6th ANNUAL NEW YORK CITY
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
S E P T E M B E R  2 4 - 2 5,  2 0 1 0
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NYC Shorts celebrates the short form by showcasing provocative and entertaining short films from around the world and screening at 92Y Tribeca, a brand new arts and entertainment venue, in New York City. 

Created by filmmakers David Barba, James Pellerito and Jennifer Pellerito, NYC Shorts includes the following competition categories:  drama, comedy, documentary, lgbt, student, foreign language and animation.

Our previous festivals have been artistic and commercial successes.  The quality of the films from the United States, Canada, Australia, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Slovenia, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, China, India, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Iran was superb and we have been fortunate enough to have filmmakers in attendance from as far as Germany, Canada, the UK and across the US.
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DAVID BARBA
Co-founder/Co-director NYC Shorts
David Barba was born and raised in Mexico.  He graduated from Stanford University where he received his BA in Feminist Studies and then worked in the film industries in London, New York and Mexico City.  His films XP - recipient of a Sloan Foundation Production Grant - and Adiós, para siempre, have screened around the world and garnered several festival awards.  He is a graduate of the two-year Meisner acting program with Suzanne Esper at the Esper Studio in New York.  David holds an MFA in Film Direction from the Columbia University School of the Arts and is co-director with James Pellerito of the feature documentary POP STAR ON ICE and the Sundance Channel documentary series BE GOOD JOHNNY WEIR.

JENNIFER PELLERITO
Co-founder/Co-director NYC Shorts
Jennifer Pellerito was born in Germany and raised in Italy.  She graduated from Colorado College where she studied German and Romance languages.  She worked internationally in Asia, Europe and Latin America in the fashion industry for Polo Ralph Lauren.  She is an award-winning producer of the critically acclaimed film Maree (Tides), has written several screenplays and co-produced the feature documentary POP STAR ON ICE.  Jennifer holds an MFA in Film Production from the Columbia University School of the Arts.


JAMES PELLERITO
Co-founder/Co-director NYC Shorts
James Pellerito was born and raised in Italy.  He graduated from Columbia University where he studied film and art history and then worked in the Greek and Roman Art Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  His award winning film Maree (Tides) has screened in over 100 festivals and was broadcast on HBO in 2007.  He is a graduate of the two-year Meisner acting program with Richard Pinter of The Neighborhood Playhouse and is currently in production on two feature film documentaries.  He holds an MA in Humanities from NYU and an MFA in Film Direction from the Columbia University School of the Arts.  James co-directed the feature documentary POP STAR ON ICE and the Sundance Channel documentary series BE GOOD JOHNNY WEIR.