SPIFFest Screens Academy Award Nominated Short Films at San Pedro’s Warner Grand Theatre
It’s about a couple weeks before the 2016 Oscar Awards dole out cooper looking statuettes to Hollywood’s best and brightest, but down near the Port of Los Angeles, not far from the glamour of studio lots and paparazzi shots, the San Pedro International Film Fest imports a special screening of Academy Award nominated films in the Best Live Action Short Film category Saturday night at the Historic Warner Grand Theatre. In general, short films are hard to find in any movie theatre, and in any market, they just don’t bring in the $15 popcorn munching audiences, so Saturday presents a rare opportunity to actually view nominated short films before the the Oscars on February 28th.
Historic Warner Grand Theatre in Downtown San Pedro is the venue for SPIFFest and this Saturday’s special screening of Academy Award nominated Best Live Action Short Films (Photo by South Bay Events).
Last year SPIFFest saw record attendance come out and support its October film festival with at least 1,600 cinephiles.
Short film screening starts at 7:00 p.m. & general admission tickets are $20, Seniors & kids’ tickets are $10 and students pay $15 with ID. Get advance online tickets at: Brown Paper tickets. Warner Grand Theatre is located at 478 W. Sixth St. in San Pedro.
Best Live Action Short Films:
“Ave Maria” by Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont is short film about five nuns living in the West Bank find their routine disrupted when the car of a family of Israeli settlers breaks down outside the convent.
“Day One” by Henry Hughes is about an Afghan-American woman who joins the U.S. military as an interpreter and is sent to Afghanistan.
“Everything Will Be OK” is about a a divorced father devoted to his eight-year-old daughter, Lea, picks who her up for their usual weekend together.
“Shock” by Jamie Donoughue is about two young boys who are best friends living normal lives, but as war engulfs their country, their daily existence becomes filled with violence and fear.
