Call for Entries

• The AAFilmLab along with the Imaginasian Theater will be putting together a Spring Shorts program in 2006. All members please submit your work to be included in the selection process. If you haven’t already, you can contact me at
• The 29th AAIFF call for entries is still open. Visit our website for the entry form as well as other exciting and new programs in the new year as ACV celebrates its 30th anniversary - http://www.asiancinevision.org
• Fellow AAFilmLab member Chung has sent word that there will be shorts screenings at the Silk Road Cafe in Chinatown starting January 20, 2006! They plan to make this a regular night so get your stuff together and email us -

Tribeca puts on shorts

Fest to add short film section in ‘06
By IAN MOHR

NEW YORK—Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro and his “Hide and Seek” helmer John Polson are collaborating once again: Tribeca will add a short film section in 2006 through a partnership with Polson’s Oz-set Tropfest.

Dubbed Tropfest@Tribeca, new initiative will include eight world-preem shorts, as well as another eight that have previously screened Down Under.

Polson will serve as creative director of . The helmer began Tropfest after screening a short of his for friends and family 14 years ago at Sydney’s Tropicana Caffe. Event has expanded to a full-on open-air shorts cavalcade that can draw up to 150,000 people to screenings.

Tribeca, also founded by Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, is skedded to run April 25-May 7.

Read the full article at:
http://www.variety.com/story.asp?l=story&a=VR1117934897&c=1061