The 2021 Palm Springs International ShortFest announced its juried award winners on Sunday night. Awards and cash prizes worth $25,000 including five Academy Award qualifying awards were presented to the winners selected from the 295 shorts films featured in the official selection.
The winners of the following awards may be eligible to submit their shorts to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration. Synopses are courtesy of the festival.
Greater Palm Springs Cvb Best of the Festival Award
Winner: “Unforgivable” (El Salvador), Directed by Marlén Viñayo. A ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang serves his sentence inside an evangelical Salvadoran prison, where he is guilty not only of his crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay.
Special Mention: “Palma” (France), Directed by Alexe Poukine. Jeanne is taking her 6-year-old daughter away for the weekend to Majorca. While everything is going down the drain,...
The winners of the following awards may be eligible to submit their shorts to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration. Synopses are courtesy of the festival.
Greater Palm Springs Cvb Best of the Festival Award
Winner: “Unforgivable” (El Salvador), Directed by Marlén Viñayo. A ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang serves his sentence inside an evangelical Salvadoran prison, where he is guilty not only of his crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay.
Special Mention: “Palma” (France), Directed by Alexe Poukine. Jeanne is taking her 6-year-old daughter away for the weekend to Majorca. While everything is going down the drain,...
- 6/28/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
“Unforgivable,” a film hailing from El Salvador, won the best of the festival award during the 2021 edition of the Palm Springs International ShortFest.
Directed by Marlén Viñayo, “Unforgivable” follows a hitman for the 18th Street gang as he serves his sentence in an evangelical Salvadorian prison, where he is punished not only for his crimes, but for being gay. Selected by a jury consisting of 2020 ShortFest best of festival winner Bérangère Mc Neese and Sundance Festival programmer Ania Trzebiatowska, “Unforgivable” will receive a $5,000 cash prize. The honorable mention in the best of festival category went to French film “Palma.”
“Step Into the River,” from both China and France, won best animated short at the festival, with French film “Navozande, the Musician” earning an honorable mention. “Step Into the River,” directed by Weijia Ma. Lu and Wei, is a surreal exploration into China’s one-child policy, and was awarded $1,000 in prize money.
Directed by Marlén Viñayo, “Unforgivable” follows a hitman for the 18th Street gang as he serves his sentence in an evangelical Salvadorian prison, where he is punished not only for his crimes, but for being gay. Selected by a jury consisting of 2020 ShortFest best of festival winner Bérangère Mc Neese and Sundance Festival programmer Ania Trzebiatowska, “Unforgivable” will receive a $5,000 cash prize. The honorable mention in the best of festival category went to French film “Palma.”
“Step Into the River,” from both China and France, won best animated short at the festival, with French film “Navozande, the Musician” earning an honorable mention. “Step Into the River,” directed by Weijia Ma. Lu and Wei, is a surreal exploration into China’s one-child policy, and was awarded $1,000 in prize money.
- 6/28/2021
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Here is the key art for a Canadian short playing at SXSW that at first glance evokes the iconic poster imagery of The Exorcist. Charles Wahl's The Mohel, however, is about a Jewish doctor arriving to do the circumcision of a Halifax couple's baby boy. Designer Cail Reagh does a couple more things with this minimal poster. Orange is unquestionalby going to stand out at a (virtual) festival crowded with many busy one-sheets. More than that, I was immediately captivated by the shadow-perspective credit block. And finally, the most subtle severing of the serif on the protruding final letter of the title. Just the tip....
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- 3/19/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Webdultery
Directed by Charles Wahl
Written by Charles Wahl
The paradox of social media is that, the more they proliferate, the less social we tend to become. As we are increasingly alienated from friends and family, the present day alternative is to turn to the dark refuse of the Internet to find meaning in our unhappy lives. Therefore, it’s no surprise that when Toronto couple Fred and Deb are experiencing marital problems, they turn to the web for their e-solutions.
Fred and Deb are the principal characters of Charles Wahl’s Webdultery, a fresh, candid look into the details of a marriage on the rocks. When they find that their marriage isn’t as fulfilling as it once was, they both clandestinely turn to adulterous websites, anonymous strangers, and spurious confidentials to find their new Mr. and Mrs. Right (if you think you know how this is going to end,...
Directed by Charles Wahl
Written by Charles Wahl
The paradox of social media is that, the more they proliferate, the less social we tend to become. As we are increasingly alienated from friends and family, the present day alternative is to turn to the dark refuse of the Internet to find meaning in our unhappy lives. Therefore, it’s no surprise that when Toronto couple Fred and Deb are experiencing marital problems, they turn to the web for their e-solutions.
Fred and Deb are the principal characters of Charles Wahl’s Webdultery, a fresh, candid look into the details of a marriage on the rocks. When they find that their marriage isn’t as fulfilling as it once was, they both clandestinely turn to adulterous websites, anonymous strangers, and spurious confidentials to find their new Mr. and Mrs. Right (if you think you know how this is going to end,...
- 4/2/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
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