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July 2010
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MNAMESAKE by SHIRIN MOZAFFARI
LIMINAL by STEPHEN KEEP MILLS
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NAMESAKE by SHIRIN MOZAFFARI
 
NamesakeNamesake is an autobiographical animation piece in which Mozaffari interviews three different family members about her great grandmother's suicide.
The film explores how the content and impact of a story changes according to the source of and how a single event transforms and takes on a different meaning overtime.
The imagery in my film draws from Iranian Art such as Persian miniature paintings along with contemporary images from
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LIMINAL by STEPHEN KEEP MILLS
  
Liminal
Dear Mssrs. Gindzberg, Crepeau, Rubinger, The Committee of Art and the Festival Du  Film De Strasbourg. I am so happy you have selected Alejandra Gollas for La Meilleure Actrice for her performance in my short film LIMINAL.
Alejandra was the very first actress to audition for the part of the protagonist INA. For me, as director, this was a gift to have at least one decision out of the way (there are only 2 roles in the film) on the first day. She set a standard so high that after two weeks of readings she was still first.
Here in Los Angeles, so many actors tend to protect their own persona they will not vary from themselves or experiment into the unknown. They do not take the art of acting as
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Congratulations to Gastón Siriczman for his film Marcela, winner of the Best Direction at the 2010 San Francisco Short Film Festival.
 

Sincerely,
Director
Carlos Martinez
Annual Program Without Frontiers