August 21 2008 24 FESTIVALS LATER, WE CRACK GERMANY
Hello Rubberheads. More good news RUBBERHEART has been selected to participate in the EXGROUND FILMFEST 21 in Wiesbaden, Germany. The festival takes place from November 14-23, 2008, and promises to be fantastic. Some great films that we have screened with along the festival circuit have been German and we are proud to make our German debut. RUBBERHEART will screen on Thursday November 20th. For more information please check out the festival website at exground.com.

August 21 2008 LOOK OUT BRISTOL
We recieved the great news that RUBBERHEART has been invited to screen in its 22nd international festival at the ENCOUNTERS INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, in Bristol England. And we gladly accept. The festival has a wonderful reputation and has programmed some amazing short films and we couldn't be more pleased to be among them. The way this film has taken off on the festival circuit is tremendously exciting. After all the point of making films is for them to be seen. To be given the opportunity for a director's first film to screen so extensively is a wonderful surprise. The festival takes place from November 18-23, 2008. More info to follow.

August 1 2008 FOUR SCREENINGS IN LONDON
We just got the screening schedule for the screenings at CANARY WHARF FILM FESTIVAL. There are four of screenings as part of the Short Film International Program. The program looks really good, not just for our program, but the whole festival. Go. Go check it out. Our screenings are as follows:

Thursday 28 August | 14:45 | Museum in Docklands
Friday 29 August | 18:30 | East Wintergarden
Saturday 30 August | 13:00 | Cineworld
Sunday 31 August | 16:45 | Cineworld

Click on the below image to download the full festival program:

July 9 2008 RUBBERHEART SAILS INTO VENICE...
We are so happy that RUBBERHEART has been invited to screen in official competition at CIRCUITO OFF, VENICE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL. The festival takes place in Venice, Italy, from August 30 - September 5th. This is a truely amazing opportunity to return to one of our four favorite places on earth. Also notible are the festival's statues which can be seen below, they are very handsome. For those of you sports fans keeping score, this is festival number 19 for RUBBERHEART.

June 16 2008 I LEARNED THE TRUTH AT 17...
RUBBERHEART has been shortlisted for BEST SHORT FILM at SUPERSHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, in London, England. This is obviously a real reward for team RUBBERHEART as the festival takes place in the beautiful (and often trolled by us) ODEON in Covent Garden. It is also very close to our wonderful agent Rachel Daniel's office. The film has been short listed and is IN COMPETITION for BEST SHORT FILM. The festival looks to have a great line up. And takes place from July 1-6, 2008. This as the title suggests will be our 17th festival screening. And that is pretty exciting. When there is more specific schedule information, we will post a thurough summer screening schedule, the way this summer has been going there is sure to be a screening near you! For more information on SUPERSHORTS please check out ther festivals website at www.supershorts.org.uk

June 9 2008 V16
For those of you looking to update your records, a new version of the RUBBERHEART presskit has been posted in the PRESSKIT section of the site.

Also we have recieved a number of requests for DVDs of RUBBERHEART from people who have not had the opportunity to see the film in their area. So if you are interested in getting a copy, feel free to email info@rubberheart.com and we can let you know how to get one.

May 8 2008 Finalist
Just a quick note to inform the readership that RUBBERHEART has been selected as a finalist in the 30th Annual National Short Film & Video Competition, part of the USA FIL M FESTIVAL in Dallas. We are very pleased, they sent us a lovely commemorative certificate, in case we ever need to validate our standing in the festival competition.

May 8 2008 Cracking Latvia
RUBBERHEART has been invited to screen at our 13th international festival as part of the 2ANNAS INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. Or as it is sometimes known 2ANNASISFFIC. The festival takes place in Riga, Latvia, which we have heard is like the Montreal of the Baltic region. The festival takes place from May 27 - June 1, 2008.

Here is some interesting information about Latvia:
• Riga has the largest airport in the Baltic states.
• Latvia joined the European Union in 2004.
• Since 1767 the population has grown from 19,500 to 722,485 in 2007
• Some of Riga's sister cities are : Kobe, Japan; Minsk, Belarus; Bremen, Germany; Cairns, Australia and Slough, United Kingdom.
• Here is a weather report:

April 3 2008 ROMANCE...in Ohio
ROMANCE is the title of the program we will be screening in at the 35th annual ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL. Ruth Bradley, festival director writes of the program, "It's a strong and basically funny, sweet show." Sounds promising to me. What more can you want at a film festival?

The screening will take place Monday | April 28 | 2008 | 9p.m.| in Athens.

