Oscar Shorts Release with Theatrical Premieres of Live Action Short, Animated Short and Documentary Short Categories
SHORTSHD™
THE SHORT MOVIE CHANNEL TO RELEASE OSCAR® NOMINATED
SHORT FILMS 2016 IN THEATRES ON FRIDAY JANUARY 29
World’s Only Short Movie Channel To Showcase Famed Oscar Shorts Release with Theatrical
Premieres of Live Action Short, Animated Short and Documentary Short Categories
Los Angeles, CA January 19, 2016 – ShortsHD™, the Only Short Film Channel (www.shorts.tv),
working with Magnolia Pictures, will open “THE OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2016 on over
400 screens across the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America on Friday January 29, 2016.
“THE OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2016” will showcase the Live Action, Animation and Documentary short film nominees compilation as three separate theatrical events.
This marks the 11th year of the Oscar® nominated short films
theatrical experience and is the only opportunity for audiences to watch the nominated short films prior to the 88th Academy Awards® ceremony on Sunday, February 28, 2016.
In 2015, the Oscar® Nominated Short
Films earned over $2.4 million worldwide, nearly doubling from just a
few years prior. One of the most diverse categories in Academy
consideration,
this year’s Oscar® Nominated Short Films feature projects originating from
United States, France, Germany, Palestine,
United Kingdom, Kosovo, Austria, Chile, Russia, Liberia, Pakistan,
Vietnam, and Canada.
“Films make us laugh and
cry; they inform us, entertain us and make us think. Short film is like
film on steroids. For talent, short film vastly expands opportunities,
provides an incredible forum for experimentation
and creates a pathway for further success. For viewers, short film
offers an abundance of dynamic stories, which are told in ways that they
cannot be or are not being told in feature film, including films that
may be uniquely relevant to their cultures. As
the short film genre continues to pick up in popularity and
competitiveness, with it comes an increase in the quality of production
and diversity of voices
” said Carter Pilcher, Chief Executive at ShortsHD, the TV network behind the annual theatrical compilations.
The documentary shorts will NOT play in theatres outside the US, they will only play in US theaters.
The documentary shorts will NOT play in theatres outside the US, they will only play in US theaters.
For a sneak peak at The Oscar® Nominated Short Films 2016 program, please visit:
http://shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/
This year’s complete release includes the following nominated short films:
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM NOMINEES
Ave Maria
Directors: Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
Synopsis: Five nuns living in the West
Bank find their routine disrupted when the car of a family of Israeli
settlers breaks down outside the convent. Unable to use the telephone
due to Sabbath restrictions, the family needs
help from the nuns, but the sisters' vow of silence requires them to
work with their visitors to find an unorthodox solution.
Country of origin: France | Germany | Palestine
TRT: 15
Language: Arabic | English | Hebrew
Day One
Directors: Henry Hughes
Synopsis: On the heels of a painful
divorce, an Afghan-American woman joins the U.S. military as an
interpreter and is sent to Afghanistan. On her first mission, she
accompanies troops pursuing a bomb-maker, and must bridge the
gender and culture gap to help the man's pregnant wife when she goes
into labor.
Country of origin: United States
TRT: 25
Language: English | Dari
Shok
Directors: Jamie Donoughue
Synopsis: In Kosovo in 1998, two young
boys are best friends living normal lives, but as war engulfs their
country, their daily existence becomes filled with violence and fear.
Soon, the choices they make threaten not only their
friendship, but their families and their lives.
Country of origin: United Kingdom | Kosovo
TRT: 21
Language: Albanian | Serbian
Stutterer
Directors: Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
Synopsis: For a lonely typographer, an
online relationship has provided a much-needed connection without
revealing the speech impediment that has kept him isolated. Now,
however, he is faced with the proposition of meeting his
online paramour in the flesh, and thereby revealing the truth about
himself.
Country of origin: United Kingdom
TRT: 12
Language: English
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Directors: Patrick Vollrath
Synopsis: Michael, a divorced father
devoted to his eight-year-old daughter, Lea, picks her up for their
usual weekend together. At first it feels like a normal visit, but Lea
soon realizes that something is different, and so
begins a fateful journey.
Country of origin: Germany | Austria
TRT: 30
Language: German
ANIMATED SHORT FILM NOMINEES
Bear Story
Directors: Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Synopsis: Every day, a melancholy old
bear takes a mechanical diorama that he has created out to his street
corner. For a coin, passersby can look into the peephole of his
invention, which tells the story of a circus bear who
longs to escape and return to the family from which he was taken.
Country of origin: Chile
TRT: 11
Language: No dialogue
Prologue
Directors: Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
Synopsis: 2,400 years ago, four
warriors -- two Spartan and two Athenian -- battle to the death in an
intense struggle witnessed by a little girl, who then runs to her
grandmother for comfort.
