Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2008 Short Film Preview

Short and sweet need not apply, the shorts for this years Toronto After Dark Film Festival promise to be full of scares, blood and zombies! There are two programs of shorts, Canada After Dark will be played thoughout the festival showing Canadian shorts prior to the feature films. The second program is the Shorts After Dark, an International Short Film Showcase that screens Sunday, Oct 19 2008 at 3:45 pm at the Bloor Cinema (Screens at same time as Zombie Walk). Let's take a look at each of the programs.

Canada After Dark
The Canadian shorts at last years Toronto After Dark Film Festival were awesome, and it looks like we are in for another great year of shorts. Where else can you see the undead and curling together? You will with Deadspiel. Looking for zombies? Check out The Laundromat. Want to see Christmas Tree explotation film, look no further than Treevenge. Now that is one way to get into the holiday spirit! Also of note, the short that will be screened on opening night will be The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow from Rodrigo Gudino (The Eyes of Edward James) and Vincent Marcone.

Here is the list of all of the Canadian shorts in the Canada After Dark program:

The Auburn Hills Breakdown
Dir: Geoff Redknap
Canada, 2008
13 min
Screening time: October 23, 2008 at 9:45pm with Home Movie

The Bumblebee Man
Dir: Ryan Cavan and Alex Heaslip
Canada, 2007
15 min
Screening time: October 21, 2008 at 9:45pm with Who is KK Downey?

Bum Rush
Dir: Jesse MacMillan and Simon Box
Canda, 2008
6 min
Screening time: October 23, 2008 at 7pm with Tokyo Gore Police

Cabin of Terror
Dir: Jimi Cuell
Canada, 2007
5 min
Screening time: October 22, 2008 at 9:45pm with South of Heaven

Deadspiel
Dir: Jay Molloy
Canada, 2008
8 min
Screening time: October 19, 2008 at 6:30pm with Kevin Tenney's Brain Dead

Ending the Eternal
Dir: Justin McConnell
Canada, 2008
14 min
Screening time: October 21, 2008 at 7pm with Netherbeast Incorporated

The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow
Dirs: Rodrigo Gudino and Vincent Marcone
Canada, 2008
6 min
Screening time: October 17, 2008 at 7pm with Let the Right One In

The Flower
Dir: Dale Hayward
Canada, 2007
2 min
Screening time: October 18, 2008 at 8:45pm with Repo! The Genetic Opera

Found Objects
Dir: David Birnbaum
Canada, 2007
18 min
Screening time: October 18, 4pm with Idiots & Angels

Hydro-Levesque
Dir: Matthew Rankin
Canada, 2008
16 min
Screening time: October 18, 2008 at 6:15pm with Mirageman

The Laundromat
Dir: David Jacombs, Jr.
Canada, 2008
8 min
Screening time: October 19, 2008 at 9:15pm with Trailer Park of Terror

Laser Ghosts 2: Return to Laser Cove
Dir: Steven Kostanski
Canada
9 min
Screening time: October 22, 2008 at 7:00pm with Mutant Chronicles

Lucky 10
Dir: Manny Kargov
Canada, 2008
10 min
Screening time: October 20, 2008 at 9:45pm with 4BIA / Phobia

The Mars Project
Dir: Jonathan Balazs
Canada, 2008
6 min
Screening time: October 18, 2008 at 11:30pm with Donkey Punch

Treevenge
Dir: Jason Eisener
Canada, 2008
15 min
Screening time: October 24, 2008 at 7pm with I Sell The Dead

Vengeance
Dir: Lanan Adcock
Canada, 2008
6 min
Screening time: October 20, 2008 at 7.00pm with Red

Shorts After Dark - International Short Film Showcase
This years international shorts program consists of 10 short films from around the world, including our neighbours to the south. We have some wild films in the mix including Dani Moreno's Martians Go Home which has a fantastic 80's vibe to it. We also have the action-packed with a sci-fi twist in Kingz. Bill Plympton fans rejoice! Not only is Idiots and Angels part of the at Festival but also his short film Shut-Eye Hotel. I'm also looking forward to seeing The Goblin Man of Norway by Jay Cheel (from Film Junk) which looks haunting and creepy.

Shorts After Dark screens Sunday, Oct 19 2008 at 3.45 pm at the Bloor Cinema (Screens at same time as Zombie Walk). Here is the complete list of films in the program:

The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5
Dir: Chema Garcia Ibarra
Spain, 2008
6 min

Doxology
Dir: Michael Langan
USA, 2008
5 min

The Goblin Man of Norway
Dir: Jay Cheel
2008
24 min

I Live In The Woods
Dir: Max Winston
USA, 2008
3 min

Kingz
Dirs: Benjamin Diez and Marinko Spahic
Germany, 2007
20 min

Martians Go Home: The Revenge of Sara Clockwork
Dir: Dani Moreno
Spain, 2008
20 min

Notes from the Acrid Plain
Dir: Jonathan Ashley
USA, 2008
15 min

The Queen
Dir: Walter Krudop
USA, 2007
1 min

Shut-Eye Hotel
Bill Plympton
USA, 2007
7 min

Transrexia
Dir: Aurelio Voltaire
USA, 2008
1 min

The Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2008 runs from October 17-24/08 at the Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.