The results of the audience voting at the festival MANHATTAN SHORT 2016

NEW YORK. Winners of MANHATTAN SHORT 2016 announced.

The 19th Manhattan Short Film Festival concluded with a spectator vote on October 3. Simultaneous screening of films in 250 cities allows you to reach a huge audience in the USA, Europe, Asia. Since 2007 - and in Russia. Each of those who attended the sessions became not only a spectator, but also a member of the national jury participating in the selection of the winning film, as well as the best actor. The program was attended by short films that visited the Sundance Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, nominated for an Oscar.

Charlotte Scott-Wilson, the Dutch film Hold on (“Hold on”), won not only the main prize, gaining about 20 thousand votes, but also the award for best acting. The panic attack, which was once experienced during a speech in front of the public, inspired the director to speak frankly about such a problem as the stage’s fear and find ways to solve it. Actress Charlie Chan Dagelet did not need to be thoroughly immersed in the material, so that the heroine’s experiences due to the strings broken during the concert would look realistic. Considerable experience playing the cello, the fears and complexes associated with this helped to create the most truthful image. It only remained to polish the performance of Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov. The result is about 37,000 spectator votes and the title of the best actress of the festival.

Andre Ovredal (André Øvredal) received silver for the “Tunnel” (The Tunnel), created based on the story of Alice Glaser The Tunnel Ahead, published in 1961. An ordinary traffic jam becomes the beginning of a nightmare in which a mysterious tunnel involves the family. More than 16 thousand people voted for the tension, the philosophical depth of the multi-layered plot and its brilliant visual embodiment. The chess present in the frame, according to Ovredal’s idea, becomes a metaphor, an occasion to reflect on what roles a person has to choose at different times in his life. The third place jury awarded the Australian animated film I Am A Pencil ("I - a pencil") Joe D’Arcy (Joe D’Arcy) about the shot editor Charlie Hebdo.

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