Gabriel Osorio’s ‘Bear Story,’ Richard Williams’ ‘Prologue,’ and Don Hertzfeldt’s ‘World of Tomorrow’ now available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Verizon, Xbox, Vimeo, and cable & satellite VOD platforms.
LOS ANGELES -- On the heels of a successful national theatrical run, ShortsHD has announced the release of the 2016 OSCAR Nominated Short Film Live Action | Select Animation collection via major digital platforms and cable providers. The films are also now available on cable via the industry’s Movies on Demand platforms well as satellite VOD platforms.
2016 OSCAR Nominated Short Film Live Action | Select Animation showcases the Live Action and select Animation short film nominees. This is the last chance to view nominated shorts before the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday February 28 hosted by Chris Rock.
Below is the breakdown of where viewers can catch the 2016 OSCAR Nominated Short Film Live Action | Select Animation:
Major Download Platforms:
iTunes
Amazon Instant Video (US/UK/DE)
Google Play
Vimeo On Demand
Comcast
Verizon
Cable/Satellite and on Demand Platforms
CenturyLink prism
DIRECTV
AT&T U-Verse
Vubiquity
iNDemand
Comcast
Cable Vision
XBox
Sony
CenturyLink prism
Google Fiber
2016 OSCAR Nominated Short Film Live Action | Select Animation is distributed to the following U.S. cable providers by iN DEMAND: Comcast, Cox, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Charter Communications, RCN, Midcontinent and Metrocast. (indemand.com) (TBC).
This year’s collection of shorts features a variety of the most diverse and culturally rich films with content originating from: France, Germany, Palestine, United Kingdom, Kosovo, Chile, Austria, and the U.S.
This year’s release includes the following nominated short films:
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM NOMINEES
- Ave Maria
Director: Basil Khalil; Country of orgin: France/Germany/Palestine; TRT: 15; Language: Arabic/English/Hebrew
Synopsis: Five nuns living in the West Bank find their routine disrupted when the car of a family of Israeli settlers breaks down outside the convent. Unable to use the telephone due to Sabbath restrictions, the family needs help from the nuns, but the sisters' vow of silence requires them to work with their visitors to find an unorthodox solution.
- Day One
Director: Henry Hughes; Country of orgin: United States; TRT: 25; Language: English/Dari
Synopsis: On the heels of a painful divorce, an Afghan-American woman joins the U.S. military as an interpreter and is sent to Afghanistan. On her first mission, she accompanies troops pursuing a bomb-maker, and must bridge the gender and culture gap to help the man's pregnant wife when she goes into labor.
- Shok
Director: Jamie Donoughue; Country of orgin: United States/Kosovo; TRT: 21; Language: Albanian/Serbian
Synopsis: In Kosovo in 1998, two young boys are best friends living normal lives, but as war engulfs their country, their daily existence becomes filled with violence and fear. Soon, the choices they make threaten not only their friendship, but their families and their lives.
- Stutterer
Director: Benjamin Cleary; Country of orgin: United Kingdom; TRT: 12; Language: English
Synopsis: For a lonely typographer, an online relationship has provided a much-needed connection without revealing the speech impediment that has kept him isolated. Now, however, he is faced with the proposition of meeting his online paramour in the flesh, and thereby revealing the truth about himself.
- Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Director: Patrick Vollrath; Country of orgin: Germany/Austria; TRT: 30; Language: German
Synopsis: Michael, a divorced father devoted to his eight-year-old daughter, Lea, picks her up for their usual weekend together. At first it feels like a normal visit, but Lea soon realizes that something is different, and so begins a fateful journey.
ANIMATED SHORT FILM NOMINEES
- Bear Story
Director: Gabriel Osorio; Country of orgin: Chile; TRT: 11
Synopsis: Every day, a melancholy old bear takes a mechanical diorama that he has created out to his street corner. For a coin, passersby can look into the peephole of his invention, which tells the story of a circus bear who longs to escape and return to the family from which he was taken.
- Prologue
Director: Richard Williams; Country of origin: United Kingdom; TRT: 6; Language: English
Synopsis: 2,400 years ago, four warriors -- two Spartan and two Athenian -- battle to the death in an intense struggle witnessed by a little girl, who then runs to her grandmother for comfort.
- World of Tomorrow
Director: Don Hertzfeldt; Country of origin: United States; TRT: 17; Language: English
Synopsis: A little girl named Emily is taken on a fantastical tour of her distant future by a surprising visitor who reveals unnerving secrets about humanity's fate.
Nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were announced on January 14.
Source: ShortsHD
