Betting on Shorts invited filmmakers from across the world to respond to our theme “Mad or Bad”:
“Break the conventions, break free, break your heart or someone else’s, take drugs, become a criminal, become a victim, wherever your fancies take you – are you mad, or are you just bad? You could look at trick or treat, crime and punishment, genetics and eugenics, or: simply consider Michael Jackson.”

Of almost 400 submissions a programme of 18 runners-up and 16 finalists have now been selected.

The finalists will be screened simultaneously in 10 cities and will be judged by a panel of local film-curators, directors, actors or cultural critics in each city. The overall favourite is awarded a prize.

Before the show begins the audience can bet on who will be the grand winner.

From 21 November clips of the films are streamed on the Betting on Shorts website www.bettingonshorts.com Background info, blurbs and stills are available 30 minutes before the screening. Those who have bet on the right film can win a prizes like annual memberships, DVDs, books or cinema tickets.

The winners will be announced in the bar as soon as all the juries’ decisions are in.

Runners-up will be screened
21 November in London: ICA, Cinema 2, 8.45 pm
28 November in Barcelona: Cineclub VoidZelig, 9.30 pm

Preview of the 16 finalists
23 November, Barcelona at l’Alternativa Independent Film Festival: Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, 10.00pm

The grand finale
28 November 2007 ICA, Cinema 1, 8.30pm
And simultaneously in Athens, Berlin, Istanbul, Maribor, Novi Sad, Paris, Poznan and Rostov-on-Don

Betting on Shorts is supported by the London Consortium.