The organizers of the 11th annual HollyShorts Film Festival are announcing today the official film lineup that will compete at the upcoming festival. The lineup includes 400 of the top short movies from almost every major continent. The festival received a record 2,200 submissions this year a festival record.
The festival will take place at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres August 13-22, 2015. The HollyShorts Film Conference, which will feature heavy hitter panel discussions, will take place at IgnitedSpaces August 14-21.
This year’s selected horror and thriller shorts include the following:
Horror-Friday August 14 @10 pm
Polaroid-Lars Klevberg
Hag-Erik Gardner
Awakenings-Bhargav Saikia
The Smiling Man-A.J. Briones
Slut-Chloe Okuno
And They Watched-Vivian Lin
Mr. Dentonn-Ivan Villamel
The Blood Of Love-Jeff Meyers
Hush-Michael G. Kehoe
Thriller-Sunday August 16 @10 pm
The Loyalist-Minji Kang
The Ascent-Ana Soler
600$-Oriol Cardus
The Canary-Karl Herrmann
The Program-Dylan Mulick
The Pegasus Project-Aaron Wolf
Midland-Oliver Bernsen
Human Behavior-Carey Williams
Thriller program-Tuesday August 18 @7:30 pm
County State USA: Sweet Corn-Jonathan Nowak
Transference-Michaël NAKACHE
Thicker Than Water-Seung Yeob Lee
IF IT TURNS BAD, RUN!-David HOURREGUE
Hero.Traitor.Patriot-Weyni Mengesha and Eion Bailey
Day One-Leo Kei Angelos & Kristen Brancaccio
The festival’s opening night celebration lineup will be announced momentarily and will take place at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres and OHM nightclub at Hollywood and Highland. Advance tickets, the lineup, all-access passes and the fest schedule are currently available at www.hollyshorts.com.
This year’s HollyShorts sponsors include:
All Short TV, Brickyard VFX, Color Space Finishing, Company 3, Creative Handbook, Crypt TV, Daily Motion, Dark Horse Wines, Delmay Partners, Diablo, Evil Slave, Film Radar, FilmLA, Final Draft, Greenleaf Gourmet Chop Shop, Ignited Spaces, Indi.com, Indievent, Jungle Software, Kim Ruggles Events, Law Offices of Clifford Lo Entertainment Law, Lightspeed EPS, Lyft, Mercury Production Report, Method Studios, New Media Vault, NYFA, OHM, Panavision, Philippe Catering, Pond5, Red Giant, Robertson Taylor Insurance, Script Pipeline, Shorts HD, Media Services,Simple DCP, Stage32.com, TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, The Agency-Sports & Entertainment Division, Uber, UCLA Extension, Women in Film, Zype, Hint Water, Production Hub, Monster Energy and Mama Shelter Hotels.