AFI Fest 2022 announced the three winners of this year’s short film Jury awards on Nov. 7, spotlighting the live action short “Birds,” the documentary short “Haulout” and the animated short “Sierra” for creating art that can “bring people together,” AFI president and CEO Bob Gazzale said.
“Birds,” directed by Katherine Propper, is a 14-minute narrative that follows the lives of teenagers in Austin, Texas through summer boredom. Directors Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev’s “Haulout” features Maxim Chakilev, a man who waits in the Russian Arctic to observe an ancient gathering. “Sierra,” directed by Sander Joon, is a black comedy that uses car racing as the literal vehicle to discuss themes of toxic masculinity, which the jury dubbed “simple in subject but deep in content.”
Special mentions include “Yokelan” for ensemble acting, “How To Be A Person: How To Get An Abortion” for screenwriting, “An Avocado Pit (Um Caroço de Abacate)” for lead acting,...
“Birds,” directed by Katherine Propper, is a 14-minute narrative that follows the lives of teenagers in Austin, Texas through summer boredom. Directors Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev’s “Haulout” features Maxim Chakilev, a man who waits in the Russian Arctic to observe an ancient gathering. “Sierra,” directed by Sander Joon, is a black comedy that uses car racing as the literal vehicle to discuss themes of toxic masculinity, which the jury dubbed “simple in subject but deep in content.”
Special mentions include “Yokelan” for ensemble acting, “How To Be A Person: How To Get An Abortion” for screenwriting, “An Avocado Pit (Um Caroço de Abacate)” for lead acting,...
- 11/10/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay and Katie Reul
- Variety Film + TV
The American Film Institute’s AFI Fest wraps on November 7, which means it’s time to hand out the juried prize winners in the short films section. These honorees are eligible to compete at next year’s Academy Awards in the Best Live Action Short, Best Documentary Short, and Best Animated Short categories.
This year’s AFI Fest, which included 125 films overall, opened with the world premiere of the documentary “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me” and closed with Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” already a top pick in this year’s Oscar race. Also screening at the festival were awards contenders “Bardo” from Alejandro G. Iñárritu, “Pinocchio” from Guillermo del Toro, “Living” from Oliver Hermanus, and “She Said” from Maria Schrader. Ava DuVernay served as this year’s Guest Artistic Director.
Here are all the juried AFI Fest award winners.
Grand Jury Prize – Live Action Short
“Birds” (dir. Katherine Propper...
This year’s AFI Fest, which included 125 films overall, opened with the world premiere of the documentary “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me” and closed with Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” already a top pick in this year’s Oscar race. Also screening at the festival were awards contenders “Bardo” from Alejandro G. Iñárritu, “Pinocchio” from Guillermo del Toro, “Living” from Oliver Hermanus, and “She Said” from Maria Schrader. Ava DuVernay served as this year’s Guest Artistic Director.
Here are all the juried AFI Fest award winners.
Grand Jury Prize – Live Action Short
“Birds” (dir. Katherine Propper...
- 11/7/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Though their “’80s Horror” lineup would constitute enough of a Halloween push, the Criterion Channel enter October all guns blazing. The month’s lineup also includes a 19-movie vampire series running from 1931’s Dracula (English and Spanish both) to 2014’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the collection in-between including Herzog’s Nosferatu, Near Dark, and Let the Right One In. Last year’s “Universal Horror” collection returns, a 17-title Ishirō Honda retrospective has been set, and a few genre titles stand alone: Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The House of the Devil, and Island of Lost Souls.
Streaming premieres include restorations of Tsai Ming-liang’s Vive L’amour and Ed Lachman’s Lou Reed / John Cale concert film Songs for Drella; October’s Criterion editions are Samuel Fuller’s Forty Guns, Bill Duke’s Deep Cover, Haxan, and My Own Private Idaho. Meanwhile, Ari Aster has curated an “Adventures...
Streaming premieres include restorations of Tsai Ming-liang’s Vive L’amour and Ed Lachman’s Lou Reed / John Cale concert film Songs for Drella; October’s Criterion editions are Samuel Fuller’s Forty Guns, Bill Duke’s Deep Cover, Haxan, and My Own Private Idaho. Meanwhile, Ari Aster has curated an “Adventures...
