The directorial debut from Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, with Leslie Feist in the lead! The latest from Oscar-winner Chris Landreth! A space monkey! The new Wallace and Gromit! The 2009 edition of the Worldwide Short Film Festival has just announced the complete lineup and there's plenty in there to be excited about. Of course, I'm most excited to unveil the lineups for the midnight sections, which I had the privilege of programming again this year and I'm more than a little bit please with the result.
We start with Creepy, home to the horror pictures and a few comic spoofs on horror themes. Creepy's got brilliant Mexican stop motion Fuera De Control, Pop Skull director Adam Wingard's mumblecore slasher Laura Panic, Antonio Trashorras (you know him as the writer of Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone) directed giallo Breed, Sundance hit Boob, stellar Indonesian slasher Dara and the proverbial so much more. Hit the link above for details.
And then there's Freaky, where we stash all the weird stuff. We've got Calvin Lee Reeder's Snake Mountain Colada - sequel to last year's bizarre fest fave The Rambler - Kierkegaard loving vampires in Las Historias Mas Sexy Del Mundo, Steven Kostanski's Heart of Karl, trans-plumbing romance My Love Lives In the Sewers and quite possibly the best three minutes of your life in Canuck animation Git Gob. And, again, the proverbial so much more.
I'm rather pleased with things so come on out and take a gander when the time comes.
