If you haven’t made the festival rounds this year, you still have a chance to catch all the Oscar-nominated short films on the big screen. Magnolia Pictures and Shorts Intl. today released two separate compilations of the animated and live-action contenders in 40 theaters across the U.S. Both the live-action and the animated programs will feature some extra shorts to fill out their feature-length runtimes.
The animated nominees in the shorts category are Roger Allers and Don Hahn’s Disney production The Little Matchgirl, Gary Rydstrom’s Lifted from Pixar, Torill Kove’s The Danish Poet, Geza M. Toth’s Maestro and Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier’s No Time for Nuts, which Blue Sky Studio made to accompany Fox Animation’s Ice Age: The Meltdown. Rounding out the 82-minute program are Bill Plympton’s Guide Dog, A Gentleman’s Duel from Blur Studio and directors Francisco Ruiz Velasco and Scott McNally, SIGGRAPH winner One Rat Short from Charlex Films and director Alex Weil, The Passenger by Chris Jones and Sundance winner Wraith of Cobble Hill from Adam Parrish King.
A synopsis of each film can be found at:
www.magpictures.com/profile.aspx?id=7bbddf08-5843-42cb-b62a-16eb7f38fa36.
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