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'A Trip (Izlet)' wins New Directors Competition; 'Under African Skies' grabs Music Films / Music City award. NASHVILLE, Tennessee -- April 25, 2012 -- Matthew Gordon’s "The Dynamiter" and David Fine’s "Salaam Dunk" have captured the top jury prizes at the 2012 Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) presented by Nissan, it was announced this morning at a luncheon in the Liberty Party Tent Festival at the Regal Green Hills Stadium 16.
"The Dynamiter," the tale of a young boy without his mother facing a future with social services, captured the Bridgestone Narrative Competition Grand Jury Prize, the top narrative prize; "Salaam Dunk," a profile of the joys and challenges experienced by the American University of Iraq’s women’s basketball team, takes home the Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize. The Bridgestone Narrative Competition Grand Jury gave its best actor nod to William Ruffin, for his performance in “The Dynamiter,” and the best actress distinction to Alia Shawkat of “That’s What She Said.”
The Narrative Competition jury, comprised of Watkins College of Art, Design and Film’s Robin Foster; Millenium Studios’ executive producer Diego Martinez; and actor Anthony Zerbe (“Cool Hand Luke,” “Star Trek Insurrection,” “The Matrix Revolutions”) praised “The Dynamiter” as “the best kind of independent filmmaking -- compelling, real, raw and lyrical.” The Documentary Competition jury, judged by the Documentary Channel’s Greg Crofton; artist, director and designer J Bird Lathon; and award-winning documentary maker Anita Moffatt found  “Salaam Dunk” “a unique take on sports and geopolitics; it won us over.”

In other major competition categories, Joe Berlinger’s “Under African Skies,” a look at Paul Simon’s return to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of the historic “Graceland” album, claimed the Music Films / Music City Competition Grand Jury Prize, known as the Gibson Impact of Music Award. The Music Films/ Music City jury was made up of filmmaker Todd Elgin; Durango Film Society founder Jane Julian; and Helen Pursell, director of programming and scheduling for the Documentary Channel. “A Trip (Izlet),” director Nejc Gazvoda’s story of the tension and conflict that arises when high school friends try to recapture their youth with a trip to the seaside, wowed the New Directors Competition jury, guided by actor Michael Chieffo (“Disclosure,” “Crimson Tide,” “Beginners”); renowned and prolific actress Beth Grant, the only actor in history to have appeared in three Academy Award winning Best Pictures and a Best Animated Feature, and Joe Pacheco, award-winning filmmaker of “After the Fall” and an Emmy-nominated cinematographer. The film not only picked up the New Directors Competition Grand Jury prize, but grabbed the jury’s award for Best Actor (Jure Henigman), Best Actress (Nina Rakovec) and a Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast.

