Goals
AG Kurzfilm (the German Short Film Association) was founded in May 2002 as a representational and lobbying body for German short films. The members of this umbrella association for German short films are film schools and art academies, film festivals, short film distributors and distribution companies as well as publicly funded institutes in the film and cinema industry. The associations ambition is to generally improve public awareness of German short films. In this regard the association functions both at home and abroad as a contact source for political bodies, the film industry, cinema businesses and festivals as well as a service centre for filmmakers, producers and institutes involved in short film. Since 2004, the German Short Film Association has represented German short film via, for instance, its seat on the administrative council of the FFA (Germanys main federal film funding body).