CASTING CALL: Auditions for SUPREMACY – May 8th

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS Alumni Filmmakers
CASTING BREAKDOWN



Show:             SUPREMACY
Format:          SAG Short Film
Shoot Date:  June 5  in Los Angeles
Director:        Tanya Boyd

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Producers:                         Vincent Cirrincione & Kimberley Browning
Production Company:          HOLLYWOOD SHORTS

Auditions:                          Saturday, May 8
Casting:                             Kimberley  Browning, Hollywood Shorts

Submit your headshot for our casting call for Supremacy!



GARRET TULLY:  (Early 30’s, Aryan Brotherhood skinhead)

Garret Tully is a hardened longtime prison inmate who has been in and out of institutions since the first time the judge sent him to juvenile detention.  Always looking for a family he never had, he quickly found a place in the community of the local Northern California skinheads. Now, he is on a mission as he escapes from Pelican Bay Prison to do his part of the master plan.  He has the body and the face of a career life of incarceration, but ultimately will know he has chosen the wrong master.

DOREEN LESSER: (Courtney Love type – early 30’s – Hard – Sexy – Trailer trash type)

A groupie of the Aryan Brotherhood.  Doreen has a sexy body, but looks much older in the face than her 30 years.  A survivor, who’s not at all dumb, but just can’t seem to get it together. She hooks up with Garret Tullly, and ex-convict, who just hours after his release from Pelican Bay Prison, murders a highway patrol officer.  On the run from the police, Tully and Doreen take refuge in a house occupied by a defiant old Black man, and his family, and who are held hostage by the two criminals.

ODESSA KING-WALKER. (Queen Latifa type – early to middle 40’s)

Odessa, a reformed drunk, with two children, struggled on her own for many years until she married Mr. Frank Walker, a man twenty-five years her senior.  In her younger days, she was a beautiful, well built woman, but time has taken its’ toll.  Unhappy in her marriage to Mr. Walker, Odessa is contemplating leaving the marriage, but with a twenty-one year old, out of work diabetic son, and a twenty-three year old out of work daughter with a small child, who’s recently moved in the house too, she puts up with her verbally abusive, controlling husband.

ANTHONY KING (a younger Forest Whittier type, early twenty’s.  Tall, and large in built).

May 23 Screening – ECA AWARDS


CINESPACE 6356 Hollywood Blvd


HOLLYWOOD SHORTS
May Screening

Sunday, May 23rd
5:00pm – 8:00pm

6356 Hollywood Blvd, upstairs,
Hollywood, CA  90028
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Register for HOLLYWOOD SHORTS May Screening - ICG Emerging Cinematographers Awards on Eventbrite

 

 



ICG - Local 600HOLLYWOOD SHORTS - Year 12

INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHERS GUILD
&

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS

 

presents

 


EMERGING CINEMATOGRAPHERS AWARDS
2010 Spring Film Festival

a Spring Film Festival celebrating the 2009 ECA winning Cinematographers

 

 

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS welcomes the International Cinematographers Guild Local 600 as we host the ICG’s annual SPRING FILM FESTIVAL, celebrating the recent short film works of their honorees from their Fall EMERGING CINEMATOGRAPHERS AWARDS

If you have missed the awesome films of the 2009 Emerging Cinematographer Award winners, Local 600 is doing another screening at CINESPACE, 6356 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028. Hollywood Shorts will be co-hosting an event for the Emerging Cinematographer Awards on Sunday, May 23rd between 5pm – 8pm. This program brings together directors, filmmakers and cinematographers to celebrate the outstanding work of a new generation of cinematographers.

Click here to read more about the award-winning cinematographers and their films in Sunday’s program.


The ECA’s- Nurturing talent and giving promising cinematographers the crucial exposure they need to succeed in the Motion Picture Industry lies at the heart of the International Cinematographers Guild’s annual Emerging Cinematographer Awards.