Live-action narrative and animated short films that win in competition at NaFF are qualified for Academy Award consideration. The Best Narrative Short award went to director Shawn Christensen’s  "Curfew." The Best Animated Short distinction was claimed by director Leo Verrier’s “Dripped.” The Best Short Documentary Award was given to director Matt Lenski’s “Meaning of Robots.”
A complete list of competition and special awards, including honorable mentions and special jury prizes, follows. Audience Award winners will be announced tomorrow at the NaFF Closing Night party at W.O. Smith School. The 43nd Nashville Film Festival presented by Nissan, which began on Thursday, April 19, closes tomorrow at Regal Green Hills Stadium 16 with encore screenings of competition award winners and popular films, and co-closing night presentations of “BIG EASY EXPRESS” at 7:00 p.m. , with members of Old Crow Medicine Show in attendance, and “Paul Williams Still Alive” at 7:15 p.m., with Williams in attendance. NaFF, together with the Nashville Scene and the Americana Music Association, will also screen “BIG EASY EXPRESS” again on Thursday night at 9:00 p.m., for free and open to public at the Centennial Park Bandshell. A program of NaFF 2012 award-winning shorts will start at 8:00 p.m.  and ‘BIG EASY EXPRESS” will screen at 9:00 p.m . The NaFF 2012 Closing Night party at the W.O. Smith School  starts at 9:00 p.m. with music from the Brooklyn Brothers, from “The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best” and other surprise guests. It is open to the NaFF laminate holders only.
Nashville Film Festival is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation and receives funding from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Franklin Brooks Philanthropic Fund and William N. Rollins Fund for the Arts of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, Ann & Lance Krafft Charitable Lead Trust, The Memorial Foundation, Nashville Metro Arts Commission, Tennessee Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts and its generous patrons and sponsors.
2012 Nashville Film Festival presented by Nissan Award Winners
Narrative Competition presented by Bridgestone
Grand Jury Prize: “The Dynamiter” (Matthew Gordon / USA)
Honorable Mention: “QWERTY” (Bill Sebastian / USA)
Best Actor: William Ruffin, “The Dynamiter”
Best Actor (Honorable Mention): Shawn Ashmore, “Mariachi Gringo”
Best Actress: Alia Shawkat,  “That’s What She Said”
Best Actress (Honorable Mention): Lizzy Caplan, “Queen of Country”
Best Film Music: “QWERTY,” composers Bruce Chianese, Ricardo Veiga
Louise LeQuire Award for Best Screenplay: “Supporting Characters,” Tarik Lowe, Daniel Schechter
Documentary Competition
Grand Jury Prize: “Salaam Dunk” (David Fine / Iraq, USA)
Honorable Mention: “La Camioneta” (Mark Kendall / USA)
Special Jury Prize for Achievement in Writing: “Mulberry Child” (Susan Morgan Cooper / USA)
Special Jury Prize for Achievement in Directing: “This Ain’t California” (Marten Persiel / Germany)
Music Films/Music City Competition presented by Gibson
Gibson Impact of Music Award: “Under African Skies” (Joe Berlinger / USA)
Honorable Mention: “Butch Walker: Out of Focus” (Peter Harding, Shane Valdes / USA)
Special Jury Prize for A Surprising Look at the Fan Experience: “Affair of the Heart” (Sylvia Caminer / USA)
New Directors Competition
Grand Jury Prize: “A Trip (Izlet)” (Nejc Gazvoda / Slovenia)
Co-Honorable Mention: “Welcome to Pine Hill” (Keith Miller / USA) and “Foreign Letters” (Ela Thier / USA)
Best Actor: Jure Henigman, “A Trip (Izlet)”
Best Actress: Nina Rakovec “A Trip (Izlet)”
Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast: “A Trip (Izlet)”
Southwest Airlines Freedom to Choose Audience Awards
Narrative Feature: TBA
Documentary Feature: TBA
Graveyard Shift: TBA
Short Film Competition
Best Narrative Short (Academy Award Qualifier): “Curfew” (Shawn Christensen / USA)
Honorable Mention: “Las Palmas” (Johannes Nyholm /  Sweden)
Best Animated Short (Academy Award Qualifier): “Dripped” (Leo Verrier / France)
Honorable Mention: “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” (Don Hertzfeldt /  USA)
Best Documentary Short: “Meaning of Robots” (Matt Lenski / USA)
Honorable Mention:  “Ben Franklin Blowing Bubbles at a Sword” (Jonathan Napolitano / USA)
Best Experimental Short: “All the Lines Flow Out” (Charles Lim Yi Yong / Singapore)
Vanderbilt Golden Opportunity Award: “Bian Zi” (Chun-Yi Hsieh / Taiwan, China)
Honorable Mention: “Contra El Mar” (Richard Parkin /  USA, Mexico)
Watkins Young Filmmaker Award: “Alone Together” (Ben Kadie / USA)
Additional Awards
NaFF Career Achievement Award: Dolly Parton
Mike Curb Career Achievement Award for Film Music: Paul Williams
Governor's Award: Wayne White
Ground Zero Tennessee Spirit Award for Best Feature Film:  “He Ain’t Heavy” (jeff obafemi carr /  USA)
Ground Zero Tennessee Spirit Award for Best Short Narrative Film:  “Talking to Arthur”(William M. Akers / USA)
Ground Zero Tennessee Spirit Award for Best Short Documentary: “Mr. Smith’s Peach Seed” (Stewart Copeland / USA)
Outstanding Black Filmmaker Award: Sheldon Candis, “LUV”
NAHCC Hispanic Filmmaker Award:  TBA
Best GLBT Film Award: “Leave It On the Floor” (Sheldon Larry / USA)
NPT Human Spirit Award: “Salaam Dunk” (David Fine / Iraq, USA)
Women in Film & TV Prize for Best Film by a Woman Director: “That’s What She Said” (Carrie Preston / USA)
Film Musicians Secondary Market Fund Prize for Best Director / Composer : “I Am Not a Hipster,” Destin Daniel Cretton / Joel P. West
West Collaboration: “I Am Not a Hipster” (Destin Cretton / USA)
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Nicole Kidman, Delia Ephron, Music Supervisors, Off-Site Screenings and Concerts Highlight Panels and Events for 2012 Nashville Film Festival presented by Nissan
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A panel discussion featuring producer and Academy-award winning actor Nicole Kidman, a one-on-one discussion with novelist and screenwriter Delia Ephron (“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, “You’ve Got Mail”); free ticket opportunities through NowPlayingNashville.com; and the opportunity to learn from some of the finest music supervisors in the film and television business, including “Glee” supervisor PJ Bloom, are just a few of the additional offerings at this year’s Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) presented by Nissan, taking place April 19-26, 2012 at the Regal Green Hills Cinemas and various venues around Nashville.

Kidman, who produced, in addition to starring in, 2010’s acclaimed “Rabbit Hole,” will join actors-turned-directors Famke Janssen (“Goldeneye,” “X-Men” Trilogy), Carrie Preston (“True Blood,” “Doubt”) and Beth Grant (“Sordid Lives,” “The Artist”), who have all directed films in the festival, for “The Evolution of Women Behind the Camera,” a panel discussion on Saturday, April 21 at 4:30 p.m. at the Regal Green Hills Cinemas. Tickets for the general public are $25 and will be available online at nashvillefilmfestival.org on April 11.

NaFF’s popular music supervisors panel returns again this year, with guests Evyen Klean (“Hemingway & Gellhorn,: “Game Change”), Tricia Holloway “Middle Men,” “Honey 2”), PJ Bloom (“Glee,” “American Horror Story”), Wende Crowley (“Easy A,” “Friends with Benefits”), Jenee Deangelis (“Cold Case, “Breaking Pointe”), and Michael Freeman, music producer, Ogilvy & Mather. Music Supervisor panels take place on Tuesday, April 24 and Wednesday, April 26. More information, including ticket prices and times, is available in the complete list of panels and events below.

In partnership with NowPlayingNashville.com, an initiative of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, NaFF will once again be offering free tickets to select films throughout the festival. Festival-goers can view films and secure free tickets by visiting NowPlayingNashville.com each afternoon. To receive immediate updates about films in which free tickets are available, fans can follow NowPlayingNashville.com on the web at NowPlayingNashville.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/NowPlayingNashville, or on Twitter ( @NowPlayingNash). All free ticket opportunities will be reposted to Nashville Film Festival’s Facebook and Twitter ( @NashFilmFest) accounts.

A complete list and schedule of special presentations, world cinema and feature and short films in competition is available now at nashvillefilmfestival.org. Tickets for the festival, which runs April 19-26 at the Regal Green Hills Cinemas, go on sale to the general public at nashvillefilmfestival.org on Wednesday, April 11.

Nashville Film Festival is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation and receives funding from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Franklin Brooks Philanthropic Fund and William N. Rollins Fund for the Arts of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, Ann & Lance Krafft Charitable Lead Trust, The Memorial Foundation, Nashville Metro Arts Commission, Tennessee Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts and its generous patrons and sponsors.


PANELS
Please note: due to production schedules, panelists may be substituted without advance notice.

