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iW NEWS | Tropfest NY Unveils Finalists
Tropfest NY has revealed the eight filmmakers whose 7-minute shorts will compete at the world's largest short film festival on Friday, September 26th in New York City. Organizers also announced that Julianne Moore has joined the jury that will select the night's best films and performances. Other jurors include actor Billy Crudup, author Malcolm Gladwell, producers Christine Vachon and Bruna Papandrea, and actor and director Nash Edgerton. The winning film will receive a $20,000 Best Filmmaker Award and a "First Look Feature Film Deal" from GreeneStreet Films. Winners of Best Male Actor and Best Female Actor prizes will receive a $1,000 cash ...
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iW NEWS | Palm Springs Shortfest Announces LIneup
The 2008 Palm Springs International ShortFest has announced its programming of 317 films, selected from a record of more than 2,700 worldwide entries. The festival will showcase 53 World Premieres, 47 North American Premieres and 24 U.S. Premieres. "This year's ShortFest line-up reflects a return to more personal themes in the world of short film storytelling, and a move away from the 'big issue' themes of recent years, like the Iraq War, immigration and 9/11," said Festival Director Darryl Macdonald in a statement. "That and the increasingly sophisticated use of technical innovations in the short filmmaking process are the two big stories ...
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SHORTS COLUMN | Outfest 2008 Scouting Report: Ten Short Filmmakers You Should Know
Outfest 2008: The 26th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival scheduled an amazing 12 short film programs over the course of this year's festival, which runs July 9 to 21st. With the programs centering around themes such as "Young and Restless" and "Laugh All You Want," the shorts ranged from ear...
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SHORTS COLUMN | Best in the West: Jackson Hole, CineVegas, and LAFF Offer Thrilling Short Programs
In the month of June, Wyoming, Nevada, and California each roll out star-studded film festivals that attract sold-out crowds and extensive press coverage. With all the hoopla surrounding premieres and gala events, it's easy to overlook the amazing short films unspooling at the Jackson Hole, CineVega...
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Shorts Column | Matthew Modine on Fifteen Years of Making Short Films
Two weeks after Matthew Modine's most recent short film, "I Think I Thought," made its North American premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, the actor/writer/director spoke to indieWIRE about his decade-and-half-long career making shorts. Having embarked on his first short film endeavor while a...
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SHORTS COLUMN | Jury, Audience, and Industry Buzz Agree: Docs Rocked Aspen Shortsfest 2008
The jurors at this year's Aspen Shortsfest, which took place April 2 - 6 in Aspen, Colorado, were so enamored with the shorts in the documentary competition category that they couldn't pick just one. Instead, they split the prize between two British films, "Elegy for the Elswick Envoy" and "Peter an...
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SHORTS COLUMN | "C. Beck," "Bullet Proof," and "L.A. Noir" Take Top Prizes at Independent Lens Onli
Independent Lens has finished tabulating the viewer votes for its second annual "festival at your fingertips." While the curators of Independent Lens and the Online Shorts Festival jury both decided to honor short documentaries with their grand prizes, the audience award went to a narrative film, "L...
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iW NEWS | Ann Arbor Set for 46th Fest
The 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival is set to kick-off on March 25th in Michigan, opening with a selection of short films from this year's festival. On tap are Michael Langan's "Doxology," Daniel Robin's "My Olympic Summer," Osbert Parker's "Yours Truly," Luke Sieczek's "Phantom," Georg Koszulinski's "...
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SHORTS COLUMN | Oscar-Nominated Short Film Directors Bask in the Spotlight
On Tuesday, February 19, 2008, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, Curtis Hanson hosted the Academy's pre-ceremony screening of the nominated live action and animated short films. With directors and producers of eight of the ten films in attendance, the sold-out event was a rare opport...
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SHORTS COLUMN | Short Film Superstars of 2007
2007 has been a very good year for short film viewers. Not only did the festival circuit deliver another amazing crop of winning films, every exhibition format offered up something remarkable to watch. Two hundred movie theaters nationwide unspooled Paris-themed shorts directed by the Coen Brothers ...
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