Link to trailers below:

http://www.ecawards.net/media.html



HOLLYWOOD SHORTS accepting submissions for Fall/Winter 2010

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS 2010 Call for Entries

call for entries


Fall/Winter 2010 SubmissionsClick here to download our 2010 Fall/Winter Submission Form PDF

Submission Guidelines

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:   June 11, 2010


HOLLYWOOD SHORTS is one of Los Angeles’ most popular and longest running monthly industry short film microcinemas.  Since October 1998, the HOLLYWOOD SHORTS team has hosted some of the top international short films and animation at screening venues throughout around Los Angeles.  This is an international showcase, and we accept all formats of production, including traditional and computer animation, 35mm, 16mm, Digital Video and HD.  All genres are accepted, including comedy, drama, sci-fi, children’s programming, music video, experimental and documentary. HOLLYWOOD SHORTS is generally held on the third weekend of each month.  Our monthly INDUSTRY SCREENING SERIES is non-competitive.  Appropriate submissions will also be eligible for programming in our special events, the annual ANIMATION SHORTSFEST, our annual WOMEN FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE and the AFRICAN AMERICAN FILMMAKERS SHORTSFEST.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Film must be no longer than 30 minutes and sent in DVD (NTSC ONLY please)  REGION 0 or 1 for review.

Film must have been completed no earlier than July 2008.  Shorts can be originally shot on film, HD, or other video formats, as well as all animation formats. Films are evaluated in the following genres: drama, comedy, animation, documentary, music video, experimental.

Submission DVDs are generally not returned unless requested, and sent with self-addressed stamped envelope.   Selected submissions remain eligible and in consideration for up to 12 months for other special screenings and festivals organized and hosted by HOLLYWOOD SHORTS throughout the year.

DO NOT send packages with a signature requirement.

Electronic press kits may be submitted via email:  submissions@hollywoodshorts.com
Film Title, and filmmaker name must be in Subject line of email.

$15.00 submission fee. Checks should be made out to: HOLLYWOOD SHORTS

INTERNATIONAL SUBMISSIONS:  $15.00 must be money order or cash – US DOLLARS.
No international checks please.

Each shorts program screening includes an extensive Filmmaker Q&A.


SUBMIT PACKAGES TO:
HOLLYWOOD SHORTS
1801 Garfield Ave
Hollywood, CA  90028



SEEING RED – Red Camera Workshop at SHOWBIZ EXPO – April 23/24

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS will present the SEEING RED:  Everything you wanted to know about shooting on the Red Camera, moderated by  JAY HOLBEN, Tech Editor, DV Magazine and contributor to AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER Magazine.  Jay also serves as the head of the HOLLYWOOD SHORTS Cinematographers Lab Series, and is an accomplished director and writer.  He will be joined by a full panel of DPs and a representative from RED.

April 18th Screening – Cinespace

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS - Short Film Screening Series

April Screening

SUNDAY APRIL 18
4 pm – 6 pm


Boris Kievsky directs his cast on the set of PURGATORY, INC.


CINESPACE
6356 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA  90028


This month’s program includes a special celebration for the cast and crew of Boris Kievsky’s new short film PURGATORY, INC.


DANIEL BIGELOW's BRING YOURSELF - animated short film

DANIEL BIGELOW'S "BRING YOURSELF" music video for the band OH MY GOD


LOS ANGELES premiere screening of BRING YOURSELF,  the new animated music video by DANIEL BIGELOW for the Chicago based band OH MY GOD.

 


To Be Remembered - a short film by Kelley Katzenmeyer

TO BE REMEMBERED by Kelley Katzenmeyer


The program also includes TO BE REMEMBERED a sci-fi short film by  Gold Award Winners and Presidential Scholar of the Arts in Cinematic Arts – U.S. High School Filmmaker KELLY KATZENMEYER.


HUGO a short film by Nicholas Vesco

An amazing discovery awaits in the short film HUGO directed by Nicholas Vesco


And to kick off EARTH WEEK, we revisit a favorite from 2008.   HUGO by Aussie NICHOLAS VERSO

Join us for a full afternoon of shorts, animation and an extensive Q&A with today’s filmmakers

 

 

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Michael Landers’ debut feature PEACOCK premieres!

We were honored to join HOLLYWOOD SHORTS alum filmmaker MICHAEL LANDER and his co-writer Ryan O’Roy at the premiere screening of PEACOCK, Michael’s debut feature film.  It was wonderful to see the final finished film, and the house was full of Hollywood heavyweights, both from in front of and behind the camera. Even a Jodie Foster sighting.  Michael’s short film SOLID WASTE screened at Hollywood Shorts in 2001, and he soon after began working with Ryan O’Roy on the screenplay for PEACOCK.

