This eclectic shorts program showcases winners of the Stoli Emerging Filmmaker Award and the 3rd Babelgum Online Film Festival, created to celebrate and reward the very best in international independent short filmmaking. Chaired by film-world luminaries Richard Linklater, Sally Potter, Jean-Pierre Bekoto, Annie Sundberg, Eric Watson, Jason Wishnow, and Carlos Battilana, the screening is scheduled to include winners and runners-up in four categories: Narrative Shorts (story-based, fictional, live-action films in any genre); Animation (stop-motion, anime, hand-drawn, CGI, paper-cut, etc); Documentary (observational, narrated, real-life storytelling); and Nonnarrative Shorts (live-action artists' film and video); plus the Best Viral Short and BOFF 3 grand prize winner. -Brought to you by Stoli