second time. Cinema XXI organized a series of roadshow activities, which included screenings of the first XXI Short Film Festival winners and short film discussions in 11 cities in Indonesia. This year, XXI Short Film Festival provided production funds for selected short films through the Short Film Pitching Forum. Three selected projects will be granted funding and screened at the XXI Short Film Festival 2015.

XXI Short Film Festival saw a tremendous enthusiasm and appreciation towards short films during 2 years of its implementation. In its second year, 430 short films registered for the competition, which narrowed down to 22 finalists. XXI Short Film Festival 2014 was held for 4 days, from March 13 to March 16, and gathered more than 4,000 audiences. Although the number of entries decreased from 2013 with 730 entries, the quality was nothing less exceptional and fresh.

Untuk kedua kalinya, Cinema XXI mengadakan festival film pendek tingkat nasional dalam XXI Short Film Festival. Kali ini rangkaian kegiatan dilakukan dengan road show pemutaran film pemenang XXI Short Film Festival tahun pertama dan diskusi film pendek di 11 kota di Indonesia. Di tahun kedua ini, XXI Short Film Festival memberikan bantuan berupa dukungan produksi terhadap beberapa karya film pendek terpilih lewat Short Film Pitching Forum. Tiga proyek terpilih mendapatkan bantuan produksi dan hasilnya disaksikan pada XXI Short Film Festival 2015.

Selama dua tahun penyelenggaraan XXI Short Film Festival, antusiasme dan apresiasi terhadap film pendek sangatlah besar. Di tahun keduanya, tak kurang dari 430 film pendek terdaftar mengikuti kompetisi ini, dan kemudian tersaring hingga 22 finalis film pendek. XXI Short Film Festival 2014 yang penyelenggaraannya dilakukan selama 4 hari mulai dari 13 hingga 16 Maret ini disaksikan oleh lebih dari 4.000 penonton. Meskipun jumlah pendaftar agak menurun dari tahun 2013 yang mencapai 730 orang, namun kualitas yang ditampilkan tetap mumpuni dan segar.

2014

Cinema XXI came with the third event of XXI Short Film Festival, which was held from March 18 to March 22 at Epicentrum XXI, Jakarta. This event emphasized Cinema XXI’s consistency in supporting the Indonesian film industry, especially for young filmmakers to show their talents through the short film competition. The committee of XXI Short Film Festival 2015 recorded a total of 651 entries, which were filtered into three competition categories: 9 finalists for Fiction Short Film, 6 finalists for Documentary Short Film, and 8 finalists Animation Short Film.

For the first time, XXI Short Film Festival 2015 held a sharing session workshop with several film production houses that have explored the Indonesian film industry in the last few decades, namely Chand Parwez of StarVision, Putut Widjanarko of Mizan Productions, Hanung Bramantyo of Dapur Film, and Yunka of Maxima Pictures.

XXI Short Film Festival 2015 lasted for five days and recorded 6,500 audiences attending its series of activities, ranging from the screening of short films from the competition program, screening of selected international short films, filmmaking workshop, and Pitching Forum.

Cinema XXI kembali menghadirkan XXI Short Film Festival yang menjadi tahun ketiga penyelenggaraannya pada 18 - 22 Maret di Epicentrum XXI, Jakarta. Dengan kembali digelarnya acara ini, konsistensi Cinema XII terbukti untuk terus memberi dukungan pada industri perfilman Indonesia, khususnya bagi para pembuat film muda untuk menunjukkan kemampuan mereka melalui kompetisi film pendek. Selama masa pendaftaran, panitia XXI Short Film Festival 2015 telah menerima 651 pendaftar film pendek yang telah disaring ke dalam tiga kategori kompetisi; 9 finalis kompetisi film pendek fiksi, 6 finalis kompetisi film pendek dokumenter, dan 8 finalis kompetisi film pendek animasi.

Pada XXI Short Film Festival 2015 ini untuk pertama kalinya diadakan workshop berupa sharing session dengan rumah produksi film yang telah menjajaki industri perfilman Indonesia dalam beberapa dekade terakhir, di antaranya Chand Parwez dari StarVision, Putut Widjarnarko dari Mizan Productions, Hanung Bramantyo dari Dapur Film, dan Yunka dari Maxima Pictures.

