Why is HollyShorts a festival you should consider coming out to check out? For starters, you get the opportunity to see some great talent in short form film and you get to see a lot of it in every genre from Live Action, Animation, Documentary, Web Series, Trailers, Commercial, Music Videos. Short genres range from Horror, Romance, Drama, Action, Comedy, to Thrillers…
This year there will be lots of new newcomers as well as some well-known talent participating from Jerry Stiller in Steve Monarque’s Simpler Times, Caity Lotz in Susana Hornil’s short Missed Call, Jennifer Morrison in Chris Peters’ To Dust Return, Corbin Bernsen in his son Oliver Bernsen’s short Midland, Dominic Polcino’s animated award-winning short Lovesick Fool: Love in the Age of Like stars Janeane Garofalo and Lisa Kudrow. Joe Magee and Bill Bailey’s Love Song stars Emma Thompson, Brent Weinbach’s I Don’t Dance stars Natasha Leggero, John Henry Hinkel’s HOME stars Robert Forster. JT Mollner’s Flowers in December stars Dee Wallace, Emad Asfoury’s Duality stars Don Most, Sarah Lynn Dawson, Jon Foo and was voiced by Deepak Chopra. Aaron Webman’s After Lilly stars Jack Quaid, Raymond Cruz stars in Alexandra Debricon’s A Gringo Honeymoon. Michael Gross stars in Linda Palmer’s Our Father.
Plus – if you’re a filmmaker, producer or creator and want to hear from the best talent about how they are making it happen… you need to come out to the panels at the HollyShorts Film Conference.
Get Tickets: Advance tickets, the lineup, all-access passes and the fest schedule are currently available at hollyshorts.com
“We are honored to showcase this selection of the world’s top short movies at HollyShorts. This festival has grown into the biggest and most prestigious annual celebration of short movies and prides itself on providing next level opportunities for our filmmakers. It’s going to be an epic 10 days with receptions every day for our guests,” said Theo Dumont, HollyShorts co-founder and co-director.
The 11th annual HollyShorts festival will take place at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres August 13-22, 2015 and the HollyShorts Film Conference complete with panel discussions, will take place at IgnitedSpaces during August 14-21.
“We are flattered that other festivals in Los Angeles this year have aggressively contacted our filmmakers with numerous efforts to poach them, this shows the demand for their great works. What those festivals don’t understand is that this is THE filmmakers festival and they’ll do whatever they want here whenever they want, and we encourage that,” added co-founder and co-director Daniel Sol.
Here’s the list of Shorts Selected for this Year’s Festival
| 7.2 | Nida Manzoor |
| 17 Things I Love About You | Carys Watford |
| 600$ | Oriol Cardús |
| 7UP: Feels Good to Be You | Imran J. Khan, Christopher Vennemeyer |
| 90 Degrees North | Detsky Graffam |
| A Band of Thieves | Fidel Ruiz-Healy |
| A Better Place | Michael Chase Gordon |
| A Bird’s Nest | Christine Chen |
| A Gringo Honeymoon | Alexandra Debricon |
| A Lady & A Robot | Toby Morris |
| A Private Matter | Kate Halpin |
| A Reasonable Request | Andrew Laurich |
| A Teenage Drama | Phillip Clark Davis |
| A traves del espejo / Eng: Through the Breaking Glass | Ivan Mena-Tinoco |
| Above The Alley, Beneath The Sky | Dominic Gill |
| Addam | Alex Nystrom |
| After Lilly | Aaron Webman |
| After the End | Sam Southward |
| Alien Communications | Kris and Kurtis Theorin |
| American Falls | Bé Garrett |
