3RD ANNUAL 815HORTS | DEC. 13-14 | BUY TICKETS
The third annual 815HORTS: A 5HORT Film Festival returns Friday-Saturday, December 13-14, 2024, at City Stage Studios, one of the largest and best equipped sound stages in the Midwest. This year's program is highlighted by an expanded two-day format featuring four guest speakers, various short film screening blocks, the 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. Skip the line and GET TICKETS NOW!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS^
Friday, December 13, 2024
6 p.m. Doors Open
6:30 p.m. 815HORTS Opening Screening Block
8:15 p.m. 5HORT Talk Interview and Q&A featuring Edgar Barens, Oscar nominated filmmaker;
Moderated by Peter Hawley, director of Illinois Film Office
9 p.m. 5HORT After-Party (one hour) at City Stage Studios
Saturday, December 14, 2024
10:30 a.m. Doors Open
11 a.m. 5HORT Panel - "How to Raise Money to Make a Film...or Make a Film When You Have No Money" featuring Edgar Barens and Colleen Griffen, award-winning indie filmmaker
12:15 p.m. 5HORT Luncheon (light F&B)
1 p.m. 5HORT Panel 2 - "Filmmaking That Gets Seen -- and Screened!"
featuring Madison Egan, Tribeca Festival shorts programmer
2 p.m. 5HORT Break
3 p.m. 815HORTS Screening Block 2
5 p.m. 2024 Sundance Shorts Tour Screening
7 p.m. 815HORTS Final Screening
8:45 p.m. 5HORT Talk Interview and Q&A featuring Davarion Jarvelle, filmmaker and creative entrepreneur
9:30 p.m. 5HORT Awards and Closing Remarks
9:45 p.m. 5HORT After-Party at City Stage Studios
^ Schedule subject to change.
FEATURED GUESTS
EDGAR BARENS
Oscar Nominee,
"Prison Terminal"
MADISON EGAN
Shorts Programmer,
Tribeca Festival
COLLEEN GRIFFEN
Award-Winning
Indie Filmmaker
PETER HAWLEY
Director,
Illinois Film Office
DAVARION JARVELLE
Filmmaker and
Creative Entrepreneur
2024 815HORTS SCREENING SCHEDULE
2024 815HORTS PARTNERS
CHAMPION PARTNER
PREMIER PARTNER
IN-KIND PARTNERS
SUPPORTING PARTNER
VENUE PARTNER
HOTEL PARTNER
SPECIAL THANKS
Sundance Film Festival + Dena Altamore + Don Hatton
+ Peter Hawley + Jerry LaBuy + Josiah Sjöström
2024 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM TOUR
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 110-minute theatrical program of seven short films curated from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, including three Festival Award–winning titles. The tour program is a sampling of Festival offerings and a testament to the unique storytelling potential that the format holds. Audiences can enjoy a mix of fiction, documentary, and animated shorts that are funny, sad, inspiring, and full of strong characters. Driven by innovation and experimentation, the Short Film Program seeks out filmmaking’s most original voices from around the world.
The Festival’s Short Film Program has long been established as a place to discover talented directors, such as past alumni Andrea Arnold, Lake Bell, Damien Chazelle, Destin Daniel Cretton, Jay and Mark Duplass, Debra Granik, Rashaad Ernesto Green, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Todd Haynes, Sterlin Harjo, Don Hertzfeldt, Sky Hopinka, Shaka King, Lynne Ramsay, Dee Rees, Joey Soloway, Taika Waititi, and many others.
2023 815HORTS RECAP
The second annual 815HORTS: A 5HORT Film Festival screened 13 acclaimed short films, including Academy Award nominee Bing Liu’s Rockford premiere of “What the Hands Do”. Liu’s latest short film debuted locally during the program’s final prime time slot, followed by an onstage 5HORT Talk interview featuring Liu and moderator Peter Hawley, 815HORTS emcee and director of the Illinois Film Office. The 5HORT Awards closed out the festivities by awarding two 2023 winners: "A Cloudy Moon" [Written by Aaron Hill, Directed and Produced by T.J. Hill] won Best Local/Regional Short Film, and "Barefoot Empress" [Directed by Vikas Khanna, Produced by Doug Roland, Executive Produced by Deepak Chopra] won Best 5HORT (Best in Show). In addition, Plus Seven Company made a charitable donation to the Rockford Public Library Foundation with a portion of net proceeds.
Presented by the City of Rockford + Rockford Film Office, 2023 815HORTS featured a 5HORT Lunch + Learn educational session to start the day at City Stage Studios followed by three screening blocks at the RPL Nordlof Center, including the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour.
CONTACT + PRODUCTION
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