Friday, April 18, 2008

SHORT SHORTS MEXICO IN MONTERREY




We´re very happy to have the Short Shorts Film Festival as a special presentation on the weekend of April 18-20 2008.

We´re hoping to establish a partnership with Short Shorts and yearly show the best of their fest in Monterrey.

Don´t miss out on great programming from Japan, Asia, Latin America, Mexico and the rest of the world!

PROGRAM


APRIL 18

5:00 p.m. Latin American and Spanish shorts in competition I

7:00 p.m. Japanese Showcase I

9:00 p.m. International Showcase I


April 19


5:00 p.m. Asian Showcase I

7:00 p.m. International Showcase II

9:00 p.m. Latin American and Spanish shorts in competition II


April 20


5:00 p.m. Asian Showcase II

7:00 p.m. Japanese Showcase II

9:00 p.m. Mexican shors on video competition


For further reference:


LATIN AMERICAN AND SPANISH SHORTS IN COMPETITION 1 76 minutes

1 El canto del grillo - Dany Campos - Spain - 17' 00"
2 La librería - Hernán Jabes - Venezuela 15' 00"
3 XX - Cristian Jiménez - Chile 9' 00"
4 Niebla - Emilio Ramos - Spain-México 7' 30"
5 Máquina - Gabe Ibañez - Spain 16' 00"
6 Bichos raros - Estíbaliz Burgaleta y Alegría Collantes - Spain 12' 00"


JAPANESE SHOWCASE 1 71 minutes

1 Escape - Yoshiki Uematsu - Japón - 9´53"
2 An electric fan of Grandma - Satoshi Yamaguchi - Japón 7' 56"
3 Chaos Theory - Koji Mizuguchi - Japón 12' 18"
4 The fear despair - Ko Kuriki - Japón 3' 25"
5 Without strings - Kunio Nosawa - Japón 13' 00"
6 Chiyo no Omuake - Mesanori Baba - Japón/USA 24' 15"



INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE PROGRAM I 88 minutes

1 Checkpoint - Ben Phelps - Australia 11' 30"
2 In the mood - Hannah Robinson - UK 7' 00"
3 Sooner or later - István Madarász - Hungary 11' 00"
4 Lonley together - Trond Fausa Aurvag - Norway 14' 23"
5 The T-Shirt - Hossein Martin Fazeli - Czech Republic 10' 44"
6 One hundred of a second - Susan Jacobson - UK 5' 20"
7 Drake - Christoph Rainer - Austria 5' 16"
8 Blind man - Hossein Martin Fazeli - Slovakia 1' 20"
9 The rip-off - Kun Chang Canada - 10' 10"
10 Offside - Erez Tadmor y Guy Nattiv - Israel 5' 50"
11 50 Cents - Mathijs Geijskes - Netherlands 5' 10"


INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE 2 90 minutes

1 Sometimes it hurts - Geir Henning Hopland - Norway 6' 15"
2 Bauke - Hisham Zaman - Norway 15' 15"
3 Chesse - Pernilla Hindsefelt - Sweden 5' 00"
4 Kibera Kid - Nathan Collett - Kenya 11' 30"
5 Le diner - Cecile Vernant - France 13' 25"
6 The fairies of Blackheath woods - Ciaran Foy - Ireland 3' 30"
7 Witness - Erik De Bruyn - Netherlands 10' 00"
8 The cutting edge - Gregory Morin - France 6' 00"
9 When Elvis came to visit- Andreas Tibblin - Sweden 10' 45"
10 The red balloon - Michael Olesen - USA 3' 22"
11 Last stop - Greg Williams - Australia 5' 30"



LATIN AMERICAN AND SPANISH SHORTS IN COMPETITION 2 90 minutes


1 Boletos por favor - Lucas Figueroa - España 14' 00"
2 Guacho - Juan Minujin - Argentina 14' 00"
3 Rapace - Joao Nicolau - Portugal 25' 00"
4 Eramos pocos - Borja Cobeaga - España 16' 00"
5 La belleza del espejo - Jorge Valencia - Colombia 14' 10"
6 Handmade - Denis Kamioka - Brasil 7' 00"


ASIAN SHOWCASE I 87 minutess


1 2 minutes Tae-Kyung Jung Korea 10' 37"
2 Mei Arvin Chen Taiwan / USA 12' 00"
3 Hallucii Goo-Shun Wang Taiwan / USA 3' 45"
4 To be or not to be Jungjin Kim Korea 20' 00"
5 DIY Royston Tan Singapore 5' 45"
6 Shanu taxi Vasant Nath India 15' 12"
7 Fast money Jerry Chan China / USA 14' 10"
8 Dandelion Jackie Liao Taiwan 5' 20"


ASIAN SHOWCASE PROGRAM 2 85 minutes


1 Mandarin Ghost - Jeong-Gook Lee - Korea 17' 47"
2 Painter - Young-Kyun Park - Korea 5' 57"
3 The drawer of memory - Po- Chou Chi - Taiwan 7' 00"
4 All my life - Salem Salvati - Irán 21' 00"
5 There was the moon and a fox - Babak Nazari - Irán 12' 30"
6 3 minutes - Noppadol Suneta - Thailand 6' 30"
7 The match maker - Cinzia Puspita - Indonesia 9' 59"
8 White - Wei Keong Tan - Singapore 2' 02"
9 Bleach - Tejal Patni - India 2' 16"


JAPANESE SHOWCASE 2 82 minutes


1 Hajime - Kenshin Nawa - Japón 12' 00"
2 Who killed the Stanley Black? - Nobuto Ochiai - Japón 10' 00"
3 A long day of Mr. Calpaccio - Tsutomu Kobayashi - Japón 7' 32"
4 Tengu gaiden - Hidetoshi Oneda - Japón 24' 03"
5 Line - Hiroyuki Nakao - Japón 18' 30"
6 Ai know - Satishi Oze - Japón 10' 10"

MEXICAN SHORTS IN COMPETITION 91 minutes


1 De causas y azares - Ileana Leyva - 13' 00"
2 El gusano - Sergio Tovar Velarde - 7' 45"
3 Historia de un letrero - Alonso Alvarez Barreda - 4' 45"
4 El gorrito de Morfeo - Raúl García Flores 1' 00"
5 Lugares secretos - Alejandro Díaz SanVicente 19' 00"
6 Vigilioxil 48 ml. - Fernando Castañeda Herrera 1' 00"
7 La casa de las doncellas - Herbert Beltrán 16' 00"
8 Encadenados - Jorge Ortiz Aranda 16' 00"
9 George Lucas' dream - Humberto Sánchez 12' 16"


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Monday, April 14, 2008

5 DAYS LEFT



With five days left to our deadline, we are very happy to have in our office hundreds of films from all over the world, and many more on their way to Monterrey.

If you haven´t sent your film in yet, what are you waiting for? If you already have, you should soon receive a confirmation.

Last year we received 1354 submissions from 81 countries, will we beat last year´s record? Stay tuned... in a few weeks we´ll let you know..

Meanwhile, maybe you can spot your package in the picture above among the many that are undergoing classiffication right now...