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Calling all Aspiring Filmmakers! This is the official call for entries for the 2nd annual HollyShorts, Short Film Festival, which takes place at the world renowned
Cinespace: Digital Super Club and Lounge in Hollywood, August 11-13, 2006.
Submissions must be in Mini D.V. format or DVD screener,maximum running time 30 minutes. We will showcase the selected shorts live in Hollywood in front of your industry peers! Entry Instructions are below. GOOD LUCK!

HOLLYSHORTS ANNOUNCES DATES AND VENUE FOR 2ND ANNUAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL IN HOLLYWOOD

Best and Brightest Short Films From Around the Globe, Insightful Panels and Special Musical Performances To Take Place At Cinespace in Hollywood August 11-13, 2006

HOLLYWOOD, CA January 24, 2006----The organizers of HollyShorts, Short Film Festival announced today that the 2nd annual event will take place at the world renowned Cinespace: Digital Super Club and Lounge in Hollywood, August 11-13, 2006. The announcement was made by Daniel Sol, Producer and Co-Founder of HollyShorts, Short Film Festival.

"Cinespace is the perfect fit for our 2nd annual event and we look forward to once again showcasing the best and brightest short films from around the globe August 11-13," said Sol in making the announcement. "On the heels of the success of our inaugural event last August, we are eager to continue celebrating true, independent short films."

The 2006 HollyShorts Short Film Festival will showcase short films 30 minutes or less, thought provoking panels and music performances. Last year’s event showcased 23 short films from Poland, Thailand, Canada, India and the US, drawing standing room crowds at each of the screenings.


Cinespace


Cinespace is located at l6356 Hollywood Blvd (2nd Level and is every movie lover’s dream---an upscale restaurant, bar and screening room all rolled into one.

About HollyShorts
HollyShorts, Short Film Festival is an annual short film festival showcasing the best and brightest short films from around the globe. HollyShorts is devoted to the advancement filmmakers through screenings, Q&A sessions and networking events. The HollyShorts Film festival showcases the top short films produced 30- minutes or less. For more information, please visit www.hollyshortsfilmfestival.blogspot.com.
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Samsung Electronics today announced the opening of a new web site "AnyFilms.net" offering a series of unique short films for mobile and internet users.The site features a short film series which can be viewed online as well as downloaded to certain Samsung mobile phones that support video playback. The films are composed of two stories directed by young, ambitious Hollywood film directors. The executive producer of the films is Jon Kilik, whose film "Broken Flowers" recently won the Grand Prix at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. "Across the Hall", directed by Alex Merkin, is a two-part story about a man trying to prevent his friend from doing something rash with his fiance, who he believes is cheating on him. "GiGi", directed by Mark Dippe, is about a sheepish guy who improves his social skills through the aid of a mysterious phone with an alluring female voice.

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Holly Shorts came across this cool screenwriting contest. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Disney�s Dick Cook have agreed to read the winning scripts. The goal of the competition is to help inspire first-time screenwriters to produce compelling, entertaining, spiritually uplifting scripts. For more info visit kairosprize.com

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.

HollyShorts to present indie film showcase at Goddess Nite, November 12, 2005 at the Passive Arts Dungeon! The event is presented by Mother Bitch Productions.

Goddess Nite is an eclectic event that is designed to endorse and magnify strong independent female leaders in the underground arts and rock scene. The evening will consist of an art/photo gallery, dark designers, a concert by female fronted bands including Talia Mays, female DJ's and MC's and an independent film showcase presented by HollyShorts. The short films line up is TBA but will feature the best dark, edgy shorts from HollyShorts '05. The event will take place in the largest dungeon in North America, Passive Arts. For additional details on the event, please visit http://www.goddessnite.com/wst_page2.html

Q&A With The Makers of "Broken," The Comic Book




HollyShorts recently had the opportunity to catch up with two innovators, Brian Erzen and Lonny Chant of the hit independent comic book "Broken." The comic is story of a broken relationship, friends drifting apart, the silliness of "scenes" and how real life claims us all. Erzen wrote the story and Chant handled the artwork.

It's easy to talk about launching a project but it's another thing to get it off the ground and running a business.

HS:How did you guys come up with the concept for this comic?

BE: Lonny mentioned on the phone that he had a story idea, and wanted to know if I'd be interested in writing up a story that took elements of out real life and create this fictional story.

LC: Yeah, it's based LOOSELY on life experience.

HS: How many issues have been released to the public?

BE: Issue 1 is available for sale right now at hollowpointstudio.com, currently finishing up issue 2-3, and the overall story is plotted and it will be 6 issues.




HS: Would you be interested in formulating this comic book into a feature film if the proper offer came?

BE: The concept and the characters can be grown outside the comic book medium, but for the time being we are more interested in finding a publisher.

HS: What does it take for someone to take an idea and bring it to fruition like you guys did?

BE: Lots of discussion, compromise and dedication.

HS: What kind of tradeshows have you guys attended to promote the comic?

BE: We went to the APE, SPX, and the San Diego Comic Convention.

HS: Where do you see this heading in the next 2 years?

BE: The 6 issue story arch will be completed and the whole story will be in a trade paperback, as well as working on new ideas..

HS: What are some comic books that have influenced you the most?

LC: So many to name. Recently it's been the losers, ultimates, planetary and of course WE3. My favorite books and stories are the Dark Knight, X-Men Phoenix Saga, Hellboy, 100Bullets, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the Crow.

BE: Some of my favorite books are Sandman, X-Men, and Preacher, 100 Bullets.

FILM FEST TO FEATURE SHORT FILMS USING NOKIA PHONE
Tribeca announced recently they'll feature a series of short films created by the Nokia 6682 imaging smartphone. In addition to the jury shorts, Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal along with documentary filmmakers John Kirby and Libby Handros
(The American Ruling Class) also created an original work. The shorts created using the Nokia 6682 imaging smartphone will be available for viewing online
at: http://www.nokia.com/shortfilms.

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LONDON FILM FEST TO FEATURE SHORTS COMPETITION SPONSORED BY TCM
According to CNN, the London Film Festival, which takes place this week, will feature some of the world's hottest short films. It's the 49th annual event and it is bannered the TCM (Turner Classic Movies)Classic Shorts competition. Six films have been drawn up by the panel judges including some of the biggest brits as actors: Dame Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman and Kate Winslet, as well as director Gurinder Chadha -- best known for film such as "Bhaji on the Beach," "Bend it Like Beckham" and "Bride & Prejudice."

THE BANKER
Directed by: Hattie Dalton
Produced by: Kelly Broad



The six film finalists are: "The Clap," directed by Geoff Lindsey; "Ashes," by Corinna Faith; "Jane Lloyd," directed by Happy; "Special People," from Justin Edgar; Andrew Greener's "End Game," and "The Banker," directed by Hattie Dalton.

Congratulations to Justin Liberman and his acclaimed short film "Y Nada Mas" for their biggest screening in Los Angeles to date at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival this past Saturday.

SHORTS IN KOREA
The Korea Times recently reported Actor Ahn Sung-ki, a veteran Korean actor believes short films are a pure way for directors to express what they want to say without worrying too much about commercial success. We agree with Sung-ki.
``Different from feature films, short films have their own attractive qualities, free from the burden of commercial success and all that,'' Ahn told The Korea Times last week. ``And they talk straightforwardly in innovative and interesting ways.''

To promote the virtues of short films, he is now working as director of the 3rd Asiana International Short Film Festival (AISFF), which takes place in Seoul from Nov. 2 to 7, showcasing 55 films from 26 countries.