CONGRATS TO MICHAEL AND RYAN and their entire cast and crew!  Pick up a DVD when the film is released on DVD on April 20th.  It is truly a shame that this film isn’t being theatrically released here in the U.S.  It is gorgeous and Cillian’s performance is amazing.

MICHAEL LANDER - Director of PEACOCK

Poster for Michael Lander's PEACOCK


HOLLYWOOD SHORTS – New Website!

WELCOME TO OUR NEW WEBSITE!

Welcome to the new HOLLYWOOD SHORTS website!

Thanks for your patience as we get lots of great new information and resources loaded up here, as well as our calendar of upcoming festival screenings, panels & labs, and production support.

Stay tuned, and come back soon as we launch our new home for all things short film!

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS - Year 12

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS - Season 12


SUMMER SHOOT 2010 – The Marrying Kind

SUMMER SHOOT 2010


THE MARRYING KIND

Director: Brian O’Hare
Writers:  Brian O’Hare & David Garver
Cast: David Garver
Producers:  Kimberley Browning & Reggie Hunter

We are pleased to announce THE MARRYING KIND has been selected as the screenplay that will be produced as the HOLLYWOOD SHORTS Summer Shoot 2010!  The production will be directed by BRIAN O’HARE.

David Garver & Brian O'Hare - writers of THE MARRYING KIND

DAVID GARVER & BRIAN O'HARE's The Marrying Kind selected for HOLLYWOOD SHORTS 2010 Summer Shoot. O'Hare will direct and Garver will star in the short script they co-wrote.

THE MARRYING KIND is a short film script written by actor DAVID GARVER and director BRIAN O’HARA for this year’s SUMMER SHOOT!  Each year, Hollywood Shorts cast and crew gather to revel in a weekend of filmmaking.  Brian O’Hara will be directing, and David Garver will star in the dramatic script set in Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles.   The project will be the first in a series of short films about marriage in Los Angeles, produced by HOLLYWOOD SHORTS and MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE.

THE MARRYING KIND joins a long list of annual summer productions created by our Emerging Filmmakers Program. Last year’s production INVENTORS will be premiering this summer and launching immediately into feature development.

CALL FOR SHORT FILMS – Comedy Film Nerds

COMEDY FILM NERDS - Call for Short Films

COMEDY FILM NERDS is programming comedy shorts for their digital download store

COMEDY FILM NERDS

We are currently programming comedy shorts for COMEDY FILM NERDS, the film review website run by standup comics/filmmakers GRAHAM ELWOOD and CHRIS MANCINI.  The site features film reviews and profile articles all written by stand up comics who all LOVE film, and all things film nerd.

The website has a great podcast and a very active download store, and we are adding a select group of short films to the digital download programming.  We also program lots more comedy shorts for the COMEDY FILM NERDS LIVE monthly show at the World Famous IMPROV on Melrose in Los Angeles.  The comedians riff on the latest theatre releases, and show films.

Please send your links to your short films to us at

SUBMISSIONS at HOLLYWOOD SHORTS dot com

March 21 Screening – Cinespace

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS – March Screening

March installment of our monthly short film screening series.

Join us for an great night of films and extensive filmmaker panel.

We welcome our very special guest SEIGO TONO, the festival director of Japan’s uber-popular SHORT SHORTS Film Festival and Tour, who is visiting us from Tokyo this week.

Feel free to bring your headshots, reel, biz cards, brochures for production services, and flyers of your call for entries, crew, gear, locations, etc.

THANKS TO CINESPACE for hosting our filmmaking community!

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS on FACEBOOK!
http://www.facebook.com/hollywoodshorts

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS on TWITTER!
http://www.facebook.com/twitter

FILMMAKER PANEL:
MICHAEL BOND
PETER SANDS & ANNA SIMONE SCOTT
MONICA VIGIL & ERICA ENGELHARDT

Films –

LA TANGENTE by Vincent Vesco (France), accepted into over 63 film festivals.

SMALL CHANGE by Anna McGrath (Australia) one of the most successful student films of 2009.

BAD THINKS by Michael Bond (Australia) – Michael’s last short before his recently completed 1st feature PASSENGERS. Fresh from his premiere at MILL VALLEY, and a special screening at Adelaide’s FRINGE FEST.

