Shorts International announced the launch of ShortsHD, the world's first high definition channel dedicated to short movies, on AT&T U-verseSM TV & iTunes.
Missed ShortFest award-winners the first time? This is your chance to find them again!
Also check out four fantastic shorts by previous ShortFest attendees on L Studio:
• Finding - The Salto Bros. (2008 ShortFest)
• No Parking - Jeremy Brunjes (2008 + 2009 with Birthdate)
• RedBlack - Mal Woolford (2007 Shortfest + Fluffy)
• Los Tabaqueros - Russell Griffin (2007 ShortFest)
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Behind the Scenes with art director Lauren Polizzi
Lauren Polizzi will discuss her career as an art director tonight at the Rancho Mirage Public Libary.
Come meet a woman who's worked with Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Twelve), Ron Howard (How the Grinch Stole Christmas), Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump), Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) and multiple films by Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Amistad, Jurassic Park & Lost World), not to mention Independence Day & Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (currently in theatres).
Did you attend? What did you think?
Come meet a woman who's worked with Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Twelve), Ron Howard (How the Grinch Stole Christmas), Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump), Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) and multiple films by Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Amistad, Jurassic Park & Lost World), not to mention Independence Day & Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (currently in theatres).
Did you attend? What did you think?
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
PSIFS screening: (500) Days of Summer
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (hey! didn't he direct a film in ShortFest?) & Zooey Deschanel are star-crossed lovers in (500) Days of Summer, a twist on the usual love story.
Screenwriter Scott Neustadter & one of the film's producers will be attending for a post-screening Q&A.
If you attended, what did you think of the film?
Screenwriter Scott Neustadter & one of the film's producers will be attending for a post-screening Q&A.
If you attended, what did you think of the film?
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Best of the Fest
The votes are being tallied as we head into the final 24 hours of ShortFest films. What great films have you seen, deserving of the honors at tomorrow night's Closing Night Awards Gala?
Lost & Found
If you have lost or found any items at ShortFest, please call our main office to report it: 760-322-2930
Presently, festgoers are missing a Panasonic Lumux camera & reading glasses in a RayBan case. If you have any information, please call the number above.
Presently, festgoers are missing a Panasonic Lumux camera & reading glasses in a RayBan case. If you have any information, please call the number above.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Feelin' ShortFest
The first full day of ShortFest screenings went off without a hitch, with fabulous programs filling the day for eager crowds.
At Amazing Animation (to be played again on Sunday), Swiss director Marcel Hobi (Eyelash) & German director Alexander Pohl (Trickster) discussed the complexities of their vastly different techniques and stories.
At Boy Meets Girl Meets Boy, audiences were entertained by directorial behind-the-scenes stories of neuroscience student turned filmmaker Liliana Greenfield-Sanders who wanted to put her medical background to use (Adelaide), the accidental musical of Melvin Montalban (Cupid), the date-almost-gone-wrong pondering of Alyssa McClelland (Emilia Eckle), the feeling of relationship inevitability of Dahlia Devkota (Heartbreak Haiku), the inspiration from an awkward Japanese businessman for Jon Gilbert (Toshi) & Peter Besson's take on love at first sight (True Beauty This Night).
The filmmaker party went into the night at Top of the Chop, with Grant Sputore* (Legacy) bemoaning his learning curve on the buffet (always leave room for meat at a chop house), Tahitian filmmakers (Arioi Women) sharing heavenly-smelling Tahitian gardenias, and Andy Pearson (Souvenirs) kissing the feet of the news bearer who informed him that the Couplehood program was on Rush for Saturday. To top that, his actor promised to wear a Marilyn Monroe dress to the screening if one could be procured. In Palm Springs? I think we can work something out.
*Mr. Sputore would like it to be known that aside from his education at the buffet, he had a brilliant time and his filmmaker needs were exceeded and outshone his carnivorous ones.
At Amazing Animation (to be played again on Sunday), Swiss director Marcel Hobi (Eyelash) & German director Alexander Pohl (Trickster) discussed the complexities of their vastly different techniques and stories.
At Boy Meets Girl Meets Boy, audiences were entertained by directorial behind-the-scenes stories of neuroscience student turned filmmaker Liliana Greenfield-Sanders who wanted to put her medical background to use (Adelaide), the accidental musical of Melvin Montalban (Cupid), the date-almost-gone-wrong pondering of Alyssa McClelland (Emilia Eckle), the feeling of relationship inevitability of Dahlia Devkota (Heartbreak Haiku), the inspiration from an awkward Japanese businessman for Jon Gilbert (Toshi) & Peter Besson's take on love at first sight (True Beauty This Night).
The filmmaker party went into the night at Top of the Chop, with Grant Sputore* (Legacy) bemoaning his learning curve on the buffet (always leave room for meat at a chop house), Tahitian filmmakers (Arioi Women) sharing heavenly-smelling Tahitian gardenias, and Andy Pearson (Souvenirs) kissing the feet of the news bearer who informed him that the Couplehood program was on Rush for Saturday. To top that, his actor promised to wear a Marilyn Monroe dress to the screening if one could be procured. In Palm Springs? I think we can work something out.
*Mr. Sputore would like it to be known that aside from his education at the buffet, he had a brilliant time and his filmmaker needs were exceeded and outshone his carnivorous ones.
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