Delaware Public Media | By admin / Published October 24, 2014 at 2:22 PM EDT
Film lovers can enjoy The Film Brothers’ 2014 Festival of Shorts all weekend at the Delaware Art Museum.
The festival has sold out in each of its six previous years, so organizers expanded it to span six events rather than the usual two.
Gordon DelGiorno is one of the festival organizers. He says there’s a great variety in this year’s selection.
“We hand-picked these from all over the world, so local films, these are festival winners, these are Academy Award winners,” said DelGiorno.
The festival will screen the Academy Award winning short film God of Love, made by Wilmington native Luke Matheny. The oddball black and white romantic comedy about a lounge-singing Darts champion who is unlucky in love won the 2010 Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. It also the Festival of Shorts four years ago.
Other films produced by Delawareans that will be shown include Wilmingtonians — 2nd Chance, a quirky story about characters who move to the First State from Texas to try to get ahead.
There will also be a series of family friendly shorts on Sunday.
The festival will kick off with a dedication to the late Matt Haley, who died in August. The Sussex County restaurateur and philanthropist was a longtime Film Brothers supporter. Haley also appears in one of the festival’s short films this year.
The event gets started Friday at 7pm and ends Sunday afternoon.
This piece is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Haley tribute planned for Wilmington film festival