CHASING CHEKHOV by Peter Sands (U.K.) and Anna Simone Scott (Aus.) This filmmaking team truly defines hyphenates in both film and theatre. They are multi-talented and prolific. This period piece won the BAFTA/LA Best Short Award.

NOT EVEN DEATH by Monica Vigil and Erica Engelhardt (U.S.) has just returned from it’s World Premiere at the most important short film event all year, the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival.

and more….

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS Sponsors include:

SAG INDIE, MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE, KEY CODE MEDIA, SKYE RENTALS, ATOMIC STAGES, INKTIP, INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITERS, THEORY FX, OLD SCHOOL CAMERAS

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS – Spring/Summer submissions
DEADLINE; March 26
Download submission form:
http://www.hollywoodshorts.com/2010submissionsummer.pdf

MIKE DOTO goes to Cannes with THE LEGACY

CONGRATULATIONS to director MIKE DOTO, and his cast and crew, on the completion of production on his heartwarming short film THE LEGACY.

THE LEGACY - a short film by MIKE DOTO

THE LEGACY - a short film by MIKE DOTO

The story follows a young boy who realizes that his father is the guy who plays a super hero on TV.  He will soon learn just how super his dad really is.

UPDATE:

More congratulations are in order!  Mike Doto’s THE LEGACY has been accepted into the CANNES SHORT FILM CORNER.   See ya on the  Croisette!


February 28 Screening – AFRICAN AMERICAN FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE



CHOKE - animated short by TERENCE ANTHONY

TERENCE ANTHONY's new animated short film CHOKE












HOLLYWOOD SHORTS – January Screening

HOLLYWOOD SHORTS - Monthly screenings





Sunday January 24
3pm – 6pm

FREE
Cinespace - 6356 Hollywood Blvd - upstairs

THE FILMS

Boutonniere 2

BOUTONNIERE

DIRECTOR: Coley Sohn

CAST:  Sara Swain, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Zachary Quinto

Who knew prom could be so painful?

Winter Hunt by Amit Tishler


WINTER HUNT

DIRECTOR: Amit Tishler

ANIMATION: Amit Tishler

An Eskimo hunter sets out to the stormy blizzards of the mountains in search of prey.



The Catalyst - a short film by Dawn Westlake

THE CATALYST

DIRECTOR: Dawn Westlake

CAST:  Dawn Westlake, David Razowsky

Frank and Francis have been separated for 11 months, but they haven’t told her family… yet.

Knock Knock a short film by Pete & Brian

KNOCK KNOCK

DIRECTOR: Peter Karinen & Brian Sacca

CAST:  Peter Karinen & Brian Sacca

Knock Knock.  Who’s there?

THE LEGACY a short film by Mike Doto

THE LEGACY

DIRECTOR: Mike Doto

CAST:  Paul Butcher, Louis Iacoviello, Jo McGinley


Sounds of Silence - a short film by Grace Sampson

SOUNDS OF SILENCE

DIRECTOR:  Grace Samson

CAST:




OLD SCHOOL NEW SCHOOL panel with doc filmer Steven Fischer

June 2009


SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION

OLD SCHOOL NEW SCHOOL

Director: Steven Fischer, 30 min

Special Sneak Peek Screening of two-time Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker Steven Fischer’s
new documentary on the creative process, featuring intimate interviews of Master Storytellers in
film, art, dance, theatre, literature & music.


Live audience participation discussion with OSNS MASTER PANEL: William Fraken, Michael Polcino & John Bailey

Saturday, June 20
4:30pm – 6:30pm

FREE

HOTEL CAFE
1623½ N. Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood

INVENTORS – Summer Shoot 2009

Writers/Directors KIRK NELSON & JOEL WRONA  and their short film project INVENTORS is selected as the HOLLYWOOD SHORTS SUMMER SHOOT 2009.  Joined by members of the CAL TECH Robotics Team, and puppeteer NATHAN KHYBER, we delve into the world of ROBOTICS to hilarious and heartwarming effect.

Congrats to the entire cast and crew, and special thanks to actor JOHN LARROQUETTE for his amazing and gracious contribution to Kirk and Joel’s production.