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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Shorts</title>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Animated Short Film Semi-Finalists</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-animated-short-films-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-animated-short-films-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Oscar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Matter of Loaf and Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French Roast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Partly Cloudy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Runaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Cat Piano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Kinematograph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Variete]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced  the 10 semi-finalists in the animated short film category of  the  2010 Academy Awards. Thirty-seven entries had originally qualified in  the category. They are: 


The Cat Piano, Eddie White and Ari Gibson, directors (The People’s Republic of Animation)

French Roast, Fabrice O. Joubert, director (Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films) 

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty, Nicky Phelan, director, and Darragh O’Connell, producer (Brown Bag Films)

The Kinematograph, Tomek Baginski, director-producer (Platige Image)

The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte), Javier Recio Gracia, director (Kandor Graphics and Green Moon)

Logorama, Nicolas Schmerkin, producer (Autour de Minuit) 

A Matter of Loaf and Death, Nick Park, director (Aardman Animations Ltd.) 

Partly Cloudy, Peter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour &#8211; Program 2</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/shorts/ann-arbor-film-festival-tour-program-2-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/shorts/ann-arbor-film-festival-tour-program-2-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alla Kovgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ann Arbor Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carrie Lozano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Clapin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Filmforum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skhizein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utopia Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall]]></category>

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Skhizein by Jeremy Clapin (top); Utopia, Part 3: The World&#8217;s Largest Shopping Mall by Sam Green, Carrie Lozano (middle); Nora by Alla Kovgan, David Hinton (bottom)

The Los Angeles Filmforum will present Program 2 of the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
  As per the LA Filmforum&#8217;s press release, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is &#34;the original and longest-running independent film festival in the United States, recognized as a premiere showcase for risk-taking, pioneering and art driven cinema.&#34; Program 2 explores &#34;themes of a changing globalized world through personal, existential journeys.&#34;
The screening films are:

Cattle Call (Mike Maryniuk &#38; Matthew Rankin, 4 min)
    Utopia Part 3: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Chaplin&#8217;s ZEPPED Found</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/charles-chaplin-zepped-found-123/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/charles-chaplin-zepped-found-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Chaplin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essanay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zepped]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips reports that a long-thought lost Charles Chaplin film has been accidentally found after a film collector made an eBay bid  on a nitrate film canister.
Phillips explains that &#34;the footage turned out to be the obscure Chaplin short [Zepped], a World War  I propaganda effort designed to buck up British morale, combining  stop-motion animation and outtakes and unused alternate shots from  films Chaplin made for both Keystone and Essanay studios.
&#34;The hybrid, over which Chaplin apparently exercised no creative  control, includes a shot or two from His New Job, the short film  Chaplin made for the Chicago-based Essanay during his 23-day residency  here in late 1914 and early 1915.&#34;
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		<title>D.W. Griffith in California</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/d-w-griffith-in-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blanche Sweet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D. W. Griffith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Filmforum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mae Marsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Man's Genesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Pickford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Female of the Species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Unchanging Sea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Filmforum will present &#34;D.W. Griffith in California,&#34; on Sunday,  Nov. 15, at 7:30 pm. at the Echo Park Film Center. At the screening, film  scholar Tom Gunning will discuss D. W. Griffith and his early Californian films.
Six of those Griffith productions will be screened: Man&#8217;s Genesis (1912, 17 min); The New Dress  (1911, 17 min.); The Massacre (1914, 20 min); The Unchanging Sea   (below right, 1910, 14 min.); The Sands of Dee (1912, 17 min); and The Female of the  Species (1912, 17 min).
All in 16mm, with live musical accompaniment by  Cliff Retallick.
Among the early stars featured in those shorts are Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Arthur Johnson, Wilfred Lucas, and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Documentary Short Subject Semi-Finalists</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-documentary-short-subject-semi-finalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Oscar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music by Prudence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant]]></category>

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Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (top); The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (middle); China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the list of eight semi-finalists in the Documentary Short Subject category for the 2010 Academy  Awards. Three to five of those shorts will  end up with Oscar nominations.
The eight films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:

