HOLLYSHORTS LATE LATE DEADLINE IS JUNE 5th, FEST ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL JURY

OFFICIAL LATE LATE DEADLINE FOR HOLLYSHORTS SUBMISSIONS IS JUNE 5 ON WAB

FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL JURY OF INDUSTRY HEAVY HITTERS FOR
5TH ANNUAL EVENT

June 5 marks the official late deadline for submissions for the 5th annual HollyShorts Film Festival, so act now and submit your short! HollyShorts is accepting music videos and short films in a variety of genres including animation, live action, documentary, and for the first time ever in a partnership with actor Jimmy Jean-Louis and his non-profit organization Hollywood Unites For Haiti (HUFH), we have a webisode category which will be judged by Writer/Actress Maurissa Tanchoreon, and Writer/Composer/Actor Jedd Whedon. Murissa and Jedd are responsible for the Streamy Award Winning online phenomenon Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and are writers on Dollhouse. You can submit now by visiting:
hollyshorts.com or withoutabox.com. June 5 is the Withoutabox extended deadline.

In addition, we are glad to announce our official jury for the 5th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival (August 6-9, 2009). See the jury below, which features a who’s who of industry heavy hitters.

HOLLYSHORTS 2009 JURY

Mark Fergus, Writer, Ironman, Children of Men (Academy Award Nominee for Adapted Screenplay), Consequence, First Snow (Writer/Director)

Jimmy Jean-Louis, Actor (Heroes)

Bill Purple, Writer, Director, Producer (Hole in the Paper Sky, Iron Ocean Films)

Jesse Terrero, Writer, Director, Producer (Soul Plane, music videos for 50 Cent, Sean Paul, The Lox, G-Unit)

Lucas Carter, The Weinstein Co. Director, Production and Development

Peter Russell, Story Analyst (Walden (AFG) Films (The Chronicles of Narnia), and Participant Productions (An Inconvenient Truth), Imagine Films, and CBS Television Network)

Amy Draughn, Production (Josh Brolin Productions)

Jeff Vespa, Writer, Director, Actor (co-Founder Wireimage, Nosebleed)

Jamie Linden, Writer (We Are Marshall, Dear John, The Dogs of Babel)

Maurissa Tanchoreon, Writer, Actress (Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)

Jedd Whedon, Writer, Composer, Actor (Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)

Arianna Jackson, Partner, Producer, Chill Entertainment (Confessions of a Memory Eater)

Leah Meyerhoff, Writer, Director (Twitch, Unicorns)

Eric Robles, Executive Producer, Creator Nickelodeon’s Fanboy and Chum Chum

Stacey Parks, Stacey Parks, founder of Film Specific and author of The Insider’s Guide To Independent Film Distribution

William Olsson, Director, (An American Affair)