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DIMMAK STUDIOS (formerly Cinespace) 6356 Hollywood Blvd, upstairs
SEASON 13 CLOSING NIGHT
Join us for the final installment of our 13th season!! We are thrilled to celebrate another year of amazing screenings and meeting so many talented storytellers with a great night of films and animation.
Tonight we will also have a special Cast and Crew reception for the hard working people who worked on THE AERIAL GIRL with Anna & Peter Sands, and COLLISION with Alexis Ostrander and Tiffany Giddes.
Paralyzed after a near-fatal car accident, Jessica discovers that her rehab training is part of a plan to mold her into a lethal assassin.
A special “work in progress” sneak peek for the cast and crew of COLLISION – the labor of love of actress/activist Tiffany Giddes. Tiffany’s mission is to change the types of roles she gets called in on and how producers/casting directors/filmmakers think of Actors with Disabilities. She brought together screenwriter Katherine Beattie and Alexis Ostrander, the director of the new feature doc Defining Beauty: Ms. Wheelchair America, to create these action-packed Chick Assassin on Wheels characters.
Urban cool teen Taylor’s life is uprooted when her father dies and she moves to her grandfather’s ranch in Wyoming with her mother. There she meets a ranch hand who turns her life upside down.
Longtime HOLLYWOOD SHORTS members Anna Simone Scott and producer Peter Sands (the filmmaking team at Vision Fire Films) teamed up with screenwriter Terri Sissman to create this touching drama.
When his father dies unexpectedly, a young man seeking to cope with his grief goes on a powerful emotional journey through time and space.
One of the biggest sensations of the 2010/2011 festival season! Martin & Stefan have a young animation company aptly named Dancing Squirrel in Ausburg, Germany. The overwhelming success of this gorgeous animated short created worldwide visibility for these young storytellers.
Against her mother-in-law’s wishes and her husband’s preference, Dottie, a woman with questionable cooking talent, determines to take on Thanksgiving Dinner.
A lonely outcast pup finds himself working the circus with a crowd of rambunctious poodles. Unnoticed and unloved, will he ever find kindness in his lonely little world?
It is high holy days for the Frightening, Gory and Hysterical horror films we love – HALLOWEEN!!! One of our favorite holiday traditions begins when filmmaker Adam Green and his production juggernaut at ArieScope releases their annual Halloween Short film every year. The ArieScope H’ween comedy bloodfest always arrives just around the same time as the great programming from Shriekfest and Screamfest, so we get to gobble up copious amounts of outstanding comedy horror shorts this time of year.
Our October HOLLYWOOD SHORTS program featured HOW MY DAD KILLED DRACULA, directed by HS member SKY SOLEIL a few years ago. Joe Wilson’s VAMPIRE MOB web series just keeps getting better and better – we screened the pilot episode at HOLLYWOOD SHORTS at our Comedy Film Nerds show this summer. It always just gets us in the spirit for some trick-or-treatin’.
Scroll down, grab yer candy corns and watch some of our favorite comedy Halloween short films!
JUST TAKE ONE from Adam Green
VAMPIRE MOB, Episode 1 by Joe Wilson
THE HORRIBLY SLOW MURDERER WITH THE EXTREMELY INEFFICIENT WEAPON by Richard Gale
Several key elements must occur for me to get into the holiday spirit – the arrival of the seasonal Pumpkin Latte at Starbucks, and the annual Halloween short film from the guys at ArieScope, led by horror film director ADAM GREEN. Coming off Adam’s new feature HATCHET 2, and all the media guff a few weeks ago when the much anticipated film was unbelievably yanked by theatres during opening weekend, they still made the time to put together another amazing Halloween short film. JUST TAKE ONE is their 12th annual Halloween short, starring Adam and Joe Lynch. The hysterical film features a nice cameo appearance from the JACK CHOP guy!
CAST: John Colella, Reamy Hall, Marcia Wallace, Kirsten Vangsness, Chris Mulkey, Elizabeth Beckwith, Andrew Cansler, Jim Roof, Cris D’Annunzio
Comedian/filmmaker Joe Wilson created and directs VAMPIRE MOB, a web series about a hitman who is a vampire. His mother-in-law is now moving in… for all eternity. Outstanding cast and laugh out loud funny. Season 1 includes 6 episodes, and they are currently beginning production on Season 2.
CAST: Paul Clemens, Brian Rohan, Fay Kato, Melissa Paladino, Mike Kacey
Three time Emmy winning filmmaker Richard Gale wrote, directed and produced the little film with the big name. HSMWTIW was clearly “The” Horror Short Film of 2009, grabbing 12 fest awards during its epic festival run. This film was everywhere, and has over 9 million views on YouTube alone. Oh… and it is really funny.
Veteran actor and filmmaker Sky Soleil’s HOW MY DAD KILLED DRACULA hit the festival circuit in 2008, and instantly became a Halloween classic. It went on to over 20 festival appearances, including Palm Springs Shortfest, Shriekfest, Chicago Horror, Cleveland, Florida and Rhode Island Film Festivals. HMDKD won the Audience Award for Best Family Film at the ’08 DC Shorts Film Festival
October Short Film Screening & Alumni Filmmaker Reunion
Our October Screening opens the 13th year of our monthly short film discovery series. This year’s schedule continues our focus on outstanding achievement in short film & animation – filmmakers and their creative teams who bring original characters and creative storytelling to the short form. Our 2010-2011 season will include some of most popular signature events, including our annual African American Filmmakers Fest with the American Cinematheque, and a spring Animation Festival. This year, we are also launching new lab series and seminars for Cinematographers, Directors, and Editors.
COLLISION
