Two ATLFF Competition Shorts Nominated for Academy Award

The 87th Academy Award nominations came out this morning and two of ATLFF's competition shorts were nominated: The Dam Keeper (Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, USA) for best Animated Short Film and Butter Lamp (Hu Wei and Julien Féret, China/France) for best Live Action Short Film. 

To celebrate these two Oscar nominations, we have rounded up official ATLFF animated and narrative competition short films (or their trailers, where the films weren't available) for your viewing pleasure. 

Animated Shorts 

The Dam Keeper (USA) | Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi

2015 Academy Award Animated Short Film Nominee

www.TheDamKeeper.com www.Facebook.com/TheDamKeeper The Dam Keeper, a short film by feature animation artists Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi tells the tale of a young pig encumbered with an important job, and the meeting of a new classmate who changes everything. The short blends traditional hand-drawn animation with lush brushstrokes to bring Kondo and Tsutsumi's celebrated painting style to life like never before.

Snowdysseus (USA) | Evan Curtis 

Snowdysseus explores the vulnerability in feeling nostalgia for home. Music: Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I OreMagiFilms.com 2014 Phoenix Film Festival 2014 Atlanta Film Festival 2014 Athens Animation Festival - Greece 2014 Winner - Spirit of the Hoka Award - Oxford Film Festival, Mississippi 2014 Flathead Lake International Cinefest - Montana 2013 Best Animation - New Mexico Filmmakers Showcase 2013 Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Arts 2013 Taos Center for the Arts 2013 Roswell, NM Convention Center 2013 Lake Placid Film Forum, NY 2013 - Lake Placid Film Forum

CRIME: The Animated Series - Marcus McGhee (USA/Canada) | Alix Lambert and Sam Chou

Marcus McGhee, a school teacher in Hartford Connecticut, tells the story of when his car was stolen and the police did not help him. the animation is a combination of hand-drawn, pencil on paper, paint and digital paint and composite.

Dji. Death Fails (Moldova) | Dmitri Voloshin

Título original/Original title: Dji. Death fails Nacionalidad/Nationality: Moldavia Producción/Production: Simpals Dirección/Director: Dimitri Voloshin Guión/Script: Vadim Novac, Dmitri Voloshin, Serdar Djumaev Fotografía/Cinematography: Música/Music: Gogol Bordello Montaje/Editing: Dmitri Voloshin, Serdar Djumaev Reparto/Cast: , , Animación/Animation: Valentin Nacu, Stanislav Popov, Evgheni Izmailov, Emil Lungu Duración/Runtime: 4 min SIN DIÁLOGOS El Caballero Oscuro aparece de un modo diferente. No, no es ni blanco ni tierno. Dji tiene una suerte terriblemente mala. Y todo lo que tiene que hacer es tomar el alma de un hombre moribundo. The Dark Knight has appeared in a different form. No, he is not white and fluffy. Dji is just terribly unlucky. All he has to do is to take the soul of a dying man.

Fingers Tale (Turkey) | Luca Schenato and Sinem Vardarli 

FINGERS TALE 4’ min, 2013, Turkey. Directed by Luca Schenato & Sinem Vardarli Watch Trailer of the film: https://vimeo.com/58473504 Follow the film on Facebook: facebook.com/FingersTale Special Selections: Best of TAAFI 2013 Vimeo Staff Pick Official Selections: PICTOPLASMA Animation Festival, Berlin 2013 FESTIVAL CHILEMONOS 2013 Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFİ 2013) ANIMATION BLOCK PARTY of Brooklyn 2013 ANIBAR International Animation Festival 2013 SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Computer Animation Festival, Hong Kong ANIM'EST International Animation Festival 2013 European Animated Film Festival BALKANIMA 2013 (BAF 2013) Bradford Animation Festival 2013 La Scatola Blu 2013 MECAL Festival International of Short Film and Animation of Barcelona 2014 Cine-Court Anime Roanne 2014 Atlanta Film Festival 2014 Northwest Animation Festival 2014 Melbourne International Animation Fesitval (MIAF) 2014 Showcase Selection at Lucerne IFF 2014 Anima Mundi,Brazil 2014 Imaginaria 2014 Milano Film Festival 2014 CREDITS: Direction/Design/Animation: Luca Schenato & Sinem Vardarli Production: Studio Mica Producers: Luca Schenato, Sinem Vardarli Script: Luca Schenato 3D artists: Luca Schenato, Gokcen Yuksek, Sinem Vardarli. Bg Artist: Luca Schenato SoundFX: Kerem Kiraner, Serkan A.Kargaci Film Music score: Serkan Alkan Music score of the trailer: Kids' Stories by Randall Crissman ©2013 Luca Schenato, Sinem Vardarli Schenato www.studiomica.com

Monkey Rag (USA) | Joanna Davidovich 

Mitzi and Spanko run amok in a colorful world where reason is overrated, featuring the thumping, riotously fun music of the Asylum Street Spankers.

