Oscar nominated short films are available through the Fredonia Opera House.
The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center has launched its latest round of films that can be streamed online in the Opera House Screening Room, featuring the 2021 Oscar-nominated short films.
The Opera House Screening Room provides movies and other digital programming online to its patrons in the wake of the continued COVID restrictions which have restricted the theatre’s opening. The cost of streaming the films varies, depending on the film. The revenue generated is shared by the Opera House and the film studios. “Since we are not yet reopened, this is one way of providing our patrons with access to programming, and of generating income for the Opera House to help ensure its survival,” says Opera House Executive Director Rick Davis.
The 93rd Academy Awards are less than three weeks away, and despite fewer films being released in 2020 because of the pandemic, there are still dozens of truly fantastic films being recognized.Â
Every year, some of the most overlooked categories at the Oscars are the short film categories. And just as all the major categories are stacked with excellence this year, so are the shorts. The five films nominated for best live-action short film this year are âFeeling Through,â âThe Letter Room,â âThe Present,â âTwo Distant Strangersâ and âWhite Eye.â These films, in addition to the nominees for best animated short film and best documentary short, will be playing at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center starting this Friday.Â
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Burrow. Photo courtesy Roxie Theater
It feels like a very long time since I wrote about last year’s Oscar-nominated short subjects, and indeed it’s been slightly
more than a year in 2020, the shorts were released theatrically in January, immediately prior to the Academy’s Feb. 9 awards ceremony. This year, the pandemic has pushed the Oscars all the way to April 25, and the shorts are only now being made available via Rialto Cinemas Elmwood and the Virtual Roxie.
There are a whopping eight films in this year’s animation category, and, to be honest, it’s a fairly weak crop. By far the best of the bunch is Erick Oh’s