Palm Springs International Film Festival

Today’s Sunday Short is Love is Blind from ShortFest 2015, written and directed by Dan Hodgson. When Alice’s husband arrives home to try and make amends it leaves her navigating a tricky situation. Dan Hodgson is a London-based writer/director known for his shorts Are You Albert? (2014) and Love is Blind (2015). The latter is a fresh, hilarious twist on the classic love triangle which also works as a bit of a suspense thriller.... https://vimeo.com/277029143

TALKING PICTURE: All In: The Fight for Democracy Watch All In: The Fight for Democracy on Amazon Prime and submit your questions at the link below to be answered by director Lisa Cortés during a Q&A that will be viewable on our website Friday, October 30. The deadline to submit questions is October 26 at 12pm PST. All In: the Fight for Democracy follows Stacey Abrams’ remarkable journey alongside those at the forefront of the battle against injustice. From the country’s found...ing to today, this film delves into the insidious issue of voter suppression a threat to the basic rights of every American citizen. https://psfilmfest.org//eve/all-in-the-fight-for-democracy

Any Instant Whatever from ShortFest 2020 is now available to stream online! A man in a room, in a film it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe. The film explores our perception of time, bodies and objects, and our inability to comprehend the full motion of things. Michelle Branch is the writer, director, producer, cinematographer, and editor of Any Instant Whatever. She is a German-English animator-filmmaker a...nd sound designer based in London, enjoys discovering new ways of expressing complex ideas visually. She studied animation at the Royal College of Arts in London and at the University for Creative Arts in Farnham, UK. Her films attempt to visualize philosophical concepts, with a special focus on time, movement and change. Playing with many different structures and aesthetics, she keeps blurring the lines between theory and practice. https://vimeo.com/449258441

Join us for free virtual trivia on October 20th. The theme is horror and thrillers! Prizes will be available for winners and are provided by Destination PSP and Lulu California Bistro https://psfilmfest-org.zoom.us//tZIsde-orDMpHtWS0wMvs4a8bD

Today’s Sunday Short is The Tide Keeper from ShortFest 2014, directed by Alyx Duncan. One night an old seaman dreams the ocean into his bed. His sea green sheets become the polluted waters of his worst nightmare. His own mortality is at risk as his household objects begin to suffocate him. The film is inspired by the life of, and performed by, the filmmaker’s father. Alyx is an art filmmaker and choreographer. She has made dance theatre, installations, award winning shorts an...d a critically acclaimed feature film. She has over sixteen years experience choreographing for film and TV commercials. Alongside her industry work and artistic practice she teaches dance and film in the tertiary sector. https://vimeo.com/277237092

Shéhérazade from PSIFF 2019 is now available to watch on Netflix. In this exhilarating, darkly luminous film, Shéhérazade and Zachary meet and quickly fall in love on the tough streets of Marseille. But their relationship is complicated by the fact that Zach is trying to get his life on track after a stint in juvenile detention and Shéhérazade is a teenage prostitute Search Shéhérazade on Netflix to watch!... https://www.netflix.com/search?q=sheher&jbv=81012340

Today’s Sunday Short is Speed Dating from ShortFest 2015, written and directed by Meghann Artes. It’s been featured as a Vimeo staff pick. Desperate to find the man of her dreams, sweet and plain Ava tries a last ditch effort, speed dating. But the absurd cast of characters she encounters makes her wonder if being single is not so bad after all. Meghann Artes is an award-winning filmmaker and animator who has worked with Sesame Street, Warner Bros., Nickelodeon, Bix Pix, NBC ...and ABC. Her short films have enjoyed success in festivals across the country and, in 2009, her work for Sesame Street was awarded both an Emmy and a Peabody. https://vimeo.com/145154247

We are proud to be nominated by the Desert Sun in three categories for Best of Desert 2020! If you would like to vote for us, click on the link below. Voting ends October 20. http://bit.ly/PSIFFBestOfDesert2020

Hash Key, from ShortFest 2018, is now available to stream on Vimeo. Hash Key, or Touche Dièse, is written, directed, and produced by Erwan Alépée. In the short, Alexander calls a number he knows really well. https://vimeo.com/240310572

