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30th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION:
The Future of Shorts (screenings and panel discussion)
In celebration of our 30th Anniversary, NYWIFT is presenting a program of classic and new shorts directed by our members. The selected documentary, animation and fiction films will transport you from New Jersey to Ghana, and along the human body from head to toe. You’ll journey inside the wondrous imagination of a young boy, within the confines of a stalled elevator, and to even more magical worlds.
The screenings will be followed by The Future of Shorts, a panel discussion on the changing nature of the field. Among the topics to be discussed: the new opportunities presented by multiple distribution platforms and viral marketing.
Panelists include:
Sharon Badal, author of "Swimming Upstream – A Lifesaving Guide to Short Film
Distribution" and shorts film programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival.
Kelly DeVine, moderator, Artistic Director of the Global Peace Film Festival, and
former member of the IFC acquisitions team.
Cynthia Wade, director of the film Freeheld, 2008 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Short and winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival; and director/cinematographer of the award-winning films Shelter Dogs and Grist For The Mill.
Casper Wong, whose narrative screenplay OO1 is slated for production in 2008. Wong
also directed the short Shirts & Skins, licensed by the Independent Film Channel.
Schedule:
Screenings: 2:00pm—4:00 pm
(short break from 4:00pm—4:15pm)
Panel discussion: 4:15pm—6:00 pm
Reception: 6:00pm—7:00 pm
Shorts Festival Event Producers: Meryl Joseph, Marian Masone and Eileen Newman
The Film Program:
Feet by Natalie Milbrodt, 3:23 min.
An imaginary dialog between people with little in common besides an unusual interest in
feet. A podiatrist, a shoe fetishist, a reflexology expert, a foot-phobic, a yoga instructor,
a cultural historian, a pedicurist and a neuro-psychologist in a conversation about the
bottom of our bodies.
Salt: The Women Harvesters of Ghana by Marcia Rock, 19 min.
Stunning images of a moon-like landscape frame the unrelenting cycle of work of the
women of Ada, who harvest salt with their bare hands in a lagoon that has provided
their income for over 300 years. Premiering at the 30th Anniversary Shorts Festival, the film has a soundtrack by Patty Stotter, featuring traditional Ghanaian work songs.
Hair by Jisu Kim, 10 min.
Kazumi Tanaka, the Japanese installation artist who works in New York City, discusses the very personal origins of her art and the meaning behind her use of hair as a material for sculpture in this poetic portrait film.
The Flooded Playground by Lisa Crafts, 20 min.
A sudden cataclysm jolts a young child into a craggy wonderland where he wanders
the deep forests of his imagination in a quest to heal his spirit.
Command Z by Candy Kugel and Vincent Cafavelli, 5 min.
This animated film asks what it would be like if you could undo things in real life as
easily as you can on computers.
The Elevator by Valeria Ruiz, 18 min.
Two strangers get stuck in an elevator and, as time passes, they are forced to discover
new aspects about themselves.
Freeheld by Cynthia Wade, 38 min.
Lt. Laurel Hester, a dying New Jersey police officer, fights to transfer her pension to her
domestic partner, Stacie Andree. As her elected officials stand firmly against her, and as
the town explodes around her, Laurel races against time to provide for the love of her life.
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May 28, 2008 
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