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AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES:
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Best Short Film
Always surprising and amusing. Innovative and tightly crafted. |
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WHY THE SLUGS DON'T LIKE SALT?
by JOSE CORRAL- Spain
Under his manager's pressure, J. J. Coco has to write a commercial screenplay. Meanwhile, his mistress asks for expensive gifts and his ex wife, together with their child, yells furiously at him. | |
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Best Direction
Super performances and story variety. Tense, controlled chaos. |
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by ARI CANDIDO FERNANDES - Brazil
Itamar's wallet is full. He gets pissed off. One day he spots one of the thiefs and decides to kill him, but the bullets don't come out. Later..he 'discover' at this was his live chance of redemption... | |
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Best Screenplay, Varun Grover, Ajay Monga
Exceptionally human dramatization of poltical statistics.. |
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BARABAR (EQUAL)
by AJAY MONGA - India
For ages now, every attribute of comparison between two individuals, be it the caste, financial status, religion, gender, age or sometimes even height, has been misused by the so-called 'decision makers' to create favorable situations for themselves in the corridors of power. | |
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Best Integral Realization
Deceptively simple: the warm, whimsical, loving, loyal mind of a child. |
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by FRANCISCO ALVAREZ - Spain
Atroz is a singular teddy bear whose owner, Luna, is a little girl who will make his live a bit uncomfortable. | |
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Best Actress, Beatrice Hudson
With commanding technique, she drives the film. |
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by IAN BROW and KELLY MARACIN KRIEG - New Zealand
The film is about Seth, an amateur actor on his first big production, who has fallen in love with the lead actress, Joanna's, character. In order to spend more time with her, he has purposely been ruining takes. | |
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Best Actor, Flavio Bauraqui
Never a false note. Beautifully natural and vulnerable. |
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by ARI CANDIDO FERNANDES - Brazil
Itamar's wallet is full. He gets pissed off. One day he spots one of the thiefs and decides to kill him, but the bullets don't come out. Later..he 'discover' at this was his live chance of redemption... | |
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Best Photography, Matthew Del Ruth
Cinematography is gripping, Puts us right smack in the story. |
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THE INTERVIEW
by GIOVANNI ZELKO - USA
This gritty action film, set in the open desert, follows a lone man, Ivan, to an interview with the world?s most powerful and dangerous arms dealer, Draco. Ivan agrees to Draco?s challenge of fighting against his four best men. If Ivan is still standing after sixty seconds, he?s got a job! | |
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Best Art Direction
The fantastic mysteriously becomes real. |
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by JOAO MACHADO - Brazil
The life cycle of insects serve as basis for this animated short. The particularly gruesome sexual habits of certain spiders makes us think about the nature of love and the reason of our existence. | |
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Best Editing, Johnny Tsang
Quick, driving, dirty, and forceful--just like the story it is telling. |
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by ALEX MAISONETTE - USA
A veteran New York City undercover gets his biggest mission ever before he retires from undercover duties and becomes a family man with a normal life, but first he needs to survive the battle of corruption with is peers on his team and then take down the biggest Drug Kingpin of New York City. | |
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SPECIAL MENTIONS:
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by ABHIJIT DAS GUPTA - India
For over 100 years, The Eastern Frontier Rifles has been highly decorated for discipline and for bravery. Their training program is the toughest. The Beyond Belief team has to showcase their mettle and dauntlessness with the EFR and the specially trained Commandos of the State Armed Police. | |
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by THOMAS ZINSLI - Switzerland
Rahim, the son of Arabic immigrants in Switzerland, is torn between the western world he grew up in and the roots of his native culture. Recruited to commit a terrorist attack, Rahim is now preparing to fulfill his mission ... and realizes that he hasn't come to terms with his fate just yet. | |
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by IBTISSEM DEHA - France
Fleeing the repression of Saddam's regime, a family leaves Iraq to settle down in France. the child remained linked to his grandfather who died during a bombardment on Baghdad. Few days later a letter from the grandfather arrives in France. | | | |
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OFFICIAL SELECTION
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The films who's producers do not authorize its online screening can not be viewed publicly and will not have a link. Those films have been reviewed by the
Committee of Art and the Jury privately.
APOCALYPSE STORY by JEFFREY P. NESKER
ATROZ by FRANCISCO ALVAREZ
BARABAR (EQUAL) by AJAY MONGA
BEYOND BELIEF 3 by ABHIJIT DAS GUPTA
BLIND LOVE by MARK KEMP
BUDDHA GIVES, BUDDHA TAKES - FORGOTTEN IN PATTAYA by PUJA KHOSCHSORUR
BULLIED by YOLANDA SANTIDRIAN
BUS 8 by THOMAS ZINSLI
CHARACTERS by IBTISSEM DEHA
DANGER by HECTOR SUNOL BERT
DESIRE OF THE MOTH by AMRITA MAHADIK
DESTELLO by PEDRO JAEN R.
DREAM OF THE SIREN by JEFF BEDRICK
ENDURANCE by PHILLIP A. MAYER
FINANCIAL ADVISER by SILVANO PLANK and DANIELE MALFATTI
FOREPLAY by E.V. SMITH
FUMAR by ESAU HERNANDEZ GONZALEZ
HEAVEN GARDEN by ARI CANDIDO FERNANDES
I FIND MYSELF by Z'EV
IN THE GARDEN'S MIND by ELISABETTA VITTONI
INSECT EROTICA by JOAO MACHADO
LOYALTY AND DECEPTION by NICOLO TAGLIABUE
NARX by ALEX MAISONETTE
NIGHTFALL OF EDEN by CONSTANTINA DAINA PAPADAKI
OVERBOOKING by MICHELE MORTARA
RATTSKIPAREN (THE REFEREE) by MATTIAS LOW
RILEY'S GAME by AXEL MANRICO HEILHECKER
SAM by YUNUS DANIEL BIREN
THE INTERVIEW by GIOVANNI ZELKO
TRANSFIGURATION by FRANCIS KUIPERS
WHY THE SLUGS DON'T LIKE SALT? by JOSE CORRAL
WORDS ON A PAGE by IAN BROW and KELLY MARACIN KRIEG
Short Film Festival of Los Angeles
losangeles@filmsfest.com
"The films in competition were exceptional. Not only were the production values of high caliber, but the stories were compelling, surprising, enlightening, fun, disturbing and expertly told. The acting was top notch and the inspiration passes from screen to audience with ease and impact.
I want to thank my fellow jurors Robert Cambrinus and Igal Peeri for their wise and expert guidance and Carlos for again giving me his trust for these selections. Congratulations to the filmmakers, the actors, the writers, the cinematographers, the editors, designers and composers for making all these pieces come together to produce these diverse and wonderful films."
Stephen Keep Mills
President of the Jury
"It was a great pleasure to watch the excellent and varied short film productions pre-selected for the Short Film Festival of Los Angeles 2011. Jury decisions can never do justice to all entries and this year was a case in point. The competing films encompassed a very wide and colourful range of genres and styles from all regions of the world. It is evidence that the possibilities of filmmaking are far from being depleted. It was a joy to see the creativeness of these filmmakers and their talented cast and crew. I congratulate the winners and encourage all participants to keep exploring and reinventing cinema"
Robert Cambrinus
International Jury
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Short Film Festival of Los Angeles - 2011 Awards
