Front line movie news from around the globe.
ShortsHD At The Movies
Recently, Shorts HD and CGV Cinemas teamed up to host the screening of some of this year’s hottest short releases. With the Academy Awards just around the corner, Shorts HD provided the opportunity for new shorts to catch the eye and qualify themselves for Academy consideration.
http://shorts.tv/news/shorts-news/
Chapman University First Cut
This past October, Chapman University held their annual ‘First Cut’ screening at the prestigious Director’s Guild of America building in Los Angeles. During the event, the best films, chosen by the University Dean, are screened to an audience of alumni and movie professionals
Abduction
Twilight hunk Taylor Lautner stars in this thriller as a young man seeking to uncover the truth about his life after finding his photo on a missing persons website. For more information on the film visit Abduction’s official website through the link below and remember to look for Abduction in stores January 2012.
Pitch Black Heist
Hollywood superstar Michael Fassbender takes the lead in director John Maclean’s new short “Pitch Black Heist,” a tale of two men planning a robbery which must be carried out in pitch black darkness.
http://www.michaelfassbender.org/pitchblackheist.html
Terry Gilliam
While at the BFI Film Festival, Short Notice got a chance to talk with the Python himself, Terry Gilliam. The director was in town premiering his short “The Wholly Family”. The movie tells the story of a young boy who, while on holiday in Naples with his family, steals a doll and comes to realize the strange, magical and dangerous powers of his actions.
BFI
The 55th annual BFI London Festival took place this October bringing with it a host of celebrities, feature films and a vast number of shorts as well. In this two-week festival, over three hundred films were screened from over fifty different countries, attracting film lovers from across the world.
Our Idiot Brother
In this comedy from director Jesse Peretz, an idealist brother Ned, played by Paul Rudd, barges into the lives of his three sisters, which, thanks to Ned’s unfailing commitment to honesty, causes more than a few problems within the family.
http://ouridiotbrother.com/#/home
Hollyshorts Film Festival
With hundreds of short film submissions and over eight hundred people in attendance for the opening, Hollyshorts Film Festival is proving to be a major force in the festival circuit.
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
Ingrid Pitt, the late Hollywood actress best known for her roles in horror films in the 1960s and 70s, leaves a touching last project behind with her narration of the animated short “Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest”. The short, animated by eleven-year-old Perry Chen, tells the story of Ingrid Pitt’s own miraculous escape from a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
Mr Forgettable
What do you get when you combine a film crew and a bicycle company? One interesting short film, that’s for sure! After Director Roydon Turner approached Foffa bikes owner Dani Foffa about centering his short film, “Mr. Forgettable” on their product, a unique blend of advertising entertainment was created, a type of advertising ingenuity that has become quite popular in the world of short films recently. To watch “Mr. Forgettable” on Vimeo, just check out the link below.
http://vimeo.com/32863542
http://foffabikes.com/
Cowboys and Aliens
James Bond, Indiana Jones and Iron Man team up in the new blockbuster hit Cowboys & Aliens. Well, sort of. In reality, actors Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford have come together in this wild western, sci-fi adventure under the leadership of Iron Man Director John Favreau and Executive Producer Steven Speilberg.
http://www.cowboysandaliensmovie.com/splash.php
Melissa Joan Hart
Former child star, Melissa Joan Hart, makes her directorial debut with the short film ‘Mute’, a story of a troubled young woman who wakes up from a coma after a horrific car accident to discover that her boyfriend has been stolen by her older sister. The young woman, played by Melissa Joan Hart’s own sister Emily Hart, is rendered deaf and mute by the accident and seeks revenge on her sister.
