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YoungCuts Best Short Film KUDOS

• Dead Grass, Dry Roots 2/13

  A peaceful cattle rancher must abandon his pacifist beliefs.

• En Route 2/13

  Every decision has a consequence.

• The Shed 2/13

  Neil (8) visualizes a spaceship in his very own garden shed.

• Swallowed 2/13

  A young woman spends her entire life mourning her husband.

The Oscars telecast always makes us happy and sad. Happy that some (short) attention is being paid to short films. Sad that many of the great short films that we see every year - done on low budgets or no budgets; filmed with shoe strings, passion and hope - will never even be considered for an Academy Award.

So, this year, we thought that we would do something about that, and award the first ever YoungCuts KUDOS.
And this time, the Academy was YOU!

Above you'll see 4 films we have nominated for Best Film:

Dead Grass, Dry Roots (USA/Canada) - Produced by John Negropontes, Directed by Gabe Hohreiter
En Route (USA/Canada) - Produced by Yotam Dor, Directed by Colin Levy
The Shed (UK) - Produced by David Tallon, Directed by Jon Moy
Swallowed (Canada) - Directed by Stephen Dunn

They are free to watch.

We took votes on the films until the end of the Oscars telecast. The results of that voting were:

Best Rating:

Dead Grass, Dry Roots 

The Shed

Swallowed

En Route 

 

Most Votes:

The Shed

Dead Grass, Dry Roots 

Swallowed

En Route 

 

Most Watched: 

Dead Grass, Dry Roots 

Swallowed

The Shed

En Route 

 

Top 4 Short Film KUDOS:

Dead Grass, Dry Roots 11

The Shed 9

Swallowed 7

En Route 3

 

(Points based on 4 points for 1st place, 3 points for 2nd place, 2 points for 3rd place, and 1 point for 4th place.)

 

Congratulations to John Negropontes and Gabe Hohreiter, Producer & Director respectively of Dead Grass, Dry Roots

 

John & Gabe win a free submission to the YoungCuts Film Festival for their next project (or the project of a friend and fellow filmmaker) as well as free publicity for any fund-raising that they needs to do to create their next film project. 

 

Congratulations as well to David Tallon and Jon Moy, Producer & Director of The Shed for finishing in a very strong second place and to Stephen Dunn, director of Swallowed for coming in 3rd. Thanks to all the filmmakers who contributed their films! 

In addition to Best Film, you can still watch (for free!) and see the voting results for YoungCuts KUDOS in the categories of: Best Animation, Best Documentary, Best Teen Film and Best Short Short Film.

Watch 8 Great Short Animated Films Eight of the best animated shorts that we have featured in previous YoungCuts Film Festivals, including the winner Incident Sur La Ligne Orange... Watch Now Watch 8 Great Documentaries Just because they are non-fiction, doesn't mean that they have to be boring! Watch the winner Finding Fathers and 7 other great docs... Watch Now Watch 8 Great Short Shorts Tell your story well, but also tell it fast! These 8 films, including winner Twilite by Fire, all tell a great story in under 5 minutes! ... Watch Now Watch 8 Great Teen Films The search for the next great filmmakers starts here! These 8 films, including the winner Recipe for Love, were all done by filmmakers 19 or less - sometimes much less!... Watch Now

The YoungCuts Film Festival is the Premiere International Showcase for Great Short Films by the World's Best Young Filmmakers (29 and under).

Established in 2001, every year, the festival selects its Top 100 International Short Films from more than a thousand films from over 30 countries.

Unlike many film festivals, YoungCuts is not a black box. For filmmakers making paid submissions, we offer feedback when and where appropriate; we present their short films to our film industry partners including producers, distributors and programmers - this has led to short films being presented on TV, licensed for outdoor festivals and programmed by other film festivals who view us an expert on short films by young filmmakers. With your paid submission, you also gain privileged access to watch, vote and be inspired by great short films from young filmmakers around the world.

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