Short Film 08: Le Building - Gobelins (2005)

Le Building is an animated short film made by a team of 5 french students (Olivier Staphylas, Marco Nguyen, Pierre Perifel, Xavier Ramonede and Rémi Zaarour) from the animation school "the Gobelins" in Paris, France.

It was made as an opening short done for the Annecy 2005 international animation festival, so it had to be funny and/or punchy. After developing the story to find an idea all the team members liked and would be happy to work on, they came up with a simple one. A grandmother wants her neighbour to stop singing so loud -- and the main focus of the film ends up being the crazy chain reaction which follows. Its a pleasure to watch.

The movie was completed in 4 and a half months, including screenplay, storyboards and designs. The technique is a mix between traditional 2D, Flash, and 3D animation. With these differing techniques used, the challenge was to blend them so that the audience won't notice it too much. For example the pizza guy, his bike, the bus, and the crane are in 3D. The cat on the pizza guy's head is animated with Flash and the other characters are traditionally animated in 2D.

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Lesbian Short Films (2005)

A WOMAN REPORTED, directed by Chris J. Russo (5 mins., USA). Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival. Moira Kelly (The West Wing, One Tree Hill) stars in this gripping thriller about a woman's determination to escape a hate crime and return to the loving arms of her girlfriend. (Inspired by the Ambrose Bierce short story An Incident At Owl Creek Bridge.)

DANI AND ALICE, directed by Roberta Marie Munroe (12 mins., USA/Canada). Yolanda Ross (Stranger Inside, Shortbus) stars in this powerful, high-gloss indictment of lesbian domestic violence. WARNING: This film contains scenes of graphic violence.

FROZEN SMILE, directed by Silas Howard (7 mins., USA). From By Hook or By Crook, Exactly Like You writer-director Silas Howard, this candy-colored comedy serves up a quirky portrait of a butch and her crazy family!

EVERYTHING GOOD, directed by Elizabeth McCarthy (17 mins., USA). Audience Award: Best Short, Fire Island Film Festival A woman takes a risk and orders a call girl to fulfill her perfect lesbian sex fantasy in this crowd-pleasing bittersweet comedy.

SAINT HENRY, directed by Abigail Severance (19 mins., USA). Ashleigh Ann Wood (Bloodknot) stars as a girl named Henry who enlists her gay best pal (Max Van Ville, The Standard) to help search for her father in this moody and gorgeously produced drama.

BLOW, directed by Marie Craven (7 mins., Australia). This glossy Aussie short is the sweetest schoolgirl crush movie you've ever seen.

TRANSIT, directed by Kerry Weldon (4 mins., USA). Enjoy the simple pleasures of lesbian cruising, subway style!

HALF LAUGHING, directed by Michelle Ehlen (12 mins., USA). You'll laugh, you'll cry. It takes a lot of courage for a butch lesbian to face her mother's homophobia on a trip home for Grandpa's funeral.

TINA PAULINA: LIVING ON HOPE STREET, directed by Barbara Green and Michelle Boyaner (10 mins., USA). A riveting and inspirational documentary portrait of a lesbian living on the streets of downtown Los Angeles.

THE BLACK PLUM, directed by Meredyth Wilson (15 mins., USA). A poignant, evocative fantasy about a young tomboy's journey away from her restrictive home. Stars Kip Pardue (Loggerheads, Thirteen, But I'm a Cheerleader). http://rapidshare.com/files/181842877/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/181852919/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/181867391/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part3.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/181908198/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part4.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/181914860/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part5.rar rar pass: tsou_li http://cinelez.blogspot.com

Short Film 02: Little Terrorist (2005)

Jamal, a 10-year-old Pakistani Muslim, mistakenly crosses the border between India and Pakistan and finds an unusual ally in a Hindu Brahmin, Bhola. Indian soldiers descend on Bhola's village searching for the so-called terrorist who crossed over. Bhola's neice, Rani, insists they can't let a Muslim into their Hindu home. With Bhola and Rani grappling with the consequences of harboring a Pakistani and their deep-set prejudice against Muslims, Jamal's only hope is the humanity shared by a people separated by artificial boundaries a long time ago.

Since its world premiere in September 2004, the film has been invited to 103 film festivals and has won awards in fourteen of them. Chief among them was the nomination for Academy Awards, USA in the Best Live action short films category. It was also nominated for the best short film award in the European Film Awards.

It went on to win the audience award in the Almerнa International Short Film Festival, the UIP Ghent Award for European Short Films in the Flanders International Film Festival, the grand prize in the Manhattan Short Films festival and the first prize in the Short Films category in the Montrйal World Film Festival.

The movie was officially mentioned and selected in various other competitions. It also won an honourable mention by BAFTA LA. It is the first Indian short film to get a theatrical release in India.

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