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| 1990 - THE
LUNCH DATE (US – Academy Award
winner, 1990) |
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1991 - BEDHEAD.
Sure Robert Rodriguez is a hometown hero but this
short is great, overflowing with energy and cinema. |
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1994 - BOTTLE
ROCKET – Wes Anderson film was first
a short subject |
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1994 - THIRTY-TWO
SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD by Francois
Girard. There aren't 32, but that's another question.
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1995 - POLIO
WATER - written and directed by Caroline
Kava. 18 minutes, color, USA – Columbia University
MFA Thesis project. Not yet acquired. In the polio
epidemic of the 1950s, a parochial school girl finds
a miraculous escape from her sexually abusive childhood.
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1997 - GASMAN
(15min) – by Lynne Ramsay – Scotland –
BRITISH 16 PAL DVD – excellent short that led
to her feature film career. A single mother drops
off her daughter and son with their father so that
he can take them and his other child to a Christmas
party. Both the adults are struggling to make ends
meet in the depressed region in Scotland and the father
finds things hard going trying to keep the kids happy
with very little cash.
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1998 - IN THE
MIRROR OF THE SKY - Color narrative, Mexico,
written and directed by Carlos Salces.
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1999 - GEORGE
LUCAS IN LOVE. 8 minutes -USA – Directed
by Joe Nessbaum. The origin of Star Wars can finally
be revealed in George Lucas In Love, a brilliant short-film
which gives the true story behind the writing of the
classic movie.
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1999 - MULTI-FACIAL
(D. VIN DIESEL) |
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| 2000-
GASLINE written & directed by Dave Silver,
MFA thesis film from Columbia University. |
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2000
- ZEN AND THE ART OF LANDSCAPING – David
Kartch, a 2000 MFA graduate of the Columbia University
School of the Arts Film Division, has won the Gold Medal
for best narrative film at the 28th Annual Student Academy
Awards for his Columbia Masters Thesis film, "Zen
and the Art of Landscaping."
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| 2000
- FIVE FEET HIGH AND RISING by Peter Sollet
took prizes at lots of fests, (Sundance in 2000). This
film could also be placed in the shorts-to-features
category as it was developed into the Samuel Goldwyn
feature, Raising Victor Vargas. |
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2001
- COPY SHOP – animation (although you
would swear it is live-action and in fact, it was nominated
as an Oscar Live-Action short) written and directed
by Austria director Virgil Widrich. On Best of Clermont-Ferrand
Collection. B/W - Clever and technically brilliant.
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| 2002
– LEFT BEHIND 34 minutes; Moving documentary
about children with aids in Africa (Student Academy
Award winner – best documentary, 2003). |
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| 2003
- PERPETUAL MOTION (2:15min) US, Student Academy
Award winner for Animation by Kimberly Miner. A brilliant
exercise in brevity and philosophy – what happens
when you put jelly on cats. |
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2003
- WASP has been enthusiastically acclaimed by the critics, and has already been awarded 19 prizes, among them the Best Short at the Worldwide Festival in Toronto.
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