Six Smart NewFilmmakers
Showcase Amazing Shorts
At the ArcLight Cinemas in Los Angeles
  

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Welcome to the 2nd edition of NFLA. For the month of May, NewFilmmakers will feature a variety of short films that will touch your heart...Fishing for Trauster, engage your brain...Time Enough At Last, and put a smile on your face...Wholey Moses. The 17th Man's unnerving and chilling depiction of a spectral persona is an absolutely haunting experience. What about a beautifully animated picture that will demand your Eternal Gaze, and finally a film that will rival Jerry Bruckheimer's adrenaline pumping blockbusters such as Prison Warz.

NFLA's second screening features a cornucopia of amazing shorts from a superb group of promising and exciting new under the radar Directors. On May 25th, 2004 the Series will showcase the works of Sam Chen, Cameron Fay, Josh Finn, Todd Heyman, Yimeng Jin, and Declan Mulvey.

Sam Chen's "Eternal Gaze" has garnered a myriad of rave reviews from Variety and The Independent, to name a few. It also won best animated short at Siggraph 2003's Electronic Theatre.  According to The Hollywood Reporter the somber short has wowed crowds with the craftsmanship of first-time filmmaker Sam Chen, who employed the latest 3-D desktop computer graphics to re-create Giacometti's mid-20th century Paris studio.

"Fishing for Trauster" written and directed by Cameron Fay has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Clive Davis Award for Excellence in Film and the Panavision and Kodak Production Awards.

Josh Finn, a recent NYU graduate with a dual honors degree in film and history worked and interned for filmmakers such as Harry Potter producer David Heyman, Swingers director Doug Liman, Academy Award nominated producer and Editor Sam Pollard, and independent film icon Amos Poe.  "Time Enough at Last" is his debut film, and he currently has a number of screenplays in various stages of completion and development. 

Todd Heyman's refreshing story of romance and donut addiction was an official selection to the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival and a finalist at the 2003 USA Film Festival.  "Wholey Moses" is Todd's second film and stars Linda Hamilton and Shannyn Sossamon. 

Born in Beijing, China and graduated from the Florida State University film school with a Master of Fine Arts in filmmaking, "The 17th Man" is Yimeng Jin's MFA thesis film. Her short films have been selected by several international film festivals.

  And finally Declan Mulvey also an NYU grad will showcase his thesis film "Prison Warz" which was an official selection at 11 film festivals worldwide. It was given top honors by KungFuCinema.com as the "Best Choreographed Short of 2002".  The short has been distributed both domestically and internationally on a DVD compilation of action shorts called "Everybody Is Kung Fu Fighting" released in January of 2004.