March 8 2008 Check This Out and Get Out The Vote!
Hey Rubber Faithful, wanted to announce the screening dates for our two upcoming March 15th festivals. They are as follows: Washington D.C. Independent Film Festivals at 10 pm at the Jack Morton Auditorium, Media and Public Affairs Building. And for the East Lansing Film Festival at 4pm at the Wells Hall Theater D - Hitchcock. We are predicting major attendance at both events. The film began shooting a year to the day (well the day after) these festivals and we could not be more proud of the year that we have had (unless we had gotten into Berlin).

Also, both D.C. and East Lansing have great websites, and on them a page about RUBBERHEART. Should you feel the pull of the below graphics, pay our page a visit and vote for us. A high rating would be a lovely rubber cherry ontop of what is already a great big slice of rubber pie. All the best to you. And we hope to see you on the 15th at the screenings!

February 8 2008 Born of Lansing, Rubberheart Goes Back To The Womb
RUBBERHEART has been accepted into the 11th EAST LANSING FILM FESTIVAL, March 12 - 20, 2008. Which is tremendously exciting not only in that it is Michigan's largest film festival, playing over 100 films, but that it is where Brian Crano (writer/director) was born. The festival also has great style and a really nicely designed website: www.elff.com which you should totally check out. No news yet as to which program we will screen in, but keep checking in for updates!

November 27 2007 London Calling, Rubber Answering The Call

Stellar news friends! Days after highly successful screenings in Oslo, RUBBERHEART has been invited to screen as part of the fifth annual LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, January 4th - 13th. The festival takes place right in the heart of London, screening films at the Curzon Soho Theatre, as well as at the Institute For Contemporary Arts.

RUBBERHEART has been programmed into a selection called FUCKED UP LOVE, which will screen 4 p.m. Saturday, January 5th, 2008 at the Institute For Contemporary Arts. We will be screening our fresh minted Pal Digi-Beta print of the film, which looks glorious and rich. Quyen Tran's brilliant cinematography looks so lush and alive on this print. Well worth a watch.

So please, tell your friends, tell your family, but most of all tell yourself to come down and join us. As it's London, there will be a huge party to follow, with many members of the cast and crew in attendance. No, not the dolls.

November 9 2007 Oslo International Film Festival Update Omnibus

We are pleased to update you with some exciting news about RUBBERHEART's upcoming screeenings at the 17th annual Oslo International Film Festival.

RUBBERHEART has been chosen to screen as the opening film for Harmony Korine's feature MISTER LONELY (starring Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, and Werner Herzog). We are thrilled to be screening with Mr. Korine's film, as we here at Rubberheart are huge fans of his films Kids and Gummo.

RUBBERHEART will also screen in the International Shorts screenings. We have been informed that RUBBERHEART is one of only seven short films showing in the festival. In amazing company with Wes Anderson's HOTEL CHEVALIER, Erik Rosenlund's LOOKING GLASS, Elisa Miller's Cannes Golden Palm winner VER LLOVER, Laila El-Haddad/Saeed Taji Farouky's TUNNEL TRADE, Jean-Gabriel Periot's multiple award winner EVEN IF SHE HAD BEEN A CRIMINAL, and Jean-Gabriel Periot's 200,000 PHANTOMS.

Also the line up of features at the festival is pretty staggering. Including Brian's hero Todd Hayne's I'M NOT THERE, Team Rubberheart's good friend Eddie Redmayne's film SAVAGE GRACE, Sean Penn's INTO THE WILD, Wes Anderson's DARJEELING LIMITED, Jason Reitman's JUNO, and master Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION.

Team Rubberheart could not be more excited to be participating in this festival and being allowed the chance to explore Oslo and Norway beyond. Hope you can join us in Norway. And if not, keep checking this space, for all the updates.

For more information and the complete program, check out the festival's site at www.oslofilmfestival.com.

October 4 2007 Rubber Rio

It's been an exciting week for RUBBERHEART and the good news just keeps coming. We are thrilled to announce that RUBBERHEART will be shown in the Sexual Identities Program at the 17th Annual Rio De Jeneiro International Short Film Festival, held in Rio from October 25 - November 4th, 2007. After working so hard on this film we are honored by the attention the film has received this week.

More information on screening times and locations will be posted shortly.
You can also check out the festival's site www.curtacinema.com.br

October 3 2007 A Big Rubber Apple

New York City Short Film Festival screening information is below. We are very excited about the screening and hope to see you or your NYC friends and family there!

October 24, 2007
@ 9pm - Program B
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
at Peter Norton Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th St.
New York, New York
www.nycshorts.com (for tickets)

July 24 2007 Hometown Rubber
We are very happy to announce that RUBBERHEART has been accepted into the 11th annual Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, better known as LA Shorts Fest. The festival is held in Los Angeles, September 5-16, 2007. For more information on the festival, check out their official website www.lashortsfest.com. We will list screening dates and times when we are made aware of them.

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