2024 815HORTS DAZZLES WITH WEEKEND OF IMMERSIVE FILM CONTENT
The third annual 815HORTS: A 5HORT Film Festival was help Friday-Saturday, December 13-14, 2024, at City Stage Studios in Rockford, Illinois. This year's 815HORTS screened 25 acclaimed short films including Edgar Barens’s 2014 Oscar-nominated short film documentary “Prison Terminal”, three 815HORTS short film blocks featuring the work of local and national award-winning filmmakers, and the return of the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour for the third-straight year.
This year's festival also incorporated a variety of educational content highlighted by two 5HORT Talk interviews featuring Barens (Friday night) and creative entrepreneur Davarion Jarvelle (Saturday night) alongside moderator Peter Hawley, 815HORTS emcee and director of the Illinois Film Office. Hawley also moderated two panel discussions Saturday morning and afternoon featuring Barens, award-winning Indie filmmaker Colleen Griffen and Tribeca Festival shorts programmer Madison Egan.
The 5HORT Awards closed out the festivities by awarding two 2024 winners: "Nogglers (Mavericks of Time)" [Written by Guilherme Fleury | Directed by Mercello Laruccia | Produced by Cesar Barbosa, João Pedro Costa, Zach Hendrix and Aurelio Ribeiro] won Best Animated Short Film, while "Cruelty" [Written and Directed by Sam Das | Produced by Naomi Alexander and Harris McCabe] won Best 5HORT (Best in Show).
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 PHOTO GALLERY
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SPECIAL THANKS
Sundance Film Festival + Luxe Productions + Don Hatton
+ Peter Hawley + Jerry LaBuy + Susan Moran + Josiah Sjöström
2024 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM TOUR
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour was 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 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.
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