By Craig Kennedy - July 30th, 2010; 10:40 pm
The 14th Annual LA Shorts Fest which “honors those individuals who have achieved excellence in short films” ended in Hollywood tonight and the festival’s six winners were announced:
- Best Experimental: Stanley Picle, Vicky Mather
- Best Animation: Zero, Christopher Kezelos
- Best Comedy: The Man Who Married Himself, Garrick Hamm
- Best Drama: Paraphernalia, John Williams
- Best Foreign Film: Between Heaven and Earth, York-Fabian Raabe
- Best of the Fest: The Activist, Philip Montgomery
With 260 screenings over 9 days, LA Shorts Fest bills itself as the largest short film festival in the world. More importantly, an award at this festival is one criterion for Oscar eligibility. As the press release notes, 33 LA Shorts winners have gone on to receive Oscar nominations and, of those 11, have won the Oscar including 2009 Best Animated Short winner Les Maisons en Petits Cubes.
Three other awards that don’t include Oscar eligibility:
- Best Creative Commercial: Way of Money, Tilman Baum
- Best Documentary: Killing in the Name, Jed Rothstein
- Special Recognition Awards: The Gift, Carl Erik Rinsch
This years panel of judges consisted of:
- Paula Wagner, producer (Mission Impossible, War of the Worlds)
- Andy Fickman, director (You Again, Game Plan),
- Thomas Jane, actor (TV’s Hung),
- Carrie Preston, actress (True Blood, My Best Friend’s Wedding),
- Mariana Klaveno, actress (True Blood),
- Matt Lanter, actor (TV’s 90210),
- Tom Arnold, actor (True Lies),
- Mimi Steinbauer, president, Hyde Park International,
- Brian O’Shea, president, Affinity International,
- Cort Lane, VP of Animation, Marvel,
- David Ortiz, Executive, One Race Productions.
via: Press Release
Filed under: Film Festivals
Tags: LA Shorts Fest
