The Big Mountain Short Film Festival is a short film festival based in Ohakune, New Zealand designed to encourage and celebrate creative short film making and storytelling. Entry is free and open to filmmakers internationally, who are encouraged to use maximum creativity on minimum budget. In addition to screening short films, the festival also features professional guest speakers offering tips and techniques on an assortment of topics of particular interest to low and no-budget filmmakers.
The festival was run as a three-day event in 2006 and 2007, before being reformatted as a single-day event, beginning in 2008.
Read more about Big Mountain Short Film Festival: History, The 2010 Festival, Notable Participants
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