Country of origin: United Kingdom
TRT: 6
Language: English
Sanjay’s Super Team
Directors: Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
Synopsis: Young Sanjay, a
first-generation Indian-American, is obsessed with television, cartoons
and his superhero action figures. He is reluctant to spend time in daily
prayers with his devout Hindu father, but a flight of
imagination helps him develop a new perspective that he and his father
can both embrace.
Country of origin: United States
TRT: 7
Language: English
World of Tomorrow
Directors: Don Hertzfeldt
Synopsis: A little girl named Emily is
taken on a fantastical tour of her distant future by a surprising
visitor who reveals unnerving secrets about humanity's fate.
Country of origin: United States
TRT: 17
Language: English
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
Directors: Konstantin Bronzit
Synopsis: Two best friends have dreamed
since childhood of becoming cosmonauts, and together they endure the
rigors of training and public scrutiny, and make the sacrifices
necessary to achieve their shared goal.
Country of origin: Russia
TRT: 16
Language: No Dialogue
DOCUMENTARY SHORT NOMINEES
Body Team 12
Directors: David Darg and Bryn Mooser
Synopsis: In Monrovia, Liberia, Garmai
Sumo is the only female member of Body Team 12, one of the many teams
collecting the bodies of those who died from Ebola during the height of
the 2014 outbreak. Despite the perilous nature
of her job and the distrust with which she is often met, Garmai remains
dedicated to her work.
Country of origin: Liberia
TRT: 13
Language: English
Claude Lanzmann:
Spectres Of The Shoah
Directors: Adam Benzine
Synopsis: Thirty years after the
release of the documentary SHOAH, filmmaker Claude Lanzmann discusses
the personal and professional difficulties he encountered during the
more than 12 years it took to create the work. Lanzmann
also discusses his relationships with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul
Sartre, and his teenage years spent fighting in the French Resistance
during World War II.
Country of origin: Canada | United States | United Kingdom
TRT: 40
Language: French
Chau Beyond the Lines
Directors: Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck
Synopsis: Chau, a teenager living in a
Vietnamese care center for children born with birth defects due to Agent
Orange, struggles with the difficulties of realizing his dream to
become a professional artist and clothing designer.
Despite being told that his ambitions are unrealistic, Chau is
determined to live an independent, productive life.
Country of origin: United States | Vietnam
TRT: 34
Language: Vietnamese
A Girl
in The River: The Price of Forgiveness’
Directors: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Synopsis: Every year, more than 1,000
girls and women are the victims of religiously motivated honor killings
in Pakistan, especially in rural areas. Eighteen-year-old Saba, who fell
in love and eloped, was targeted by her father
and uncle but survived to tell her story.
Country of origin: Pakistan
TRT: 40
Language: Panjabi
Last Day of Freedom
Directors: Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
Synopsis: When Bill Babbitt realized
that his brother Manny had committed a crime, he agonized over the
decision to call the police, knowing that Manny could face the death
penalty but hoping he would instead receive the help
he needed. Manny, an African-American veteran who served two tours in
Vietnam, suffered from PTSD and had found it difficult to obtain
healthcare.
Country of origin: United States
TRT: 32
Language: English
This year’s list of 2016 Oscar® Nominated Short Films feature a number of repeat nominees.
Prologue marks Richard Williams’ fourth Academy Award nomination. He previously won 3 Oscars, 1988’s
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Best Visual Effects and Special Achievement Award, and 1973’s
A Christmas Carol (Best Short Subject). We Can’t Live Without Cosmos Director Konstantin Bronzit was previously nominated for
Lavatory-Lovestory (Short Film) in 2008. The World of Tomorrow director Don Hertzfeldt was previously nominated for
Rejected (Short Film Animated). This is also the second nomination for
A Girl in The River; The Price of Forgiveness Director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, she won an Oscar in 2011 for
Saving Face (Documentary Short).
Nominations for the 88th Academy Awards® were announced on January 14. For more information,
http://shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/
ShortsHD™ is the first
high definition channel dedicated to short movies and is available on
DIRECTV (Channel 573), and AT&T U-Verse (Channel 1789), US Sonet
(Channel 292), CenturyLink prism (1789) and Frontier
Communications (Channel 1789) as well as
Verizon. ShortsHD™ is operated by Shorts International, the
world’s leading short movie entertainment company with the world’s
largest movie catalogue dedicated to short movies. Shorts International
also operates ShortsTV®, which
is available across Europe and Africa. Shorts™ is
the short movie on-demand service available on iTunes movie stores in 54
countries across the globe and Amazon Instant Video. The company is
headquartered in London, England with an additional office in Los
Angeles and is led by Carter Pilcher, Chief Executive.
The documentary shorts will NOT play in theatres outside the US, they will only play in US theaters.
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The documentary shorts will NOT play in theatres outside the US, they will only play in US theaters.
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