The 5th Annual Chlotrudis Short Film Festival expands this year into an additional venue. On Monday, November 1, films will be screened at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA. On Wednesday, November 3, the festival expands across the river into the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge. Join members of the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film to screen the 10 nominees for the Best Short Film of 2004. Admission is $8.00 / $7.00 for Chlotrudis and Coolidge members. A varied program features drama (like the Australian film STRAY HEART pictured right), comedy, foreign-language, documentary (as in Ronnie Cramer’s HIGHWAY AMAZON pictured below), and animated films. A sub-committee of the Chlotrudis Short Film Screening Committee viewed nearly 12 hours of short films in six different languages to present the 12 films ‘ the best two hours and thirty-nine minutes.
After viewing the films, vote for your choice of Best Short Film! Two awards, a Chlotrudis Award and an Audience Award will be presented at the 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards Ceremony next March at the Brattle Theatre.
In addition to an evening filled with outstanding short films, help the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film (CSIF) by participating in their first Silent Auction fundraiser. Bid on terrific gifts such as a two-night stay at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, a Chlotrudis-member’s hand-made quilt, a two-hour rental of the Coolidge Corner Theatre’s Screening Room, passes to the Boston Jewish Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival of Boston, and the Provincetown International Film Festival, Film Movement memberships, tickets to the Boston Ballet, and much more. CSIF thanks these organizations for their generous support. The Silent Auction will take place before the November 1st screening in the upstairs lobby at the Coolidge Corner Theatre.
The Short Films nominated this year:
- A church caretaker has a crisis of faith after his priest dies in Jason
Di Rosso’s Australian production STRAY HEART. - Ronnie Cramer’s documentary HIGHWAY AMAZON follows a buff female wrestler with a unique line of work.
- Shooby Taylor “The Human Horn” performs TICO TICO in Nisa Rauschenberg’s animated short.
- An Italian couple relives a divisive argument from opposing perspectives in Massimiliano Mauceri’s ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A KING.
- Justin Fielding’s DWAINE’S BIG GAME is a funny, incisive documentary of a man’s love of bowling.
- In the experimental Russian documentary THE CRY, Kirill Davidoff looks at the sad after-effects of Chernobyl.
- A young girl develops a crush on her sister’s boyfriend in Anna Sikorski’s A TROUBLESOME DESIRE.
- In Kramer C. O’Neill’s JANE DOE, a woman leads a quiet normal life – or so it seems.
- A sadistic tennis instructor torments his young student in Justin Swibell’s 70’s era FAULT.
- John Jameson’s OUT AND ABOUT follows a young couple on a trip to the video store that opens new wounds.
For more information about the Official Selections, visit the Short Film Festival page.