LAS VEGAS - February 24, 2010 - The UNLV Department of Film and the UNLV Short Film Archive will launch the spring semester's second screening of AN EVENING FESTIVAL OF SHORTS on Thursday, March 11 at 8pm in CBC A-106 on the campus of UNLV (please see interactive campus map on UNLV website) as part of the on-going short film screening series organized by film Associate Professor David Schmoeller.
Included in the screening is HISTORIO DEL DESERTIO, an animated (claymation) film detailing the escape of "La Mocha." Told in a documentary style and directed by Celia Galan Julve, it won three awards, including the Cinefondation Award at Cannes Film Festival in 2003.
Also showing is "Ausreisser" (The Runaway), a German film about a boy who finds his father in a mysterious yet masterful film about the under currents that connect us all on some ethereal level. Directed by a student filmmaker, Ulrike Grote; it won two awards and was nominated for an Oscar in 2006.
Also showing are various other award-winning shorts: PROTEST by S D Katz (five awards), STARCHED by Cath Le Couteur (two awards), NEIGHBORS by Norman McLaren (a Best Short Oscar in 1953), WINNING THE PEACE by Eli Akiri Kaufman (eight awards), UNHITCHED by Ben Wu & Erin Hudson (two awards), and FAIT D'HIVER by Dirk Beli?n (which won six awards and was nominated for an Oscar in 2003).
Finally, ADDICTED TO THE STARS, a segment from the critically acclaimed short collection TEN MINUTES OLDER: THE CELLO, will be shown. Directed by Michael Radford, this moving tale about time and space travel stars Daniel Craig (he of JAMES BOND fame).
AN EVENING OF FESTIVAL SHORTS screenings are free and open to the public. Call 895-2535 for information. Please check the UNLV Short Film Archive website for information about the various SFA screenings: http://shortfilmarchive.unlv.edu/
This collection was programmed by Kathleen Wiltshire.
David Schmoeller, Associate Professor
UNLV Short Film Archive
702-895-2535
