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    Palm Springs SHORTFEST announced the nine nominees for HP Bridging The Borders Award 2015

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    By Luz Aguado on 06/17/2015 News

    Every year at the Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Festival and Market, HP’s Bridging The Borders Award, presented by Cinema Without Borders and sponsored by HP, goes to a short film that helps to bring people of the world and different cultures closer together. In 2015 the winner of HP’s Bridging The Borders Award will receive received an HP ZBook Mobile Workstation with an approximate $3000 value. The prize was provided by HP, who sponsors the award. Cinema Without Borders also awards its Special Jury Award to one of the other nominees that uses language of filmmaking in its excellance.  The winner of Cinema Without Borders Special Jury Award will receive a certificate for an upcoming Method Acting Intensive with a value of $2000 from Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute.

    The nine nominees for the 2015 HP’s Bridging The Borders Award are Ave Maria (Palestine/France, Germany), Exit Right (Austria), Foreign Bodies (Belgium/France), Listen (Finland/Denmark), Patriot (United Kingdom), Rangan 99 (Iran), San Cristóbal (Chile),and The Good Life – Over There (Norway)

    The winner of the Best International Short Film Award will be announced in the closing ceremony of the Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Festival and Market on Sunday June 21, 2015.

    Ave Maria
    Palestinian, 2015, 14 Minute Running Time
    Additional Countries: France, Germany
    North American Premiere

    A Jewish family’s car breaks down outside a nunnery during Shabat, inadvertently knocking off the head of the Virgin Mary. The driver’s mother and wife are eager to return home. After exhausting all options they turn to the nuns for help.

    DIRECTOR: Basil Khalil
    Producer: Eric Dupont
    Editor: Basil Khalil
    Screenwriter: Daniel Yáñez Khalil, Basil Khalil
    Cinematographer: Eric Mizrahi
    Music: Jamie Serafi
    Principal Cast: Maria Zreik, Maya Koren, Huda Al-Imam, Shady Srour, Ruth Farhi

    https://www.facebook.com/avemariafilm

    Exit Right
    Ausstieg Rechts
    Austria, 2015, 7 Minute Running Time
    North American Premiere
    Language: German English Sub-Titles

    Awards: You Filmaker 2015 (INT-L Youth Short Film Festival), first prize (14th Reggio Film Festival)

    When a misanthrope hurls verbal abuse at a minority bus rider, what’s the appropriate response for passengers?

    DIRECTOR: Rupert Höller, Bernhard Wenger
    Producer: Bernhard Wenger
    Editor: Rupert Höller
    Screenwriter: Rupert Höller, Bernhard Wenger
    Cinematographer: Andreas Alvarez
    Principal Cast: Cornelius Obonya, Thomas Maurer, David Wurawa
    Print Source: aug&ohr medien

    https://www.facebook.com/ausstiegrechtskurzfilm

    Foreign Bodies
    Les corps étrangers
    Belgium, 2014, 15 Minute Running Time
    Additional Countries: France
    Language: French English Sub-Titles

    Intimate and haunting POV film of a war photographer adjusting to his new handicap at a swimming pool.

    DIRECTOR: Laura Wandel
    Producer: Stephane Lhoest
    Editor: Nicolas Rumpl
    Screenwriter: Laura Wandel
    Cinematographer: Frédéric Noirhomme
    Principal Cast: Alain Eloy, Michaël Abiteboul

    Listen
    Finland, 2014, 13 Minute Running Time
    Additional Countries: Denmark
    Language: Arabic/Danish/English English Sub-Titles

    Awards: Best Short Film Award, given at the Finnish Jussi-gala (Finnish Film Awards), El Corto Del Ano, Prom

    A Muslim woman pleads for help in a Dutch police station, but miscommunication, knowing or otherwise, will put her and her son at risk.

