PLEASE COME TO OUR FINAL SHORTS SCREENING THIS
NEXT THURSDAY AT 7:30PM. SPECIAL GUEST PROGRAMMER DAVID RUSSELL
WILL PRESENTS A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF SHORTS. HE WILL ALSO BE SPEAKING
TO STUDENT FILMMAKERS ABOUT SHORTS DISTRIBUTION ON THURSDAY, 3PM
IN FDH 143A.
The UNLV Short Film Archive
Presents
AN EVENING FESTIVAL OF SHORTS
Thursday, December 9, 2004
UNLV CBC-A106
7:30-9:30PM
UNLV's Short Film Archive will host the final screening of
the semester of festival award-winning short films on Thursday,
December 9 at 7:30pm in the Classroom Building Complex room
A-106 on the campus of UNLV as part of the on-going short film
screening series organized by film assistant professor and archive
director David Schmoeller.
Guest Programmer for the December 9 screening is David Russell,
President of BigFilmShorts and co-owner of Movieola USA, a new
24/7 all shorts channel slated to begin operations in the US
at the beginnings of next year. Mr. Russell will present a two
hour program of some of his favorite shorts, including CARTOON
SEA by filmmaker David Katz. This stunning and beautiful animation
short depicts the wonders of the ocean along with having an
environmental message, and a humorous comment on independent
filmmaking. Also screening is GAYDAR, by Terry Ray and Larry
LaFond, a story about Randy who has a huge crush on hunky co-worker
Jack (Days of Our Lives star Bryan Dattilo) and Randy is not
alone. Everyone at the office seems to be infatuated with Jack,
especially Randy’s gal pal Frankalina, but no one can
quite figure out if Jack is straight or gay. At the impromptu
yard sale of a scorned lover, Randy discovers a GAYDAR gun—which
could change everything. Legendary Charles Nelson Reilly co-stars
as Uncle Vincent. And finally, SELF STORAGE, by filmmaker Peter
Brown, is a darkly comic thriller, in which all is not what
it seems when one friend offers to help another move some boxes
into storage. As the two men weave through the halls of a cavernous
self-storage facility, friendly banter takes an unexpected turn.
The UNLV Short Film Archive screening series will resume again
on February 17, 2005. The weekly “An Evening of Festival
Shorts” screenings are free. Call 895-3547 for information.
