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Join the Maryland Film Festival at Artscape 2012!

Maryland Film Festival is pleased to present a fantastic selection of shorts to be screened at the Charles Theater  during next month’s Artscape, July 20-22.

In case you’ve never experienced it, Artscape is America’s largest free arts festival, attracting 350,000+ attendees over three days in the Station North Arts District of downtown Baltimore.  As always, our shorts program at Artscape is FREE for all!

ARTSCAPE 2012 SHORT PROGRAMS:

ANIMATED SHORTS    (31 minutes)
Belly (Julia Pott, 7 minutes)
The Eater (Wally Chung, 3 minutes)
Food for the Worms (Miranda Pfeiffer, 9 minutes)
“Hietsuki Bushi” / Omodaka (Ryo Hirano, 4 minutes)
“The Living Things”/ The Spinto Band (Phil Davis, 3 minutes)
Venus (Tor Fruergaard, 8 minutes)

COMEDY SHORTS   (31 minutes)
Bad Penny (Ricky Camilleri, 7 minutes)
The Centrifuge Brain Project (Till Nowack, 7 minutes)
Happy Father’s Gay (Clay Weiner, 4 minutes)
Pass the Salt, Please (Tatjana Najdanovic, 13 minutes)

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS  (32 minutes)
Come on Down and Pick Me Up (Jonathan Bougher, Nicholas Corrao, 9 minutes)
The Meaning of Robots (Matt Lenski, 4 minutes)
Necking (Lindsay Lindenbaum, 10 minutes)
Wilbert & Vern (Kenneth Price, 9 minutes)

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS   (32 minutes)
Brown Centipede Jizzum (Jimmy Joe Roche, 1 minute)
Coversong (Eric Dyer, 2 minutes)
I Am Your Grandma (Jillian Mayer, 1 minute)
Melt (Noemie LaFrance, 10 minutes)
The Observer (Abbey Luck, 5 minutes)
Plural (Dan Inglis, 5 minutes)

NARRATIVE SHORTS   (37 minutes)
Bear (Nash Edgerton, 11 minutes)
Beau (Ari Aster, 6 minutes)
The Chair (Grainger David, 11 minutes)
Spark (Annie Silverstein, 9 minutes)

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY SHORTS PROGRAMS DETAILS:
–All programs are comprised of titles that played within Maryland Film Festival 2012.
–Shorts programs begin each hour, on the hour, and run between 30 and 40 minutes apiece.
–Some programs will have one or more filmmaker present to answer questions.
–Some programs may contain material not appropriate for all ages.
–Program content may be subject to last-minute changes.
— ALL PROGRAMS ARE FREE TO ALL.