Flat Love: WINNER at HollyShorts, Hollywood.

FLAT LOVE WINNER The HollyShorts Film Festival

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM!!!!

The 6th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival (www.hollyshorts.com) came to a close early this past Friday with Flat Love taking home the Grand Jury Prize for Best Experimental Film.

6th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival (HSFF),www.hollyshorts.com, took place August 5-12 in Hollywood.

We'd like to thank the Festival and the Jury for this great award!

The 2010 HollyShorts Film Festival Jury consists of:

Ryan Black, Grindstone

Jessy Terrero, Writer, Director, Producer (Soul Plane, music videos for 50 Cent, Sean Paul, The Lox, G-Unit)
Lucas Carter, The Weinstein Co. Director, Production and Development
Peter Russell, Story Analyst (Walden (AFG) Films (The Chronicles of Narnia), and Participant Productions (An Inconvenient Truth), Imagine Films, and CBS Television Network)
Amy Draughn, Production (Josh Brolin Productions)
Jamie Linden, Writer (We Are Marshall, Dear John)
Maurissa Tanchoreon, Writer, Actress (Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)
Arianna Jackson, Partner, Producer, Chill Entertainment (G, Confessions of a Memory Eater)
Leah Meyerhoff, Writer, Director (Twitch, Unicorns)
Eric Robles , Executive Producer, Animator/Creator Nickelodeon’s Fanboy and Chum Chum
William Olsson, Director, An American Affair
Ray McDermott, Film Radar
Darren Lew, Cinematographer
Deddy Tzur, Composer, The Golden Compass
Frank Chindamo, Fun Little Movies

Flat Love: Charlotte Film Festival 2010.

SELECTED at The Charlotte Film Festival 2010.
FLAT LOVE will play on Friday, September 24th (6:30)

and Saturday 25th (1:30). In the beautiful North Carolina!

http://charlottefilmfestival.org

Flat Love: selected at Festival de Cine de Astorga, Spain.

¡Fenomenal! Flat Love in Leon, Spain!

Selected at XIII Certamen Cortometrajes de Cine Astorga 2010, Spain. September 2-12.

http://www.cineastorga.com/

Flat Love: selected at FESAALP, Argentina.

Selected in FESAALP, Argentina!!!

Flat love ha sido seleccionada para la Competencia Oficial de Cortos en la categoría Ficción del 5º Festival Latinoamericano de Cine – FESAALP de la ciudad de La Plata. 11-18 Septiembre.

www.fesaalp.com.ar

Flat Love: selected at Rhode Island International Film Festival 2010.

For the first time ever, the 2010 Rhode Island International Film Festival will show a short film which was selected & played the previous year. Guess which one? :)

We'd like to thank the RIFF for this exceptional opportunity and support.
Flat Love will play August 14, 7:00 PM at Opera House Theatre, Newport.

http://www.film-festival.org/

Flat Love: selected at Strasbourg International Film Festival.

"Amour Plat" accepted into the Strasbourg International Film Festival.

The festival dates Aug 20 - 27 in Strasbourg, France.

http://strasbourgfilmfest.com/

Flat Love: Summer 2010 Festivals in Spain.

Flat Love has been selected at IX Certamen de Cortometrajes "El pecado 2010", Llerena, Badajoz, Spain.

Le queremos agradecer al Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Llerena y la Asociación Cultural Mórrimer esta es

tupenda oportunidad.

This summer also in Galicia!!! Selected at OFestivalON 2010,

Rivadeo (Spain).
39 International Short Films in July 29-31.

http://ofestivalon.com/

Selected at Festival de Cine de Comedia de Tarazona y El Moncayo.
Zaragoza, Spain. August 14-21.

http://www.cinetarazonaymoncayo.com/

In Murcia: Selected at 2º Certamen de cortos "La Linterna Mágika", Cieza, Spain.

Screening on Friday, Aug 20th.

http://semanadecinemagiko.org/

Flat Love: winner at OCULAR, Spain.

FIRST PRIZE!!! - Jury Award for Best Short to Flat Love at OCULAR

Festival de curts La Selva del Camp, Tarragona. SPAIN. July 20-23.

¡Moltes gràcies!!!!

http://www.laselvadelcamp.org/actualidad/noticias/detail.php?secid=89&artid=1476

Video of the Award Ceremony / Interviews of 12th OCULAR Film Festival:

Flat Love: selected at Festival Cinespaña, Toulouse.

Flat Love in Toulouse!

Selected at the Prestigious Festival Cinespaña 2010.

15th Festival du Film Espagnol de Toulouse, France.

October 1-10. Merci!!!

http://www.cinespagnol.com/index.php

Flat Love: selected at HollyShorts, Hollywood.

Flat Love has been officially selected to participate in the 6th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival (HSFF), which takes place August 5-12 in Hollywood, CALIFORNIA!!!!!!!

