Show Me Shorts is New Zealand's leading short film festival: connecting audiences with quality short films; celebrating excellence in short film making; and fostering the New Zealand short film community. Show Me Shorts is a competitive, Academy Awards® qualifying festival featuring the best new shorts from New Zealand and around the world. Each year, from around a thousand entries, the 40 best films and six best music videos are selected to play in the festival and contend for awards. The final selection is from a diverse range of themes and subjects, including horror, drama, animation, comedy and everything in between. Launched in 2006, Show Me Shorts screens every November in cinemas across New Zealand.