China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner, Just Media 
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, Community Media Productions 
Lt. Watada, Chanlim Films
Music by Prudence, iThemba [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooftop Films 2009 Filmmakers&#8217; Fund Short Film Recipients</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/shorts/rooftop-films-2009-filmmakers-fund/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/shorts/rooftop-films-2009-filmmakers-fund/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crazy  Beats Strong Every Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dustin Guy Defa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filmmakers' Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James M. Johnston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moon Molson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norman  Schwarzkopf Made Me Gay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rooftop Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sara Zia Ebrahimi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We Have No Home]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Rooftop Films 2009 Filmmakers&#8217; Fund &#8212; in partnership with Chicken &#38; Egg Fund and Cinereach &#8212; has provided grants for the completion of four short film projects. 
They are: Sara Zia Ebrahimi&#8217;s  &#34;Norman  Schwarzkopf Made Me Gay,&#34; Moon Molson&#8217;s  &#34;Crazy  Beats Strong Every Time,&#34; James M. Johnston&#8217;s  &#34;Knife,&#34; and Dustin Guy Defa&#8217;s  &#34;We  Have No Home.&#34;
According to the Rooftop Films&#8217; press release, &#34;every year, Rooftop  Films takes $1 from every film submission fee and every ticket sold, and sets  that money aside to give grants to filmmakers whose work we have screened. &#8230; The goal of the fund is to help a diverse range of filmmakers create  meaningful, personal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun Xun: The Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/sun-xun-the-dark-magician-of-new-chinese-animation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/sun-xun-the-dark-magician-of-new-chinese-animation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Requiem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shock of Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sun Xun]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Requiem  (top); Shock of Time (bottom)

The REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles will give a rare U.S.  presentation of Chinese artist and  filmmaker Sun Xun&#8217;s animation works on Mon., Oct 19, at 8:30 p.m. Sun Xun will be present at the screening.
According to the REDCAT&#8217;s press release, &#34;Sun Xun: The Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation&#34; will feature &#34;a program of shorts ranging from a witty  experiment in body art (Lie of Magician, 2005)  to the creation of an expansive imagistic world that evokes China’s  checkered voyage toward technological and political modernity.&#34;
The text below is from the REDCAT&#8217;s release:
 After  studying printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, Sun  founded the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Beckett Salute</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/adam-beckett-salute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/adam-beckett-salute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Beckett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dear Janice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution of the Red Star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flesh Flows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Animator and visual effects artist Adam Beckett will be  celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with the  special program “Infinite Animation: The Work of Adam Beckett” on Monday, August 17, at 8 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater  in Hollywood. The evening will include a screening of Life in the  Atom, a short film that Beckett left unfinished when, at the  age of 29, he died  in a fire in 1979. 
Presented by the Academy’s Science and  Technology Council in conjunction with the iotaCenter, and hosted by visual effects artist Richard Winn  Taylor and Beckett biographer Pamela Turner, “Infinite Animation: The Work of Adam  Beckett” will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Student Academy Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-student-academy-awards-gold-medal-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Place to Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bohemibot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elkland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kavi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liz Chae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pajama Gladiator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Per Hanefjord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robyn Yannoukos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student Academy Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bronx Balletomane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Last Mermaids]]></category>

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Alice&#8217;s Attic (top); Pajama Gladiator (2nd from top); Kavi (2nd from bottom); Elkland (bottom)

The final order of the winners of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2009 Student Academy Awards &#8212; gold, silver, and bronze medal recipients &#8212; was announced earlier this evening at the Academy&#8217;s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Actor Gary Oldman, director John Landis, animator Andreas Deja, and Academy first vice president Robert Rehme took part in the ceremony.
The winners are:

Alternative*
Gold Medal: Alice’s Attic, Robyn Yannoukos, University of California, Los Angeles
Silver Medal: Matter, in a Quiescent State, Prepares Itself to Be Transformed, Kwibum Chung, School of Visual Arts, New York
* Only two medals were awarded in the Alternative category.
Animation
Gold Medal: Pajama Gladiator, Glenn Harmon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Student Academy Award Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-student-academy-award-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auf der Strecke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bohemibot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Bellomo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cassandra Lizaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elkland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Harmon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregg Helvy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honorary Foreign Film Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jed Henry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Joffe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joaquin Baldwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kavi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelly Asmuth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kwibum Chung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lauren DeAngelis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liz Chae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matter in a Quiescent State Prepares Itself to Be Transformed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pajama Gladiator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Per Hanefjord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Docter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robyn Yannoukos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sebastian's Voodoo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Student Academy Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student Academy Awards 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bronx Balletomane]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Wait]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WALL-E]]></category>

