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Join us for our festival’s awards brunch, where the Jury and Audience awards are announced. Get to know the best of the best from this year’s festival and network with filmmakers from around the world while enjoying complimentary cocktails and food. Winning filmmakers are presented with a glass trophy designed by the Washington Glass School, and showered with prize packages and cash!

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Join us at the Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center where we will have a fun filled afternoon of actors seminars.  Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center (CHACC), was established to explore arts and culture of people of the African Diaspora (descendants of people from Africa), specifically, communities of African Americans, residing East of the Anacostia River. For more information about what’s is happening at CHACC visit the on the web at http://chacc.org.

Did you know that DC Shorts has over 100 partners and sponsor who all help make the festival happen!  Check them out on our website!

Sponsored By: Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, OCTFME

Ticketing for all Special Screenings....

Zhibo Lai is a filmmaker, visual effects artist, and licensed drone operator.  After working 10 years in the IT field, he fled to Paris for a crash course in filmmaking. Retuning to the States, he polished his skills crewing on numerous shorts, features, and documentary projects.  He soon found his love specializing in cinematography and visual effects, and founded Dimension FX, LLC, a boutique visual effects and post production house with the mission to elevate productions values for independent films.  His films have played in many film festivals across the country and have won several awards. He is currently in post-production on several short films and is developing a one-woman web series set in the outskirts of the solar system.

Four years ago, Joe Dzikiewicz was invited by some friends to help make a movie for the 48 Hour Film Project.  Although he knew nothing about filmmaking – he spent the night before reading his camera manual to figure out how to turn on video mode – he said yes.  Blown away by the fact that it was possible to make a short film with a camera he already owned, he became obsessed.  He read books, performed experiments, and took classes – including the Mentors Program run by DC Shorts.  And he made movies – “Silent Sentinel,” based on his screenplay that was a finalist in last year’s DC Shorts Screenwriting Competition, is his fourteenth film. And now he even knows how to turn on video mode.