GIAA is pleased to announce the following Official Selections to the 2009 GIAA Festival of Short Films and Videos.   The list is in alphabetical order by title; movies include the name of the director, while screenplays include the name of the writer.

The Festival will take place Oct 2-4 in the Maya Deren Theater at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave at 2nd St. in Manhattan; click HERE for a map.  It’s 2 blocks north of the 2nd Avenue/Lower East Side stop on the F and V subways.

Click HERE to see the screening schedule and click HERE to buy tickets.

                                                                                    MOVIES

After Hours - Jason Eberly

Alba - Georgia Farina

The Archive - Sean Dunne

Audition - Benjamin O’Donnell

Backup Thesis - Mack Syler

Bankrupt - Kris Brown

Beware of Bear - Victoria Vellopoulou

Bullshit - Nicholas Caccese

Buona Fortuna - Cathryn De Prume

Ciao Tesoro - Amedeo Procopio

City of Noise - Mitch Barany

Common Sense - Wilson Stiner

Continuity Malfunction - D.W. Paone

Crossing the Line - Paul Bunch

Debris - Michael Clark

The Doorman - Vladimir De Fontenay

Dream - James Brasic

The Dream - Michael Siegel

Enter the Sandbox - Kevin Adams

The Fairy Princess - Stephen Lyman

The Family Tree - Sal Massari

Freedom - Gabriel Haze

High Beams - Chris Bentley

Infamy - Kevin Senzaki

Knucks - Richie Allan

Lactoxity - Carlo Fiorletta

The Last Moments of Leopoldo Berenguer - Jaime Dezcallar

The List - Terence C. Morea

The Little Samaritan - Sheila Cavalette

The Long Shot - Carolyn Corzine

Mother, Mine - Susan Everett

Nipple Nazis - Carlo Fiorletta

Norman Normal:  A Modern Metamorphosis - Suzanne Sitelman

Nothing Like Her - Seana Kozar

Nous Deux Encore - Heather Harlow

Only Love - Lev Polyakov

Park - Mari Kawade

Phobia - Braide Keyland

Pirates - Dave Zani

Reach - Luke Randall

Red Revenge - Eunha Choi

Reel Politic - Braide Keyland

The Seduction of Eve - Jeff Bellantine

Seeker Destroyer - Matthew Thompson

Skylight - David Baas

Smiles & the Sex Bunny - Risko Duvet

Sodom by the Sea - Johnny Salvatore

Splash - Kevin Burns

Traffic Stop - Ben Fiore

Trains Are Churches - Aksel Stasny

Trampoline - Mark Nobriga

Twilight Tango - Jason Sting

Under the Porticos - Samantha Z

Valley of the Moon - John Monteleone

Without - Natalia Andreadis

Without Papers - Fiorencia Korchik

Zombie Kings - Paul Streiner

Full-Length Screenplays

The Boogeykids - John Serafine

A Night in Shining Armor - Earl Nulton

Reunion - Roseph Pettinati

Samson - James Kirtland

Say Nothing - Letty Serra and Jon Freda

The Sybil of the Rhine - Michael Pallotta

Walrus Eating Baloney - Benjamin Bates

Short Screenplays

Ashes to Anthrax - Cat Stewart

Barack O’Lantern - Christopher Canole

Condemned - Ben Fiore

The Door - Robert Cox

Hampton Court:  The Seventh Bowl - James Kirtland

Headshots - Tochi Onyebuchi

The Kiss - Isabelle Theisen

Olga? - Ilaria D’Elia

A Rain Remembered - Ron Podell