Today’s Sunday Short is Breathe from ShortFest 2016 and directed by James Doherty. Set amongst the Irish traveling community, Breathe questions to what extent a father, living in a patriarchal society, is willing to go when the one who’s threatening his legacy and his reputation is his own son. Patrick’s reluctance to accept his son, Francie, for who and what he is (becoming) spirals out of control; pushing him too far, which results in a devastating consequence. Can Patrick ...bring about change in his son, or ultimately is he the one that needs to change? James Doherty is a Mancunian-Irish writer/director working in drama and thriller genres, with a particular focus on intense stories of brittle masculinity on the fringes of society. His debut short film Breathe won awards internationally and was showcased by the BFI and British Council. Currently, he is working on a neon-infused apprenticeship drama, along with his first feature; The Seventh Son. https://vimeo.com/230264349

Bye Bye Body from ShortFest 2020 is streaming online on NoBudge. When Nina fails to meet her goal in the final week of weight loss camp, she considers drastic alternatives. Bye Bye Body, directed by Charlotte Benbeniste, is a tender snapshot about body image and self-esteem delivered with wonderfully natural performances and lovely 35mm images. At a weigh-in with her peers, Nina is frustrated to learn that she hasn’t lost more weight during her time at camp. She turns to a ...friend who lost eleven pounds wondering how she achieved it, and gets a vague answer that delivers her to an abandoned warehouse with a group of edgy guys. As the picture fills in, we learn of the choices available to her, which become more complicated as the night wears on. Benbeniste has full command over the material, a richly conceived and executed tone poem seeping with a feeling that doesn’t resort to easy answers or messaging. http://nobudge.com/main/bye-bye-body?rq=bye%20bye

TALKING PICTURE: Watch The Glorias on Amazon Prime and join us for a special Q&A with filmmaker Julie Taymor on October 7 at 3:00 pm PST! RSVP here for the Q&A: https://psfilmfest-org.zoom.us///WN_RqKJDDpxTGWc3X9Sl87n6A Julie Taymor's Director, Producer, and Co-Writer Film credits include Fool's Fire, Oedipus Rex starring Jessye Norman which received an Emmy Award as well as the International Classical Music Award, Titus, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange; Frida st...arring Salma Hayek which garnered six Academy Award nominations and won two; Across the Universe which received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, The Tempest, starring Helen Mirren, and a cinematic version of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, filmed during her critically acclaimed, sold-out stage production at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn. Journalist, fighter, and feminist Gloria Steinem is an indelible icon known for her world-shaping activism, guidance of the revolutionary women’s movement, and writing that has impacted generations. In this non-traditional biopic, Julie Taymor crafts a complex tapestry of one of the most inspirational and legendary figures of modern history, based on Steinem’s own memoir My Life on the Road. THE GLORIAS (Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Keira Armstrong) traces Steinem’s influential journey to prominencefrom her time in India as a young woman, to the founding of Ms. magazine in New York, to her role in the rise of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s, to the historic 1977 National Women’s Conference and beyond.

ShortFest 2021 submissions are now open! Our early bird deadline is December 4, 2020, our regular deadline is January 15, 2021, and our late deadline is February 19, 2021. https://filmfreeway.com/PalmSpringsInternationalShortFest

Today’s Sunday Short is Einstein-Rosen from ShortFest 2017, directed by Olga Osorio. Summer of 1982. Teo claims he has found a wormhole. His brother Óscar does not believe him - at least not for now. Olga Osorio is a teacher of Editing in the faculty of Ciencias da Comunicación (media sciences) in A Coruña and Filmmaking in the Escola de Imaxe e Son in the same city. She has directed four short films: Tinder Time (2019); reStart (2015) Einstein-Rosen (2016) and Mouras (2018),... receiving around 80 national and international awards and 500 selections in several festivals. Olga Osorio is currently working on the development of her first feature film, based on Einstein-Rosen, with Vaca Films production company. She has also been selected to participate in an intensive workshop with spanish scriptwriter Alberto Marini to develop her new feature script Yo, Bárbara. https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2018/01/11/einstein-rosen/