Drop Your Shorts!Deadline for entry for Local Shorts 6 is noon on July 12, 2008. All accepted entrants will receive one free lunch at the 2008 Shorties Awards at Zinc on the 26th. There will be four awards again this year: one "Audience Pick" and one "Movie-Maker's Pick" for the "all-age appropriate" and "not recommended for kids" sessions. The movies will be shown on Friday, July 25 at The Lobo, the "all age appropriate" session will be held from 6-8pm and the "not recommended for kids" session will be from 8:30-10:30pm that same evening. The Shorties will be given at Zinc at noon the next day. You do not have to be present to win, but please let us know if you'll be there.
Local Shorts
is a non-profit short movie festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico, held at the historic Lobo Theater each August. The Shorts have been called "Albuquerque's friendliest festival". Probably because of all the friendly volunteers who help. Or, perhaps because of our terrific "get to know the movie-maker" lunch at Zinc. That's not the name of it. Just the spirit of it. Maybe its because of the friendly movie makers themselves, or the fact that we have made a tradition of donating profits to local charities...
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Local Shorts is a Non-Profit
Local Shorts is a Non-Profit which you can donate to via the United Way (specified as "APS Foundation-Local Shorts"), or just send a check! It is a tax-deductible contribution. All money specified for Local Shorts goes to Local Shorts with a pit-stop at the Foundation for bookkeeping- there is no percentage taken away. This clearly benefits many people, provides a voice via the Local Shorts movie festival and Story Magazine. For information on how to become a sponsor, please click here.
Local Shorts 6 has received its first submission
Posted January 29, 2008
Local Shorts 6 is rolling with the first submission- "Girl Alone" submitted by producer Stephen Hall, directed by Cary Brooks (see Local Shorts 4 Audience Choice Award Winner) and I saw Tim Boughn's name in there, too. (See Local Shorts 5 and Local Shorts 3). "Girl Alone" is accepted, and thanks for the entry!
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We started in 2003 as a community gathering. The next year we decided to help gather books for Grant Middle School, and our event was the starting point for Monte Vista Elementary's food and clothing bank. In 2005 we donated money to the APS Title I Homeless Project. The Homeless Project helped many Hurricane Katrina refugees that year, and of course, the more than 3,000 local homeless students of APS. Yep, more than 3,000.
That number did the same thing to me. Actually, it wasn't the number. A few little kids I know, who are homeless, they made me want to do more. So, all of the profits of Local Shorts 4 went to making "Story Magazine". Click on the link there to learn about how its more like "teaching how to fish", than just handing it out.
And that is where we are today. Shorts 5 just broke even, but Shorts 6 will go to "Story", too. Its a good thing. You can be part of it, if you like. Make a movie. Volunteer. Send us a bazillion dollars. Even at a trickle we will be a rain cloud in the dry, dry desert for someone, and we will give their voice a listen: Local Shorts, or "Story".
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The Horse Animation
The horse in the frame menu comes from one of the first "shorts", a series of horse photos taken by Eadweard Muybridge. The shorts on the horse in the frame were not a part of the original photos. A bit of history, dontcha know.