10 Live Action Shorts Advance for Oscars 2015 – Watch Trailers

From this list, five will be chosen. Once again, it’s an international affair – with one (I think), maybe two films from American filmmakers. There is a disconnect between the country that graduates more filmmakers than any other and the films by those filmmakers ever getting in the live action short race. It doesn’t really matter where the great filmmakers come from but it’s interesting that Americans traditionally have such a hard time breaking in.

Here are the films. Watch the trailers after the cut.

“Ave Maria,” Basil Khalil, director, and Eric Dupont, producer (Incognito Films)
“Bad Hunter,” Sahim Omar Kalifa, director, and Dries Phlypo, producer (A Private View)
“Bis Gleich (Till Then),” Philippe Brenninkmeyer, producer, and Tara Lynn Orr, writer (avenueROAD Films)
“Contrapelo (Against the Grain),” Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, director, and Pin-Chun Liu, producer (Ochenta y Cinco Films)
“Day One,” Henry Hughes, director (American Film Institute)
“Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut),” Patrick Vollrath, director (Filmakademie Wien)
“The Free Man (Zi You Ren),” Quah Boon-Lip, director (Taipei National University of the Arts)
“Shok,” Jamie Donoughue, director (Eagle Eye Films)
“Stutterer,” Benjamin Cleary, director (Bare Golly Films)
“Winter Light,” Julian Higgins, director, and Josh Pence, producer (Innerlight Films and Prelude Pictures)