September 11, 2024
Bloomfield Township Public Library is pleased to be a participating site for the highly acclaimed 2024 MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival. This prestigious event brings together filmmakers and enthusiasts to celebrate the art of short filmmaking on a global scale.
The Library will join over 100,000 film lovers world-wide uniting in over 500 cities across six continents to view and vote on the ten finalists’ films in the 27th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival. The Finalists will screen simultaneously across the world during a one-week period, with the Best Film and Best Actor awards determined by ballots cast by the audiences in each participating venue. By virtue of their selection by MANHATTAN SHORT, each short film is automatically Oscar-qualified.
The MANHATTAN SHORT Final Ten are: The Talent (UK), I’m Not a Robot (The Netherlands), Mother (Ukraine), Dovecote (Italy), Pathological (USA),
Alarms (France), Favourites (Australia), The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Croatia), Room Taken (Ireland), and Jane Austen’s Period Drama (USA).
The Library will host two sessions of the 2024 MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival: Saturday, September 28 at 2:00 p.m. and Thursday, October 3 at 6:30 p.m. Both sessions have the same content. All are welcome, no registration is required. For more information about MANHATTAN SHORT, visit manhattanshort.com.
