…and the winner is (pregnant pause)

Inocente
(USA) Directors: Sean Fine & Andrea Nix Fine
*2013 Academy Award Winner Best Documentary Short

Tied for second:

Tile M for Murder (SWEDEN) Director: Andrew Edison
Curfew (USA) Director: Shawn Christensen
*2013 Academy Award Winner  Best Live Action Short

7:30pm

Donald L. Oat Theater

Suggested Donation: $7.00

Short films are often a stepping-stone toward the goal of a feature length film. Scorcese, Spielberg, many filmmakers started their careers making short films. At the 3^rd annual Rose City Shorts Fest this Saturday, among other wonderful films, we are excited to have 2 that won academy awards this year.

Curfew is a 2012 short film directed by Shawn Christensen. The film won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film this year.

And Inocente, directed by the team of Sean Fine (a Connecticut College graduate) and Andrea Nix Fine, won the Oscar for Best Short Documentary.

Saturday’s films will be divided into two groups of approximately 45 minutes each, with a 15-minute intermission. At the conclusion of the festival, the audience will be asked to vote for their favorite film. The winner will be announced here after the event.

It is a lot of fun, and this year we will be auctioning off some of our double-sided movie posters. They are considered collectible. 27 x 40 inches. See below and see you on Saturday!

Friday, April 26

6:00 pm

Otis Library

261 Main Street, Norwich

Free — Donations welcome

Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln,” a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.   Trailer.

Donald L. Oat Theater

Suggested Donation: $7.00

In 1874, in the Imperial Russia, the aristocratic Anna Karenina travels from Saint Petersburg to Moscow to save the marriage of her brother Prince Oblonsky, who had had a love affair with his housemaid. Anna Karenina has a cold marriage with her husband, Count Alexei Karenin, and they have a son. Anna meets the cavalry officer Count Vronsky at the train station and they are attracted to each other. Soon she learns that Vronsky will propose Kitty, who is the younger sister of her sister-in-law Dolly. Anna satisfactorily resolves the infidelity case of her brother, and Kitty invites her to stay for a ball. However, when Anna Karenina and Vronsky dance at the ball, the conservative society takes note. Soon they have a love affair that will lead Anna Karenina to a tragic fate.

Trailer

Friday, March 22

6:00 pm

Otis Library

261 Main Street, Norwich

Free — Donations welcomed

Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption—a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. Ex-prisoner Jean Valjean is hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantine’s young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever. The world’s longest-running musical brings its power to the big screen in Tom Hooper’s sweeping and spectacular interpretation of Victor Hugo’s epic tale.

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