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2006 Sundance Film Festival Announces Short Film Program
SALT LAKE CITY, - Te Short Film Program at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, taking place January 19-29, 2006, in Park City, Utah will also be available globally at the Sundance Film Festival Online at (www.sundance.org) starting January 19, 2006 through June 19, 2006. Below are the 73 featured shorts:

US Shorts
Dramatic Shorts

BUGCRUSH (Director: Carter Smith
COMMON PRACTICE (Director: Marcos Efron)
DEALBREAKER (Director: Gwyneth Paltrow and Mary Wigmore)
THE DEBT / USA/Republic of Georgia (Director: Levan Koguashvili)
DIVORCE LEMONADE (Director: Justin Hayward)
FIRST DATE (Director: Gary Huggins)
FOURTEEN (Director: Nicole Barnette)
GESTURE DOWN/I DON'T SING / USA/Mexico (Director: Cedar Sherbert)
HA HA HA AMERICA (Director: Jon Daniel Ligon)
HELLO, THANKS (Director: Andrew Blubaugh)
HOLD UP (Director: Madeleine Olnek)
LA MUERTE ES PEQUENA / USA/Brazil (Director: Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa)
LIGHTEN UP (Director: John Viener)
MARJOUN AND THE FLYING HEADSCARF (Director: Susan Youssef)
MAX AND JOSH (Director: Kathryn Ann Busby)
MOMMA'S BOY (Director: John Bryant)
ONE SUNG HERO (Director: Samantha Kurtzman-Counter)
THE PITY CARD (Director: Bob Odenkirk)
REDEMPTITUDE (Director: David Zellner)
ROBIN'S BIG DATE (Director: James Duffy)
TRANSACTION (Director: Jacques Thelemaque)
YOU TURNED BACK AND HELD MY HAND (Director: Gabriela Tollman)
YOUR DARK HAIR IHSAN / USA/Mexico (Director: Tala Hadid)

Documentary Shorts

THE ALUMINUM FOWL (Director: James S. Clauer)
BEYOND IRAQ (Director: Annalisa Hodgkins)
A CONVERSATION WITH BASQUIAT (Director: Tamra Davis)
LOSING LUSK (Director: Vance Malone)
LOT 63, GRAVE C (Director: Sam Green)
MIND OVER MATTER (Director: Scott Gerow)
NO UMBRELLA - ELECTION DAY IN THE CITY (Director: Laura Paglin)
PREACHER WITH AN UNKNOWN GOD (Director: Rob VanAlkemade)
RANGE (Director: Bill Basquin)
THROUGH THE ICE (Director: Jennie Livingston)
THE TRIBE (Director: Tiffany Shlain)
TRUE STORY (Director: Stephanie Via)
WHAT I LOVE ABOUT DYING (Director: Silas Howard)

Animated Shorts

FABLE (Director: Daniel Sousa)
FUMI AND THE BAD LUCK FOOT (Director: David Chai)
GOPHER BROKE (Director: Jeff Fowler)
HADACOL CHRISTMAS (Director: Brent Green)
LOS ABCS: QUE VIVAN LOS MUERTOS! (Director: John Jota Leanos)
THE WRAITH OF COBBLE HILL (Director: Adam Parrish King)

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS
Dramatic Shorts

ANTONIO'S BREAKFAST / UK (Director: Daniel Mulloy)
ARUBA / Canada (Director: Hubert Davis)
BAWKE / Norway (Director: Hisham Zaman)
THE BEGINNING OF THE END / Brazil (Director: Gustavo Spolidoro)
BE QUIET / France (Director: Sameh Zoabi)
BEFORE DAWN / Hungary (Director: Balint Kenyeres)
DESEJO / Brazil (Director: Anne Pinheiro Guimaraes)
EXOTICORE / Belgium (Director: Nicolas Provost)
LE ROUGE AU SOL / Canada (Director: Maxime Giroux)
MONSIEUR ETIENNE / France (Director: Yann Chayia)
THE NATURAL ROUTE / Spain (Director: Alex Pastor)
A SUPERMARKET LOVE SONG / UK (Director: Daniel Outram)