Everything You Wanted to Know About SAG-AFTRA But Were Afraid to Ask
Designed for actors, both aspiring and working, this workshop will answer your questions about SAG-AFTRA on topics ranging from how to qualify for membership, working under contracts, and how residuals work.  Get the scoop from a panel of SAG-AFTRA Staff and members.

Friday, 4/20, 3:30pm - Regal Green Hills - FREE

Lunchtime Film Chat: Beg, Borrow & Steal: The Secrets to Making a Low-Budget Movie without Getting Arrested
So, you’ve got an idea for a movie, but you’re intimidated by the process? The thoughts of getting permits terrifying you? You’re not the first person to feel this way, and you won’t be the last. Ask questions and get answers and tips from the people who’ve been there and done that.
Friday, 4/20, 12:00pm - Liberty Party Tent - FREE

Design Your Neighborhood Interactive Workshop
Conceived by NCDC’s Design Director, Gary Gaston, this heart-warming documentary chronicles a four-week workshop where inner-city minority youth are exposed to the crafts of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, organic farming, filmmaking, and civic involvement through field trips to notable city landmarks, and participation in design charrettes led by local professionals. The screening will be followed by a panel featuring local civic and design leaders from the film, including Vice-Mayor Diane Neighbors, Gary Gaston, architect Manuel Zeitlin, a youth workshop participant, and filmmaker Carolyn McDonald.
Saturday, 4/21, 2:00pm - Regal Green Hills - FREE

The Evolution of Women Behind the Camera
Hollywood has always been an old boy network kind of a town, but recently women have been showing their might at the box office and behind the camera. Join us as we celebrate four such women who have added director or producer to the title of actor. Featuring Famke Janssen, Carrie Preston, Beth Grant and Nicole Kidman.
Saturday, 4/21, 4:30pm - Regal Green Hills - $25

“Charlie Louvin: Still Rattlin’ the Devil’s Cage” Screening and Panel Discussion, presented by Americana Music Association
Stick around after this screening of “Charlie Louvin: Still Rattlin’ the Devil’s Cage” for an engaging panel discussion on Louvin’s life and legacy, with filmmakers Blake Judd and Keith Neltner, singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale, Louvin’s manager Brett Steele and moderator and music journalist Peter Cooper.
Sunday, 4/22, 3:30 p.m. - Regal Green Hills Theatre 5 - $12 (Includes Screening and Discussion)

Lunchtime Film Chat: Documentarian, Tear Down That Wall! Secrets of the Invisible Lens
Great documentaries make their subjects so comfortable that if you weren’t watching them on the screen, you’d think there wasn’t a camera there. How do they do that? Dive in the trenches with the filmmakers who have been there to find their secrets to getting under their subject’s skin. Moderated by Dorothy Henckel from The Documentary Channel.
Monday, 4/23, 12:00pm - Liberty Party Tent - FREE

Lunchtime Film Chat: How to Be a Festival Flirt - The Secrets to Building Buzz and Seducing Audiences
So, you made it into the festival. HOO-ray!  But your work isn’t done.
To make your festival experience a successful one, you’ll need to network, schmooze the audience, and get your materials into the right hands to come out the other side of the fest feeling like you’re awesome. We’ve got some pros to help you learn how.
Tuesday, 4/24, 12:00pm - Liberty Party Tent - FREE

Music Supervisors - 101: The Basics of Song Placement
Understanding exactly how to submit your songs for film or TV can make the difference between getting that song placed or having it wind up in the “circular file”. Our panel of top music supervisors, Evyen Klean (“Hemingway & Gellhorn,: “Game Change”), Tricia Holloway “Middle Men,” “Honey 2”), PJ Bloom (“Glee,” “American Horror Story”), Wende Crowley (“Easy A,” “Friends with Benefits”), Jenee Deangelis (“Cold Case, “Breaking Pointe”), and Michael Freeman, music producer, Ogilvy & Mather, will set down the guidelines for how, when, and to whom to submit your songs to maximize your chances and build lasting relationships. How technology is changing licensing and soundtracks will also be discussed. Jim Scherer (Whizbang, Inc) will moderate. Sponsored by SESAC.
Tuesday, 4/24, 1:30pm - Regal Green Hills - $15

One on One with Delia Ephron, presented by Parnassus Books
Delia Ephron is a bestselling author and screenwriter. Her movies include “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, “You’ve Got Mail,” Hanging Up” (based on her novel), and “Michael.” She has written novels for adults and teenagers, books of humor, including “How to Eat Like a Child,” and essays. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, O the Oprah Magazine, Vogue, MORE, and The Huffington Post. Recently, she collaborated with Nora Ephron on a play, “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,: which ran for two years in New York, and has been performed all over the world including Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Sydney. Book signing to follow. Event presented by Parnassus Books.
Tuesday, 4/25, 5:30pm - Regal Green Hills - $15

Music Supervisors - 201: Advanced Placement
Open only to established publishers and industry professionals, this panel moves past the basics and takes an in-depth look at song placement for film and TV. Our music supervisors will discuss their current projects, and the more intimate setting will open up opportu- nities for submissions and relationship-building. Bring your business cards! Evyen Klean (“Hemingway & Gellhorn,: “Game Change”), Tricia Holloway “Middle Men,” “Honey 2”), PJ Bloom (“Glee,” “American Horror Story”), Wende Crowley (“Easy A,” “Friends with Benefits”), Jenee Deangelis (“Cold Case, “Breaking Pointe”), and Michael Freeman, music producer, Ogilvy & Mather, the panel will be moderated by composer/songwriter Stacy Widelitz. Sponsored by SESAC.
Wednesday, 4/25, 10:00am - Regal Green Hills  $45

Awards Brunch
You’ve seen the movies, now join us in the Liberty Party Tent for a catered brunch and find out who has won the major prizes. More than $30,000 in cash and prizes will be handed out to the jury’s selected prize-winners.
Wednesday, 4/25, 11:00 am - Liberty Party Tent - FREE with Festival Laminate

