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PAULA HUIDOBRO C. 140 says

Dear Friends:
I just wanted to share some good news with you. "MOTHER", a short I shot last year as part of the Directing Women's Workshop at the American Film Institute is going to be in the Cinefondation Competition in Cannes. This is really special since they received 1800 films only to accept 18. You can check out the website at www.motherthemovie.com. It also received the Grand Jury Prize at the Florida Film Festival for Best Narrative Short. It is now a finalist in the LA Indie Producer Awards which makes it also eligible for an Oscar consideration.

Hope all is very well?

Paula Huidobro
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"HOUNDS" Writer/Director/Editor Daniel Silber's graduation film is doing really well, see what he says below.

Dear Friends and Filmmakers,
I am sure most of you remember the short film HOUNDS that we made two summers ago. The film is still in competition in a few festivals, and I felt now is a good time for an update:
Any one fancy a trip to Rome?
HOUNDS is currently an award finalist for the "Best Student Short Film" category at the Rome International Film Festival (7 -14 April 2006). It will be screened on Monday, 10 April, in the "Student Short Program" (along with two other shorts from Russia and Israel).
Festival website: http://www.riff.it
About two weeks later, on April 29th, HOUNDS will receive an award at the 39th WorldFest in Houston, Texas... A friend of mine and my sister's will actually pick it up for us! She'll be treated to a VIP Awards dinner, a NASA/Space Center Houston tour, Regatta and Texas BBQ... That's film festival hospitality for you.
Festival website: http://www.worldfest.org/
Back in November 2005, HOUNDS was nominated for "Best Short Movie" at the Miami Short Film Festival.
other past festival screenings include:
Final Cut Brighton, UK (January 2006)
6th International Izmir Short Film Festival, Turkey (November 2005)
past market screenings:
Cannes Film Festival (May 2005)
Edinburgh Film Festival (August 2005)
Brief Encounters, Bristol, Short Film Festival (November 2005)


Thanks & all the best!
Daniel

Update from the 14th March. "HALF TERM" - out of the five nominations has won the most important: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM. Congratulations.

Tony says that they included shorts and features together in competition so the acting and script awards naturally went to features.

"HALF TERM" Written/Co-Produced/Directed/Edited by Tony Hagger (C. 141) has just been nominated for five awards at Sacramento Film Festival, USA 30th March - 2nd April 2006

Best Actor
Best Actress
Most Original Screenplay
Best International Film
Best Film Long Form

Robin Moran, C.146, has directed his first feature and it comes out on 4th May. His company is Random Pictures Indonesia. Please see below part of the article which concentrates on this movie:


ORIGINALLY TAKEN FROM JAKARTA POST WEBSITE:

Local films of substance to open 2006

Another noteworthy upcoming release is Maskot (Mascot). Hitting cinemas now on 4th May, delayed release from April due to complications in final stages of post-production, Random Pictures' first feature film takes the comical acting talent of Butet Kartawidjaya in a streak of funny moments.

The story is simple: Dennis (Ariyo Wahab) plays a son whose dying father tells him to find the family's soy sauce company's mascot, a rooster running around some village, if Dennis wants to become heir.
But his quest won't be easy since Misran (Butet Kertaradjasa), his fathers assistant, will try anything and everything to make sure Dennis fails in his attempt.

What makes Maskot appealing is that it offers something unusual for
filmgoers: No more international locations, glossy stars or sinetron-esque dialogue, since the film resurrects something more important to film: real characters.

"Most other local films try to make a reality based on what they see in magazines and foreign films, but when I look around me in real life, rich and famous is not what surrounds me. It's people working for eight hours, commuting for another eight hours and trying to find time to have dinner with their family. The reality I see is people working," said Robin Moran, the 30-year-old Maskot director.

"So what's important for me is for the audience to feel the reality, to see (real) people, to feel that they know these people, or to see a bit of themselves in these characters. The movie shows Indonesia on the ground without any rose-tinted glasses."