JOYful Days

29 May 2014

Darryl McDonald Exec Director Palm Springs Film Festival

TV & Film

The Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (aka ShortFest) held annually in Palm Springs, California and is the largest film festival for short films in the United States.

Mark chats with the Executive Director Darryl McDonald 

The Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films takes place across seven days each June, showing more than 350 short films every year, and hosting a Short Film Market with over 3,000 new short films annually. It also presents a three-day program of seminars, master classes, panels and roundtable discussions with free admission for all filmmaking and industry guests. An AMPAS qualifying Festival, PSISF has hosted 97 short films in its 20-year history that went on to secure Oscar nominations in the short film categories.

The Festival of Short Films is a spin-off of the Palm Springs International Film Festival which takes place each January.

Darryl is in the country to be part of the St Kilda Film Festival, Celebrating its 31st anniversary in 2014, the St Kilda Film Festival is Australia’s largest and oldest short film festival.

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