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Alice&#8217;s Attic (top); Pajama Gladiator (2nd from top); Bohemibot (2nd from bottom); Elkland (bottom)

The 2009 Student Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will be held on Saturday, June 13, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. 
Twelve students from eight U.S. colleges and universities have been named winners in the competition. One film student from Sweden has been voted the Honorary Foreign Film Award.
The U.S. winners know they will each receive an award, but their placement – Gold, Silver or Bronze – will be revealed only at the June 13 ceremony. Gold Medal winners receive cash grants of $5,000, Silver Medal winners receive $3,000, and Bronze Medal winners receive $2,000. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies! Moguls! Monkeys! and Murder!: Centennial of Los Angeles&#8217; First Film Studio</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/centennial-of-los-angeles-first-film-studio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 08:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edendale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francis Boggs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linwood Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Herrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monte Cristo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Selig Polyscope Company]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theda Bara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Mix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Fox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William N. Selig]]></category>

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&#34;Movies! Moguls! Monkeys! and Murder!&#34; is the title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&#8216; celebration of  the  centennial of the first permanent film studio  in  the Los Angeles area. The event, which will showcase   films shot in Los Angeles between  1909 and 1914, will take place on Wednesday, May 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn  Theater in Hollywood.
&#34;Movies! Moguls! Monkeys! and Murder!&#34; will also kick off a three-month exhibition  exploring those pioneering days, when independent producers set up shop in Southern California to enjoy the sunshine, the varied topography, and the distance between Los Angeles and the East Coast&#8217;s filmmaking oligarchy. 
And what was the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Academy Awards 2009 Finalists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Sebastian&#8217;s Voodoo (top), The Last Mermaids (middle), Bohemibot (bottom)

Thirty-six students from 20 US colleges and universities have been  selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2009 Student Academy Awards competition. Academy  members will pick the winners after watching the competing films at special screenings. 
Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards, along with  accompanying cash prizes of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively,  may be presented in each of the four categories below. The winners will later take part  in a week of industry-related and social activities,  including the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 13, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):


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		<title>2009 Honorary Foreign Film Award Finalists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 17:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Five finalists will be vying for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts  and Sciences&#8216; 2009 Honorary Foreign Film award in the 36th Annual    Student Academy Awards competition. The five finalists were selected from a record 57 entries representing 39  countries.  The winning student filmmaker will  be brought to Los Angeles to join U.S.-based Student Academy Award  winners &#34;for a week of industry-related activities and social events,&#34;  including the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 13, in  Beverly Hills.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):

Elkland (above, center photo), Per Hanefjord, Dramatiska Institutet, Sweden
    Face-to-Face Confrontation, Igor Khomsky, Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Russia
    The Incredible Story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artivist 2009 Call for Entries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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PRESS RELEASE
&#34;ARTIVIST&#34; is the 1st international film festival dedicated to addressing Human Rights, Children&#8217;s Advocacy, Environmental Preservation, and Animal Advocacy.  Our mission is to strengthen the voice of international activist artists &#8211; &#34;Artivists&#34; &#8211; while raising public awareness for social global causes. 
The 6th Annual Artivist Film Festival is currently accepting international Film and Video submissions that concern themselves with human rights, social or political issues, children&#8217;s issues/advocacy, animal issues/rights, or environmental issues. Artivist also accepts films that tell inspirational stories or are empowering.  Each year Artivist screens shorts, feature-length films, documentaries, narratives, music videos, experimental and animated shorts directed by established international filmmakers, novice filmmakers and the YouTube community.   Since 2004, Artivist has showcased 350 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babelgum Online Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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2009 Babelgum Online Film Festival Awards
2009 Babelgum Online Film Festival Award winners: April 27, 2009 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City
&#160;