THE ANNUAL HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL TO FEATURE DAVID ARQUETTE, THOMAS JANE, DICK VAN DYKE, JAMES FRANCO, SCOTT PORTER, CHRIS HEMSWORTH, BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD, MENA SUVARI, ZACHARY QUINTO, KIRSTEN DUNST, KATE BOSWORTH, JIMMY JEAN-LOUIS, ZOE SALDANA, DON CHEADLE, WILL FERRELL, JUDD NELSON, ZOOEY DESCHANEL AND... FLAT LOVE!!!!

Flat Love Screening:

August 08, 2010 10:00PM @ LAEMMLE SUNSET 5 (8000 West Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90046-2439)

http://hollyshorts.com/

Flat Love: selected at SALENTO & MoliseCinema, Italy.

Flat Love in Italy!

Selected at International Short Film Festival Salento Finibus Terrae San Vito

dei Normanni - Apulia - Italy
Section SHORT WORLD: 29th July 2010, at 7 p.m.

http://www.salentofinibusterrae.it/cgi-bin/film.cgi?ricerca=29th+July+2010+San+Vito+dei+Normanni&ling=ENG

Selected at MoliseCinema Film Festival, August 3-8, Casacalenda, Italy.

http://www.molisecinema.it/

Un’evocativa Isabella Rossellini racconta la strana storia di “Flat Love” di Andrés Sanz: un uomo s’innamora della Pin up di un quadro al Museo d’Arte moderna di New York. Un racconto pop, un divertente gioco tra realtà e finzione: sarà amore in 3d o in 2d?

Flat Love: Tina 3D with the World Cup Champions.

ESPAÑA Soccer World Cup Champions

2010 South Africa.

Congratulations!

Flat Love: Winner at CINESUL, Brazil.

WINNER!!!

Flat Love awarded BEST SHORT FILM at CINESUL:

17th Festival Ibero-Americano de Cinema e Vídeo - RIO DE JANEIRO, Brasil.

Muito obrigado ao júri e ao festival!!!!

http://www.cinesul.com.br/site_2010/index2010.shtml

http://www.cinesul.com.br/site_2010/catalogo_cinesul2010.pdf

Flat Love: Review in EL PAIS.

Sunday Article of Gregorio Belinchón about "Flat Love" in the national spanish newspaper EL PAIS .

La semana por delante CINE

Amor irracional

GREGORIO BELINCHÓN 27/06/2010

Hay artistas que usan el lienzo. Otros, la música. Y algunos, lo audiovisual. Andrés Sanz, grande en esta tercera categoría, es un creador raro en el cine español. Porque sus cortometrajes no son solo narrativos, sino emocionales y claramente arriesgados en lo artístico. Quien haya visto Bedford podrá intuir hacia dónde va su corto Flat love,que mañana lunes, a las 20.00, se puede ver en La Casa Encendida (ronda de Valencia, 3) junto con lo mejor de la última hornada de cortometrajes españoles.

La noticia en otros webs

• webs en español
• en otros idiomas

Flat love cuenta con una narradora de voz subyugante, Isabella Rossellini, y una historia que juega a mezclar el amor, la pintura y las dos y tres dimensiones. Son 15 minutos de una relación sentimental casi imposible, en los que Sanz utiliza virtuosamente todos los recursos que pone a su disposición la pantalla plana y la posibilidad del 3D (de ahí el título del filme), la pintura pop y el aroma neoyorquino que también marcaba Bedford. Un camino que deberían tomar más cineastas, que a veces olvidan que las películas no son novelas ilustradas.

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/madrid/Amor/irracional/elpepiespmad/20100627elpmad_11/Tes

Flat Love: Review in Diario de Alcalá.

Film Review of "Flat Love" in the Diario de Alcalá by Critic Juan Antonio Moreno.