| Among The Innocent | Louis Mansfield |
| Anamnesis | Alex Calleros, Michael Tucker |
| And They Watched | Vivian Lin |
| Au Fil de l’ Eau (On Flying Water) | Dominique Monfery |
| Authentik | Anthony Lemaitre |
| Awakenings | Bhargav Saikia |
| Back Pages | Tony Fabro |
| Bad Guy #2 | Chris McInroy |
| Bad Service | Hannah Macpherson |
| BAHAR IM WUNDERLAND | Behrooz Karamizade |
| Bandito | Evan Ari Kelman |
| Based on Rosenthal | Stephen Kinigopoulos |
| Bie Pu (Home) | Amelie Wen |
| Big Boy | Bryan Campbell |
| Birthday | Chris King |
| Black and Blue | Ciara Allen |
| Blackwell | Ed Barnes |
| Blunderbus | Ashley Louis |
| Borderland | Aleksander Olai Korsnes |
| Bosniak | Kejd Kuqo |
| Bowes Academy | Greg Emetaz |
| Boxeadora | Meg Smaker |
| BOXED | John T. Connor |
| Boys I Used To Babysit | Leah Rachel |
| Break The Rock Concept Trailer | Michael O’Halloran |
| Broken ceilings | Yanillys Perez |
| Bumblebees | Jenna Kanell |
| Butterflies | Cayman Grant |
| C.T.R.L | Mariana Conde |
| Caravan | Keiran Watson-Bonnice |
| Career Girl | Fortunato Procopio |
| Carne Seca | Jazmin Diaz |
| Chute Fighter | Laurel Parmet |
| Clave | Carmen Corral |
| Closer | Angelo Licata |
| Closets | Lloyd Eyre-Morgan |
| Coeur d’Alene | Merlin Camozzi |
| Color My World | Jameson Jordan |
| Come Away With Me | Ellen Gerstein |
| Coming To | Lindsey Haun |
| Coming to Terms | David Bertran |
| Compound 147 | Coleman Beltrami |
| CON | Chris Miller |
| Corner and the Cutman | Daniel Holliday |
| County State USA: Sweet Corn | Jonathan Nowak |
| Cracked | Adria Tennor |
| Crude | Charles Henri-Joslain |
| D.Asian | Sarah Smith |
| DAD IN MUM | Fabrice Bracq |
| Daewit | David Jansen |
| Day 40 | Sol Friedman |
| Day One | Leo Kei Angelos and Kristen Brancaccio |
| De Smet | Wim Geudens, Thomas Baerten |
| Dead Hearts | Stephen W. Martin |
| Death of a Government Clerk | Mykyta Samusiev |
| Death Of A Man | Alex Nicholson |
| Del Ciego Desert | François Leduc |
| DER KÖNIG NEBENAN | Isa Micklitza |
| Discount Fitness | Spencer Willis & Heath Woodlief |
| Dissonance | Till Nowak |
| Dizzy Wright ‘False Reality’ Official Video | Scott Fleishman and Fredo Tovar |
| Doghouse | Joshua Butler |
| Doradus | Fernando J. Scarpa |
| Dot | Tali Barde |
| Downtown Girls | Emebeit Beyene & Chandra Russell |
| Drifting | Roee Messinger |
| Driving | Nate Theis |
| Drone | Justin S. Lee |
| Dry Me Crazy | Ethan Corn |
| Duality | Emad Asfoury |
| Dust | Michael Grier |
| El Camino Solo | Shawn Telford |
| Election Night | Tessa Blake |
| Ellie | Allison Eckert |
| Eternity Hill | Alex Feldman, Marc Jozefowicz |
| Everything All At once | Eleanor Wilson |
| Everything Under (EU) – Gotta Make Money | Mark J Heidecke |
| EXIT PROJECT: Kate | Oleksii Sobolev/Misha Koroteev |
| Father’s Day | Emily Towers |
| Fish In A Sweater: Three Dollar Drafts | Ben Barnes |
| Flowers in December | JT Mollner |
| For My Next Trick | James Card |
| For Ofelia, | Christopher de las Alas |
| Forgive Me | Monique Carmona |
| Found | Dawn Fields |
| From the Sky | Ian Ebright |
| Gary Clark Jr. “When My Train Pulls In” | Carmela Makela |
| German Shepherd | Nils Bergendal |
| Girl in her Twenties | Amy Reedy |
| GODS Dot Com | Richard Ciccarone |
| Golden Leaves | Livia Alcalde and Francesco Sperandeo |
| Gonna Stop Killing – Carla Bozulich | Martijn Rijnberg |
| Grand Zero | Kevin Oeser |
| Green Thumb | Kiel Murray & Phil Lorin |
| Grit | Ilan Srulovicz |
| Guest Room | Joshua Tate |
| HAG | Erik Gardner |
| Hagereseb | Zia Mohajerjasbi |
