HollyShorts Film Festival Unveils Schedule and Line-Up

The 18^th edition of the HollyShorts Film Festival is back, running August 11-20 at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres. The Oscar-qualifying event has announced its lineup of animated short films, including Emmy nominee Colman Domingo’s New Moon, an imaginative surrealist journey of a young boy and his mother chasing their inner-city dreams.

Other notable films include:

• Five Cents – directed by Aaron Hughes and starring Emmy Award-winner Brian Cox (Succession)
• Ninety-five Senses - directed by Jerusha Hess (Austenland, Napoleon Dynamite, Don Verdean) and Jared Hess (Minecraft, Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre), written by Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer
• Scale (Cannes Selection 2022) - directed by Joseph Pierce
• Domenica and Constanza Castro’s We Are Here (Sundance Selection 2022) – directed by the Castro Sisters
• Saint Android (Cannes Cinéfondation 2021) – directed by Lukas von Berg

The complete list and schedule of animated shorts include:

Friday, August 12, 2022 - 12:00 PM PST - Adult Animation

• A Guitar in the Bucket
• Angulos de la Hora
• Chilly and Milly
• Fall Of the Ibis King
• Freedom Swimmer
• Holy Holocaust
• Invisible Eyes
• Love, Dad
• More Than I Remember
• New Moon
• Night
• Ninety-five Senses
• Other Half
• Saint Android
• SCALE
• She Dreams At Sunrise
• Slouch
• Sprite Fright
• Tehura
• The Awakening of the Insects
• The Chemical Factory
• The Clearing
• The Fall
• The Island of Us
• The Law of the Jungle Gym
• The Originals
• The Record
• The Seine's Tears
• What I Had to Leave Behind
• Zoon

Sunday, August 14, 2022 - 5:00 PM PST - Kids Animation/Family Films

• A Cartoon of a Cat Sleeping
• Cool For You
• Depths Of Night
• Nounours
• The most boring Granny in the whole world
• The Ocean Duck
• The Social Chameleon

For information about the event, visit HollyShorts Film Festival here.

Debbie Diamond Sarto is news editor at Animation World Network.