The Missouri State University Department of Media, Journalism and Film will once again be the ONLY venue in the state of Missouri for the 19th annual Manhattan Short Film Festival, Saturday Sept.24 at 7:00pm in Plaster Student Union Theatre. Over a one-week period, more than 100,000 people around the world view and vote for the film they think is best — making this the only global audience-choice film festival in the world. Ten outstanding films were selected from 844 entries submitted by 52 countries this year. MSU Associate Professor Dr. Timothy White explains whose job it was to boil that huge number of films down to ten finalists. “The Manhattan Short Film Festival committee watches all these things—and that’s a lot of movies to watch! And it takes them a year to go through all these movies and boil it down to ten. But they always come up with ten really good films.” After the ten finalists are viewed by members of the public in venues all over the world, the results are sent back
↧