2016 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation
Frontier
Brunswick, ME
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For over a decade, ShortsHD has proudly brought the Oscar Nominated Short Films to audiences across the globe.
This exclusive release features the year's most spectacular short films across Live Action, Animation and Documentary, and for a limited time is available to watch on the big screen.
The 2016 Oscar Nominated Short Films will be released in theatres on January 29th, giving you the opportunity to see the nominated films before the Oscar Awards ceremony on February 28th.
ANIMATED SHORTS
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sanjay's Super Team dir. Sanjay Patel, USA, 7 minutes
World of Tomorrow dir. Don Hertzfeldt, USA, 17 minutes
Bear Story dir. Gabriel Osorio, Chile, 11 minutes
We Can't Live Without Cosmos dir. Konstantin Bronzit, Russia, 16 minutes
If I Was God (additional film)
Taking Flight (additional film)
The Short Story of a Fox and a Mouse (additional film)
The Loneliest Spotlight (additional film)
Catch It (additional film)
Prologue* dir. Richard Williams, UK, 6 minutes
*Important note: PROLOGUE, one of the five nominees, will be the last film in the program. A beautiful, hand-drawn depiction of a battle scene, there's violence and some male nudity in it, not suitable for young children. We'll have a Parental Guidance warning prior to this short so that parents and caregivers can usher children out of the theater if they'd like. Other than PROLOGUE, the program is acceptable for kids of all ages.
SANJAY'S SUPER TEAM
Directed By: Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
Young Sanjay, a first-generation Indian-American, is obsessed with television, cartoons and his superhero action figures. He is reluctant to spend time in daily prayers with his devout Hindu father, but a flight of imagination helps him develop a new perspective that he and his father can both embrace.
WORLD OF TOMORROW
Directed By: Don Hertzfeldt
A little girl named Emily is taken on a fantastical tour of her distant future by a surprising visitor who reveals unnerving secrets about humanity's fate.
BEAR STORY
Directed By: Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
Every day, a melancholy old bear takes a mechanical diorama that he has created out to his street corner. For a coin, passersby can look into the peephole of his invention, which tells the story of a circus bear who longs to escape and return to the family from which he was taken.
WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT COSMOS
Directed By: Konstantin Bronzit
Two best friends have dreamed since childhood of becoming cosmonauts, and together they endure the rigors of training and public scrutiny, and make the sacrifices necessary to achieve their shared goal.
PROLOGUE
Directed By: Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
2,400 years ago, four warriors two Spartan and two Athenian battle to the death in an intense struggle witnessed by a little girl, who then runs to her grandmother for comfort. |
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Frontier
14 Maine Street
Brunswick, ME 04011
United States
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| First: | Tuesday Feb 02, 2016 2:00 PM | | Last: | Sunday Feb 07, 2016 8:00 PM |
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