"This is the 20th year for the Manhattan Short Film Festival, and it just gets bigger and better every year. We got more people every year." That's Tim White, Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Missouri State University. Once again Plaster Student Union Theater on the MSU campus is the only venue in the state of Missouri to serve as a venue for the public showing of the ten finalists in this year's Manhattan Short Film Festival. The films will be shown in the PSU Saturday, September 30 from 7:00 to 10:00pm. Local attendees are joining some 100,000 other viewers around the world who see the films during a one-week period--and vote on their favorites in the world's only global audience-choice film festival. This year's field of ten was chosen by the Manhattan Short committee out of 1,615 submissions from filmmakers in 75 countries around the world. And when we say "short," we're talking a maximum of 10 or 12 minutes running time, at least among this
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