Rushes Soho Shorts Announces the Official Selection Including Five USA Filmmakers

Rushes Soho Shorts Announces the Official Selection Including Five USA Filmmakers

LOS ANGELES, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, hosted by the Ascent Media Group - owned post house Rushes, London, has announced the Official Selections for its 11th Year. United States filmmakers will be represented by two films, two broadcast designs and a music video.

The festival, which serves as a bridge between the commercial production industry and the independent film community, has steadily gained recognition as a premiere platform for the short film genre and has increasingly taken on an international character. This year's group of 140 Official Selections was drawn from more than 1000 entries representing some 112 countries. The festival will be held July 22-31 in London.

Charlie Thistle directed by Bragi Schut (Gallantyne Pictures) and Familiar Faces directed by Frank Madone (LCC) have been shortlisted in the festival's International category. Broadcast Design finalists include Victor Newman's Fusion Fall, directed by Freestyle Collective's Victor Newman and Avatar (Coca-Cola) directed by Smith & Foulkes of Nexus. Competing in the Music Video category is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs video Zero directed by HSI's Barney Clay. Two American's will also be among this year's festival judges, film critics Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle and Ty Burr of the Boston Globe.

The 18 countries represented this year also include Peru, France, Mexico, China, Spain, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Iceland, Australia, Slovenia, Israel, Ireland, Canada, Luxembourg and the UK.

This year will see all competition screenings (except the Broadcast Design category) held at The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), with tickets on sale from the end of June. The Broadcast Design Category screenings will be for free at Curzon Soho.

The full list of films screening in competition, along with the directors, production companies that made the work and the festival promo can now be seen at www.sohoshorts.com. Full festival screening and event details will be available online from 22nd June 2009.

Festival Promo

In order to introduce this year's short film festival, Rushes have produced their own version of the J. Arthur Rank title sequence titled "Gong man", conceived by Paul White and directed by Trevor De Silva using the original RANK Gong.

The promo can also be viewed along with a selection of work from every year of the festival, to date, at: http://www.dailymotion.com/SohoShorts

About Ascent Media Group:

Santa Monica, California-based Ascent Media Group, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ascent Media Corporation (NASDAQ:ASCMA). With more than 40 facilities worldwide, Ascent Media Group is a leading provider of fully integrated, end-to-end services for the global digital media supply chain. Guided by our entrepreneurial culture, we blend breakthrough creative with emerging technologies to deliver some of the most advanced and innovative solutions to help film and television studios, independent producers, broadcast networks, cable channels, advertising agencies and other companies make, manage, move and monetize their digital media.

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Notes to Editors:

--The festival is now recognised, arguably, as the UK's number one
short film festival
--The Festival runs over 10 days; Wednesday 22nd July to Friday 31st
July.
--The Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday 30th July 2009.
--Stills can be downloaded from the festival FTP Site:
ftp://ftp.rushes.co.uk
Username: Soho
Password: Shorts

First Call Analyst:
FCMN Contact:
http://www.sohoshorts.com

Source: Ascent Media

CONTACT: Gail Laguna of Ascent Media Group, +1-818-260-6229

Web Site: http://www.ascentmedia.com/

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