Oscars Live Action Short Films: Mindy Kaling, Colin Farrell & Zoe Saldaña Backed Projects Land Shortlist
deadline.comThe Oscars 2025 shortlist was revealed Tuesday, and the Live Action Shorts category aims to pull on Academy voters’ heartstrings and appeal to their humanity.
With each showcasing and tackling a form of injustice, societal inequality and perseverance, highlights that found a place for themselves across the 15 dedicated slots include notable shorts such as Adam J.
Graves’, which follows the story of a young Indian girl who has to decide between education or employment at a factory. The short film grabbed wins for Best Live Action Short at the HollyShorts Film Festival, the Grand Prize at the New York International Short Film Festival alongside attaining support from filmmakers Mindy Kaling and Guneet Monga Kapoor, who signed on as EPs. , directed by Marco Perego, stars Zoe Saldaña as a woman who contemplates the real meaning of freedom on her last day in prison.
In the Colin Farrell endorsed and EP’d project, director TJ O’Grady Peyton centers the camera on an unlikely duo, when an unhoused Nigerian immigrant is faced with finding a stable environment until he gets on his feet, he secretly occupies the cramped, but cozy home of a blind elderly woman.
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