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Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts

Tickets are available at the door $15 general and $10 seniors

Experience this years best short films the way they were meant to be seen on the big screen!
The 91st Annual Academy Awards will be telecast on Sunday, February 24, 2019!

See the entire series at the historic Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro!

Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/297770485/326c7f5449

LIVE ACTION SHORTS (Estimated Running Time: 109 minutes)

Madre Spain, 19 minutes
Director: RODRIGO SOROGOYEN
Producers: MARIA DEL PUY ALVARADO and RODRIGO SOROGOYEN
Synopsis: 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 while ago.

Fauve Canada, 17 minutes
Director: JEREMY COMTE
Producers: EVREN BOISJOLI (ACHROMATIC MEDIA) and MARIA GRACIA TURGEON (MIDI LA NUIT)
Synopsis: Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer. Alone in the wild the two boys play around. Complicity evolves into a confrontation where one wants to have power over the other. Taking proportions larger than nature, this game will not prove as harmless as they thought.

Marguerite Canada, 19 minutes
Director: MARIANNE FARLEY
Producer: MARIE-HELENE PANISSET (LES FILMS DE L'HYDRE)
Synopsis: 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.

Detainment 30 minutes, Ireland
Director: VINCENT LAMBE
Producers: DARREN MAHON, VINCENT LAMBE and ROBERT DWYER-JOYCE Associate Producer: EIBHLIN HEWITT
Synopsis: Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler. A true story based on interview transcripts from the James Bulger case which shocked the world in 1993 and continues to incite public outrage across the UK today.

Skin USA, 20 minutes
Director: GUY NATTIV
Producers: JAIME RAY NEWMAN, ANDREW CARLBERG and TIM HARMS
Synopsis: 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.