Short Cuts Presented by JIB Productions, Inc.

JIB
Productions, producer of the popular lunchtime theatre series PLAY
WITH YOUR FOOD, announces the 2^nd season of the SHORT CUTS
Film Fest, curated by CT Post film critic Joe Meyers. SHORT CUTS” will
be screened in two parts: Thursday, October 20^th and Thursday,
November 17th at the Garden Cinema in Norwalk.

Curated by CT Post Film Critic
Joe Meyers, SHORT CUTS was initiated to showcase the rarely-screened short
film genre. “Novelists have always had the freedom to work in the short story
form,” says Meyers, “but filmmakers rarely get the chance to make anything
other than feature-length movies. SHORT CUTS will explore the short films of
directors who have won great acclaim with their standard length movies. In each
case, we get to see how these talented artists rise to the challenge of being
much more concise than they are in their more famous films.”

On October
20, three films will be screened. In between making Melvin and Howard
and The Silence of the Lambs, Oscar-winner Jonathan Demme
directed the charming 1982 short film, Who Am I This Time?,  from
a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. A newcomer to a small-town community theater
troupe (Susan Sarandon) falls in love with the actor who is playing Stanley
(Christopher Walken) to her Stella in Streetcar…. When she realizes her
co-star is nothing like the man he becomes on stage, she devises an ingenuous
scheme to the keep the sparks flying. Jonathan Demme also directed Philadelphia,
Rachel Getting Married, and Swimming to Cambodia. 

Winner
of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Animated Short, the British film The
Lost Thing by Shaun Tan & Andrew Ruhemann is a heartwarming story
of a young boy and his experiences after finding a lovable strange thing on the
beach.

Natalie Portman & Jason Schwartzman star in Wes Anderson’s Hotel Chevalier, a 2007
entry in the New York Film Festival. A short prologue toThe
Darjeeling Limited, Hotel Chevalier is a heartbreaking history of love. Wes Anderson
also directed The Squid and the Whale, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and was an
Academy Award Nominee for The Royal Tannenbaums.

November 17’s films include: Bernice Bobs
Her Hair, by the pioneering New York City-based female independent
filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver. Silver won recognition with her 1975
debut film Hester Street, about Jewish immigrant life on the Lower East
Side of Manhattan. The following year, Silver showed she was just as sensitive
to the lifestyles of well-heeled WASPs when she made this acclaimed 49-minute
film adapted from the F. Scott Fitzgerald story. Fresh from Nashville,
the marvelously eccentric Shelley Duvall plays the title role, a mousy young
woman whose whole life changes because of one haircut. Silver also
directed Crossing Delancey, Chilly Scenes of Winter and In the
Presence of Mine Enemies.

Vincent, by Tim Burton, is a stop-motion
short film narrated by Vincent Price, about a boy who pretends to be Price
himself.  Tim Burton is well-known as director of The
Nightmare Before Christmas, Sweeney Todd, Ed Wood, Batman Forever, James &
the Giant Peach, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes and Charlie
& the Chocolate Factory.

Winner of
the 2011 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, God of Loveby Luke Matheny, follows a lovestruck,
lounge-singing darts champion who finds his prayers are answered -- literally
-- when he mysteriously receives a box of love-inducing darts. Assistant
Director of the film is Westport native Nick Ordway.

SHORT CUTS is produced by the not-for-profit JIB Productions, Inc.,
a producer of performing and visual arts programs
well-known for its popular lunchtime theatre series, Play With Your Food. 
Also in JIB’s upcoming line-up is Seasons Readings, a holiday inspired
program of short plays, stories and surprises by award-winning authors Ann
Patchett, David Sedaris, Frederick Stroppel and more. Seasons Readings will be
held on Thursday, December 8 at the Greenwich Arts Council and on Thursday
December 15 at the Westport Woman’s Club at 7:30pm. Tickets, $30, include
post-performance eggnog and dessert.

SHORT CUTS
programs will be held at the Garden Cinemas, 26 Isaac Street, Norwalk at
7:30pm. Tickets are $25 and include the films, free popcorn, dessert and a
post-film discussion with Meyers. Seating is limited. Tickets to SHORT CUTS,
Season’s Readings and Play With Your Food are available online at www.jibproductions.org or by
calling 203-293-8831.