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Committee for Short Shorts
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Films by women directors. |
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Mature Content
These films contain sexual or violent content. |
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Films by Singaporean filmmakers |
SHIROTAKU, Tokyo Tenshi and other special screenings are non-competition. |
Academy Program
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Rob Pearlstein / 14:25 / Comedy / USA / 2004 |
☆2006 Academy Awards® Nominee
When therapist Dr. Leonard Stern discovers he has six weeks to live, he adopts a fresh method of treatment: brutal honesty.
Rob Pearlstein /Rob Pearlstein recently wrote, directed, produced and acted in his first short film, “Our Time Is Up”, which received an Oscar ® Nomination for Best Live Action Short Film for the 78th Academy Awards ®. Rob is currently writing for multiple television programs and is set to direct his feature romantic-comedy “Bellissimo” later this year. Prior to screenwriting, Rob wrote commercials, print and radio ads. |
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Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall
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Bryan Gordon / 21:20 / Comedy/ USA / 1987 |
☆1988 Academy Awards® Winner
Down on his luck and between jobs, Sam gets his chance to enter a special gentlemen’s club where all the big business men broker deals and do the corporate dance.
Bryan Gordon /Bryan Gordon has been one of the most prolific and recognized directors in television. He’s been nominated numerous time for the Emmy awards and has won the Directors Guild Award for comedy. He has directed episodes of many famous television programs including “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “Allie McBeal”, “Freaks and Geeks”, “The West Wing”, “The Office” and “One Tree Hill”. He wrote and directed the feature film “Pie In The Sky” starring Anne Heche. |
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Martin McDonagh / 27:00 / Comedy/ UK / 2005 |
☆2006 Academy Awards® Winner
An elderly man encounters a young oddball on a rural train journey. A black and bloody Irish comedy
Martin McDonagh / “Six Shooter” is Martin’s first film following a hugely successful career as a playwright. To date Martin's plays have been sold to 39 countries in 28 languages. Martin's new play “The Pillowman” opened at the Royal National Theatre in November 2003, directed by John Crowley. It transferred to Broadway in April 2005 starring Jeff Goldblum and Billy Crudup and received 6 TONY nominations, winning 2, in 2005. |
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Ulrike Grote / 23:00 / Drama/ Germany / 2004 |
☆2006 Academy Awards® Nominee
On his way to an important meeting, Walter bumps into six year old Yuri. Yuri insists Walter take him to school and starts calling him father.
Ulrike Grote /Ulrike Grote studied Acting from 1985-1989 in Hamburg . She performed as an actress at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and in numerous television series and films. Since 2000, she has been instructing at the Academy of Music & Theater in Hamburg . From 2002-2004, she completed post-graduate studies in Film at Hamburg University , and is now preparing her first feature film. |
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(c)2002 Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Eric Armstrong / 6:00 / Animation/USA / 2002 |
☆2003 Academy Awards® Winner
Little Meeper mops the floors at the Ale-E-Inn, a nightclub on the planet Glorf, and daydreams about becoming a star.
Eric Armstrong /Eric Armstrong is an animation director at Sony Pictures Imageworks, where he directed "The ChubbChubbs." After graduating from Toronto's Sheridan College , one of Eric's first jobs was as a cel animator for Canadian televison series at Nelvana Productions in Toronto . From 1991 to 1995, Eric worked at Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) as a computer animator for commercial spots before being promoted to the film division where he worked as an animator, animation supervisor, and animation director for features including Jurassic Park . At Sony, Eric has supervised animation work on Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, and Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone. |
Short Shorts Film Festival
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