Conde Nast Entertainment Launches The New Yorker Video Channel On THESCENE.com

Conde Nast Entertainment Launches The New Yorker Video Channel On THESCENE.com

Channel debuts with award-winning short films "Person to Person" and "Me + Her"

Additional short films to be rolled out over the next several weeks

NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Conde Nast Entertainment (CNE) today announced the launch of The New Yorker video channel on THE SCENE (www.thescene.com/thenewyorker). Sponsored by HBO, The New Yorker video channel will showcase talented and distinctive voices in filmmaking, bringing viewers a dynamic mix of acclaimed short films and original digital series.

The New Yorker video channel on THE SCENE debuts with Dustin Guy Defa's short film "Person To Person," a festival favorite of audiences and critics. "Person to Person" premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and continued its success at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival, where it won the DAAD Short Film Award; at SXSW, where it received the Special Jury Award; and at MOMA's New Directors/New Films. Reviewing the film earlier this year, The New Yorker's Richard Brody wrote [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/does-the-cinema-need-short-films]: "'Person to Person" has the ingenious construction and the relaxed discursiveness of a major literary short story, in which a clever situation...provides a crucial cross-section of one man's life and a whole way of life."

Also debuting today on The New Yorker video channel on THE SCENE is the award-winning "Me + Her," directed by Joseph Oxford, a gothic love story meticulously crafted in stop-motion animation. "Me + Her" premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and won the Best Animation award at the 2014 Aspen Shortsfest.

Rounding out the inaugural film slate is "Yearbook," Bernardo Britto's comedic, bittersweet vision of the near future which won the Grand Jury Prize for Animation at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Film descriptions are as follows:

"Person To Person"
DIRECTOR: Dustin Guy Defa
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS: Sundance Film Festival; DAAD Short Film Award at Berlin International Film Festival; SXSW; New Directors/New Films
SYNOPSIS: In this comedic drama, carefree Bene wakes up the morning after hosting a party and discovers a stranger passed out on his floor. He later regales his neighborhood cronies with how he spent the rest of the day trying to convince her to leave.
LINK: http://thescene.com/watch/thenewyorker/the-new-yorker-shorts-person-to-person

"Me + Her"
DIRECTOR: Joseph Oxford
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS: Sundance Film Festival; Best Animation winner at Aspen Shortsfest
SYNOPSIS: "Me + Her" is the tragic love story of Jack and Jill of Cardboard City, beautifully and meticulously brought to life in stop-motion animation. When they are separated by Jill's illness, Jack must think outside the box to assure they will be together again.
LINK: http://thescene.com/watch/thenewyorker/the-new-yorker-shorts-me-her

YEARBOOK
DIRECTOR: Bernardo Britto
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS: Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Animation, SXSW, Seattle, Palm Springs
SYNOPSIS: In this comedic but thought-provoking animated short, a man is hired by the national government to compile the definitive history of human existence before the planet is destroyed by an alien attack and Earth's VIPs relocate to safer ground.
LINK: http://wdrv.it/1AzUt3G

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About Conde Nast Entertainment (CNE)
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