Last night at the Historic Chinese Theater in Hollywood was the movie premiere of RIVER OF GRASS at HollyShorts Film Festival.
On this show our Entertainment Today News Team of Doug Nolan: Editor, Cameraman, and Reporter, and Pilot for our “Eye in the Sky” film footage of Hollywood, and Jacqueline Murphy: our TV Show Co-Host, and Steve Taylor: Entertainment Today TV Producer, will bring you news coverage from this great premiere movie.
It was a star-studded red carpet, with a few interviews with: Director/Actor: Derek Magyar, Writers: Jon Bloch, Chad Christopher, and Derek Magyar, Actors: Victor Webster, Dylan McTee, Darren Darnborough, Marceline Hugot, and Derek Magyar, along with Ian Anthony Dale (The Walking Dead), and Oscar Winners: Guy Nattiv, and Jamie Ray Newman!
In the below photo Jacqueline interviews Writer: Chad Christopher and Director/Actor/Writer: Derek Magyar: 
In the below photo Actress: Marceline Hugot poses for photos on the “River of Grass” Red Carpet: 
In the below photo Jacqueline interviews Actor Dylan McTee: 
In Derek Magyar’s live-action short film River of Grass, set the Florida Everglades in the 1970’s, stars: Larry (Dylan McTee) as a Vietnam vet suffering with with PTSD, and returning home to his drug smuggling family after being discharged. His mother and uncle throw Larry a quiet welcome-home dinner celebration. Everyone is in good spirits except for Larry’s brother, Robert (Victor Webster), who resents his return. It appears that while daddy’s boy, Larry, was away, Robert was left to run the family camp after their father passed away. Hoping to give her son a fresh start after his return, his mother insists that Robert bring Larry into the business. What their mother doesn’t know is that after their father’s death, Robert has turned the family business into a criminal enterprise. In the below photo Chad Christopher poses for photos on the “River of Grass” Red Carpet: 
In this story the relationship is very rocky between Robert and Larry, since Robert thinks Larry is soft, resenting his relationship with their father, but boiling underneath Larry is the PTSD and trauma he endured in combat. As a short film, director Magyar, with the script he co-wrote with Jon Bloch and Chad Christopher, creates a dark and gritty drama that sets the stage for a much bigger story. 
Tone is everything, and with great performances from McTee and Webster, Magyar easily sets a brooding and cinematic tone, leaving you wanting more, which is the point of short films, and this film offers a gripping glimpse into a dark and complex family dynamic, with director Derek Magyar skillfully setting the stage for a much larger story. The tension between the brothers, coupled with Larry’s buried trauma, creates a brooding atmosphere that pulls you in. With strong performances and a gritty tone, this short film leaves you eager to see where the story could go next! 
Last night at the HollyShorts Film Festival in Hollywood at the historic Chinese Theater, by an amazing coincidence, after one year, I ran into a beautiful movie director again for the second time: 
We both had met for the first time at last year’s LA Shorts Film Festival at the Regal Theaters in Downtown LA- and our TV show’s reporters from Entertainment Today interviewed her, and partied at the after-party on opening night. 
Her name is Emily Skye a movie director and former model. What A small world! 
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Last year Los Angeles’ premiere film festival HollyShorts became a quadruple OSCAR-qualifying festival with the welcome addition of the OSCAR-qualifying award for documentary shorts, alongside two for live action and one for animated shorts. Now in its 20th year, this well-loved festival will be back on August 4th with a twenty-foot red carpet at the foot of the steps of the Dolby Theatre, where the Academy Awards are held. OSCAR winners’ Riz Ahmed, Aniel Karia, Guy Nattiv, Ben Proudfoot, Travon Free, Ross White, Tom Berkley, Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton, Kim Magnusson are just some of this prestigious festival’s past winners.
Previous jury members include Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sam Worthington, Zoe Deutch, Bryan Cranston, Gemma Arterton and Blair Underwood.
Members of this year’s 2024 HollyShorts Film Festival jury include Oscar® nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Sam Worthington (Avatar), Zoey Deutch (Not Okay), Alexandra Shipp (Barbie), Josh Whitehouse (Daisy Jones & the Six), Christina Chong (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Run the Burbs showrunner, Nelu Handa and Academy® Award winner Jaime Ray Newman (Skin). Esteemed industry professionals also serving on the jury include Variety journalist K.J. Yossman and Eric Kohn, Executive Editor & Chief Critic of IndieWire.
Joining the jury are Tom Berkeley and Ross White, who won a 2023 OSCAR® with their film AN IRISH GOODBYE, 2022 Academy Award® Winner Aneil Karia (The Long Goodbye), the 2023 OSCAR® nominees Pamela Ribbon (My Year of Dicks) and Wendy and Amanda (The Flying Sailor). Returning this year will be double OSCAR® winner and animation guru Joanna Quinn (Affairs of the Art), Academy Award® winner Alice Doyard (Colette) and 2023 OSCAR® nominee Joshua Seftel (Stranger at the Gate).
The star-studded jury who will determine which four will films qualify to be considered for the 2025 edition alongside high profile HollyShorts awards are: Adam Rackoff (The Brainwashing of my Dad, Downwind), Alex Winter (Zappa, Bill & Ted Face The Music), Academy® Award Winner Alice Doyard, Adrienne Barbeau (Maude, Swamp Thing), Danny Pino (Hotel Cocaine, Unión de Reyes), David Dastmalchian (Oppenheimer, The Suicide Squad), Jennice Lee, Deadline’s Joe Utichi, Awards Daily’s Joey Moser, Jon Huertas (This is Us, Castle), Josh Hamilton (Reality, The Walking Dead), Academy® Award Nominee Joshua Seftel, Katherine McNamara, (Shadowhunters, The Maze Runner), Kalani Dreimanis, IMDB Senior Film Editor Keith Simanton, Lio Tipton (A Friend of the Family, Riddle of Fire), Deadline’s Matt Carey, Matthew Modine (The Martini Shot, Hard Miles), Michelle Krusiec (A Million Miles Away, Hollywood), Academy® Award Nominee Misan Harriman, Student Academy® Award Winner Omer Ben-Shachar, Peter Macon (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The Orville), Rachel Brosnahan (Superman, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Animation Magazine’s Ramin Zahed, Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka, Common Ground), Samuel Arnold (Emily in Paris, Expectations), Producer and Head of Acquisitions at Flawless AI Ryan Black, BBC/CNN film expert Sandro Monetti, Sarah Shahi (Red, White & Royal Blue, Sex/Life), Tricia Helfer (Lucifer, Battlestar Galactica) and Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious, 1992).
Heading HollyShorts brand new Sports category is none other than NBA Champion Metta World Peace, also judging will be Emmy Award-winning producer Jessica Badawi and NBA Agent Colby Schinto.
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