Olive (USA) | Harriet-Lane Ngo 

Film festival cut for my animated film Olive. For more work, visit www.missngomer.net

Rabbit and Deer (Hungary) | Péter Vácz

After being screened in 63 countries at more than 300 festivals and winning over 120 awards I'm proud and happy to share my graduation film from MOME Anim. If you liked the film please help us rating it on IMDB: imdb.com/title/tt2664910/ You can read about HOW WE MADE the film here: http://vaczpeter.blogspot.com/ ...and an interview with me on the Directors Notes page: http://www.directorsnotes.com/2014/12/16/peter-vacz-rabbit-and-deer/ You can find the ending song 'Listen' by MK (Mahdi Khene) on his new album Something Like That: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id943458685 If you feel like following my upcoming works click here: facebook.com/peter.vacz.director "Rabbit and Deer is a stunningly directed and beautifully crafted play on the universal conflict of emotional incompatibility." – Jonathan Hodgson (BAFTA winner animation director) CREDITS: Writer Director and Designer: Péter Vácz Co-Director and Animator: Attila Bertóti Edited by: Judit Czakó Original music & Sound Design by: Máté Hámori Ending song 'Listen' by: Mahdi Khene Photography: Gábor Garai Voices: Adrienn Mórocz, Dániel Czupi Animation: Attila Bertóti, Péter Vácz Set design: Kata Müller, Móni Kovács, Kati Egely Compositing: Balázs Fekti, András Sarkadi, Zoltán Lányi Production: MOME, Budapest (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) http://mome.hu/ Budapest, 2013

Strange Wonderful (USA) | Stephanie Swart 

A tiny monster dreams through her school day. film by Stephanie Swart / ses@stephanieswart.com music by Quiet American / quietamerican.org stephanieswart.com/strangewonderful.html made at RISD 2013

The Wanderer of Saint-Marcel (France) | Rony Hotin 

Plus d'infos sur : www.filmsanimation.com/fiche_cm/56637 Le Vagabond de St Marcel de Rony Hotin Ni Vu Ni Connu, Audi, Mezzanine Films

Narrative Shorts 

Butter Lamp (China/France) | Hu Wei and Julien Féret

2015 Academy Award Live Action Short Film Nominee

The Butter Lamp - Wei Hu

Afronauts (USA) | Frances Bodomo 

2014 Sundance Film Festival 2014 Berlinale Film Festival 2014 New Directors/New Films www.afronautsfilm.com facebook.com/afronautsfilm @tobogganeer

Thirteen Blue (Greece) | Jacqueline Lentzou 

The official trailer for short film, THIRTEEN BLUE. credits and more information soon to be found at: www.thirteenblue.com

Without Fire (USA) | Eliza McNitt

A young Navajo girl must find a way to heat her home in order to save her asthma-stricken mother from a bitter winter storm. Filmed on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. www.withoutfirefilm.com facebook.com/withoutfirefilm