OFF-SITE & LIVE EVENTS

FREE Earth Day Screenings at Lipscomb
In honor of Earth Day, we are screening two fantastic earth-friendly films
for FREE on Lipscomb University’s campus (1 University Park Drive) at
Ward Hall. Seats are on a first come, first served basis.
Friday, 4/20, 4:30 p.m. - “A Fierce Green Fire”
Friday, 4/20, 7:00 p.m. - “Last Call at the Oasis”

FREE Record Store Day Screenings at The Basement
Check out three Music Films / Music City films for free at The
Basement at Grimey’s (1604 8th Avenue South) in celebration of Record
Store Day. Seats are on a first come, first served basis.
Saturday, 4/21,1:00pm - “Don’t Follow Me I’m Lost”
Saturday, 4/21,2:45pm - “Andrew Bird Fever Year”
Saturday, 4/21,4:30pm - “Brick and Mortar Love”

Music & Movies Live Event
Join us as we celebrate some of the great music from festival films with
a live show featuring Wes Cunningham from “Sironia” and
Canines and many of the musicians featured in “I Am Not a Hipster” in one of Nashville’s newest, hippest places to hear music -
the High Watt Stage at Mercy Lounge (1 Cannery Row).
Saturday, 4/21, 8:00pm - High Watt -   $5 or FREE with Laminate

Movie Trivia presented by Trivia Time
Think you know movies? Prove it. Join NaFF and partner Trivia Time for
a knock-down drag-out fight for movie geek supremacy! Four rounds, 20
Questions, All movies. Winning teams recieves four passes to the Closing Night Party ($140 value) + $50 bar cash. And it’s right by the Regal Green Hills on Monday night at Joe’s Place (2227 Bandywood Dr. - a smoking venue) and Tuesday night at Crow’s Nest (2221 Bandywood Dr.) (no smoking indoors).
Monday, 4/23, 8:00pm - Joe’s Place
Tuesday, 4/24, 8:00pm - Crow’s Nest (upstairs)

Butch Walker at 12th & Porter
Butch Walker has been called a musician’s musician and after you’ve
seen “Butch Walker: Out of Focus” at the festival, you’ll have the chance to hear exactly why he’s earned that description at a live performance at 12th & Porter (114 12th Avenue North)
Wednesday, 4/25, 12:00pm - 12th & Porter - FREE with Laminate

“Music City Underground” Release Show
Official Release Show of the film, followed by live performances by Evan P. Donahue, The Electric Hearts and VITEK.
Wednesday, 4/25, Mercy Lounge
Screening at 7:00pm - $10 for screening/show
Show at 9:00pm - $5 after film

Closing Night Party
Join us at the W.O. Smith Music School (1125 8th Ave. South) as we
close the festival. Audience Award winners will be announced. Whole Foods catering will be consumed. Stella Artois and wine will be pro- vided and music will be played by The Brooklyn Brothers (from the film ”The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best” (and perhaps a surprise guest or two). Valet parking provided.
Thursday, 4/26, 9:00 pm - WO Smith Music School - $35 or FREE with Festival Laminate

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Nashville Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) is a cultural arts institution that inspires, educates and entertains through an annual celebration of the art of motion pictures, year-round events and community outreach. Founded in 1969 by Mary Jane Coleman as the Sinking Creek Film Celebration, the organization’s signature eight-day April festival, now known as the Nashville Film Festival presented by Nissan, is the longest running film festival in the South. It also ranks among the most prestigious, continually garnering accolades and notice from a wide range of entertainment and trade publications, including the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal online, MovieMaker Magazine, Film Festival Today, IndieWire, Variety, Billboard, New York and Script Magazine. Since 2004, the Festival has more than doubled its attendance to almost 26,000 and on average screens more than 250 films from 48 nations around the globe each year. In 2012, the festival marks its 43rd year. It is hosted at the Regal Green Hills Stadium 16 in Nashville, Tennessee.

About NowPlayingNashville.com

NowPlayingNashville.com, an initiative of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, is Middle Tennessee’s comprehensive arts and entertainment calendar, with information about music, theatre, sports, dance, museums, family and free event, and more, including discount ticket offers and special ticket giveaways. Since its launch in 2007, the website has collaborated with hundreds of community partners, providing comprehensive information to support arts and entertainment organizations and enrich the Middle Tennessee community. For more information, visit www.NowPlayingNashville.com.
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In the Americas, Nissan's operations include automotive styling, engineering, consumer and corporate financing, sales and marketing, distribution and manufacturing.  Nissan is dedicated to improving the environment under the Nissan Green Program and was recognized as an ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency in 2010 and 2011. More information, including photos and video b-roll, on Nissan in North America, the Nissan LEAF and zero emissions can be found at www.nissanusa.com.
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Academy Award Qualifying Festival programs 120 from 26 countries; Sundance winner ‘The Black Balloon,” Cannes winner ‘Swimsuit 46’ and a new work by actress Beth Grant are highlights.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee March 13, 2012 "The Black Balloon” winner of the US Fiction Jury Prize in Short Film at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and “Swimsuit 46,” winner of the International Shorts Jury Award at the 2011 Cannes Fim Festival are just two of the notable short films that will screen at the 43rd Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) presented by Nissan, April 19-26, 2012, at the Regal Green Hills Cinemas. They join the “Perfect Fit,” a new work directed by celebrated actress Beth Grant and starring Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer, to total 120 films from 26 countries playing the Festival.

“The Black Balloon,” by directors Ben and Joshue Safdie, is a sci-fi urban fable about a lone black balloon set free in New York City and searching for a companion. Originally intended for a children, it is ultimately about humans as complicated creatures with extreme highs and lows, but full of life nonetheless. Wannes Destoop’s “Swimsuit 46” tells the story of 12-year-old Chantal, a chubby girl having a hard time finding her way through life who finds a home at the local pool where she is training for a swimming competition. Her need for a new pair of goggles changes everything. An almost completely silent film with music, “The Perfect Fit,” also starring Ahna O’Reilly, Frances Fisher and Grant, is the story of five women who meet by chance in a vintage clothing store, each searching for something important. Full of twists and surprises, their 'perfect fit' turns out to be something quite different than any of them expected.

