{"id":14407,"date":"2012-02-17T03:33:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T03:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14407"},"modified":"2012-02-17T04:27:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T04:27:12","slug":"84th-academy-awards-short-film-live-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/02\/17\/84th-academy-awards-short-film-live-action\/","title":{"rendered":"84th Academy Awards: Short Film (Live Action)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Oscars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14389\" title=\"84th Academy Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Oscars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of this year&#8217;s live action shorts are screening\u00a0in selected cinemas across the world now\u00a0and will be available on iTunes Stores in 54 countries across the globe beginning\u00a0February 21st.<\/p>\n<p>A list of where they are showing can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/theoscarshorts.shorts.tv\/locations.php\">the Shorts HD website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1866218\/\">PENTECOST<\/a> (Peter McDonald and Eimear O\u2019Kane)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The story follows an eleven-year-old boy who is a last-minute call-in by his local church to serve as an altar boy at an important mass.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hobilcdk0Rc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Technical details are available <a href=\"http:\/\/emuproductions.ie\/pentecost\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1819651\/\">RAJU<\/a> (Max Z\u00e4hle and Stefan Gieren)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The story is about a young couple (Julia Richter and Wotan Wilke M\u00f6hring) who arrive in Kolkata, India, to adopt a young child.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jp3bRajG0fo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The official site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raju-film.com\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2201259\/\">THE SHORE<\/a> (Terry George and Oorlagh George)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The story of two childhood friends, Joe (Ciar\u00e1n Hinds) and Paddy (Conleth Hill), who are divided by 25 years of misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xP_o44wEZJQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/theshorefilm.com\/\">official site<\/a> has lots of information and Terry George has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZvCOd63tVI4\">done a 15 minute interview<\/a> (highly recommended).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1733689\/\">TIME FREAK<\/a> (Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Time travel comedy in which a an inventor gets the opportunity to relive the same everyday situation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-_DLkVR7hK0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film&#8217;s Facebook page has a lot of information and the filmmakers recently did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/123-film\/2012\/02\/16\/profilegigi-causey-andrew-bowler-time-freak-oscar-nom\">an interview with Blog Talk Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"17889\" width=\"210\" height=\"105\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/btrplayer.swf\" \/><param 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flashvars=\"file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogtalkradio.com%2F123-film%2F2012%2F02%2F16%2Fprofilegigi-causey-andrew-bowler-time-freak-oscar-nom%2fplaylist.xml&amp;autostart=false&amp;shuffle=false&amp;callback=http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/FlashPlayerCallback.aspx&amp;width=210&amp;height=105&amp;volume=80&amp;corner=rounded\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; text-align: center; width: 220px;\">Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\">internet radio<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/123-film\">123 Film Easy<\/a> on Blog Talk Radio<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2061843\/\">TUBA ATLANTIC<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/witzo\">Hallvar Witz\u00f8<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Norwegian story comedy about an old man with not long to live who decides to forgive his brother for a disagreement years ago.<\/p>\n<p><iframe 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You can also listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/hallvarw\/tuba-atlantic-radio-interview\">this interview with him on Soundcloud<\/a>\u00a0and check out <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/witzo\/\">his Vimeo channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/\">Official Oscar site<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/theoscarshorts.shorts.tv\/\">Oscar Shorts<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/02\/08\/idUS79157542320120208\">Steve Pond at The Wrap\/Reuters on this year&#8217;s live action shorts<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Award_for_Best_Live_Action_Short_Film\">Past winners of the Oscar for Live Action Short at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Live Action Shorts category at this year\u2019s Oscars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}