Animated Films Featuring Colman Domingo and Brian Cox to Play HollyShorts Film Festival

LOS ANGELES, CA (July 28, 2022) — The Oscar®-Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival is, once again, proving animation is the future when it comes to entertainment. The 18th edition, happening from August 11-20, 2022 at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, unveiled its diverse selection of animated short films, including Emmy Nominee Colman Domingo’s New Moon.

New Moon, written by and starring Colman Domingo, follows an imaginative surrealist journey of a young boy and his mother chasing their inner city dreams. Adapted from his one-man play, “A Boy And His Soul,” this short also gives insight into Domingo’s upbringing, serving as a “love letter to West Philly and Black mothers and sons.” Other stellar standouts include Aaron Hughes’s Five Cents, starring Emmy Award-nominee Brian Cox (Succession); Ninety-five Senses, directed by Jerusha Hess (Austenland, Napoleon Dynamite, Don Verdean) and Jared Hess (Minecraft, Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre), written by Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer (Minecraft, Masterminds, Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life), featuring Tim Blake Nelson (Nightmare Alley, Watchmen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs); Joseph Pierce’s Scale (Cannes Selection 2022); The Castro Sisters, Domenica and Constanza Castro’s We Are Here (Sundance Selection 2022); as well as Lukas von Berg’s Saint Android (Cannes Cinéfondation 2021), among others.

The full list and schedule of animated shorts include:

Friday, August 12 , 2022 @ 12:00 PM PST – Adult Animation

• A Guitar in the Bucket

• Angulos de la Hora

• Chilly and Milly

• FALL OF THE IBIS KING

• Freedom Swimmer

• Holy Holocaust

• Invisible Eyes

• Love, Dad

• More Than I Remember

• New Moon

• Night

• Ninety-five Senses

• Other Half

• Saint Android

• SCALE

• She Dreams At Sunrise

• Slouch

• Sprite Fright

• Tehura

• The Awakening of the Insects

• The Chemical Factory

• THE CLEARING

• The Fall

• The Island of Us

• The Law of the Jungle Gym

• The Originals

• The Record

• The Seine’s tears

• What I Had to Leave Behind

• Zoon

Sunday, August 14, 2022 @ 5:00 PM PST – Kids Animation/Family Films

• A Cartoon of a Cat Sleeping

• Cool For You

• Depths Of Night

• Nounours

• The most boring Granny in the whole world

• The Ocean Duck

• The Social Chameleon

For tickets to the in-person celebration, please visit: www.hollyshorts2021.eventive.org

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About HollyShorts Film Festival (HSFF) #HSFF2022

www.hollyshorts.com

The annual Academy Awards® Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival will celebrate its 18th year in August 2022. HollyShorts (HSFF) brings together top creators, industry leaders, and companies and has launched many filmmakers into the next stages of their careers. HollyShorts, regular on MovieMaker Magazine’s “Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee list”, also engages its community and spotlights short films year-round through monthly screenings, panels, and networking events. HollyShorts Film Festival will take place in-person between August 11-20th, 2021 at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, with the annual Awards Gala set to take place on August 20th, 2022.

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