by George Wolf
If you’ve ever watched the Academy Awards and wondered where and when you might see the nominees in the Short Subject categories, this year the answers are 1) the Gateway Film Center and 2) beginning this weekend.
It’s the sixth consecutive year the Gateway has hosted the short film nominees, and Johnny DiLoretto, the Gateway’s Director of Communications, loves the support from Central Ohio filmgoers.
“We get a terrific response for this every year,” DiLoretto said. “There is an audience for these shorts which is incredibly encouraging.”
Each Short Subject category is shown separately, with honorable mention titles added to the animated program to augment the brief running times of the five nominees.
We wholeheartedly recommend seeing them all.
And the nominees are….
Animated
Me and My Moulton (Torill Kove) – 14 minutes/Canada/English
Feast (Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed) – 6 minutes/USA/Non-dialogue
The Bigger Picture (Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees) – 7 minutes/UK/English
A Single Life (Marieke Blaauw, Joris Oprins, Job Roggeveen) – 2 minutes/The Netherlands/Non-dialogue
The Dam Keeper (Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi) – 18 minutes/USA/Non-dialogue
Live Action
Parvaneh (Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger) – 25 minutes/Switzerland/Dari and German
Boogaloo and Graham (Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney) – 14 minutes/UK/English
Aya (Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis) – 39 minutes/Israel and France/English, Hebrew, Danish
The Phone Call (Mat Kirkby and James Lucas) – 21 minutes/UK/English
Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak) (Hu Wei and Julien Féret) – 15 minutes/France and China/Tibetan
Documentary Program A
Joanna (Aneta Kopacz) – 40 minutes/Poland/Polish
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 (Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry) – 39 minutes/USA/English
Documentary Program B
Our Curse (Tomasz Sliwinski and Maciej Slesicki) – 27 minutes/Poland/Polish
White Earth (J. Christian Jensen) – 20 minutes/USA/English and Spanish
The Reaper (La Parka) (Gabriel Serra Arguello) – 29 minutes/Mexico/Spanish
More info at GatewayFilmcenter.com!
