Oscar-Qualifying LA Shorts Film Festival Crowns ‘Nowhere,’ ‘The Noble Guardian,’ ‘It Takes A Village…’ And More
deadline.comA select group of films has qualified for Academy Award consideration after winning prizes at the 27th LA Shorts Film Festival, the longest-running shorts festival in the movie capital.
Nowhere, directed by L.A.-based filmmaker Gavin Hovannisian, won the Best of Fest Award at a ceremony Sunday night. In the 11-minute narrative short, set in the fictional city of Nowhere, the protagonists are shadows that “dream of a life without their human masters.” Also qualifying for Oscar consideration was It Takes a Village…, winner of Best International Film.
Director Ophelia Harutyunyan’s drama “tells the story of Mariam, who lives in an Armenian Village where there are no men. On her birthday, her hopes of a reunited family are shattered, when she must put aside her own crushed dreams and help her friend Anush as she embarks into motherhood.” Both Nowhere and It Takes a Village… are Armenian films.
Scroll for the full list of LA Shorts Film Festival winners. The Brave Locomotive, directed by Andrew Pierce Chesworth, won Best Animation.
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