About Greenhorn
Greenhorn is an independent magazine about short films and first-time filmmakers. Here is who we are, what we cover and how we relate to the old festival.
Greenhorn is an independent publication about short film. We write for people who are making their first films, and for people who like watching them. The site has three parts:
- Guides: practical advice on writing, shooting, funding, finishing and submitting short films.
- The festival directory: short film festivals in the UK and abroad, with what they programme and which awards they qualify for.
- The archive: a record of the Greenhorn Short Film Festival, which ran in London from 2011 to 2015.
About the name, and the festival
This domain used to be the home of the Greenhorn Short Film Festival. Alix Taylor and Flora Bradwell founded it in 2011 to give new and emerging filmmakers a place to screen and talk about their work. The festival ran five editions in London. Its company was dissolved in 2016.
This publication is not the festival. We are not connected to its founders, its patron, its partners or the filmmakers it screened. We do not speak for any of them. We kept the name because the festival’s idea is a good one to build on: a greenhorn is a newcomer, and short films are where most filmmakers start. We document the festival’s history in the archive because that record was disappearing from the web.
If you were involved in the festival and would like something corrected, added or removed, please contact us. We will act on it.
Technology partner
Greenhorn is built and maintained with our technology partner, Miraks, a small lab that makes free web tools and guides for people who build websites.
How we work
Some of our articles are drafted with the help of AI tools. Every article is then checked by an editor against the sources listed at the end of it. We do not publish invented quotes, reviews or awards. Our editorial policy explains this in full.