Tridimensional

por Juan Antonio Moreno

JUEVES 24 DE JUNIO DE 2010 A LAS 13:06 HORAS

Opinión > Cultura

Siempre me fascinó "Laura" de Otto Preminger y, sobre todo, la escena en la que Dana Andrews sucumbe ante la deslumbrante belleza que despide el famoso cuadro en el que se representa a una fascinante Gene Tierney: ese instante explicará el comportamiento del protagonista masculino a lo largo del filme. Por tanto, este recurso del retrato como elemento primordial de una obra no es nuevo en el cine aunque, ahora, el madrileño Andrés Sanz ofrece una nueva vuelta de tuerca al tema en "Flat love", diseccionando con brillantez la interacción cine/pintura y profundizando en la estructura dramática de una pieza que exhibe una simbiosis perfecta entre estas manifestaciones artísticas y que alcanza, finalmente, un ejercicio fílmico que se asemeja a un manual sobre arte. El corto cuenta una delirante historia de amor en varias dimensiones. Sanz, dominador absoluto de la imagen, como pudimos apreciar en su pieza anterior, la espléndida "Bedford", escruta las sensaciones que experimentamos al colisionar visualmente con una obra que nos impacta. Así, un hombre que visita el MOMA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Nueva York) es atrapado por la exuberancia y sensualidad de una chica plana. Es Girl with ball, cuadro de Roy Lichtenstein. Aparece otra mujer, enamorada del protagonista que procede tal vez de una infancia recuperada y que se incorpora a este espacio tridimensional, configurando una nueva realidad en la que se funden las representaciones oníricas. Este precioso cuento está narrado por Isabella Rosellini, cuya sugerente voz reta al espectador a que se integre en una dramaturgia que estéticamente recibe el choque luminoso que enseña el pop art. El receptor acoge imágenes icónicas que exploran mundos que convergen en la emoción y que provocan sentimientos de deseo o admiración secreta, en suma, que destapan en su desnudez el amor platónico. Andrés Sanz une con rigor lienzo y celuloide, dando forma a un metraje que habla y mucho de realidad y ficción pero, sobre todo, de sueños, como explica en su blog: "Anytime I watched such a scene in a movie, I found myself dreamily fascinated". "Flat Love" es una pieza rica y estimulante, cuya caligrafía artística alienta una reflexión muy valiosa que se sustenta en el control absoluto de la imagen como engendradora de sentimientos. Con ella, Sanz escala un nuevo peldaño en su rigurosa filmografía.

http://www.diariodealcala.es/articulo_c/general/1272/tridimensional

Flat Love: Arcipielago Film Festival.

Flat Love in ROME!

Un’evocativa Isabella Rossellini racconta la strana storia di FLAT LOVE di Andrés Sanz (ore 22,30): un

uomo s’innamora della Pin up di un quadro al Museo d’Arte moderna di New York. Un racconto pop, un

divertente gioco tra realtà e finzione: sarà amore in 3d o in 2d?

ARCIPELAGO - International Festival of Short Films and New Images.
Flat Love Screening: June 22, 22.30 PM ("The Short Planet" program).
Buona fortuna!

ARCIPELAGO is organized by the not-for-profit body Associazione Culturale 3E-medi@ and takes place in Rome, each year in mid-June, hosted by the Intrastevere Multiscreen, right in the middle of the ancient heart of the city.

http://www.arcipelagofilmfestival.org/site/content/view/148/240/lang,en/

http://www.corriereromano.it/roma-notizie/8052/Arcipelago-.html

Flat Love: La Casa Encendida, Madrid.

"Flat Love" at "La Casa Encendida".

We made the cover of the June Program!

"Cortos en La Casa. Corto español reciente".

The show is a selection of the Best current Spanish Shorts.

Ronda de Valencia, 2. Madrid.

June 21, 20:00 h.

La Casa Encendida is an open and dynamic social and cultural centre of the Obra Social Caja Madrid (Madrid Savings Bank Friendly Society), where you can find anything from the most avant-garde art and theatre to courses and workshops on subjects like the environment or solidarity. The cultural programme offers dramatic arts, cinema, exhibitions and other displays of contemporary artistic creation.

www.lacasaencendida.es

Flat Love: Film Festival World Tour

Flat Love has premiered in Spain, USA, UK, Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Ireland, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iceland, The Netherlands, Greece, Bermuda, South Korea, Egypt, Australia...

Flat Love: review in Indiwire.com.

Among 314 films selected, Flat Love chosen as one of the 12 standout shorts at Palm Springs ShortFest by Indiwire Magazine.

Here's the an excerpt of the article:

Summer Shorts: What’s Hot This Year at Palm Springs ShortFest

by Kim Adelman (June 15, 2010)

“Flat Love” - When it seems like every feature is now being released in 3-D, Spanish writer/director Andres Sanz has come up with a witty rebuke. His Manhattan art word-set 15-minute short is all about the allure of two-dimensions. A stylish and surreal love story results, aided and abetted by Isabella Rossellini’s contribution as the film’s narrator.

http://www.indiewire.com/article/summer_shorts_whats_hot_this_year_at_palm_springs_shortfest/

Flat Love: awarded at Cinéma "Le Festival" de Bègles.

FIRST PRIZE: BEST SHORT FILM

Flat Love wins the FX2010 International Visual FX short films competition!!!!

Which took place in Bègles, France May 26th-June 1st 2010.

Courts FX2010 is a Film Festival devoted only to Animation and Special Effects. Flat Love took a full year to finish the effects. Many thanks to maverick Chris Haak (www.onefinedayny.com) for his amazing work on Flat Love. We're specially happy and proud for this fantastic reward in France! MERCI!!!!

Flat Love: awarded at BUSAN International Film Festival.

Flat Love wins Busan International Short Film Festival (BISFF)

Excellence Award (Kyobo life award) for Flat Love!!!

Busan International Short Film Festival

also known as BISFF

Awards Ceremony on May 16th 2010 in the South Korean city of Busan.

www.basff.org

We're so proud and thankful for all this recognition and support!

¡GRACIAS!!!!