"According to IMDB, a short film is a moving picture less than 45 minutes in length. According to the American Motion Picture Academy, it’s more like 40 minutes. Of course, some shorts (especially European shorts) can be as short as one-minute long, but many directors and producers prefer the 15- or 30-minute time limit.
With this shorter length comes (generally) smaller budgets than feature length films (there are some incredible animated short films made with free software). Despite this reduced budget, however, the quality of a short can be used to testify to the director’s — and entire production team’s — competencies, thereby largely helping with career progression."The above, long quote, is from an article at Make Use Of. 6 Mistakes Every Short Film Should Avoid Making, gives us the reasons and example films.
Strain is one of the films discussed in the article.
