Category Archives: Embedded videos
Winner of 2013 Audience Choice Award
CONGRATULATIONS to Michelle Davidson, Writer/Director of A Senior Moment which won the 2013 Reel Shorts Film Festival Audience Choice Award. After HB, the film created during the Youth Film Mentorship Project, led off the Best of the Fest film package, … Continue reading →
Movie Watch – Six Shooter
If you’re looking for something completely different from the sentimental sweetness of Valentine’s Day, here’s one of the blackest comedies I’ve ever seen. It’s so dark that I cried the first time I saw it, and yet 2 months later, … Continue reading →
Movie Watch – Passing Hearts
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here’s a wonderful film from Sweden that was in our 2009 fest. It’s not a typical love story, but it’s a perfect fit for Valentine’s anyway.
Animation Schools and Animated Short Films to Watch
The Banff Centre recently announced a National Film Board/Banff Centre Work Study that involved working with Cam Christiansen, a filmmaker who produced, directed, and animated I Have Seen the Future which was in our 2008 festival. Applicants needed the following … Continue reading →
Movie Watch – Top Ten Films
A friend asked me to blog about my top ten films because he wanted to watch them. I didn’t think people would have time to watch that many in a row, but here they are – my top ten picks … Continue reading →
Submission Deadline is Dec 17
Monday is the submission deadline for the 2013 Reel Shorts Film Festival. Even though the submission form says that submissions must be received by 4:30 pm on Monday, there’s no need to panic if you haven’t submitted yet. Just get … Continue reading →
Movie Watch – Das Tub
Das Tub is a delightful 4-minute short film from New Zealand that screened in the junior high package at our last fest. Director James Cunningham is the instructor of the Advanced 3D Productions course at Media Design School in Auckland and … Continue reading →
Movie Watch – Special Ed
Many schools in Grande Prairie will send kids home with report cards today which means many teachers will face two evenings of parent-teacher interviews next week. Special Ed is a film from our 2012 festival that the teachers on our … Continue reading →
Movie Watch – Toyland
With Remembrance Day almost here, I’d like to share an Academy-Award winning film from Germany that we screened as part of the Oscar-Nominated Live Action package in 2009 and in the school program (both the junior high and the high … Continue reading →
Nov 18 Feature Film – Beasts of the Southern Wild
The first of this winter season’s line-up of feature films in the GPLT Movie Series is Beasts of the Southern Wild which won 4 awards at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, 2 awards at Sundance including the Grand Jury Prize … Continue reading →
