Ten short films featured at Cinema Nouveau
Ten filmmakers will have their short films featured on the big screen.
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The Short Film Project was launched in September 2014. A total of 124 entries were submitted by the extended deadline and ten of those entries have been shortlisted.
The initial entries were curated by Julie Stephenson of Short & Sweet, in conjunction with the Ster-Kinekor marketing and acquisitions teams.
The ten short films that have been shortlisted – and the Cinema Nouveau films they will be released with – are:
• Birdman (directed by Robert Nicholls) – will screen with
Inherent Vice (from April 10)
• Run Jose (directed by David Meinert) – will screen with Saint Laurent (from April 17)
• The Christmas Gift (directed by Timothy Argall) – will screen with Dear White People (from April 24)
• Fortabt (Loss of Love) (directed by Benitha Vlok) – will screen with Far from the Madding Crowd (from April 30)
• Endless (directed by Robert McEwan) – will screen with Serial (Bad) Weddings (from April 30)
• 21th Street (directed by Kelsey Egan) – will screen with Lullaby (from May 08)
• The Grave Digger (directed by Quean Groenewald) – will screen with Little Chaos (from May 15)
• Ashes in the Earth (directed by Sara Gouveia and Kofi Zwana) – will screen with Infinitely Polar Bear (from May 22)
• True – Jose (directed by Mandla Shonhiwa) – will screen with A Most Violent Year (from May 22)
• In Foreign Transit – India (directed by Dewald Brand) – will screen with Serena (from May 29)
These ten shortlisted films will be screened as the‘supporting act’ to the main feature film at four Cinema Nouveau theatres in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town and will be released from Friday, April 10 to Friday, May 29.