| Happy and You Know It | Jeremy Howe, Ramsey Robinson, Kira Hesser |
| Harmony | Noel Douglas Orput |
| Helio | Teddy Cecil |
| HelLA | Rory Uphold |
| Hello Again | Tom Ruddock |
| Hero.Traitor.Patriot | Weyni Mengesha and Eion Bailey |
| HES THE BEST | Tamyka Smith |
| Holloway Heights: The Grenade | Jon Hoeg; John F. Beach |
| Home | John Henry Hinkel |
| Home Range | Natalia Kaniasty |
| House Hunting | Patrick Andrew Higgins |
| How a Man Gets Ready | Romina Schwedler |
| Human Behavior | Carey Williams |
| HURSIT | Selcen Yilmazoglu |
| Hush | Michael G. Kehoe |
| Hyena´s Blood | Nicolas Caicoya |
| I Don’t Dance | Brent Weinbach |
| I Love You, Dad | Eric Normington |
| I, Charon | Phillip and Kevin Harvey |
| IF IT TURNS BAD, RUN ! | David Hourregue |
| If The Trees Could Talk | Michael Weinstein |
| I’ll Be Home Soon | James Everett |
| Impact, a boxer’s story | Keith Rivers |
| In Her Place | Kevin Hamedani |
| In the Clouds | Marcelo Mitnik |
| In The Street | PM Romero, Scott Montgomery |
| In Time | Gabrielle Giacomo and Mary Grace Henry |
| Intermission | Mark Tiedemann |
| Into Memory | Derek Franzese |
| Into the Surf | Tom Evans |
| Invaders | Jason Kupfer |
| It Has To Be You | Conrad Rothbaum |
| It’s a Wonderful Knife | Nick Lines |
| Ivory Drive – In Dark | Van Wampler |
| Jack Of All Trades | Gregory T Evans |
| Jamaica | Helen Rollins |
| Jaysin Voxx “Hands on Me” | Carlos Hurtado |
| Je suis une actrice | Benoit Lach |
| Julia’s Farm | Sudeshna Sen |
| Juliet Juliet | Ken Ochiai |
| Karma | Vladimir Mitrevski |
| Kids Who Jump Off Bridges | Zoe Neary |
| KOMM UND SPIEL | Daria Belova |
| Kowalski | Jason O’Mara |
| Lapse of Time | Celine Tricart |
| Larry Gone Demon | Matthew John Lawrence |
| Last Base | Aslak Danbolt |
| Lay In Wait | Jonathan Ade |
| Life in Your Social Network presented by Heard – “Social Disorder” | Hunter Davis |
| Lifeline | Jeffery Wang |
| Lion Momma | Justin Possenti |
| Lion Shepherd – “Lights Out” | Piotr Jasinski |
| Living with Coyote | Priya Shelly |
| Lo! Orca | The Glue Society – Matt Devine |
| Lovable | Zac Taylor & Erica Silverman |
| Love & A Lug Wrench | Jeffrey Fleisig |
| Love Hurts | Albert Lopez |
| Love in the Time of March Madness | Melissa Johnson and Robertino Zambrano |
| Love Song | Bill Bailey, Joe Magee |
| Lovesick Fool: Love in the Age of Like | Dominic Polcino |
| Low/Fi | Alejandro Montoya |
| Luchadora | River Finlay |
| Magic Matty | Nico Raineau |
| Mandie and Earring | Lucius Dillon |
| Marian | Shom Ghoshg |
| Marriage Tools | Jacob Mariani |
| Martian American | Lee Citron |
| Masterpiece | Meagan Flynn and Amber Rapp |
| Matchbreakers | Cameron Beyl |
| Matthews Song | Nic Novicki |
| Maurice | François Jaros |
| Meat | Michael Forstein |
| Miami | Simão Cayatte |
| Midland | Oliver Bernsen |
| Miles | Jeremy Berg |
| MILLENNIA | Justin Amorim |
| Minimum Wage | Joey Ally |
| Miracle Maker | Kate Marks |
| Missed Call | Susana Hornil |
| Monkeys | Christopher Soren Kelly |
| Monster Magnet “The Duke” | Phil Mucci |
| More of Last Night | Chase Casanova |
| Morgan Pickett’s Charge | Christopher Lawrence Chapman |
| Mother’s Day | Jeff Tan |
| Moving On | Marcia Fields and Mike Spear |
| Mr.Dentonn | Ivan Villamel |
| Murphy’s Law | Alex Fichera |
| Museum Of Unnatural Gaming | Carrington Bennett & Matthew Lungaro |
| Mush | Yoonhee Ye |
| My Kingdom | Debra Solomon |
| Natural Insemination | Crosby Selander |
| New Neighbors Old Fights (La Vieja Quinta) | Alex Fischman |
| Nicotine | Jon Ryan Sugimoto |