    Winner: International Competition, Aspen Shortsfest; Best Short, Hong Kong International Film Festival; Best European Short Film, Tampere International Short Film Festival; Best Narrative Short, Tribeca Film Festival

    DIRECTOR: Rungano Nyoni, Hamy Ramezan
    Producer: Valeria Richter, Helene Granqvist
    Editor: Rikke Selin Lorentzen
    Screenwriter: Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni
    Cinematographer: Lars Vestergaard
    Music: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen
    Principal Cast: Yusuf Kamal El-Ali,Zeinab Rahal, Amira Helene Larsen, Nanna Bøttcher, Alexandre Willaume

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nordic-Factory/1459424737611994?fref=ts

    Patriot
    United Kingdom, 2015, 15 Minute Running Time
    North American Premiere
    Topics: Coming of Age, Family Relations
    Language: English

    Eleven-year-old Hannah goes through a life-altering change when the racial tensions in her rural English town bring her into conflict with a boy from a mysterious and forbidden world.

    DIRECTOR: Eva Riley
    Producer: Michelangelo Fano
    Editor: Abolfazl Talooni
    Screenwriter: Eva Riley
    Cinematographer: David Pimm
    Music: Antonio Nardi
    Principal Cast: Halle Kidd, Rafael Constantin, Michael Elkin, Ray James

    http://www.patriotshortfilm.com/

    Rangan 99
    Iran, 2014, 14 Minute Running Time
    North American Premiere
    Language: no dialogue English Sub-Titles

    Awards: Religion Today Film Festival, Best Film; Grand Prize, Arvand Film Festival

    During the Iran-Iraq War, two soldiers from opposite sides of the conflict find themselves sharing a common humanity for a brief moment in time.

    DIRECTOR: Tiyam Yabandeh
    Producer: Masoud Azimi
    Editor: Mohammad Mehdi Zarrin pour
    Screenwriter: Tiyam Yabandeh
    Cinematographer: Aean Irani
    Principal Cast: Pedram Samadi, Mostafa Malek Makan, Parmis Hasan Zadeh, Hossein Ershadi

    San Cristóbal
    Chile, 2015, 29 Minute Running Time
    Language: Spanish English Sub-Titles

    Awards: Teddy Award for the Best Short Film, Berlin International Film Festival

    While visiting his sister on a remote island in Chile before moving abroad, Lucas meets a handsome
    young fisherman, Antonio and a passionate courtship ensues. But will the uptight mores of the local community get in the way of true love?

    DIRECTOR: Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo
    Producer: Amparo Aguirre, Ana Perera
    Editor: Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo
    Screenwriter: Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo
    Cinematographer: Nicolás Ibieta
    Principal Cast: Samuel González, Antonio Altamirano, Marcia Paredes, Alicia Vera

    http://sancristobalfilm.com/en#intro

    The Good Life – Over There
    Det gode livet, der borte
    Norway, 2014, 29 Minute Running Time
    North American Premiere
    Language: Norwegian English Sub-Titles

    Awards: Best Short Film, The Writers Guild of Norway’s Award for Best Screenplay at the Norwegian Film Fest

    Sami, an Albanian immigrant to Norway, spends the day babysitting his boss’ spoiled adolescent son who teaches him a surprising lesson about the sacrifices he’s made for his family back home.

    DIRECTOR: Izer Aliu
    Producer: Yngve Sæther
    Editor: Izer Aliu
    Screenwriter: Izer Aliu
    Cinematographer: John-Erling Holmenes Fredriksen
    Principal Cast: Ridvan Mustafa, Arben Alim, Jonuz Emini

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    Luz Aguado

    Luz Aguado was born in Guanajuato, Mexico and grew up in East Los Angeles. She is the oldest of four siblings. Prior to attending The Art Institute, Luz was a student at the University of California Riverside where she studied biology and aspired to become a medical doctor. Now she studies Media Arts and Animation at The Art Institute of Los Angeles and hopes of one day having the opportunity to work for Disney Animation Studios. Three dimensional animation and the innovative techniques that have given animation a more realistic appearance is something that she wishes to focus on while at The Art Institute.

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