ShortsHD, Magnolia Pictures To Present Oscar Nominated Short Films 06

LOS ANGELES - ShortsHD, the short film channel (www.shorts.tv), and Magnolia Pictures, will open The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2016 on over 400 screens across the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America on Friday, January 29th. The program will showcase the Live Action, Animation and Documentary short film nominees compilation as three separate theatrical events.

This marks the 11th year of the Oscar-nominated short films theatrical experience and is the only opportunity for audiences to watch the nominated short films prior to the 88th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 28th.

In 2015, the Oscar Nominated Short Films earned over $2.4 million worldwide, nearly doubling from just a few years prior. One of the most diverse categories in Academy consideration, this year's Oscar Nominated Short Films feature with projects originating from United States, France, Germany, Palestine, United Kingdom, Kosovo, Austria, Chile, Russia, Liberia, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Canada.

Films make us laugh and cry; they inform us, entertain us and make us think. Short film is like film on steroids. For talent, short film vastly expands opportunities, provides an incredible forum for experimentation and creates a pathway for further success. For viewers, short film offers an abundance of dynamic stories, which are told in ways that they cannot be or are not being told in feature film, including films that may be uniquely relevant to their cultures. As the short film genre continues to pick up in popularity and competitiveness, with it comes an increase in the quality of production and diversity of voices said Carter Pilcher, Chief Executive at ShortsHD, the TV network behind the annual theatrical compilations.

This year's complete release includes the following nominated short films:

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM NOMINEES

Ave Maria

Directors: Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont

Synopsis: Five nuns living in the West Bank find their routine disrupted when the car of a family of Israeli settlers breaks down outside the convent. Unable to use the telephone due to Sabbath restrictions, the family needs help from the nuns, but the sisters vow of silence requires them to work with their visitors to find an unorthodox solution.

Country of origin: France | Germany | Palestine

TRT: 15

Language: Arabic | English | Hebrew

Day One

Directors: Henry Hughes

Synopsis: On the heels of a painful divorce, an Afghan-American woman joins the U.S. military as an interpreter and is sent to Afghanistan. On her first mission, she accompanies troops pursuing a bomb-maker, and must bridge the gender and culture gap to help the mans pregnant wife when she goes into labor.

Country of origin: United States

TRT: 25

Language: English | Dari

Shok

Directors: Jamie Donoughue

Synopsis: In Kosovo in 1998, two young boys are best friends living normal lives, but as war engulfs their country, their daily existence becomes filled with violence and fear. Soon, the choices they make threaten not only their friendship, but their families and their lives.

Country of origin: United Kingdom | Kosovo

TRT: 21

Language: Albanian | Serbian

Stutterer

Directors: Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage

Synopsis: For a lonely typographer, an online relationship has provided a much-needed connection without revealing the speech impediment that has kept him isolated. Now, however, he is faced with the proposition of meeting his online paramour in the flesh, and thereby revealing the truth about himself.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

TRT: 12

Language: English

Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)

Directors: Patrick Vollrath

Synopsis: Michael, a divorced father devoted to his eight-year-old daughter, Lea, picks her up for their usual weekend together. At first it feels like a normal visit, but Lea soon realizes that something is different, and so begins a fateful journey.

Country of origin: Germany | Austria

TRT: 30

Language: German

ANIMATED SHORT FILM NOMINEES

Bear Story

Directors: Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala

Synopsis: Every day, a melancholy old bear takes a mechanical diorama that he has created out to his street corner. For a coin, passersby can look into the peephole of his invention, which tells the story of a circus bear who longs to escape and return to the family from which he was taken.

Country of origin: Chile

TRT: 11

Language: No Dialouge

Prologue

Directors: Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton

Synopsis: 2,400 years ago, four warriors -- two Spartan and two Athenian -- battle to the death in an intense struggle witnessed by a little girl, who then runs to her grandmother for comfort.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

TRT: 6

Language: English

Sanjay's Super Team

Directors: Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle

Synopsis: Young Sanjay, a first-generation Indian-American, is obsessed with television, cartoons and his superhero action figures. He is reluctant to spend time in daily prayers with his devout Hindu father, but a flight of imagination helps him develop a new perspective that he and his father can both embrace.

Country of origin: United States

TRT: 7

Language: English

World of Tomorrow

Directors: Don Hertzfeldt

Synopsis: A little girl named Emily is taken on a fantastical tour of her distant future by a surprising visitor who reveals unnerving secrets about humanitys fate.

Country of origin: United States

TRT: 17

Language: English

We Can't Live Without Cosmos

Directors: Konstantin Bronzit

Synopsis: Two best friends have dreamed since childhood of becoming cosmonauts, and together they endure the rigors of training and public scrutiny, and make the sacrifices necessary to achieve their shared goal.

Country of origin: Russia

TRT: 16

Language: No Dialouge

DOCUMENTARY SHORT NOMINEES

Body Team 12

Directors: David Darg and Bryn Mooser

Synopsis: In Monrovia, Libe

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