| No Milk | Melanie Abramov |
| Nonsense | Max Clendaniel |
| Obtuse | James Pomichter |
| Odessa | Sean Michael Turrell |
| Oh, Sh*t | Zack Akers |
| Once | Xuexue Pan |
| Our Father | Linda Palmer |
| Outside The Lines | Scott Belyea |
| Page’s Great and Grand Escape | Micky Levy |
| Painless | Dylan Stern |
| Paris on the Water | Hadas Ayalon |
| Parrot Away | Mads Weidner |
| Passengers | Dickie Hearts |
| Passport | Lisa Demaine |
| Patient 39 | Dan Clifton |
| PGB: Punch of Flavor In Your Face | Roberto Serrini & Mikko Timonen |
| Phoenix | Florian Frerichs |
| Pink Grapefruit | Michael Mohan |
| Polaroid | Lars Klevberg |
| POPULACE | Aaron Bevan Bailey |
| Primrose | Clara Aranovich |
| Prism | Jackson Miller |
| PRUEBA EVIDENTE (VISIBLE PROOF) | Gabil Sultanov |
| PYROMANCE | John de Menil |
| Red – Jadudah | Maida Hals |
| Red Nuts | Jackson Mullane |
| Rita Mahtoubian Is Not A Terrorist | Roja Gashtili & Julia Lerman |
| Romulus | Iñigo Oleaga |
| Rudie Can’t Fail | Joe Bateman |
| Rules of Reduction | Anderson Cowan |
| Russian Roulette | Ben Aston |
| SCRABBLE | Cristian Sulser |
| Secret | Tony Fulgham |
| Seth | Zach Lasry |
| Shear the Sheep | Eli Berg |
| Shevenge | Amber Benson |
| Shit Eaters | Agata Wojcierowska |
| Shok | Jamie Donoughue |
| Should Tomorrow Be | Malini Goel |
| Similitude | Tim Guzman |
| Simpler Times | Steve Monarque |
| Sin Frontera | Iz Gutierrez |
| Sirens | Jerry Pyle |
| Skin | Liz Hannah |
| Skunk | Annie Silverstein |
| SLUT | Chloe Okuno |
| Snip | Eric Rippetoe |
| Solidarity | Dustin Brown |
| Solo Finale | Ingo Putze |
| Something To Believe In Music Video | David Linke & Kevin Linke |
| Somos Amigos (We Are Friends) | Carlos Solano |
| South Arcadia St. | Melanie D’Andrea |
| Spanish Love 101 | Peter Macaluso |
| SPIT | Mtume Gant |
| STAY – The Morning Light Fades | Dillon Novak |
| Stealth | Bennett Lasseter |
| Steel Town | Nicolas Hurt |
| Suburban Memoir | Mark Anthony Marez |
| SUMER | Alvaro Garcia |
| Super Larry | Gille Klabin |
| T.P. | Bob Blevins and Bradly Werley |
| Tadaima | Robin Takao D’Oench |
| Takanakuy | Austin Kolodney |
| Tattooed | John Michell |
| Teeth | Daniel Gray, Tom Brown |
| The 7 Sevens | Ruckus Skye, Lane Skye |
| The Apple Tree | Scott Storm |
| The Army Within | Andy Sutton |
| The Ascent | Ana Soler |
| The Autumn of Zao | Nikolaus Roche-Kresse |
| The Bad Boy of Bowling | Bryan Storkel |
| The Baddest Part | Adam Azimov |
| The Blind Date | Erin Cardillo & Richard Keith |
| The Blood Of Love | Jeff Meyers |
| The Bravest, the Boldest | Moon Molson |
| The Brief, Existential Crisis of a Young Underwear Model | Brett and Drew Checkelsky |
| The Call | Zamo Mkhwanazi |
| The Canary | Karl Herrmann |
| The Classroom | Vivian Miranda |
| The Coin | Fabien Martorell |
| The Confrontation | Michael Adams |
| The Convicted | Josh Mitchell |
| The edge | Simon Saulnier |
| The Escapist | Jon Plant |
| THE FOG | Ted Martland |
| The Game | Ruben Languren |
| The Garden | E.B. Rhee |
| The Gift | Mardig Sheridan |
| The Gnome | Joe Price |
| The Haircut | Alexis O. Korycinski |
| The Incredible Life of Darrell | Darrell Lake |
| The Innovators | Carmen Chaplin |
| The Last Barn Dance | Ted Richardson and Jason Arthurs |
| The Late Bird | Sascha Vredenburg |
| The Leap | Karel van Bellingen |
| The Light Thief | Eva Daoud |
| The Listing | Luke Jaden |
| The Loneliest Stoplight | Bill Plympton |
| The Lotus Gun | Amanda Milius |
| The Loyalist | Minji Kang |
| The Magic Shoes | Sahand Nikoukar |
