Help Wanted, Apply Within
As we prepare for our third year of screenings, I’m realizing that in order to grow and improve, we need help! Earlier this year, we added Titania Plant to our programming team. We held a planning session recently and decided we should add a few more people to our crew. Although these positions have specific […]
October 2013 Audience Award Winner
Though our numbers were down significantly tonight, I’m glad to announce our third Audience Award winner. Nacho Vigalondo’s Oscar-nominated short film from 2004, 7:35 de la mañana swept the award with 7 of 23 votes cast. Of the 14 films in the lineup, it was a clear favourite. Here are the full results: 7:35 de […]
Join Our Gang!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClXMUEkHvls That’s right, kids! You can be a part of the Shorts That Are Not Pants Secret Squadron! No, we’re not really calling it that, but it is going to be an exclusive club. Our 2014 subscription kit, being lovingly designed as we speak, will be limited to 50 lucky shorts lovers. Here’s what’s included: […]
July 2013 Audience Award Winner
Apologies for the lateness of this announcement. I left for 10 days in New York the morning after our screening and am just getting caught up again now. We had a very close vote for our second Audience Award, but I’m pleased to announce that the winner was Aude Danset and Carlos De Carvalho’s beautiful […]
April 2013 Audience Award Winner
I’m very happy to announce that the winner of our very first Audience Award is Johannes’ Nyholm’s Las Palmas. It received 20 votes out of a total of 60 completed ballots. Audiences laughed throughout this tale of a middle-aged tourist at a bar in the Canary Islands. The main character is played by the director’s […]
Announcing the Audience Award!
Image courtesy of Bank of Canada Over the past year, I’ve been very happy to see the growth in our audience, for two reasons. First, because it means that more people are discovering and enjoying the wealth of riches in the world of short film. Second, it gives me hope that we’re on a sustainable […]
Canadian Screen Awards 2013: Shorts
I’ll admit that I could never keep the Geminis and the Genie Awards straight. Looks like the folks at the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television have gotten the hint. This year, they’ve combined the awards into a new format called the Canadian Screen Awards. These awards will honour Canadian work on all screens: cinema, […]
Poster Artists Wanted!
I’m a big fan of poster art, both for movies and rock shows, and I was thinking how amazing it would be if we could have a unique poster designed for each screening in our series. It might just be used online, but if there was enough interest, I could see having a limited print […]
A World of Shorts: The Finale
At 5pm this Wednesday September 19th, at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, we’ll lose an important part of the city’s cinema scene. The Canadian Film Centre’s monthly shorts series A World of Shorts will screen for the last time (see the full September lineup here). This is an additional blow to the news that the […]
We’re Moving to the Carlton!
We held our last screening at the NFB Mediatheque on John Street a few weeks ago. It’s set to close its cinema in September, so we’ve been looking around for a suitable venue for a few months now. I’m delighted to announce that we’ve found a perfect partner for our series. Starting in October, we’ll […]