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Cinema Eye Honors Announces 2017 Shorts List

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CINEMA EYE ANNOUNCES 2017 “SHORTS LIST”

10 Semi-Finalists for Outstanding Nonfiction Short Film Honor

All ten films to screen this weekend at Camden International Film Festival

New York, NY  – Cinema Eye, the largest annual celebration for, and recognition of, the nonfiction film artform and creators, today announced 10 nonfiction short films as semi-finalists for the 2017 Cinema Eye Honor for Nonfiction Short Film.

The announcement of the annual Cinema Eye “Shorts List” was made on the eve of the 2016 Camden International Film Festival (CIFF), a key festival partner and sponsor of the Cinema Eye Honors. For the third year in a row, all 10 films, which are among the most acclaimed short documentaries of the year, will screen this weekend at CIFF on the coast of Maine. 

“In the past few years, the short form has been one of documentary’s most exciting modes to engage subjects and stories,” said Rachel Rosen, Director of Programming for the San Francisco Film Society and the Chair of the Cinema Eye Shorts Committee. “This year is no exception as these 10 excellent films take us to unexpected places and introduce us to characters we’ve never seen before.”

From the ten semi-finalists on this year’s Shorts List, five films will be named as nominees for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short. Nominees in that category and nearly a dozen feature film categories will be announced on Wednesday, November 2 in New York City. The winner will be announced at the 10th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Ceremony at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens on January 11, 2017.

This year’s ten finalists are:

Bacon and God’s Wrath (Canada)

Directed by Sol Friedman

The Black Belt (USA)

Directed by Margaret Brown

Extremis (USA)

Directed by Dan Krauss

Gatekeeper (Canada)

Directed by Yung Chang

La Laguna (Mexico)

Directed by Aaron Schock

My Aleppo (USA)

Direct by Melissa Langer

Pickle (USA)

Directed by Amy Nicholson

The Send-Off (USA)

Directed by Ivette Lucas and Patrick Bresnan

Peace in the Valley (USA)

Directed by Mike Palmieri and Donal Mosher

Uzu (Japan)

Directed by Gaspard Kuentz

Yung Chang and Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher are previous Cinema Eye Honorees, having been awarded the Best Debut Feature Honor for Up the Yangtze (CEH 2009) and October Country (2010), respectively.  Margaret Brown was previously nominated for three Cinema Eye Honors in 2009, including Outstanding Feature and Direction, for The Order of Myths.  Aaron Schock directed the featureCirco, which was nominated for Outstanding Score (CEH 2011).

Finalists for the Short Filmmaking award were determined in voting by top short film/documentary programmers from international film festivals.  Members of this year’s Short Film Nominations Committee included: Chair Rachel Rosen (San Francisco), Claire Aguilar (Sheffield), Chris Boeckman (True/False), Cara Cusumano (Tribeca), Ben Fowlie (Camden), Claudette Godfrey (SXSW), Doug Jones (Images Cinema), Ted Mott (Full Frame), Veton Nurkollari (Dokufest Kosovo), Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop), Mike Plante (Sundance), and Kim Yutani (Sundance).

This is the seventh year that Cinema Eye has presented an award for Nonfiction Short Filmmaking.  Previous winners in the category include The Poodle Trainer (directed by Vance Malone, 2011), Diary (Tim Hetherington, 2012), Goodbye Mandima (Kwa Heri Mandima) (Robert-Jan Lacombe, 2013), A Story for the Modlins (Sergio Oksman, 2014), The Lion’s Mouth Opens (Lucy Walker, 2015), and Buffalo Juggalos (Scott Cummings, 2016) & Hotel 22 (Elizabeth Lo, 2016) .

This marks the fifth year that the CEH Shorts List has been announced in connection with the Camden International Film Festival. This January will mark the eighth consecutive year that CIFF will host their annual Nominees Party on the eve of the Cinema Eye Honors Ceremony.  The Nominees Party is a key part of Cinema Eye Week, a multi-day event that includes screenings, filmmaker training, a super secret field trip and multiple celebrations that bring together the international documentary community.

This year’s Cinema Eye Week will be held January 6-11, 2017.

For more information about Cinema Eye Honors, visit http://www.cinemaeyehonors.com/.  Cinema Eye on Twitter: @cinemaeyehonors.

 

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