- 9/26/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Five winners from the festival selection get a shot at Oscar consideration.
Short films from Estonia, South Korea, Cambodia, France and the US were among the major award winners at this year’s Palm Springs International ShortFest, which just finished its June 21-27 run in the California desert city with 300 shorts in its official selection.
The Visit Greater Palm Springs Best of the Festival Award went to Sierra, director Sander Joon’s short from Estonia about father and son car racers. Special mentions in the category went to The Great Abandonment, from India and the UK, and The Voice Actress,...
Short films from Estonia, South Korea, Cambodia, France and the US were among the major award winners at this year’s Palm Springs International ShortFest, which just finished its June 21-27 run in the California desert city with 300 shorts in its official selection.
The Visit Greater Palm Springs Best of the Festival Award went to Sierra, director Sander Joon’s short from Estonia about father and son car racers. Special mentions in the category went to The Great Abandonment, from India and the UK, and The Voice Actress,...
- 6/27/2022
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The Palm Springs International ShortFest took place in California this weekend, honoring the best work in narrative, documentary, live action, and animated short films. 25,000 in cash prizes were given out to various winners, who were narrowed down from over 300 official selections. The top prize went to Sander Joon’s Estonian short film “Sierra,” a surreal animated film about a boy who turns himself into a tire in order to help his father win a race.
The festival’s Oscar-qualifying status means that winners in the Best Live Action Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Animated Short, and Best of the Festival categories may be eligible to submit their work to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration this year.
Keep reading for the complete winners list, with synopses courtesy of the festival.
Greater Palm Springs Cvb Best of the Festival Award
Winner: “Sierra” (Estonia), Directed by Sander Joon.
The festival’s Oscar-qualifying status means that winners in the Best Live Action Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Animated Short, and Best of the Festival categories may be eligible to submit their work to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration this year.
Keep reading for the complete winners list, with synopses courtesy of the festival.
Greater Palm Springs Cvb Best of the Festival Award
Winner: “Sierra” (Estonia), Directed by Sander Joon.
- 6/27/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
In the plant pot the child sways, the steady stream from the hose sends them back and forth as if the bale guardian of a used car lot. A directionless winding, more vesper than Vespa. Drawn towards them the frog emits static like a submarine's toad array. The greenhouse, the garage. The older she, the older he. The frogs.
Always the frogs. Or, rather, the sensibility of their design. Something stylised, paper deep. An accuracy to it all in shape and stature. There's a car, a red one, probably the eponymous (Ford) Sierra. There's a car, a yellow one, in shape and self-destructiveness a dead-ringer for Group B Era Audi Quattro. On television things look different but here they start more different still.
Sander Joon's film is an absolute delight. There is not a character or element whose design does not feel both fitting and funny. In that I include the errant.
Always the frogs. Or, rather, the sensibility of their design. Something stylised, paper deep. An accuracy to it all in shape and stature. There's a car, a red one, probably the eponymous (Ford) Sierra. There's a car, a yellow one, in shape and self-destructiveness a dead-ringer for Group B Era Audi Quattro. On television things look different but here they start more different still.
Sander Joon's film is an absolute delight. There is not a character or element whose design does not feel both fitting and funny. In that I include the errant.
- 3/27/2022
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
So what do mushrooms sound like? Does anyone know...? Are they squishy or buzzy or just silent? This fun experimental animated short film titled Sounds Good follows a curious boom mic operator "on a journey", trying to record the sound of mushrooms. Made by young Estonian animation filmmaker Sander Joon, the short film goes to some seriously strange and trippy places. Of course, there's some excellent sound work in this, too. Joon was inspired to "experiment with audio in his work" after rewatching the classic Man with a Movie Camera. There isn't a clear narrative here, but doesn't matter, as there are still plenty of interesting ideas interpreted in Joon's minimal animation style. Any & all animation fans should give this short a look. Thanks to Short of the Week for the tip on this one. Brief description from Vimeo: "A boom operator is trying to record the sound of mushrooms.
- 4/15/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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