Documentary Shorts

RAPE FOR WHO I AM / South Africa (Director: Lovinsa Kavuma)
SMUDGE / Canada (Director: Gail Maurice)
UNDRESSING MY MOTHER / Ireland (Director: Ken Wardrop)

Animated Shorts

AT THE QUINTE HOTEL / Canada (Director: Bruce Alcock)
BOB LOG III'S ELECTRIC FENCE STORY / Germany (Director: Stock 'n' Wolf)
CLARA / Australia (Director: Van Sowerwine)
FLESH / France (Director: Edouard Salier)
A HALF MAN / Canada (Director: Firas Momani)
THE MYSTERIOUS GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF JASPER MORELLO / Australia
(Director: Anthony Lucas)
YESTERDAY, I THINK / UK (Director: Becalelis Brodskis)

FRONTIER SHORT FILMS

THE BLEEDING HEART OF IT / Canada (Director: Louise Bourque)
FANTOME AFRIQUE / UK (Director: Isaac Julien)
HIGH PLAINS WINTER / USA (Directors: Cindy Stillwell)
INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE / Austria (Director: Peter
Tscherkassky)
QUIMERA / Brazil (Director: Eryk Rocha)
SITE SPECIFIC_LAS VEGAS 05 / Italy (Director: Olivo Barbieri)
TRUE NORTH / USA (Director: Isaac Julien)
UTEN TITTEL / Norway (Director: Anja Breien)
VISCERA / USA (Director: Leighton Pierce)

TOILET SHORT ROCKS IFILM
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Dave Branin's new short film "What Happened to the Toilet Paper?" has been getting rave reviews this week.

Available for view on iFILM, the film cracked the to 50 comedies in just one week of posting. "This is gonna be huge," said Branin when HollyShorts caught up to him Tuesday night at LAX on his way to Barbados. "We are thrilled at the early response that we've been getting."

HANDHELD ENTERTAINMENT 1000 COMEDIC SHORTS FOR ZVUE

HandHeld Entertainment (TM) this past week announced it will add more than 1,000 comedic short films to its downloadable collection of ZVUE-ready videos available at www.zvue.com/downloads. The films are available through a content licensing agreement with Fun Little Movies (FLM), a leading provider and distributor of mobile entertainment and short comedy films. The films are available through a content licensing agreement with Fun Little Movies (FLM), a leading provider and distributor of mobile entertainment and short comedy films. The agreement with FLM gives ZVUE users access to a large collection of downloadable comedy shorts, which are readily playable on the ZVUE portable media player, as well as other compatible PMPs and Sprint mobile phones. Videos produced by FLM have appeared on HBO, Showtime, MTV, Comedy Central, A&E, PBS, Fox and WarnerBros.com. FLM has also received many cinematic awards, including First Prize for Best Comedy at the World’s Smallest Film Festival for its ‘Love Bytes’ series, and a finalist’s place for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival.

According to The Hollywood Reporter,the third weekend was still a charm for "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," which remained the top movie with an estimated $20.5 million. "Aeon Flux," managed to debut in second place with $13.1 million, according to studio estimates.

VENICE INT'L SHORT FILM FEST WINNER... IRISH
Irish short 'A Woman's Hair' has won joint Best International Short at The Venice International Short Film Festival. The film was adapted and directed for the screen by writer/director Conor McDermottroe from a short story by Bryan McMahon.
'A Woman's Hair' is set in the 1950s and tells the story of an unlikely bond that develops between a traveller woman and a young girl, played by nine-year-old Orlaith Donnelly, during a cold winter.

According to the latest Done Deal Newsletter , Paramount Pictures will pay $1.2 million against $1.8 million for "Cockblockers" by Greg Coolidge. It is based on a pitch from an idea by Greg Coolidge and Walter Hamada. The story centers on a new couple that has but one problem: The woman's ex-boyfriend keeps blocking the advances of her new beau. Topher Grace, Michael De Luca, Identity Films' Seann William Scott & Graham Larson and H2F's Walter Hamada & Chris Fenton will produce. Scott and Grace will also star. Coolidge was repped on the deal by Emile Gladstone of Broder Webb Chervin Silbermann Agency, manager Walter Hamada of H2F Entertainment, and attorney Karl Austen of Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum & Morris.