For the first time in its history, SHOT TV established its own award. Any filmmaker who submitted their film to the channel’s website during the year could become an award winner. The winner was announced on December 3 at a meeting of the Short Film Club. It was Ekaterina Ivanteeva, director of «Узоры влюбленности» (“Patterns of Love”). A symbolic check for 300,000 rubles, intended for the production of a new film, was accepted on her behalf by actors Mamuka Patarava and Georgy Morozenko. The SHOT TV Short Film Club continued its meetings with fans of the most concise film genre. Over the course of the year, the Club hosted premieres of films by Semyon Shomin («Внимание!» – “Attention!”), Alexander Samsonov («Уроды» – “Freaks”), and Alexander Ermolin («Авиарежим» – “Flight Mode”). In 2025, the channel acted as an information and media partner for three festivals: the shnit worldwide shortfilm festival (where the SHOT TV special prize was awarded to Ildar Shangarayev for «Зима, весна, лето, осень… и снова зима» – “Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn… and Winter Again”), the 14th annual KONIK Short Film Festival (the channel’s prize went to Vadim Plokhotnikov for the film «Глубокий сосуд» – “Deep Vessel”), and the Genesis International Film Festival 2025. The SHOT TV prize was presented to young filmmaker Sofiya Yelistratova for her film «ДАВÆГ» (“The Thief”).

The SHOT TV Short Film Club was founded in 2024. Its meetings take place at the Vysotsky Club in Moscow’s Taganka district. The event brings together both film industry professionals and short film enthusiasts. At the Club’s first meeting, audiences were able to enjoy masterpieces of global trash cinema, the best short comedies, and the short film «Причёска» (“Hairstyle”) by Artyom Zakharyan. The guest of the second Club meeting was renowned Russian director Vladimir Tsarenko, creator of the famous black comedies united under the title «Петротрэшъ». The third Club meeting featured the premiere of debut comedy «Рыдающий бог» (“The Weeping God”) by director Yaroslav Rozhin. In support of young Russian directors, the last decade of December saw the premiere of two short films by Ilya Khramov on SHOT TV: «Знакомство» (“The Meeting”) and «Разговор» (“The Conversation”). Festival work by the SHOT TV editorial team continued in 2024; notably, they traveled to the Penza region for the LES INTERES music and creativity festival, selecting the best films from around the world for festival audiences. Next came the «Короче» festival, held annually in Kaliningrad.

2023 began with a greeting from renowned Russian actress Svetlana Kamynina («Интерны», «Два холма»), who addressed SHOT TV viewers on New Year’s Eve. A pleasant surprise was the victory of the short film «А» from the channel’s collection at the Golden Eagle Awards. In May, SHOT TV took part in the «Оживший город» (“Living City”) film festival in Tula, where it presented a selection of the best films during an open‑air “Evening of Short Films” The channel’s participation in the Telemanya International Open Youth Festival of Television Programs and Films, organized by the GITR Institute of Cinema and Television, became a tradition. SHOT TV representatives took part in discussions and roundtables, and at the Telemanya closing ceremony at the Ostankino concert hall, they presented a special prize – a certificate for on‑air screening – to Vlada Lavrenova’s film «Здесь и сейчас» (“Here and Now”). A similar SHOT TV special prize went to a participant of the Short Film Days festival, Artyom Zakharyan, whose film «Причёска» (“Hairstyle”) was aired on the channel.

SHOT TV continues to participate in prestigious film festivals, supporting aspiring filmmakers. Representatives of the channel presented special awards at events such as "Kinoles", Genesis International Film Festival, "KinoShock", "Telemania", and others. The SHOT TV collection is constantly replenished with the best long and short comedies featuring global stars, as well as series whose screenings become premieres for Russia. A new segment called "Trash Cinema" appears on air, including the most extravagant, bright, unpredictable, and even shocking short films. At the same time, the channel introduces a tradition of inviting viewers to thematic weeks, during which films are released daily at the same time, united either by a specific theme or by the name of their creator - a director with a global reputation.

