We've started compiling information about new short films for our AWN
readers, appropriately titled "Where's My Shorts?" Lest we get too
jovial, each week, we'll provide a brief compilation of new short
films premiering during that week, either at a festival, exhibition,
screening or online. They could be gems, they could be industrial
effluent, we hazard no guess. However, we can tell you that the
works are supposedly "new," which gives us hope that someone,
somewhere is doing something besides lying around their den, eating
Cheetos and cleaning their ears with a pencil.



Sharon Katz, creator of HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANNAH (Audience Choice Award,
Chicks 'n Flicks Film Festival), has finished her newest animated
short, THE ANGEL'S FOOT CAKE / DER FUS TORT. In the film, Drinkeleh
Fresserkeh decides to make a cake in the shape of an Angel's foot.
The Angels take umbrage and the fun begins in this delightfully
raucous modern Yiddish animated tale. The film premiers April 29,
2001 at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. For more information, visit
www.sharonkatz.net. . . Rochester, New York's Animatus Studio is
premiering their latest Flash Webtoons: The Dinner Dogs' TOTALLY ME,
a music video for kids, and SU AND MO EPISODE TWO, the continuing
story of the lap-dancing bad boys of animation. The Dinner Dogs are a
musical group that perform hip, imaginative songs for children. SU
AND MO, twin sumo wrestlers, are notorious for the patent-pending
extreme lap-dancing that they perform at the world famous Club
Hippendale's. The new shorts can be found at www.animatusstudio.com. . .
Eyelumination Studio has reinvented America's best-loved cloth chimps
in a 3D animated short, SPORT MONKEYS, which premiers on iFilm.com
this week. Written and directed by Ryan Nellis, the film follows the
continuing adventures of Kobi-ba-bobi, a young sock monkey who learns
the meaning of honesty and fair play, and a whole cast of woolly
characters. SPORT MONKEYS traces lineage to the Depression, when
money and toys were scarce and mothers sewed together socks and other
scaps of fabric to make "sock monkeys." The new short can be found
at www.ifilm.com. . . The second installment of Augenblick Studios' three
part Flash-animated DIGNIFIED DEVIL adventure series premiers this
week on Hypnotic. Many have mistaken Franklin Raine for the devil,
dignified or not. Appearances are deceiving though. He's not the
devil. He's actually a pretty nice guy. A drunk and a drifter,
Frank is always somewhere he shouldn't be. Always trying to make
sense. Always drinking... Based on a true story. This week,
Franklin plays shrink to a troubled young girl and gets repaid in
full. The new short can be found at
www.hypnotic.com/hypnotic.asp?content=/dig_devil.asp. . . Also debuting
this week on Hypnotic is EARTH DAY, a unique, 15-minute spoof on
old-school slasher flicks featuring a cast of dolls. Created by
Meredith Casey and Michiko Byers, the live-action film uses special
effects and experimental camera work to shoot the dolls in action as
they embark on a nature retreat only to be massacred by a psychotic
killer through a series of bloody attacks with chainsaws, drills and
shark spears. The film features the voices of Mark Hamill and Jason
Ritter of MTV's UNDRESSED. Visit www.hypnotic.com.