Summer season of Future Shorts Festival kicks off

Summer season of the Future shorts festival, the worlds biggest pop-up film festival has already started. Iran, Mexico, Tanzania, Canada, and Portugal join expanding list of territories.

Sanderson and St Martin`s lane hotels in London join growing list of future shorts venues.

Future Shorts is the largest short film network in the world. Future Shorts is the world`s most prolific and innovative film organisation, connecting audiences to a global network of film and culture.

Working across exhibition, distribution and experiential events, Future Shorts is committed to redefining the ways audiences experience film.

Future Shorts is the product of 8 years of audience development, experimentation and of reacting to the demand for another way of experiencing film.

Since 2003 the festival built a new audience for film across the globe and developed a platform for filmmakers that allow millions of people worldwide to engage with their work.

Future Shorts today announces highlights of the Summer Festival which is screening at locations around the globe from June 1st.

The line up includes Grant Orchard`s Oscar-nominated and BAFTA winning “A Morning Stroll” (UK, 2012); recent Clermont winner “Guest” from South Korea and SXSW favorite and award winner “Notes on Biology” from the US.

Showcasing the most exciting short films and filmmakers from around the world, Future Shorts is building a massive screening network and powerful community.

The ever expanding festival now features in 60 countries and 160 cities worldwide, with over 350 screenings and more than 35,000 audience attendees across six continents.

Iran, Mexico, Tanzania, Canada and Portugal join the ever expanding list of territories screening the Future Shorts programme, with expansion throughout Spring in Japan, the UK and the US.

The festival now plays in an incredible array of locations throughout the world including a palace in Bucharest, Riverside Studios in London, Cinema Jenin in Palestine, Ozen Bar in Tel Aviv, Art Lounge in Beirut, Voodoo hop- trackers Towers in Sao Paulo, Nafazi Art Space in TanzaniaTraffic Gallery in Dubai and a local youth centre in Bosnia.

The Summer Season will feature at The St Martin`s Lane and Sanderson Hotels in London and join the ever-expanding network of Future Shorts locations.

SUMMER SEASON QUARTERLY PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS

The Future Shorts Festival Summer Programme will screen worldwide during the Summer, from 1 June 2012 to 31st August 2012.

A Morning Stroll (2012) – Grant Orchard from UK lasts 7 min.

Created by Studio AKA, the multi-BAFTA winning company behind Future Shorts favourite Jojo in the Stars, Grant Orchard`s A Morning Stroll is the story of an encounter between a New Yorker and a chicken.

Told over three acts spanning over 100 years, this incredibly successful animated short has already won a BAFTA and a Jury Award at Sundance and was nominated for a Short Animated Film Oscar.

Guest (2011) - Ga Eun-Yoon from South Korea lasts 20 min.

A teenager angry at her father`s affair barges into his mistress` house to find her two little kids. Winner of the 2012 International Grand Prix at Clermont -Ferrand, Guest is a beautifully acted coming-of-age portrayal of emotions from Korean National University of Arts` film program.

Notes on Biology (2011) – Will Madden from USA lasts 6 min.

A stop motion animation, Notes on Biology was the winner of Best Short at SXSW. This very clever short film brought to us by Ornana Films follows a student`s imagination during a Biology class.