ENTRY STATISTICS OF THE 11th BUSHO

For the first time the entry platform of Bushonline got the most submissions, that is 296 entries, Reelport (made in Germany) got 280, and the rapidly emerging Filmfreeway accounted for 227 entries. They are followed by DataSheets with 145 shorts which includes only the productions of a few agencies, such as Germany-based Aug&Ohr or the Spanish Freak Cinema. ClickForFest accounted for 69, Movibeta presented 51 and Festhome supplied 25 entries. Strangely the sum of submissions is very similar to last year's submissions to BuSho: 1143 And returning to the compiling platforms regarding agencies, studios and schools – we will soon present a dedicated list on our website that will show the contenders for this years "Best Compilation Special Prize". As usual, the most represented category was "fiction" among the various categories, followed by animations and experimental short films, but we were also presented with magical categories (which are not utilized by us) such as Art, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller and many documentary films, but we were the most delighted with the denomination short film. And last, but not least here are the results based on the sender countries, there are no big surprises based on the experiences of previous years but quite a few interesting facts. According to the unofficial data 77 countries sent short films to Budapest, among which we could meet such exotic contenders as: Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bolivia, Central African Republic, Cote D'Ivoire, Haiti, Iraq, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Nepal or Qatar! BuSho has an impressive European coverage, we got a fair number of submissions from Scandinavia, but we could call the submitted shortfilms from Austria (25), Switzerland (28) or Belgium (32) also outstanding. The gold medalists are the Spaniards as usual with 205 entries, Germans won the virtual Silver medal again (121 entries), and to our great joy Hungary came in as third with 74 shorts right before the Brits (68) and Americans (71)!