Manhattan Short Film Festival

Part of 2023 GLASSHOUSE SELECT Theatre Program

Be part of the world's first global film festival! Filmgoers in Port Macquarie will unite with over 100,000 film-lovers around the world when the 26th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival screens at The Glasshouse.

Join them in 2023, when over 100,000 film lovers in over 500 cities across six continents gather in Theatres, Cinemas, Museums, Libraries and Universities for one purpose...to view and vote on the Finalists' Films in the 26th annual Manhattan Short Film Festival.

The final films represent the best short films from over 1,000 submissions from around the world, covering an extraordinary range of genres including drama, science fiction, suspense, animation and comedy.

Manhattan Short is not a touring Festival; rather, it is an instantaneous celebration that occurs simultaneously across the globe, bringing great films to great venues and allowing the audiences to select their favorites.

If the Film Festival experience truly is about getting great works in front of as many eyes as possible, Manhattan Short offers the ultimate platform – one that sees its films screened in Sydney, Mumbai, Moscow, Vienna, Cape Town to cinemas in all fifty states of the United States and beyond.

By virtue of their selection by Manhattan Short, each short film is automatically Oscar-qualified.