In Francesco Sperandeo&#8217;s Bab Al Samah / The Door of Forgiveness, a man&#8217;s desire to get over past humiliations, symbolized by a  heavy, old door, leads him on a life-changing journey.
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Looking for Genius Award:  BAB AL SAMAH / THE DOOR OF FORGIVENESS by Francesco Sperandeo (Italy)
Spike Lee Award / Short Film:  MARADONA BABY by Nino Sabella (Italy)
Spike Lee Award / Animation:  HEY ANIMATION MUSIC VIDEO by Guy Ben Shetrit (Israel)
Spike Lee Award / Documentary:  THE LADIES by Christina Voros (United States)
Spike Lee Award / Mini Masterpiece:  I HAD A DREAM I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Documentary / Short Film Lineup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Documentary / Short Film Lineup
Documentaries  IN COMPETITION 
Boriven  nee yu pai tai karn kuk kun (This Area is Under Quarantine) by Thunska Pansittivorakul (Thailand, 2009) 
  friday 24 april,  16.45 &#8211; monday 27 april,   11.30
Out  in India: A Family&#8217;s Journey by Tom Keegan (USA/India, 2007)
  friday  24 april,  18.30 &#8211; saturday 25 april,  11.30

Intimidades  de Shakespeare y Victor Hugo (Shakespeare and Victor Hugo&#8217;s Intimacies) by Yulene Olaizola (Mexico, 2008)
  friday  24 april,  15.30 (Sala 3) &#8211; saturday 25 april,  11.30 (Sala 3)
Giorgio/Giorgia&#8230;  storia di una voce (Giorgio/Giorgia&#8230;History of a Voice) by Gianfranco Mingozzi (Italy, 2008)
  saturday  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Meighan, THE LOST SQUADRON at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Via Thomas Gladysz&#8217;s article in the Los Angeles Examiner:
The Edison Theatre at the Niles Essanay  Silent Film Museum in the Northern California town of Fremont has been screening silent films and early talkies for quite some time. As Gladysz explains in his article, that area was home to the western studios of the Chicago-based Essanay film company, among whose stars at one point were  Gloria Swanson;  Charles Chaplin;  matinee idol Francis X. Bushman (best remembered for his villain in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur); and company co-owner Gilbert M. &#34;Broncho Billy&#34; Anderson (the &#34;ay&#34; in Essanay; the &#34;ess&#34; was George K. Spoor), the first cowboy star. 
The Niles Essanay Museum&#8217;s line-up for the rest of April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babelgum Online Film Festival 2009 Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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Babelgum, the independent web TV service, has announced the 40 finalists for the 2nd edition of the Babelgum Online Film Festival. The festival   rewards  international  independent short filmmaking by providing international exposure and   cash awards for upcoming talent. 
Spike Lee is returning as the Honorary Chairman of the Festival Jury. He will  announce the award winners on April 27, 2009, at a private event during  the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
As per the Babelgum press release, nearly two thousand filmmakers from around the globe submitted their  films  and sixty-two thousand votes were cast via the  Babelgum broadband and mobile platforms. Ten films in each of the four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gen Art Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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2009 Gen Art Awards
2009 Gen Art Film Festival: April 1-7, 2009
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  &#160;In David Lee Miller&#8217;s comedy My Suicide, Gabriel Sunday (above) stars as teenager whose final school video project will be his own suicide. Also in the My Suicide cast: David Carradine, Mariel Hemingway, Brooke Nevin (above), Nora Dunn, and Joe Mantegna.