NaFF is one of only 24 film festivals in the United States designated as an Academy Award- qualifying festival for short films, meaning that winners of the narrative and animation short competitions are automatically qualified for Academy Award consideration. The designation results in a high number of entries for the Festival, and this year broke all records with 2027 shorts submitted. Films may compete in more than one competition area, including those competing for the Vanderbilt Golden Opportunity Award for Best College Student Short.*

A complete list of animated, narrative and documentary shorts follows. Previously announced feature films in competition and non-competition categories are available at nashvillefilmfestival.org. Added feature films will be announced later this week. Panels, jurors, music showcases and a complete schedule will be announced in the weeks ahead.

Tickets for the festival go on sale to the general public on April 7. Members of the media wishing to apply for media credentials may do so now at nashvillefilmfestival.org/press > "Apply for Media Credentials."

Nashville Film Festival is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation and receives funding from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Franklin Brooks Philanthropic Fund and William N. Rollins Fund for the Arts of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, Ann & Lance Krafft Charitable Lead Trust, The Memorial Foundation, Nashville Metro Arts Commission, Tennessee Arts Commission, and its generous patrons and sponsors.

2012 Nashville Film Festival presented by Nissan Confirmed Short Films:
Narrative Shorts Competition

Afternoon Tea
(DJ Parmar / Canada / 13 min.)
After-School Special
(Jacob Chase / USA / 9 min.)
Another Bullet Dodged
(Landon Zackheim / USA / 11 min.)
The Arm
(Jessie Ennis, Brie Larson & Sarah Ramos / USA / 7 min.)
Barbie Blues
(Adi Kutner / Israel / 18 min.)
Bear
(Nash Edgerton / Australia / 11 min.)
Beep
(Haytham Saqr / United Arab Emirates / 5 min.)
Bian Zi *
(Chun-Yi Hsieh / Taiwan / 15 min.)
The Black Balloon
(Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie / USA / 30 min.)
Brick Novax’s Diary
(Matt Piedmont / USA / 16 min.)
Buzkashi Boys
(Sam French / Afghanistan / 28 min.)
Catharsis
(Matthias Zabiegly  / France / 18 min.)
The Chair
(Graniger David / USA / 12 min.)
Contra El Mar *
(Richard Parkin / Bolivia / 20 min.)
A Cullin Rising
(Catriona MacInnes / UK / 20 min.)
Curfew
(Shawn Christensen / USA / 19 min.)
Ellie
(Chris Dundon / UK / 18 min.)
The Final Sequence
(Arturo Ruiz / Spain / 13 min.)
The Five Stages of Grief
(Jess Brickman / USA / 11 min.)
The Foundling
(Barney Cokeliss / UK / 7 min.)
Frozen Stories
(Grzegorz Jaroszuk / Poland / 26 min.)
Ghost in the Machien
(Oliver Krimpas / UK / 18 min.)
Gin & Dry
(Oscar Plewes / UK / 15 min.)
I Was a Parade *
(Stephen Levy / USA / 4 min.)
Interview
(Sebastian Marka / Germany / 19 min.)
The L Train
(Anna Musso / USA / 17 min.)
The Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke
(Jillian Mayer, Lucas Leyva/ USA / 10 min.)
Literally, Right Before Aaron
(Ryan Eggold / USA / 23 min.)
The Living and the Dead
(John Lavin / Spain / 17 min.)
Martha Must Fly (Al Martha Lauf)
(Ma'Ayan Rypp / Israel / 25 min.)
Mobius
(Aya Tanimura / USA / 7 min.)
Mwansa the Great
(Rungano Nyoni / Zambia / 23 min.)
Neighbors *
(Rachel Goldberg / USA / 20 min.)
The North London Book of the Dead
(Jake Lushingon / UK / 15 min.)
Las Palmas
(Johannes Nyholm / Sweden / 14 min.)
Papa
(Carolina Giammetta & Schuman Hoque / UK / 11 min.)
Paris Shanghai
(Thomas Cailley / France / 25 min.)
The Perfect Fit
(Beth Grant / USA / 13 min.)
Picture Paris
(Brad Hall / USA / 29 min.)
Pocket Elephant *
(Jocelyn R.C. / USA / 16 min.)
Portrait of a Family
(Rachel Goldberg / Columbia / 16 min.)
Posturas
(Alvaro Oliva / Spain / 13 min.)
Random Strangers
(Alexis Dos Santos / Netherlands / 25 min.)
Revolution Reykjavik
(Isold Uggadottir/ Iceland / 19 min.)
Rolling on the Floor Laughing
(Russell Harbaugh / USA / 19 min.)
Salar
(Nicholas Greene / Bolivia / 20 min.)
Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother
(Greg Williams / United Kingdom / 13 min.)
The Speed of the Past
(Dominique Rocher / France / 17 min.)
Swimsuit 46
(Wannes Destoop / Belgium / 15 min.)
Tooty's Wedding
(Frederic Casella / UK / 19 min.)
Tsuyako
(Mitsuyo Miyazaki / Japan / 24 min.)
Zoltan: The Hungarian Gangster of Love
(Justin Reardon / USA / 14 min.)

