HollyShorts Film Festival

[1][2][3][4] Founded in 2005, the yearly festival programmes feature an eclectic mixture of short films of various genres from around the world.

Mustafa took home a prize package from Clifton Production Services which included a RED ONE digital cinema package valued up to $5,000.00, while Johnny Gill took home a $10,000 cash prize for the Haydenfilms Online Film Festival contest for his short film “My Turtle’s Name is Dudley."

HSFF will be unveiling many other important upcoming celebrity and sponsorship participation as the Festival approaches.

The festival has screened 3D short films before, opening its 6th Annual festival with The Butler's in Love (directed by David Arquette and starring Elizabeth Berkley and Thomas Jane), and Sean Isroelit's The Caretaker 3D, which starred TV icon Dick Van Dyke.

[7] Previous actors or celebrities who had films appear in the festival, or who made appearances at the festival, include Josh Brolin, Zachary Quinto (the short film Hostage: A Love Story which screened at the festival), Oscar-winning short film director Luke Matheny (God of Love which screened at the festival), Jessica Biel, James Caan, David Lynch, Kirsten Dunst, David Arquette (a 3D short film directed by Arquette entitled The Butler's in Love opened the 6th annual HollyShorts Film Festival and starred Thomas Jane and Elizabeth Berkley), Harry Lennix, Adrian Grenier, former SF Mayor and Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom, Zoe Saldana, Kate Bosworth (both Saldana and Bosworth starred in a short film called Idiots that screened at the festival), Chadwick Boseman, Diane Lane, Eli Roth, Jane Lynch, Steve Nguyen, Grace Huang (who won Best Actress for her role in Jennifer Thym's short film, Bloodtraffick which screened at the festival), Matthew Modine, Matthew Libatique, Malcolm Barrett, Jason Biggs, Tracy Middendorf, Ele Keats, John Dahl, David Rodriguez, Larry Hankin, Scott Porter, Feodor Chin, Joel David Moore, Ben Lyons, Timothy Tau, Carter Smith, Jamie Linden, David Dastmalchian, Nicholas McCarthy, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Joe Carnahan, Ray Abruzzo, Neil LaBute, Ben Lyons, and more.