Melissa Lawrence

Enjoy the 2021 Melrose Film Festival through September 23!

We are pleased to announce the Best of Category Winners as selected by Melrose Center Video Production Instructors:

Animated Short – He, Director – Katarzyna Radecka (Poland)

Documentary – The Farrier, Director – Moataz Khaled (Egypt)

Micro Short Film – Lou, Director – Jimmy Condaminas (France)

Music Video – Dormo Poco e Sogno Molto – Espana Circo Este, Director – Paolo Santamaria (Italy)

Short Film – All the Time in the World, Director – Riccardo Menicatti & Bruno Ugioli (Italy)

Audience Choice – A Day on Banana Island, Director – Anton De Bruin (Vietnam)

Congratulations to all the winners, and to all 77 Official Selections being screened during the festival!

Join us as we celebrate the art of visual storytelling in short films, animation and music videos with the 4th annual Melrose Film Festival. This year’s festival is all virtual, with online screenings of 77 selections representing more than 20 countries chosen from over 1,600 submissions. Categories include Animated Shorts, Documentaries, Micro Shorts, Music Videos and Short Films. Melrose Center staff will also offer virtual events on scene and character development, sound effects, and 3D and motion capture animation on select dates throughout the festival.

Visit www.ocls.info/melrose-film-festival-2021 for screenings and information about virtual events.

Screenings will premiere Thursday, September 9 at noon, and will remain accessible through Thursday, September 23 at 6:00 P.M.

Congratulations to this year’s Melrose Film Festival official selections:

Animation Films
3:45
A Balanced Breakfast
A Life With CI
Booked
Bowels
Earth³
F the Supers
Fuelled
He
Juan Viento
Lovid-19
Multirature – Dog’s Heart
Spark
The White Nightingale
Wild

Documentary Films
A Day on Banana Island
Kaboom! Comic Book Artists
Saudade
Saving Meluya
The Craftsman, The Art of Henk ten Bos
The Cultivation of Cretan Banana
The Farrier
The Ibexes of Robinet
The Voice of Nature
To Survive

Music Videos
Above Water
Aftermath
Camping by Your Own Grave
Chapera
Clickbait
Dancin’Alive
Dormo Poco e Sogno Molto – Espana Circo Este
Edgar
Gorgeous
Meteora
Piknik – Purple Corset
Sorry
The Air
Waiting For You
While I Was Getting Ice Cream!

Short Films
All the Time in the World
At the Hairdresser’s
Cross Purpose
Deserving
Everything Will be Fine
Missing Beat
Mr. Assistant Principal
Prangover
Royal
Spyglass
Squeaky Clean
The Girl With the Blurred Face
The Helmet
The Interview
The Leak
Tim Travel
Washout
When Fire Flies

Micro Short Films
A Good Girl
Accessing Portals
Cannibals
Dailiness
Future Men of Yesterday
Gratitude
How May I Help You?
It’s Still Being Written
Lou
Mateo
The Dawn of Duck
The Guardian of the Hideout
The Invisible Humans
The Man Who Found the Head
The Three Wise Men 2020
Trap
Usted Dirá
Welcome to Theircelieux
XVII. The Star

Through May 1, short film submissions will be accepted to the 2021 Melrose Film Festival. The festival will be held virtually from September 9 to 23 and will feature screenings from selected films. Last year, film lovers watched selections from the 1,315 shorts, documentaries, animations, and music videos submitted from around the world.

Join us as we celebrate the art of visual storytelling in short films, animation and music videos with the 3rd annual Melrose Film Festival. This year’s festival is all virtual, with online screenings of 75 selections representing more than 20 countries chosen from over 1,300 submissions. Categories include Animated Shorts, Documentaries, Micro Shorts, Music Videos and Short Films. Melrose Center staff will also offer virtual events on scene and character development, sound effects, and 3D and motion capture animation in the days leading up to the screenings.

Visit ocls.info/melrose-film-festival for screenings and information about virtual events.

Screenings will premiere Friday, September 18 at noon and remain accessible through Sunday, September 27 at 6:00 p.m.

Congratulations to this year’s Melrose Film Festival official selections:

Animation Films
Alice in Typhoidland
Candle Lit
Cotton Cloud
El Perro de Piedra
Fred’s Night Out
Joe
Keep It Light
Kenya’s Symphony
March of the Potguins
Mr Indifferent
Oniden
St George and the Dragon
The Lighthouse Man
The Myth Of Haftvad Worm

Documentary Films
El Chácharero
Elementary Dogs
Embers
For Your Memory
Humans@Work | Portrait of a Potter
MAVEN Explores Mars to Understand Radio Interference at Earth
Siberian Powder
Taking Root
The Harvest

Music Videos
2 in a Million
Afterimage
Alien Felines From Beyond The Galaxy
Back to Selo
Buckle Winter
Devotchka “Done With Those Days”
Don’t Play With Little Hearts
Dr. Yen Lo
June & The Jones — In My Head
Mourning Mantra by Baeilou
My Research
Okami
Sadaf
Stars and Rabbit – Any Day in the Park

Short Films
Cheeky Monkey
Crocodile
Die Grossen Fragen Des Lebens
Discovery
Family Tree
Imprint
La Santa
My House
Rude Boys
Sasha & Clark
Saving Jake
Snatch
The Forest of Silence
Till Death Bring Us Together
Turing
W

Micro Short Films
After the Beep
Alien Stalker
Black Blanc Beur
Blobby
Down to Earth
Expedition Under my Bed
Family Views
Horrorscope
Jelly Cars
Modern Times (Too Much)
No Monsters Allowed
On The Beach
Overthinking It
Paul’s Lockdown Daily Timetable
Perception Blind Massage
Spoon
Textures of a Confinement
The Mother
Times
Way Back
Win – Win
Yesterday, I Bought A Bike

The 2020 Melrose Film Festival is a daylong celebration of the creativity in filmmaking. From March 1 to May 1, the Melrose Center will be accepting submissions from categories including short film, animation, music video and more. The festival will be held on September 19, 2020 and will feature free screenings from selected films, Q&A discussions and industry panels.

Last year the Melrose Film Festival attracted 1,980 film submissions. Film lovers gathered to watch documentaries, animated films and music videos submitted from around the world. The film festival featured question and answer sessions with filmmakers and guest speakers.