Animated Shorts Competition

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(Isamu Hirabayashi / Japan / 7 min.)
38 - 39° C *
(Kangmin Kim / USA, South Korea / 8 min.)
Defective Detective *
(Avner Geller & Stevie Lewis / USA / 4 min.)
Diary of a Blueberry
(Drew Callendar / USA / 5 min.)
Dripped
(Leo Verrier / France / 9 min.)
The Gruffalo's Child
(Johannes Weiland & Uwe Heidschötter / UK / 27 min.)
The Itch of the Golden Nit
(Sarah Cox / UK / 34 min.)
John and Joe
(Mike Rauch / USA / 4 min.)
Luna
(Donna Brockopp / Canada / 7 min.)
The Maker
(Christopher Kezelos / Australia / 6 min.)
Maska
(Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay / Poland / 24 min.)
Miss Devine
(Mike Rauch / USA / 4 min.)
The Missing Key
(Jonathan Nix / Australia / 30 min.)Morning Stroll, A
Night Hunter
(Stacey Steers / USA / 16 min.)
No More Questions
(Mike Rauch / USA / 4 min.)
Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise
(Kelly Sears / USA / 8 min.)
Pound Dogs
(Mike Salva / USA / 13 min.)
Summer Bummer
(Bill Plymton / USA / 2 min.)
A Tax on Bunny Rabbits
(Nathaniel Akin / Canada / 2 min.)
To R.P. Salazar, with Love
(Mick Rauch / USA / 3 min.)
The Wanna-Be Oddie in Krazy Vending Machine
(Jun Bin Lam / USA / 3 min.)

Documentary Shorts Competition

Abuelas
(Afarin Eghbal / UK / 9 min.)
Ben Franklin Blowing Bubbles at a Sword: The Journeys of a Mental Athlete
(Jonathan Napolitano / USA / 40 min.)
Boy in a Dress
(Dean Hammer / USA / 4 min.)
Family Nightmare
(Dustin Guy Defa / USA / 11 min.
Hilary’s Straws
(Phil Cox / UK / 4 min.
The Landfill
(Jessica Edwards, Gary Hustwit / USA / 4 min.
The Last Day of Summer
(Piotr Stasik / Poland / 30 min.)
Meaning of Robots
(Matt Lenski / USA / 4 min.)
Meet Mr. Toilet
(Jessica Yu / USA / 4 min.)
Mexican Cuisine
(Fran Guijarro / Spain / 4 min.)
Minka
(Davina Padro / Japan & USA / 15 min.)
Mondays at Racine
(Cynthia Wade / USA / 39 min.)
Odysseus' Gambit *
(Alex Lora / Spain / 12 min.)
Scent of Strawberries
(Guy Natanel / Israel / 17 min.)

Experimental Films

The Achromatic Island
(Sofie Thorsen / Austria / 15 min.)
All the Lines Flow Out
(Charles Lim Yi Yong/ Singapore / 21 min.)
Apnoe
(Harald Hund, Paul Horn/ Austria / 10 min.)
Cigarette at Night
(Duane Hopkins / UK / 5 min.)
Grow
(Sofie Thorsen / Netherlands / 2 min.)
Intrigue and the Ronches
(Kurdwin Ayub / Austria / 3 min.)
The Inviolability of the Domicile is Based on the Man Who Appears Wielding an Axe at the Door of the House
(Alex Piperno / Uruguay / 7 min.)Maria Theresia and the 16 Children
Nocturn
(Leanne Welham / USA / 6 min.)
Passion
(William DiPietra / USA / 8 min.)
River Rites
(Ben Russell / Suriname / 10 min.)
Stuck in a Groove
(Clemens Kogler / Netherlands / 4 min.)
vers.augt
(Tome Fink / Austria / 6 min.)

Tennessee First Shorts

88:88
(Joey Ciccoline / USA / 14 min.)
And Scene!
(Brooks Benjamin / USA / 5 min.)
Fresh Skweezed
(Ryan Parker, G.B. Shannon / USA / 22 min.)
Giant Monster Playset
(Greg Pope / USA / 12 min.)
Idle Hour
(Josh Harrell / USA / 13 min.)
Inch of Grace
(Steven Wesley Miller / USA / 25 min.)
Killer Appetite
(Timothy Kenney / USA / 23 min.)
Mr. Smith's Peach Seeds
(Stewart Copeland / USA / 11 min.)
Talking to Arthur
(William M. Akers / USA / 15 min.)
The Buried
(Jonathan Pope Evans  / USA / 13 min.)
A Walk in My Shoes
(Melissa Richie  / USA / 29 min.)

Young Filmmakers Competition (for filmmakers under 18)

Adoraphobia
(Stephanie / USA / 10 min.)
Alone Together
(Ben Kadie / USA / 23 min.)
Diminuendo
(Sophie Epstein, Lara Johnson, Sophia Mason, Alexander Mattingly, Lizi Stanfeild & Maranda Vandergriff / USA / 11 min.)
Fire in Our Hearts
(Jayshtree Janu Kharpade / USA / 28 min.)
MyShoes
(Elisa Resinaro / Italy / 10 min.)
Onion Skin
(Joseph Procopio / Canada / 10 min.)
Pencil
(Edward Heffernan / USA / 5 min.)
Nashville Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) is a cultural arts institution that inspires, educates and entertains through an annual celebration of the art of motion pictures, year-round events and community outreach. Founded in 1969 by Mary Jane Coleman as the Sinking Creek Film Celebration, the organization’s signature eight-day April festival, now known as the Nashville Film Festival presented by Nissan, is the longest running film festival in the South. It also ranks among the most prestigious, continually garnering accolades and notice from a wide range of entertainment and trade publications, including the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal online, MovieMaker Magazine, Film Festival Today, IndieWire, Variety, Billboard, New York and Script Magazine. Since 2004, the Festival has more than doubled its attendance to almost 26,000 and on average screens more than 250 films from 48 nations around the globe each year. In 2012, the festival marks its 43rd year. It is hosted at the Regal Green Hills Stadium 16 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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NASHVILLE, – “Umshini Wam,” by Nashville-based director Harmony Korine; “The Terrys,” by “Adult Swim” creators Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim; and “All Flowers in Time” by “Tarnation” director Jonathan Caouette are among 140 short films from 28 countries that will compete at the 2011 Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) presented by Nissan when it takes place April 14-21 at the Regal Green Hills Cinemas.

