Category: Short Films
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Get Out the Vote for YUDIE to Join National Film Registry at the Library of Congress
NEW YORK, NY: The NYWIFT Community encourages everyone to vote for Mirra Bank’s YUDIE short film, so it can join The National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Screenmancer, the female-run film site in Hollywood since 1997, endorses NYWIFT’s support for this pathfinder among 1970’s feminist documentaries. Vote here and read on… Based on…
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Spotlight: Riz Ahmed & Aneil Karia’s THE LONG GOODBYE on 2022 Oscar Shortlist
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent If we wind the clock back to last year’s Award Season, SOUND OF METAL starring Riz Ahmed as a hearing-impaired rock drummer blew away the uninitiated as the band-fronter film picked up six Oscar®️ nominations and won two for Best Editing and Best Sound. Notable among the nominations was…
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Erica Eng’s AMERICANIZED, short film contender, takes on identity and sports
SPOTLIGHT: Director Erica Eng’s AMERICANIZED enters the Best Short competition this year with a hard look at identity on and off the basketball court. Set in Oakland, California, Eng said, “I wrote this story based on my experiences growing up in Oakland as a fifth-generation Chinese American. I had a hard time understanding what it…
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Check your Hollyshorts for Red Bull Champ Stuntman Cory DeMeyers’ DANNY BOY
by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: The Academy Award qualifying film festival Hollyshorts has tapped Cory DeMeyers’ directorial debut DANNY BOY for a run at gold during this fest, which opens Sept. 23. Hollyshorts, slated through Oct. 1, will premiere DeMeyers’ directorial outing about a pair of unusual suspects who find themselves caught between being good thieves or being…
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Palm Springs heat won’t stop ShortFest 2021
by Screenmancer Staff Here’s the schedule for Palm Springs International ShortsFest 2021 including ticket information and viewing options. Let’s all support short films. Virtual viewing available too. SHORTSFEST 2021 All film programs are listed in chronological order by date and time. View additional programs by clicking, 1,2,3 at the bottom of the page via the…
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SHORTSTV unspools short film Oscar noms in theaters April 2
Curated by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: Said to be the world’s only short movie TV network, SHORTSTV will showcase Oscar-nominated short film releases with theatrical premiers in the Best Live Action Short, Best Animated Short and Best Documentary Short categories on April 2, in addition to Digital Premieres. (List of venues follows titles.) This…
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Filmmaker Jon Alston talks AUGUSTUS, entry for Best Live Action Short
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent “I am America’s original sin…” and a patriot, opens Director Jon Alston’s AUGUSTUS, spoken by the titular character. With this brief introduction, here is Alston in his own words on making the short for consideration in the current Award Season. But first, a quick synopsis of the 15 minute…
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Huluween, Freeform & FX: watch your shorts this very scary October
Curated by Screenmancer Ghostwriter HOLLYWEEN: 20th Digital Studio will premiere a series of 30 diverse, genre-bending short films for Halloween 2020. Bite Size Halloween ranges from horror comedy to psychological thrillers and everything in between. Created by up-and-coming filmmakers, these films will screen across digital and broadcast platforms Freeform, FX, and Hulu’s Huluween platform hub and YouTube channel. David Worthen Brooks, EVP of 20th Digital…
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Stan Brakhage, Gilbert & George, Marlon Riggs, 33 wild films like these on OVID
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent When you tell this story, many people find it hard to believe, but occult filmmaker Harry Smith was at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics during my time there as the Ted Berrigan Award winner, and he was one interesting creature of cinema. Anyway, he and Stan Brakhage the experimental…
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