The Bravest, The Boldest (USA) | Moon Molson 

OFFICIAL SELECTION of the 2014 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL!!! A young mother in a Harlem housing project realizes the arrival of two uniformed soldiers brings news she can't bring herself to accept. IMDb: imdb.com/title/tt3202982/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1 Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/TheBravestTheBoldest Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/moonmolson CAST Carlo Alban (CHAPLIN LT. TORRES) Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris (SAYEEDA PORTER) Hisham Tawfiq (MAJ. DANDRIDGE) Venida Evans (MISS JEANETTE) Dante E. Clark (EDDIE) Kiara Edmonds (SAYEEDA'S NIECE) Prentiss Marquis (NIECE'S FRIEND) AWARDS (19 Wins) GRAND PRIZE - BEST SHORT SCRIPT, 2012 Rhode Island Int'l Film Festival Screenplay Competition BEST SHORT FILM SCREENPLAY, Tony Cox Screenplay Competition, 2013 Nantucket Film Festival FILMMAKER TO WATCH AWARD, 2014 Atlanta Film Festival SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING STORYTELLING, 2014 Florida Film Festival SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR SHORT FILM, 2014 Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFB) AUDIENCE AWARD FOR SHORT FILM, 2014 Nantucket Film Festival BEST SHORT, 2014 San Francisco Black Film Festival BEST NARRATIVE SHORT, 2014 Roxbury International Film Festival BEST NARRATIVE, 2014 Marin County International Festival of Short Film & Video BEST NARRATIVE SHORT, 2014 San Diego Film Festival BRONZE MEDAL - BEST FILM, 2014 Manhattan Short Film Festival GOLD MEDAL - BEST ACTOR, 2014 Manhattan Short Film Festival BEST NARRATIVE SHORT, 2014 BendFilm Festival AUDIENCE AWARD - NARRATIVE SHORT, 2014 Indie Memphis Film Festival GRAND JURY AWARD, 2014 24fps International Short Film Festival BEST DIRECTOR, 2014 24fps International Short Film Festival BEST ACTRESS, 2014 24fps International Short Film Festival PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM, 2014 Starz Denver Film Festival BEST NARRATIVE FILM, 2014 Miami Short Film Festival SCREENINGS (2014) 1) Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT, January 17-18, 24 2) Omaha Film Festival, Omaha, NE, March 7 3) Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH, March 25 4) Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, GA, March 30 5) Dallas International Film Festival, Dallas, TX, April 4-5 6) Florida Film Festival, Winter Park, FL, April 5 & 8 7) Aspen Shortsfest, Aspen, CO, April 12 8) Athens (Ohio) International Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH, April 17 9) Nashville Film Festival, Nashville, TN, April 18 10) Independent Film Festival Boston, Boston, MA, April 26-27 11) Maryland Film Festival, Opening Night Shorts, Baltimore, MD, May 7 12) San Diego Film Festival, VIP Screening, San Diego, CA, May 12 13) Little Rock Film Festival, Little Rock, AK, May 15 & 18 14) Juneteenth Art & Film Festival, San Antonio, TX, June 14 15) San Francisco Black Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, June 14 16) Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, June 15 & 19 17) Palm Springs International ShortFest, Palm Springs, CA, June 20 18) Nantucket Film Festival, Nantucket, MA, June 26 & 29 19) Roxbury International Film Festival, Boston, MA, June 27 20) Marin County International Festival of Short Film & Video, San Rafael, CA, July 2-6 21) Indianapolis International Film Festival, Indianapolis, IA, July 18, 21 & 24 22) LA Shorts Fest, Los Angeles, CA, July 26 23) FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival, Providence, RI, August 6 24) Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival, Martha's Vineyard, MA, August 9 25) Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL, August 24 26) Urbanworld Film Festival, New York, NY, September 20 27) Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film, Chapel Hill, NC, September 25 28) MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival, Various Cities, Sept 26 - Oct 5 29) San Diego Film Festival, San Diego, CA, September 27-28 30) BendFilm Festival, Bend, OR, October 10-12 31) Indie Memphis Film Festival, Memphis, TN, November 2 32) 24fps International Film Festival, Abeline, TX, November 7 33) Fairhope Film Festival, Fairhope, AL, November 8 34) International Film Festival Bratislava, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA, November 12 & 14 35) Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, November 14 36) Starz Denver Film Festival, Denver, CO, November 18 & 19 37) Sleepwalkers Int'l Short Film Festival (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival), Tallinn, ESTONIA, November 20 38) Foyle Film Festival, Derry, N. IRELAND, November 22 39) Gijón International Film Festival, Gijón, SPAIN, November 25 40) Miami Short Film Festival, Miami, FL, December 9 PRESS/REVIEWS Kim Adelman, Indiewire ("5 Must See Shorts at Sundance") http://www.indiewire.com/article/5-must-see-shorts-at-sundance-2014 Brandon Harris, Filmmaker Magazine ("Park City Critic’s Notes #5: Short Shrift") http://filmmakermagazine.com/84048-park-city-critics-notes-5-short-shrift/#.UugsonmttFS

216 Months (France) | Valentin Potier and Frédéric Potier 

216 Months is a short film directed by Frédéric Potier and Valentin Potier Produced by Solab Pictures

Animals (USA) | Alexander Yan 

A repressed young woman finds power in an act of deviance. -- written / directed by ALEXANDER YAN featuring BETSY HOLT / LUKAS GAGE produced by MATTHEW PALEY / EDGAR ROSA photographed by LOWELL A. MEYER edited by JAY LEWIS sound design by MICHAEL S. JOHNSON -- www.alexanderyan.info https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsYD

Mystery (Spain) | Chema García Ibarra 

They say that if you put your ear to the back of his neck, you can hear the Virgin talk. Official Section Berlinale Film Festival 2013 Official Section Sundance Film Festival 2014 European Film Awards: Best Short Film Nomination 2013 Chicago Fim Festival: Gold Hugo Award to the Best Short Film 12' Produced in Spain in 2013. Crew: Direction, screenplay and edition: Chema García Ibarra Production: Chema García Ibarra and Leonor Díaz Photography: Alberto Gutiérrez Camera assistant: Jaume Quiles and Miguel Ángel Valera Art direction: Leonor Díaz Art assistant: Luisa Pastor. Production manager: José Antonio Fernández Production assistant: Llanos Murcia and Lucía Esclápez. Sound recording: José Marsilla. Sound mix: David Rodríguez. Color: Javier Chillón and Luis Fuentes. Credits: Javier Chillón. Nazi flag: Chelo Alarcón. Making of: José M Martínez-Abarca. Music: Julio Posadas. Red Epic-x: Morituri Cast in order of appearance: Angelita López, Asun Quinto, Josefa Sempere, Antonio Blas Molina, José Manuel Ibarra, Luismi Bienvenido, Susi Martínez, Josette Mora.

Damn Girl (Denmark) | Kira Richards Hansen 

Short film by Kira Richards Hansen Fire Lane Pictures, DFI/ Film Workshop - 2012/ 13 www.damngirl.dk Director: Kira Richards Hansen Producer: Pelle Folmer Manus: Signe Søby Bech DOP: Brian Curt Petersen Editor: Dorrit Andersen Sound Design: Rune Sand Music composer: Martin Dirkov FESTIVAL AWARDS 2013 BUFF Film Festival Malmø, Sweden / 11. Marts / Best Short 2013 Costa Rica International Film Festival, Montezuma, Costa Rica / 28. Juni / Best Short Film 2013 Filmski Front International Short Film Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia / 24 – 26. October / Best Short International Selection 2013 Tirana International Film Festival, Albania / 21 – 23. October / Best Short Fiction 2013 The UK Film Festival, London, Great Britain / 11 – 15. November / Best Short Film 2013 Gijón International Film Festival, Spain / 15 – 23. November / Best Short Film Director 2013 Anchorage International Film Festival, Anchorage, USA / 13 – 15. December / Golden Oosikar Award Best Short 2014 Lakeshorts International Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada / 2 – 3 May / Scotiabank Award for Best Foreign Film FESTIVAL SELECTIONS 2013 Cannes Court Métrage, Cannes, France / 15. Maj / Short Film Corner 2013 15th Mo & Friese Children’s Short Film Festival Hamburg, Germany / 2. Juni / Official Selection 2013 Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Australia / 4. Juli / Official Selection 2013 Odense Internationale Film Festival, Denmark / 26. August / Official Selection (International and National competition) 2013 Encouters Short Film and Animation Festival, Bristol, United Kingdom / 17-22. September / Official Selection 2013 Williamsburg International Film Festival, New York, USA / 19 – 22 September / Official Selection 2013 Northwest Ohio Independent Film Festival, USA / 21. September / Official Selection 2013 Yellowknife International Film Festival, Yellowknife, Canada / 1. October / Official Selection 2013 MIX Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark / 4-13. October / Official Selection 2013 Orlando Film Festival, Orlando, USA / 16-20. October / Official Selection 2013 55. Nordischen Filmtagen Lübeck, Germany / 30. October – 3. November / Official Selection 2013 Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, Flensburg, Germany / 6 – 10. November / Official Selection 2013 Leeds International Film Festival, Great Britain / 6 – 21. November / Official Selection – Louis Le Prince short film competition 2013 Sleepwalkers Student and Short Film Festival, Talinn, Estonia / 19 – 23. November / Official Selection – Baltic Sea Competition 2013 Etiuda & Anima Film Festival, Krakow, Poland / 22 – 28. November 2013 Leuven Short Film Festival, Leuven, Belgium / 29 November – 07 December / Official Selection 2013 Poznan Ale Kino! International Children’s Film Festival, Poznan, Poland / 1. December / Official Selection 2014 Spokane International Film Festival, Washington, USA / 23 January – 1 February / Competetion 2014 The 26th Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway / 12 – 16 March / The Nordic Competition 2014 International Women’s Films Festival of Creteil, France / 14 – 23 March / Official Selection 2014 Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, USA / 28 March – 6 April / Official Selection 2014 61tth Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Beograd, Serbia / 2 – 6 April / Competition 2014 The European Independent Film Festival, Paris, France / 4 -6 April / Official Selection 2014 Kansas City FilmFest, Kansas, USA / 9 – 13 April / Official competition 2014 Cine Curtas Bodega Cultural, Florianopolis, Brasil / 18 – 20 April / Official Selection 2014 In the Palace International Short Film Festival, Balchik, Bulgaria / 28 June – 4 July / Competition 2014 Psarokokalo Festival, Athens, Greece / July / Official Selection 2014 FICAIJ, Mérida, Venezuela / July / Official Selection

To view the complete list of 87th Academy Award Nominations for the 2015 Oscars, click here: http://bit.ly/1AuJZDK