The Oscar-Qualifying® HollyShorts Film Festival returns for its 17th edition as an in-person event, September 23-30, 2021 at the TCL Chinese Theaters in Hollywood, with the annual, star-studded Awards Gala set to take place on October 1, 2021.
The festival will once again offer a streaming option for fans around the world via its proprietary platform BITPIX, making 2021 the first time in HollyShorts’ 17 year history a hybrid event.
The festival winners and honorees who celebrated virtually in 2020 are being invited to attend this year’s special in-person gathering. The 2020 edition of HollyShorts saw a record-breaking seven Oscar nominees and two winning alumni films. Those alumni included:
Winner – Best Live Action Short:
Two Distant Strangers directed by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe
Winner – Best Animated Short:
If Anything Happens I Love You directed by Will McCormack and Michael Govier
Nominated – Best Live Action Short:
Feeling Through directed by Doug Roland
The Letter Room directed by Elvira Lind
The Present directed by Farah Nabulsi
White Eye directed by Tomer Shushan
Nominated – Best Documentary Short:
Hunger Ward directed by Skye Fitzgerald
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