Joining these films will be three films nominated for Academy Awards in 2011: Live-Action Short winner “God of Love” by American director Luke Matheny; “The Gruffalo,” by U.K. director Barney Goodland and “You Too (Na Wewe)” by Ivan Goldschmidt, filmed in Burundi and Belgium.
Short films for the 2011 NaFF presented by Nissan were selected from a pool of 1639 shorts submitted. NaFF is one of only 24 film festivals in the United States designated as an Academy Award-qualifying festival for short films. Winners of the narrative and animation short competitions are automatically qualified for Academy Award consideration.
“Because of our Academy Award qualifier status, we tend to receive an impressive amount of short film entries each year,” says Brian Owens, NaFF artistic director. “The downside is that it’s not easy to cull down more than 1,600 short films. There are so many great films we can’t fit. The upside is that what we’ve ended up with is like a mini World Cinema category with ten times as many films! This year’s selection, from both veterans, like Academy Award winner Ray McKinnon, and newcomers, is thrilling.”
A complete list of animated, narrative and documentary shorts follows. Previously announced feature films in competition and non-competition categories, as well as Special Presentations and additional films announced today, are available at nashvillefilmfestival.org. Panels, jurors, music showcases and a complete schedule will be announced in the weeks ahead.
Tickets for the festival go on sale to the general public on April 7. Members of the media wishing to apply for media credentials may do so now at nashvillefilmfestival.org/press > "Apply for Media Credentials."
Nashville Film Festival is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation and receives funding from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Franklin Brooks Philanthropic Fund and William N. Rollins Fund for the Arts of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, Ann & Lance Krafft Charitable Lead Trust, The Memorial Foundation, Nashville Metro Arts Commission, Tennessee Arts Commission, and its generous patrons and sponsors.
Short Films in Competition(Director(s) / Country(s) of Origin / Running Time)
Animated Shorts
Amazonia (Sam Chen / USA / 5 minutes)
Barko (Allison Craig / USA / 8 minutes)
Bike Race (Tom Schroeder / USA / 12 minutes)
Birdboy (Pedro Rivero & Alberto Vázquez / Spain / 12 minutes)
Cheez…z (Arut Tantasirin / 3 minutes)
The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger (Bill Plympton / USA / 6 minutes)
Danny & Annie (The Rauch Brothers / USA / 6 minutes)
The Eagleman Stag (Mikey Please / United Kingdom / 9 minutes) – BAFTA winner for Best Animated
Family Portrait (Joseph Pierce / United Kingdom / 5 minutes)
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg / USA / 17 minutes)
The Gruffalo (Barney Goodland / United Kingdom / 27 minutes)
Heart (Erick Oh / South Korea / 9 minutes)
The Human Voice (The Rauch Brothers / USA / 4 minutes)
A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation (Stefan Leuchtenberg & Martin Wallner / Germany / 15 minutes)
Luna (Rafael & Raúl Cardenas / Mexico / 8 minutes)
Machines of the Working Class (James & Robert Dastoli / USA / 2 minutes)
Margarita (Alex Cervantes / Spain / 14 minutes)
Mobile (Verena Fels / Germany / 6 minutes)
Not Over Easy (Jordan Canning / Canada / 6 minutes)
Paths of Hate (Damian Nenow / Poland / 10 minutes)
Something Left, Something Taken (Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata / USA / 11 minutes)
The Tannery (Iain Gardner / United Kingdom / 6 minutes)
Thought of You (Ryan Woodward / USA / 3 minutes)
Tussilago (Jonas Odell / Sweden / 14 minutes)
Tord and Tord (Niki Lindroth von Bahr / 11 minutes)
Narrative Shorts

