The first MANHATTAN SHORT was held in 1998, when 16 short films were shown onto a screen mounted to the side of a truck on Little Italy’s Mulberry Street in New York City, and has blossomed into a worldwide phenomenon. MANHATTAN SHORT is the only film festival that unfolds simultaneously in the cinemas around the world. Bringing over 100,000 film-lovers across the continents together for one week (extended this year to accommodate social distancing), to view the work of nine…