Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton, Catherine Hardwicke and Jake Lacy are among the star-studded jury lineup for the 21st HollyShorts Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Running Aug. 7-17, the summer festival spotlights the best of shortform cinema, with winners of HollyShorts awards in four key categories earning automatic Oscar qualification: best short film grand prize, best animated short, best live action short, and best documentary short.
Imrie (Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) will adjudicate this year’s selection alongside Wilton (Downton Abbey), Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Jennifer Ehle (Pride and Prejudice), The White Lotus star Lacy, Essie Davis (The Babadook), Lewis Tan (Cobra Kai), Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Twilight (2008) director Hardwicke.
Adam Graves, director of the Oscar-nominated short Anuja, will also sit on the jury, as will journalists Ward Bond, Matthew Carey and Ramin Zahed, among others. See the full jury lineup, exclusively given to The Hollywood Reporter,...
Running Aug. 7-17, the summer festival spotlights the best of shortform cinema, with winners of HollyShorts awards in four key categories earning automatic Oscar qualification: best short film grand prize, best animated short, best live action short, and best documentary short.
Imrie (Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) will adjudicate this year’s selection alongside Wilton (Downton Abbey), Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Jennifer Ehle (Pride and Prejudice), The White Lotus star Lacy, Essie Davis (The Babadook), Lewis Tan (Cobra Kai), Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Twilight (2008) director Hardwicke.
Adam Graves, director of the Oscar-nominated short Anuja, will also sit on the jury, as will journalists Ward Bond, Matthew Carey and Ramin Zahed, among others. See the full jury lineup, exclusively given to The Hollywood Reporter,...
- 7/23/2025
- by Lily Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chloë Levine, Madison Baines and Georgia Acken in The Sacrifice Game Photo: courtesy of Shudder. A Shudder release.
In a remote boarding school, a young teacher stays behind to look after two lonely girls over Christmas. One a nearby road, four Satanically-inspired members of a violent gang are driving in search of a prophesised destiny. When these two worlds collide, horror ensues – but not quite in the way you might expect. The Sacrifice Game is the latest work from Jenn Wexler, and it’s one of this year’s most eagerly anticipated genre releases, coming to Shudder this Friday.
Jenn Wexler, director of The Sacrifice Game Photo: courtesy of Abi Lieff. A Shudder release.
The film has been a big hit on the festival circuit. It débuted at Fantasia, and it was there that I spoke with director Jenn Wexler, who is one of the biggest personalities in horror cinema and always bursting with energy.
In a remote boarding school, a young teacher stays behind to look after two lonely girls over Christmas. One a nearby road, four Satanically-inspired members of a violent gang are driving in search of a prophesised destiny. When these two worlds collide, horror ensues – but not quite in the way you might expect. The Sacrifice Game is the latest work from Jenn Wexler, and it’s one of this year’s most eagerly anticipated genre releases, coming to Shudder this Friday.
Jenn Wexler, director of The Sacrifice Game Photo: courtesy of Abi Lieff. A Shudder release.
The film has been a big hit on the festival circuit. It débuted at Fantasia, and it was there that I spoke with director Jenn Wexler, who is one of the biggest personalities in horror cinema and always bursting with energy.
- 12/7/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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