The Pacific Northwest is one of the most culturally rich regions in the world. We have a proud tradition of creative expression and our film community is no exception. It is as rich and diverse as our ecosystem and our economy.

Tall Beers and Short Shorts strives to maintain this tradition by highlighting the work of short film makers in Oregon, Idaho, Washington, British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska. Our goal is for films to jump off the screen and engage with the world at large. We want to get good films seen by a diverse audience. We want to make it easy and fun for audiences to see new and exciting short films, with new and exciting people, at new and exciting places.

Tall Beers and Short Shorts is not a film festival. It is a quarterly screening series that is trying to get short films out of movie theaters and into less expected places. Our intention is to find and foster new audiences for short films and to seek new frontiers to engage our audiences besides art house theaters (that have a harder time programming short films) and the internet. Our screening series takes places in a different location every quarter, sometimes in bars, sometimes in art spaces.

Our other goal is to bring short films of different styles, genres and production values together. We believe that short films of all kinds deserve to be seen and screening new and established forms of filmmaking back to back provides a deeper context for both.

Please join us. Whether you want to see new short films or if you have a short film that you want to get seen, please come to our screening series, submit a film, and help us celebrate the creativity and passion that we find so abundant in the Pacific Northwest.

Next Screening

Come join us at Re-Bar on July 29th!

Film Submissions

The submission deadline for the July 29th Tall Beers & Short Shorts is July 5th postmarked.

Program 1

Past Tense - Brad Hutchinson

Colors - Charles Tashiro

The Lonely Tomato - Galadriel Liceaga

Insomnia - Charles Tashiro

Rent's Due - Andy McCone

Shadows - Charles Tashiro

False Alarm

Haiku Ants - Evan Driscoll

Echoes - JA Forbes

Crimes - Charles Tashiro

Ars Magna - Cory Kelley

Cowboys - Charles Tashiro

Driving Around, Watching Strangers - Michael Harring

Program 2

Fritz and Iris - Steven Prescott, David Roomes and Bob Freeman

Lunar - Charles Tashiro

Dark Material

Show Off - Charles Tashiro

Umbrella - Cat Tyc

Power - Charles Tashiro

Black Cat - Jon Clark

Secrets - Charles Tashiro

Unnamed - Kevin and Travis Short

Curtains - Charles Tashiro

Hey There Chlamidia - Keith Rivers

Horizon - Charles Tashiro

The Mixtress

Haiku Garden 2 - Evan Driscoll

Drift - Mike Celona

Oct 12th 2009 Screening

The October 12th 2009 Tall Beers and Short Shorts was hosted by Chop Suey in Seattle.