XXI Short Film Festival 2015 yang berlangsung selama lima hari ini tercatat telah dihadiri oleh 6.500 penonton yang menghadiri seluruh rangkaian festival yang terdiri dari penayangan film pendek kompetisi, film pendek internasional pilihan, workshop filmmaking, dan Pitching Forum.

2015

XXI Short Film Festival by Cinema XXI was held for the fourth time. In 2016, this annual festival was held from March 16 to March 20 at Epicentrum XXI, Kuningan, South Jakarta. The five-day event garnered thousands of audiences who joined a series of activities in the festival. XXI Short Film Festival also showed a significant impact from its annual organization. There were several winners and finalists of previous XXI Short Film Festival who not only rejoined as a participant, but also as a judge. For example, there was Amelia Hapsari, who won the Short Documentary category at the XXI Short Film Festival 2013 with Akar.

At the XXI Short Film Festival 2016, the short film category is divided into four categories, namely Short Fiction-Drama/Comedy, Short Animation, Short Documentary, and Short Fiction-Action/Thriller/Fantasy Film. On top of receiving awards, all winners also received cash prize totaling tens of millions of rupiah, trophies and certificates from Cinema XXI, scholarship grant for Diploma track students, and free short course from SAE Institute Jakarta, as well as the screening of their films at the Cinema XXI’s network after the festival took place.

XXI Short Film Festival 2016 also screened 3 films which won the Pitching Forum in 2015, namely Humus (Rucita Nandisa Putri, Kupang), On Friday Noon (Luhki Herwanayogi, Yogyakarta), and Cinta Itu Kecoa (Arya Tri Prabawa, Jakarta). There were also screenings of international short films at the International Shorts program, bringing Ave Maria and Stutterer which had recently won an Oscar in 2016 for the Best Live Action Short. Another special program was a retrospective program titled Focus On, which presented 6 short films by Indonesian senior director, Joko Anwar.

Cinema XXI kembali menghadirkan XXI Short Film Festival untuk yang keempat kalinya. Di 2016, festival tahunan ini diadakan pada tanggal 16-20 Maret di Epicentrum XXI, Kuningan, Jakarta Selatan. XXI Short Film Festival 2016 yang berlangsung selama lima hari ini tercatat dihadiri oleh ribuan penonton yang mengikuti seluruh rangkaian festival. Pagelaran XXI Short Film Festival 2016 juga menunjukkan adanya dampak signifikan dari event ini setiap tahunnya. Pasalnya, ada beberapa pemenang maupun finalis XXI Short Film Festival sebelumnya yang tidak hanya kembali ikut serta, tetapi juga menjadi juri. Sebut saja ada Amelia Hapsari yang pernah menjadi pemenang untuk kategori Film Pendek Dokumenter di XXI Short Film Festival 2013 lewat film Akar. 

Pada pelaksanaan XXI Short Film Festival 2016, kompetisi film pendek dibagi menjadi empat kategori, yaitu, Film Pendek Fiksi Drama/Komedi, Film Pendek Animasi, Film Pendek Dokumenter dan Film Pendek Fiksi Action/Thriller/Fantasy. Selain meraih penghargaan, seluruh pemenang tahun ini juga mendapatkan hadiah uang tunai puluhan juta rupiah, piala dan piagam dari Cinema XXI, bantuan beasiswa untuk program diploma dan kursus singkat gratis dari SAE Institute Jakarta, serta pemutaran film-film pemenang di jejaring bioskop Cinema XXI seusai festival berlangsung. 

XXI Short Film Festival 2016 juga memutarkan tiga film pemenang program Pitching Forum 2015, yaitu Humus (Rucita Nandisa Putri, Kupang), On Friday Noon (Luhki Herwanayogi, Yogyakarta) dan Cinta Itu Kecoa (Arya Tri Prabawa, Jakarta). Ada pula penayangan film pendek internasional lewat program International Shorts, di antaranya Ave Maria dan Stutterer yang baru saja meraih Piala Oscar 2016 untuk kategori Best Live Action Short. Program spesial lainnya adalah program restrospektif pemutaran film-film pendek karya sutradara senior Indonesia bertajuk program Focus On, yang menghadirkan 6 film pendek terbaik karya Joko Anwar.

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