3x3 (Nuno Rocha / Portugal / 6 minutes)
40 Years (Russell Appleford / United Kingdom / 14 minutes)
After You Left (Jef Taylor / USA / 20 minutes)
Baby (Daniel Mulloy / United Kingdom / 25 minutes) - British Independent Film Award for Best British Short Film 2010
Bedfellows (Pierre Stefanos / USA / 15 minutes)
Close (Tahir Jetter / USA / 8 minutes)
Cockroach (Luke Eve / Australia / 14 minutes)
Cold Turkey (Gavin Keane / Ireland / 11 minutes)
Crazy Beats Strong Every Time (Moon Molson / USA / 27 minutes)
Daddy Bird (Eliav Mason / Israel / 23 minutes)
Darryn Exists (Jamie Lawrence / New Zealand / 15 minutes)
Dead in the Room (Adam Pertofsky / USA / 9 minutes)
Deeper Than Yesterday (Ariel Kleiman / Australia / 20 minutes) 2011 Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking
Disco (Luke Snellin / United Kingdom / 15 minutes)
Ever Here I Be (Kate Burton / United Kingdom / 16 minutes)
Ex-Sex (Michael Mohan / USA / 9 minutes)
The Father (David Easteal / Australia / 16 minutes)
Fatum! (Pablo Millan / Spain / 9 minutes)
Forever's Gonna Start Tonight (Eliza Hittman / USA / 16 minutes)
Franswa Sharl (Hannah Hillard / Australia / 14 minutes) – Winner of the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film at 2010 Berlin
God and Moses BFF (John Gray / USA / 11 minutes)
God of Love (Luke Matheny / USA / 18 minutes) - Oscar for live action short film 2011
The Gold Mine (Jacques Bonnavent / Mexico / 11 minutes) Best of the Festival 16th Palm Springs International ShortFest
Habibi (Antonella Perrucci / Italy / 10 minutes)   
The Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting (Emily Carmichael / USA / 8 minutes)
Incident by a Bank (Ruben Östlund / Sweden / 12 minutes)        
Korean Barbeque (Christopher Manus / USA / 8 minutes)                       
Koreatown (Maura Milan / USA / 6 minutes)
Let's Dance (John Thompson / USA / 6 minutes)
Lights (Giulio Ricciarelli / Germany / 14 minutes)
Little Children, Big Words (Lisa James Larsen / Sweden / 12 minutes)
Love Birds (Brian Lye / Czech Republic / 7 minutes)
Marv Freetell's Wedding Day (Tricia Lee / Canada / 6 minutes)
Mary Last Seen (Sean Durkin / USA / 15 minutes) Winner of the SFR Short Film Award at 2010 Director’s Fortnight in Cannes           
Molemate (Geoff Bailey / USA / 7 minutes)       
Momentos (Nuno Rocha / Portugal / 7 minutes)
On Leave (Regila) (Asat Saban / Israel / 15 minutes)
One Man and His Dog (Jonathan Hopkins / United Kingdom / 8 minutes)
Pioneer (David Lowery / USA / 15 minutes)
The Pool (Thomas Hefferon / Ireland / 12 minutes)
Protopartículas (Chema García Ibarra / Spain / 7 minutes) 2011 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Jury Awarded Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking     
Quality Time (James Redford / USA / 9 minutes)          
The Queen (Christina Choe / USA / 8 minutes)   
Spanola Pepper Sauce Company (Ray McKinnon / USA / 8 minutes)
The Story of My Life (Toute ma vie) (Pierre Ferriere / France / 6 minutes) 2010 Palm Springs International SHORTFEST AWARD WINNER: Future Filmmaker Award
The Tailor (Gordon Grinberg / USA / 7 minutes)
The Terrys (Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim / USA / 17 minutes) 
That Thing You Drew (Kerri Davenport-Burton / United Kingdom / 8 minutes)
To Kill a Bumblebee (Laharog Dvora) (Sharon Maymon / Israel / 7 minutes)
Tuya (Ivan Mazza / Uruguay / Venezuela / 29 minutes)
Umshini Wam (Harmony Korine / USA / 15 minutes)
Vicky and Sam (Nuno Rocha / USA / 14 minutes)          
Viki Ficki (Natalie Spinell / Germany / 18 minutes)
White Other (Dan Hartley / United Kingdom / 13 minutes)           
Yoghurt (Sanna Lenken / Sweden / 29 minutes) 
You Too (Na Wewe) (Ivan Goldschmidt / Burundi / Belgium / 19 minutes)
Documentary Shorts
10 Years to Nashville (10 lat do Nashville) (Katarzyna Trzaska / Poland 38 minutes)
Bathing Micky (Micky Bader) (Frida Kempff / Denmark / 14 minutes) – Jury Prize Short Film 2010 Cannes
Bye (Anthony Morrison / USA / 10 minutes)
Bye Bye Now! (Aideen O'Sullivan / Ireland / 15 minutes)
Departing Rosewood (Susan Hannah Hadary / USA / 27 minutes)
Grandpa's Wet Dream (Chihiro Amemiya / Japan / 16 minutes)
I Love My Woman (Otis Kriegel / USA / 13 minutes)
Just About Famous (Matthew Mamula & Jason Kovacsev / USA / 15 minutes)
Legend:  A Film About Greg Garing (Emily Branham / USA / 8 minutes)
Living for 32 (Kevin Breslin / USA / 40 minutes)
Missed Connections (Mary Robertson / USA / 9 minutes)
Mr. Happy Man (Matt Morris / USA / 11 minutes)
The Rabbi and Cesar Chavez (Daniel Robin / USA / 14 minutes)
Save the Farm (Michael Kuehnert / USA / 24 minutes)
Ultra Violet for Sixteen Minutes (David Henry Gerson / USA / 16 minutes)
Wild Horses in Winds of Change (Mara LeGrand / USA / 30 minutes)
Experimental Shorts
Abstract? (Alexei Dmitriev / Russia / 4 minutes)
All Flowers in Time (Jonathan Caouette / Canada / 14 minutes)
close your eyes (Billy Roisz / Austria / 13 minutes)
the Healers (Tim Leyendekker / Netherlands / 10 minutes)
The Holy Chicken of Life and Music (Yannis Konstantinidis / Greece / 3 minutes)
In Between (Tamar Shippony / Israel / 2 minutes)
Ink Eraser (Veronika Schubert / Austria / 4 minutes)
just a meaning that you attribute to it (Bernadette Anzengruber / Austria / 10 minutes)
Mugs (Ronnie Cramer / USA / 4 minutes)
One (TJ Thyne / USA / 4 minutes)
Rain (Regen) (Magdalena Barthofer / Austria / 2 minutes)
STATE OF FLUX - Wave#3 (Rainer Gamsjäger / Austria / 11 minutes)
The Waltz King (Adnan Popovic / Austria / 5 minutes)
Who By Fire (Aleisa Moussa / USA / 12 minutes)
Worship (Natalie Bennett / United Kingdom / 11 minutes)
Tennessee Shorts
The 30-Day Challenge (Drew Langer / USA / 30 minutes)
City of Dreams: Artists for Tennessee Flood Relief (Julian Chojnacki / USA / 5 minutes)
Crème Roll Confessions (Stephen Lackey / USA / 8) – Best Mockumentary, 2010 Nashville 48 Hour Film Project
Figure / Ground (Daniel Henry / USA / 15 minutes)
40 Years on the Farm (Ed Lamvert / USA / 52 minutes)
Jesus with a Mohawk (Kevin Scott Page / USA / 4 minutes)
John Delaney Died Last Night (Charles Kanganis / USA / 21 minutes)
Mast Farm Inn Sessions (A Study in Songwriting) (Craig Havighurst / USA / 26 minutes)
Nashville Rises (Zac Adams / USA / 28 minutes)
Scorned (Waheed AlQawasmi / USA / 12 minutes)
Swing (Matt Schosser & Shane Bartlett / USA / 7 minutes)
A Toast to J. Edgar Hoover (William M. Akers / USA / 10 minutes)
M.I. (Paul Cain & Doug Mallette / USA / 9 minutes)        
Young Filmmakers Shorts
2AM (Joseph Procopio / Canada / 6 minutes)
J’adoube (Watkins Pre-College Film Students / USA / 17 minutes)
Finding My Way (Emma Strebel / USA / 2 minutes)
The Forest (Rachel Clyde / USA / 3)
Larry Hunt: Bucketman (Miguel Calayan / USA / 6 minutes)
The Math Test (Sam Rubin / USA / 5 minutes)
Ndapewa: I Am Given (Erin Buckley / Namibia / 15 minutes)
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