| The Moment | Heran Wang |
| The Mule | Mike George |
| The Never Bell | Emily Lobsenz |
| THE NEXT ONES TO COME | KRONCK |
| The Night Ocean | Maria Lorenzo Hernandez |
| The Nike Chariot Earring | Karen Audette |
| The Nobodies | Greg Bratman and Dusty Brown |
| The Oasis | Raul B. Fernandez |
| The OceanMaker | Lucas Martell |
| The Other Side | Akiko Izumitani |
| The Parting Shot | Anirban Roy |
| The Pavement | Taylor Engel |
| THE PEGASUS PROJECT | Aaron Wolf |
| The Process | Carey Williams |
| The Program | Dylan Mulick |
| The Punishing Business | Heather Harlow |
| The Red Card | Dana Brawer |
| The Red House | Jiaqi Lin |
| The Red Thunder | Alvaro Ron |
| The Ring Thing | Friederike Jehn |
| THE RIVER. MY BROTHER, ME | Timoth Jacob Elledge |
| The Scuttlebutt Assassins | Wen Ren & Dy Sao |
| The Shaman | Marco Kalantari |
| The Sister I Live With | Christopher Winterbauer |
| The Sky Over Your Shoulders | Luiz Maximiano |
| The Smiling Man | A.J. Briones |
| The Stowaway | Rpin Suwannath |
| The Sun Devil and the Princess | Steven Ayromlooi |
| The Test of Time | Eddie Perez |
| The Things We Keep | Rosalie Miller |
| The Toll | Scott Simpson |
| The Transplanters | Jason Melius |
| The Trials of Constance Baker Motley | Rick Rodgers |
| The Trunk | Mragendra Singh |
| The Walrus | Luke Randall |
| The Witching Hour | Carl Firth |
| Thicker Than Water | Seung Yeob Lee |
| This is When We Met | Sean Cunningham |
| Three Kings | Mike Schroeder |
| Thunder | Amaro Shake |
| Tits on a Bull | Tim Worrall |
| To Dust Return | Chris Peters |
| Tom in America | Flavio Alves |
| Tomgirl | Jeremy Asher Lynch |
| Tommy Chong’s Unaired Lincoln Commercial | César Gamiño |
| Total Awesome Viking Power | Morten Forland |
| Traction | Rory Uphold |
| Transference | Michaël Nakache |
| True Heroes | Chris Ganucheau |
| Tsunami | Sofie Kampmark |
| Turn It Up | Choz Belen, Steve Nguyen |
| Twisted | Stuart Bowen |
| Two and a Quarter Minutes | Joshua Ovalle |
| Two Dosas | Sarmad Masud |
| Unbelief | Fabien Martorell |
| UNE LIBÉRATION | Brian James Crewe |
| Vagabond | Pedro Ivo Carvalho |
| Velvet Karma | Alfonso Campos |
| Viscera | Lauren Morrison |
| Vlado | Felipe Mucci |
| Walker | Adrian Orozco |
| Warm Shadow | Frank Leeman & Emily Miller |
| Waste Paper | Derrick D. Pete |
| Wedding Dress | Haroula Rose |
| What’s Eating Dad? | Michael Goldburg |
| When My Train Pulls In | Carmela Makela |
| While They Were Flying to the Moon | Borisa Simovic |
| While You Were in a Coma | JP Labbe |
| Zawadi | Richard Card |
| Zerogon | John Mattiuzzi & Josh Planz |
HollyShorts Sponsors
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Indievent, Jungle Software, Kim Ruggles Events, Law Offices of Clifford Lo Entertainment Law, Lightspeed EPS, Lyft, Mercury Production Report, Method Studios, New Media Vault, NYFA, OHM, Panavision, Philippe Catering, Pond5, Red Giant, Robert Taylor Insurance, Script Pipeline, Shorts HD, Showbiz Software Store,
Simple DCP, Stage 32, TCL Chinese 6 Theaters, The Agency-Sports & Entertainment Division, Uber, UCLA Extention, Women in Film, Zype.
About HollyShorts
HollyShorts 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 of filmmakers through screenings, Q&A sessions and networking events. The HollyShorts Film festival showcases the top short films produced 40 minutes or less. Categories include Short Animation, Short Live Action, Short Documentary, Music Video, Webisode, Commercials, Trailers, 3D Shorts, Youth Film and Digital Microbudget.
