Short Films at Oxford Film Festival Feature Familiar Faces

Yesterday, HottyToddy.com featured world premiere short films (21 in fact) that will dot the landscape at this year’s festival, films that often prove to be the most popular of all the film blocks viewed over the four day extravaganza.

However, the 21 world premiere shorts posted yesterday aren’t the only short films in this year’s lineup. The amazing films featured below will also be shown and may just happen to have a recognizable face or two among them:

Actor Alex Karpovsky stars in Michael Tyburski’s ‘Actor Seeks Role’

Alex Karpovsky

Actor Alex Karpovsky stars in Michael Tyburski’s Actor Seeks Role where an aspiring method actor (Karpovsky) in New York City resorts to medical acting; a part-time gig performing the symptoms of various illnesses for student doctors.

Alvaro Ron’s ‘The Red Thunder’ features a trio of television stars: Allie Grant (Weeds), Miles Heizer (Parenthood) and Karen Strassman (Silicon Valley).

Allie Grant

Miles Heizer

Karen Strassman

Alvaro Ron’s The Red Thunder features a trio of television stars: Allie Grant (Weeds), Miles Heizer (Parenthood) and Karen Strassman (Silicon Valley). Sarah (Grant), a nerdy teenager, needs her mom’s brand new car to go on a date with Danny (Heizer), the boy she is in love with. Her mom, Dr. Thun (Strassman), an absent-minded podiatrist, is concerned about Sarah driving through the dangerous streets of downtown Los Angeles. She tells her daughter she may need her car if one of her patients has an emergency, but Sarah decides to disobey her mom and steal the car. Little does she know the vehicle is actually part of a secret Dr. Thun keeps and this discovery will change Sarah’s life forever.

Jeff Tan’s film, Mother’s Day, stars Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo

Melissa Leo

Jeff Tan’s film, Mother’s Day, stars Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo. The film focuses on tragedy that forces Mary (Leo) and her son Jay (Gabriel Furman) to say goodbye forever.

Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender are producers of David Victori’s film, ‘Zero’

Ridley Scott

Michael Fassbender

Behind the scenes, Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender are producers of David Victori’s film, Zero. The film is about a boy and his father who are emotionally and physically separated on the day earth intermittently loses gravity. The boy is wrestling with questions about his mother’s death, while his father desperately tries to find his son as the world is rising and collapsing around him.

Stay tuned, folks. More OFF info is forthcoming as we inch our way toward Oxford’s second favorite festival placing just behind Double Decker; voted so by you, the L-O-U community.

The 2016 Oxford Film Festival will take place February 17-21 and will be held predominantly at Malco Oxford Commons. Leading to the festival’s kickoff on February 17, check HottyToddy.com in the coming days and weeks for additional OFF features and what to expect at the popular festival.

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