20th annual Ohio Shorts selections announced

Columbus, OH—The Wexner Center is pleased to announce the Ohio filmmakers whose films and videos will be screened at the Ohio Shorts adult and youth division showcase this Saturday, April 25, at 7 pm. The 20 works selected for this year’s showcase include a wide range of styles and genre—from animation to documentary to dramatic fiction. Admission to the screening is $3 for all audiences.

Audience members will be able to vote for their favorite film, and cash prizes will be awarded to filmmakers selected by the audience and jury. A reception featuring the filmmakers takes place in the café after the screening.

Now in its 20th year, Ohio Shorts showcases the talent and diversity of voices of artists and filmmakers based in the Buckeye State and provides them with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. Works submitted are reviewed by a diverse jury that has included artists, curators, critics, academics, and Wexner Center staff. This year’s jury included Jennifer Lange, curator of the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio Program; Jean Pitman, educator for youth programs at the Wexner Center; and Jackie Mantey, a creative writer, freelance arts journalist, and copy writer.

A complete list of films in this year’s showcase follows.

ADULT DIVISION
Mother (Iryna Zhygaliuk, Athens)
When Skies Are Gray (Cory Pratt, Athens)
ALT AUTO (Liz Cambron, Ashley Walton, and Megan Hague, Cincinnati)
Tiny Out Loud (Andrew Ina, Columbus)
Nautia (CCAD Animation Lab Team Class, Columbus)
Man Frees Robot Trapped in Room (Will Delphia, Columbus)
Mirror Lake and Osama Bin Laden (Seth Radley, Columbus)
Containing Addiction (Jenny Deller, Columbus)
Monochrome Suite, Post Fetish Painting (Melissa Vogley Woods, Columbus)
The Ocean Doesn’t Care (Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll, Cincinnati)

YOUTH DIVISION
Giving Gives Back (Justen Turner, 12, Lakeview Junior High School)
Going the Distance (Emma Kreber, 18, Tolles Career & Technical Center / Dublin Coffman High School)
Bittersweet Defeat (Jack Campise, 17, Upper Arlington High School)
Birdemic and Nick Cage (Kevin Gronski, 16, Hilliard Davidson High School) 
Talking to Myself (Joe Henderson, 18, Hilliard Davidson High School)
tea (Tanner Bidish, 18, Hilliard Davidson High School)
Random Robots (Hayden Garrett, 12, Phoenix Middle School) 
17 (Grace Lillash, 14, Dominion Middle School)
James (Laura Lenhart, 18, Rutherford B. Hayes High School)
I’m OK (Connor McGovern, 16, St. Francis DeSales High School)

SUPPORT

Free and low-cost programs at the Wexner Center are presented with support from Huntington Bank and Cardinal Health Foundation.

Youth and family programs are presented with support from American Electric Power, Ameriprise Financial, Battelle, Bob Evans Farms, Heirloom, and Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams.

Significant contributions for the Wexner Center’s 2014–15 film/video season are provided by the Rohauer Collection Foundation.

The Wexner Center receives general operating support from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, The Columbus Foundation, Nationwide Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. Generous support is also provided by the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation and Wexner Center members.

For more information, please contact Erik Pepple, epepple@wexarts.org or 614-292-9840, or Jennifer Wray, jwray@wexarts.org or 614-247-6241.