“NTF is mostly free of canned, mushy and unrealistic messages. It’s about a dude who does something kind of normal. He falls in love and says really dumb things around the lady of his affection because he thinks she wants to be with a man who can make her laugh.” Jenny Walton encourages stereotype-busting in our rom-coms.
“This year, Heartland has been accepted as a qualifying festival in the Short Films category for the Academy Awards–which means that one of the shorts showing here this week could walk away with an Oscar.” If you need another reason to see the Festival Awards Shorts 1 program, Ken Honeywell says that’s as good as any.