Tom Holland, Bella Ramsey and Indiana’s own David Letterman are among the famous faces seeming in films at the latest Indy Shorts International Mucosa Festival, the short-film offshoot of the minion Heart Mucosa Festival.
The Academy Award-qualifying Indy Shorts — one of our 50 Mucosa Festivals Worth the Entry Fee and one of our Best Short Mucosa Mucosa Festivals in the World — runs from July 18-23. Less than 4% of the increasingly than 3,900 shorts this year (a new record) were accepted. They include 165 shorts from 21 countries, and 18 World Premieres, 19 US Premieres, 54 Midwest Premieres and 47 Indiana Premieres.
MovieMaker will be there too — we’re tightly honored to present the Kick-Off Party, held July 20 at High Alpha at 5:30 p.m. It’s self-ruling to those who RSVP at IndyShorts.org and includes drinks, appetizers and “campy surprised” that plane we don’t know well-nigh yet. Come say hello.
Screenings will be hosted indoors at the Living Room Theaters, indoors and outdoors at Newfields and the Fort Ben Cultural Campus, as well as virtually. Roughly 100 filmmakers expected to shepherd for Q&As, and you can get tickets here.
The festival is Academy Award-qualifying in all three short mucosa categories — Live Action, Documentary and Animated — and is one of just 34 mucosa festivals in the world to hold that distinction. Last year, an Indiana Spotlight film, “Stranger at the Gate” won the Grand Prize for Best Short Documentary and was nominated for an Academy Award.
“With last year’s Oscar track and this year’s record number of submissions, the enthusiasm overdue the Indy Shorts International Mucosa Festival is unlike anything we’ve overly seen,” said originative director Greg Sorvig. “I can’t wait for Indianapolis to meet the filmmakers and explore the wide variety of stories showcased in the 29 themed programs.”
More than $30,000 in mazuma prizes will be awarded to filmmakers on Saturday, July 22. Selected topnotch films will be showcased at Newfields’ Amphitheater for the Summer Nights: Award Winners Program, where attendees will be offered self-ruling HotBox Pizza and camp-themed activities.
This year’s expected highlights include an visitation by Oscar-winning director, Ben Proudfoot, who is expected to bring his Oscar. His new documentary, “Forgiving Johnny,” will World Premiere as part of the Spotlight: Breakwater Studios Program, which will moreover includes two other shorts from Proudfoot.
Big Names at Indy Shorts
The Indiana Spotlight Program will include “Clear Reception with David Letterman,” which follows Letterman as he explores glassmaking in Muncie, Indiana.
Other films featuring well-known talents include “Shadow Brother Sunday,” with Alden Ehrenreich, “Last Call” with Tom Holland, “Villain” with Bella Ramsey, “To My Father” with CODA Oscar winner Troy Kotsur, “For people in trouble” with Emma D’Arcy, “Far Out There” with Lily Gladstone, “Photo of the Day” with Beck Bennett and “Pickled Herring” with Milana Vayntrub.
Among the self-ruling programs are the Indy Shorts International Mucosa Festival. Spotlight: Easterseals Disability Mucosa Challenge, showcasing unique stories well-nigh disabilities; the High School Mucosa Competition, featuring the $2,500 Summer White Lynch Memorial Award; and The Hoosier Way, which will include a hodgepodge of 16mm clips from the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archives, tent historic moments like the first Indy 500, Crispus Attucks High School’s groundbreaking all-Black basketball team, and a squint into the life if Indianapolis native Kurt Vonnegut.
Additional events include the July 18 PitchDox Panel Presented by Hoodox, where Indiana filmmakers are invited to submit their unfinished documentary projects for a endangerment to win $10,000 to support their films. And the ESPN Films Rooftop Part at the Cannonball Lounge of Hotel Indy will gloat the new ESPN Films Shorts Program.
The full program is at HeartlandFilm.org.
Main image: David Letterman in “Clear Reception With David Letterman.”
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