Film Festivals News
 
August 2009
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LESSON IN HUMILITY by THOMAS ZINSLI
THE CLEANER by NOEL KEARNS
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Call for entries: 
Short Film FestivalsAugust Deadlines:
Festival du Cin�ma de Paris

Festival du Film de Strasbourg

September early deadlines:
New York Short Film Festival

Festival de Cine de Granada

Deadlines are for registration, you have 30 days more to submit the copy of your film.

LESSON IN HUMILITY by THOMAS ZINSLI
Lesson in HumilityAs a filmmaker I'm interested in people and how they tackle difficult situations. I like to create interesting characters, put them in challenging situations and see how they get out - if they get out.
In "Lesson in Humility", David, the protagonist, thinks he has his life all figured out; therefore it is all the more shocking when he suddenly is being fired. I intensively worked with...
 
THE CLEANER by NOEL KEARNS
 
The CleanerIt is a great honour to be awarded 'Best Director' for the short film 'The Cleaner'. This is not just an tribute for myself but everyone who was involved in the production.
I came up with the idea for 'The Cleaner' when I found out that at a major London hospital, a database of its foreign workers is kept, so that help with translation for foreign patients can easily be arranged.
So what would happen if a hospital cleaner was called upon to translate for an injured foreign man but he recognised the patient as a evil warlord from their former war-torn homeland? The short-film was shot in two days, with one...

Congratulations to STEPHEN KEEP MILLS for his film LIMINAL, winner of the Special Award to the Best Fiction Film, at the 2009 Festival de Cine de Granada.
 


Sincerely,
Director
Carlos Martinez
Annual Program Without Frontiers