Oscar Live Action Shorts (2019)

2019 Festival

Sun, Feb 17 @ 7:30 pm - GPLT

Presented by Q99 and the Prairie Mall, this 108-minute package includes the 5 films nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Two of the nominated films are from Quebec (FAUVE and MARGUERITE) with French dialogue and English subtitles. It is rated 14A (Violence, Mature Subject Matter). The Academy often nominates heavy dramas, but that is especially true this year with subject matter involving imperiled children, murder, and racial violence.

PRIZES

(1) Best Red Carpet Finery (value $100): Dress for the Oscar Live Action Shorts in your best red carpet finery for a chance to win a $50 Prairie Mall gift card. Two will be awarded by the Prairie Mall to the most glamorous individuals to walk the red carpet provided by Klean-Rite. Lisa Bennett of Rare Island Media will be on hand to take photos.

(2) Live Action Oscar Winner (value $154): The first person whose ballot is drawn that correctly predicts the Oscar winner on Feb 24 will win 4 ticket vouchers (value $48) to the Reel Shorts Film Festival May 6-13, 2 Cineplex Events tickets (value $56), and a $50 Prairie Mall gift card.

(3) Grand Prize Winner (value $274): The first person whose ballots are drawn that correctly predict the Animated Oscar Winner AND the Live Action Oscar Winner on Feb 24 will win 2 Reel Shorts Fest Passes (value $118), 2 Cineplex Events tickets (value $56), and $100 in Prairie Mall gift cards.

Films in this package

Detainment

Detainment

Two ten-year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler. A true story based on interview transcripts and records from the James Bulger case which shocked the world in 1993. Nominated for an Academy Award in 2019 for Best Live Action Short.

Fauve

Fauve

Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer. Nominated for an Academy Award in 2018 for Best Live Action Short.

Marguerite

Marguerite

An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her make peace with her past. Nominated for an Academy Award in 2019 for Best Live Action Short.

Mother

Madre

A single mother receives a call from her seven-year-old son who is on vacation with his father in the French Basque Country. At first the call is a cause for joy, but soon it becomes a horrible nightmare when the child tells her that he is alone and cannot find his father who left a…

Skin

Skin

In a small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10-year-old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash. Nominated for an Academy Award in 2019 for Best Live Action Short.