Rushes Soho Shorts Announces the Official Selection Including Five USA Filmmakers

Rushes Soho Shorts Announces the Official Selection Including Five USA
Filmmakers

LOS ANGELES, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, hosted by
the Ascent Media Group - owned post house Rushes, London, has announced the
Official Selections for its 11th Year. United States filmmakers will be
represented by two films, two broadcast designs and a music video.

The festival, which serves as a bridge between the commercial production
industry and the independent film community, has steadily gained recognition
as a premiere platform for the short film genre and has increasingly taken on
an international character. This year's group of 140 Official Selections was
drawn from more than 1000 entries representing some 112 countries. The
festival will be held July 22-31 in London.

Charlie Thistle directed by Bragi Schut (Gallantyne Pictures) and Familiar
Faces directed by Frank Madone (LCC) have been shortlisted in the festival's
International category. Broadcast Design finalists include Victor Newman's
Fusion Fall, directed by Freestyle Collective's Victor Newman and Avatar
(Coca-Cola) directed by Smith & Foulkes of Nexus. Competing in the Music Video
category is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs video Zero directed by HSI's Barney Clay. Two
American's will also be among this year's festival judges, film critics Mick
LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle and Ty Burr of the Boston Globe.

The 18 countries represented this year also include Peru, France, Mexico,
China, Spain, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Iceland, Australia, Slovenia,
Israel, Ireland, Canada, Luxembourg and the UK.

This year will see all competition screenings (except the Broadcast Design
category) held at The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), with tickets on
sale from the end of June. The Broadcast Design Category screenings will be
for free at Curzon Soho.

The full list of films screening in competition, along with the directors,
production companies that made the work and the festival promo can now be seen
at www.sohoshorts.com. Full festival screening and event details will be
available online from 22nd June 2009.

Festival Promo

In order to introduce this year's short film festival, Rushes have produced
their own version of the J. Arthur Rank title sequence titled "Gong man",
conceived by Paul White and directed by Trevor De Silva using the original
RANK Gong.

The promo can also be viewed along with a selection of work from every year of
the festival, to date, at: http://www.dailymotion.com/SohoShorts

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emerging technologies to deliver some of the most advanced and innovative
solutions to help film and television studios, independent producers,
broadcast networks, cable channels, advertising agencies and other companies
make, manage, move and monetize their digital media.

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