LA Shorts Fest
LAShortsFest
LA Shorts Fest is the largest short film festival in the world. The festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. In past years, 33 participants have earned Academy Award nominations, with 11 filmmakers actually taking home the Oscar. They have honored some of Hollywood’s legends of the past: Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Robert Wise; along and directors Tim Burton, Bryan Singer, Jan de Bont, Paul Haggis and Shane Black.
9th edition
2005 | 6 - 13 September
Best of the Fest
3
Best Documentary
The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
United States | 2004 | 27:00
Director: Dan Krauss
5
Best Animation
La Leyenda del Espantapajaros
The Legend of the Scarecrow
Spain | Mar 2005 | 11:00
Director: Marco Besas
10
Best Comedy
5
Best Drama
2
Azadi
Australia | 2005 | 20:00
Director: Anthony Maras
An Afghan father and his young son flee the violent street of Kabul only to encounter another type of persecution upon arrival in Australia.
2
The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
United States | 2004 | 27:00
Director: Dan Krauss
A South African photojournalist commits a terrible act of desperation only weeks after receiving the Pulitzer Prize for his picture of a starving girl...
5
Goodnight Bill
United States | 2005 | 19:00
Directors: Jeremy Kipp Walker, J Anderson Mitchell
A cynical old man, forced to share his hospital with a stranger who he discovers is gay, learns through the power of friendship that it's never too la...
4
La Leyenda del Espantapajaros
The Legend of the Scarecrow
Spain | Mar 2005 | 11:00
Director: Marco Besas
The life of a scarecrow changes radically when he decides to become friends with the birds
10
A Message from Fallujah
Australia | 2005 | 15:00
Director: Richard Gibson
Daniel Crane, a civil engineer working to rebuild war-torn Iraq, is kidnapped on his last day in Fallujah. He finds himself beaten and alone, a hostag...
3
Pee Shy
United States | 2004 | 15:00
Director: Deb Hagan
A boy becomes so frightened by his scout leader's campfire stories that he humiliates himself one night, and becomes the object of the scout leader's ...
7
The Receipt
United States | Apr 2005 | 16:00
Director: Tim Garrick
Two star-crossed lovers only have minutes to change the course of their lives.
5
Síðasti Bærinn
The Last Farm
Iceland | 2004 | 15:00
Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson
In a remote valley, all the farms except one have been abandoned.
20
Surly Squirrel
Canada | 2005 | 10:45
Director: Peter Lepeniotis
A starving park squirrel and rat come across a discarded pizza slice. The duo's greed disrupts the natural order of the park. Simultaneously, across t...
7
Torte Bluma
United States | 2005 | 18:00
Director: Benjamin Ross
Real-life Franz Stangl, the Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942-43, enjoyed a most unusual relationship with the Jewish slave who c...
2
Short film types screened
Fiction / Live action Animation Documentary
Experimental Music videoCompetition and rewards
International competition
No cash awards No screening fees
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