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Acura Grand Jury  Award for Best Feature: My Suicide, by David Lee Miller
Acura Grand Jury  Award for Best Short:  Adelaide, by Liliana Greenfield-Sanders
Audience Award for Best Feature: My Suicide, by David Lee Miller
Audience Award for Best Short: Adelaide, by Liliana Greenfield-Sanders
 “Stargazer Award” for breakout   acting:  Gabriel  Sunday, My Suicide
Special jury  prize for best use of music: Punching the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>48 Hour Film Project 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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PRESS RELEASE
The 48 Hour Film  Project, the world’s  largest timed filmmaking competition, today announced that its ninth annual  tour will expand to nearly 80 cities in 2009, including the first-ever local  contests in Beijing, Lisbon, Prague, Savannah, and Paducah, Kentucky. 
The  48 Hour Film Project’s 2009 Tour will challenge a record 35,000 people  worldwide to complete the entire filmmaking process – from writing and  casting to shooting and editing – in a mere 48 hours. Since its 2001  launch in Washington, D.C. by filmmakers Mark Ruppert and Liz  Langston, the project has become a global cultural phenomenon, with more than 130,000 participants producing nearly 9,000 short films. (An archive of past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: TO FARO, BABY LOVE, Lesbian Shorts</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/london-gay-film-festival-2009-lesbian-shorts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Wednesday, April 8, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
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&#34;Mortal Desires&#34;
Vampires, hoodlums, a hot detective and a few high class call girls make up this programme of sexy lesbian shorts. 
In Twilight&#8217;s Shadow (above)
  USA 2008. Dir T.M. Scorzafava. 12min.
Carlisle&#8217;s girlfriend is being held hostage and she&#8217;ll do all it takes to get her girl back before sunrise.
Crazy Baby
  USA 2008. Dir Jules Nurrish. 3min.
An unhinged patient, a sexy nurse and a very large needle&#8230;
Liminal
  USA 2008. Dir Stephen Keep Mills. 14min.
A powerplay between lovers escalates with devastating results.
At Home (or Love as well)
  Spain 2008. Dir Mariel Macia. 25min.
Rosa&#8217;s first time has to be perfect.
What I found in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joanna Priestley Screenings at the REDCAT</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/joanna-priestley-screenings-at-the-redcat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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PRESS RELEASE 
FILM AT REDCAT PRESENTS 
  Joanna Priestley: Fighting Gravity
Mon Apr 20 &#124; 8:30 pm
Jack H. Skirball Series
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
Los Angeles premiere
Dubbed “the queen of independent animation” by Bill Plympton, Joanna Priestley unveils her new short Missed Aches,  a humorous rant about the need for proofreading. This can’t-miss  program for animation buffs also includes a series of animated gems  representing the range of the artist’s techniques: Voices, Grown Up, All My Relations, Streetcar Named Perspire, Utopia Parkway, Candyjam, She-Bop, Pro and Con, and Dew Line.  Mentored by Jules Engel at CalArts, Priestley had previously made 19  award-winning films about subjects as varied as relationships, plants,  magic, menopause, abstraction and prison. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival 2009: DREAM BOY, SOCIETY</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/london-gay-film-festival-2009-dream-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anna Margarita Albelo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carolina Valencia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[London  Lesbian &#38; Gay Film Festival 2009
Monday, April 6, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
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&#34;Home&#34;
An international selection of films exploring the idea of home. 
Lot&#8217;s Wife
  Turkey 2008. Dir Harjant Gill, Koray Durak. 9min.
A reworking of the biblical story of Lot&#8217;s wife, set in the outskirts of Istanbul, where three uncles intend to break up a happy home.
Boxed In
  USA 2007. Dir Joy E. Reed. 10min.
A comedy demonstrating the importance of clearing out your closet when you move home.
The Turkey
  France 2008. Dir Anna Margarita Albelo. 10min.
A wife and mother runs off with her battery operated birthday present.
Two Spirits
  USA 2007. Dir Ruth Fertig. 22min.
Queer Native Americans fight to reclaim the place of honour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Todd at the REDCAT</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/robert-todd-at-the-redcat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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PRESS RELEASE
Robert Todd’s Cinema of Discovery 
  Mon March 30 &#124; 8:30 pm
Robert Todd’s lyrical films demonstrate both a masterful command of the  medium and an openness to chance. Painting, musical form and poetry  infuse these short films. Of his latest work he writes, “These films  offer a series of celebratory explorations, and, in some cases,  transformations, of varied components of my life. To me, this set of  works is an odd blend of performance and alchemical construction,  freedom and control, a highly crafted and rather baroque diary.”  Featured in this program are Dig, 21 Alleys, Riverbed, Interplay, Office Suite, Passing, and Rose.
In person: Robert Todd
“Since 1989, Boston-based filmmaker Robert Todd has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Munich International Short Film Festival: Call for Entries</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/munich-international-short-film-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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PRESS RELEASE
Due to an overwhelming number of requests, MUNICH INTERNATIONAL has extended its deadline to March 15th, 2009 – Send in your submissions today! The festival takes place directly prior to the &#34;big&#34; Munich Filmfest. Starting on Thursday, June 18 through Wednesday, June 24, 2009, the festival will showcase the world&#8217;s best contemporary short films each night at the tradition-steeped Gloria Filmpalast in the heart of the Bavarian capital.
Submissions are open to non-German language films of all genres (fiction, animation, documentary, experimental, music video or other) from any nation of the world. Films must not have been shown in Bavaria at a festival, in a theatre or on television before, and must not exceed a length of 15 minutes. All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doug Sweetland, David Frankel at Shorts! Evening &#8211; Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/doug-sweetland-david-frankel-shorts-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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Click on the photos to enlarge them.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences screened of all 10 of  the 2009 Oscar-nominated animated and live-action short films on Tuesday,  February 17, 2009, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.  
In the above photo, those on the left are clearly seeing something that those on the right have missed. 
Left to right (front row): Steph  Green, Konstantin Bronzit, Dorte Høgh, Tamara Anghie, Kunio Kato and Tivi Magnusson. 
Left to right (back row): Thierry Marchand, Emud Mokhberi, Reto  Caffi, Alan Smith, Jochen Alexander Freydank, Adam Foulkes, Doug  Sweetland and David Frankel, who hosted the event. Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.