The TV channel continues to create its own video content. In 2021, the collaboration with the well-known stand-up comedian Anton Borisov began, who specifically performed for the channel on the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg with the concert "We are in the brave new world of 1984". The concert is being broadcast on air and is also available on the SHOT TV YouTube channel. The TV channel participated in domestic and international film festivals, collaborated productively with the company CinePromo, the agency for distributing Russian short films VOSTOK, the Voznesensky Center, and also supported aspiring short film directors, helping them promote new films. In response to viewers' requests, the channel acquired a collection of feature film masterpieces and began daily showings of the best comedies featuring the brightest stars of world cinema. Starting from November 2021, cable operators and internet services can receive the SHOT TV channel on the "Medialogistics" terrestrial distribution platform throughout Russia. In 2021, the channel had several bright serial premieres: "Bad" (Great Britain), "Magnus" (Norway), "The Year of the Rabbit" (Great Britain). And in November, an exclusive Russian premiere of the 63-episode series "Hugo Chavez. Comandante," produced by SONY and banned in Venezuela, dedicated to the adept of the Bolivarian Revolution Hugo Chavez, took place on SHOT TV.

During coronavirus lockdown SHOT TV has supported its viewers – we opened our broadcasting for everyone and all films from our collection were available for free online on such platforms as NTV+, WINK, as well as in Tricolor provider's «Films and TV» application. In the spring of 2020, SHOT TV held a series of streaming events called «101 Quarantinians», where Instagram users had an opportunity to communicate with famous Russian directors in live format. SHOT TV was first in Russia to show «Invisible Heroes» series – story of 1973 Chilean military coup organized by Pinochet junta with support of CIA. Russian writer Dmitry Bykov interviewed the Finnish Ambassador to Chile during that time – Tapani Brotherus, a direct participant of the events and protagonist of the series. This interview is available on channel`s website and social networks. In 2020 SHOT TV brought other premieres to Russia such Palm Spring festival winner – «Matriochkas», critically acclaimed «The Devil's Harmony», «All Inclusive», «The Gift», Oscar winners and nominees such as «The Neighbor’s Window», «Helium», «Death of a Shadow», «Nefta Football Club» and as never before more timely «Grab Them». On the eve of new 2021 year SHOT prepared another gift for its viewers – for the first time in Russia popular Australian «Diary of an Uber Driver» were broadcasted. This interesting story is how being a good person becomes a job. SHOT TV was traditionally represented at major Russian and international film festivals as well as on «Short Film Day» annual event. The chosen direction in the selection of content allowed the channel to enter the basic and other public packages of cable TV operators and satellite platforms.

SHOT TV changed the style of broadcasting. The program schedule is divided into thematic blocks and new “look” of the channel was designed to show, that channel is broadcasting for wide audience. SHOT TV was the first channel that showed tv show “Urban myths” budget more than USD 100 mln. produced by Sky, British film studio. “Urban myths” tells stories which may or may not be true about Bob Dylan, Elise Cooper, David Bowie and other celebrities. SHOT TV was the first Russian TV channel showing “Bitch”, comedy short-tv series produced by Lagardère. This tv show is about the desire of modern women draw men’s attention. Each episode is 1 minute long. Another new arrival of this year is political satire “Servant of the People” - The series had not been previously shown on Russian TV. Shot TV annually hosts the Festival of «Audience sympathy" in collaboration with the short films festival "Microfest". The channel editors support young producers.

"Egoist TV" live broadcasted the IV Short Film Festival «MICROFEST». The students of Nikita Mikhalkov’s Academy of cinematographic and theatrical art took part in it. "Egoist TV" was awarded for its contribution into «MICROFEST» Film Festival. The channel was rebranded and renamed into SHOT TV. Channel got new package based on monopoems of famous authors. The editors modified content of the channel for wider audience and expanded list of genres adding big amount of Russian short movies and comedies and entertaining short films produced by major Russian studios.

Out-of-competition showing of “Egoist TV” channel short film collection on Moscow International Film Festival.

“Egoist TV” started broadcasting in Belarus in basic package of interactive television ZALA.

“Egoist TV” made first short film “Snow”, producer Ivan Tverdovskiy.

"Egoist TV" started in the networks of the operator "AKADO".

Short film tv channel, known as "Egoist TV" started broadcasting on "NTV+" platform as an exclusive non-family channel. On air were live action films produced by the world's best studios as well as production of leading Russian producers of “short films”.