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Thursday June 11, 2020

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Volume 65 | Number 41

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Palm Springs International ShortFest announces official selection

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alm Springs International ShortFest has selected 332 short films in their Official Selection that will be eligible for jury award consideration. These films represent 69 countries and were selected from more than 6,000 submissions received this year. As previously announced, while ShortFest will not hold an in-person event, a number of the official selection films will be available to screen for free online from June 16-22. A list of screening films and the complete line-up is available at www.psfilmfest.org. “We are thrilled to be able to mount ShortFest virtually during these challenging times,” says ShortFest Directors of Programming Linton Melita and Sudeep Sharma. “Although it is a shame we cannot welcome audiences in person later this month, it is no small consolation to have the privilege to share the work of these incredible filmmakers in what we feel might be the best lineup the festival has ever had.” Juried award winners will be announced on Sunday, June 21 from the official selection presenting them with awards and cash prizes worth $25,000 including five Academy Award qualifying awards. Over the course of 24 years, the Festival has presented over 100 films that have gone on to receive Academy Award nominations. This year’s categories, which will have their own group of jury members, include:

• Princess Leia’s “Star Wars” hairdo, which she referred to as “hairy earphones” and a “hair don’t,” was inspired not by bagels but women of the Mexican Revolution. • Beat author William S. Burroughs’ novel “Naked Lunch” was sup-

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1. GEOGRAPHY: Denali is the highest mountain on which continent?

Oscar Qualifying Awards Greater Palm Springs CVB Best of the Festival Award, Best Animated Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Live-Action Short Over 15 Minutes and Best Live-Action Short 15 Minutes and Under. Student Short Awards Best Student Animated, Best Student Documentary, Best Student International, Best Student U.S. Special Jury Awards Best International Short, Best U.S. Short, Best Comedy Short, Best LGBTQ+ Short, Best Midnight Short, GoE Bridging the Borders Award, Local Jury Award, Vimeo Staff Pick Award, Young Cineastes Award The selection of short films feature celebrated film and TV actors include Melora Walters in Adeline, The Great; Danny Pudi in Coffee Shop Names; Will McCormack and Michael Govier direct If Anything Happens I Love You

produced by Laura Dern; Mandy Moore in I Lost My Mother’s Ashes; Kevin Dunn in Josiah; Oscar Isaac and Alia Shawkat in The Letter Room; Rachel Dratch in Marcy Learns Something New; Maya Rudolph, Jay Ellis and LaRoyce Hawkins in Thirsty; and Nicholas Braun in Victor in Paradise. The ShortFest Forum will also take place from June 16-22, with virtual classes and panels featuring industry representatives, filmmakers and additional guests. This year’s panels will cover a wide range of topics including animation, commercials, documentary filmmaking, entertainment law, episodics, festival programming, financing, music, writing and much more. Filmmakers will have priority access to the forum. Four of the panels will be available for the general public, with pre- registration required starting June 13. For more info visit psfilmfest.org

posed to be called “Naked Lust.” He decided to change the title after fellow Beat writer Jack Kerouac mispronounced the original one.

• Pound cake got its name from its original ingredients: a pound of butter, a pound of eggs, a pound of flour and a pound of sugar.

• In the 1st century AD, Roman men as well as women used cosmetics — lightening their skin with powder, applying red pigment to their cheeks, and painting their nails, though you’d hardly want to use their form of nail polish today -- a nasty mixture of pig fat and blood. They also painted their heads to camouflage bald spots!

• In 2009, 59-year-old Italian neurosurgeon Claudio Vitalae had a heart attack in the middle of performing a brain surgery. He powered through it when he realized his patient would never recover if he stopped, despite the urging of his staff and his chest pains worsening. Half an hour after finishing the surgery, Mr. Vitale had an angio-

2. GAMES: What color of property is Connecticut Avenue in the board game Monopoly? 3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Gracie Mansion is the official residence of which elected official? 4. MOVIES: Which 1980s movie tagline was “the first casualty of war is innocence”? 5. MATH: What is the only number that is twice the sum of its digits? 6. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a dolphin baby called? 7. ASTRONOMY: Which planet in our solar system spins the fastest on its axis? 8. LANGUAGE: What is a bugaboo? 9. TELEVISION: What was the family’s last name on “The Cosby Show”? 10. FOOD & DRINK: What kind of flower produces vanilla pods? © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc. ANSWER TO TRIVIA ON PAGE 6

plasty, later telling the press, “I’m not a hero, I only did my duty.” • Alcatraz was the only prison to offer its inmates hot showers, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that had anything to do with showing kindness to the prisoners. Rather, the assumption was that if they were used to hot shower water, they’d be unable to cope with the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay and deterred from an escape attempt. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.


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