David Frankel. Darren Decker / ©A.M.P.A.S.

Doug Sweetland, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2009:  Animated and Live Action Short Film Screenings in New York City</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/shorts/oscar-2009-animated-shorts-live-action-shorts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#34;Shorts!,&#34;  the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences program featuring the 2009 Oscar nominees in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories, will be presented in New York City on Saturday, February 14, at the Academy Theater  at Lighthouse International (111 East 59th Street). There will be two  separate screenings of the nominated films, the first at noon and an  encore presentation at 4 p.m. 
Film historian Robert Osborne, who is  a columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, host of Turner Classic Movies, and author of the new book 80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards, will act as host of the noon screening. Osborne  will also be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2009: Animated, Live-Action Shorts Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/shorts/oscar-2009-nominated-shorts-screening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/shorts/oscar-2009-nominated-shorts-screening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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New Boy by Steph Green (top); Oktapodi by Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand (bottom)

The 2009 Academy Award-nominated films in the Animated and Live Action  Short Film categories will be screened as part of the program &#34;Shorts!,&#34; presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and  Sciences on Tuesday, February 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the  Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The program will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability). Not to be missed&#8230;
The 2009 Animated Short Film and Live Action Short Film nominees are:


Animated Short Film
    La Maison en Petits Cubes (above), Kunio Kato, director
    Lavatory-Lovestory, Konstantin Bronzit, director
    Oktapodi, Emud Mokhberi and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sundance 2009: Ten Shorts on itunes</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/sundance-2009-ten-shorts-on-itunes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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James by Connor Clements

The following Sundance 2009 short films are available for viewing/downloading &#8212; free of charge &#8212; via itunes stores in the US, UK, and Canada. They&#8217;ll remain available until Jan. 25. Go to www.iTunes.com/sundance.
The available films are (synopses from the Sundance Festival&#8217;s press release):
Acting for the Camera (Director: Justin Nowell;  Screenwriter:  Thomas Nowell) &#8212; An acting class. Today&#8217;s scene: the orgasm from When Harry Met Sally.
Countertransference (Director: Madeleine Olnek) &#8212; A comedy about an awkward woman with  assertiveness problems who seeks the questionable help of a therapist.
HUG (Director: Khary Jones) &#8212; Drew is a musician with a contract  ready to sign. When Asa, his friend and manager, realizes Drew is off  his meds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MALTA TV INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2009: Call for Entries</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/malta-short-film-festival-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE
From  April, TVM, the national public broadcasting station, will be broadcasting for  the first time in Malta and also in Europe, a short film festival from around  the world which will not only show films but be judged by a professional jury  and also by public vote. The short film medium today are not only a stepping  stone to full feature films but a genre it its own right.  Although producing a short film might reduce  the technical, financial and human resources required to produce the film, but  on the other hand, the creativity, room for experimentation and artistic risk  is more often than not heightened. Moreover, specific skills in scriptwriting, [...]]]></description>
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