The Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, CA

Friday, March 7th, 2008
by Zak Forsman

I’ve been up all f*cking night working on promoting IFHY (petitioning critics, submitting to festivals, building an online store to sell it from, etc) because most of my time goes to The Happening right now. found a cool little festival in Big Sur run by the Henry Miller library…. listen to what they say they look for…

The Big Sur Short Film Screening Series showcases the best of short films from all over the world. We are interested in films that are bold and uncensored, films that invite us into your world, that will shock us, madden us, make us cry and laugh, films with moments that are especially lovely, serendipitous, interesting, candid or moving. There is no particular theme, but we are looking for very evolved relationships with the camera, moments of dependency, love, and naturalness. We like brilliantly crafted stories. We are not interested in work that is clever at the expense of substance. (Please don’t send us your “early experimental” work – you know the films we mean).

The Big Sur Short Film Screening Series is produced by the Henry Miller Memorial Library and since both Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin worked with erotic and sexual subjects, our series welcomes the presentation of frank sexuality as long as it is intrinsic to a film/story. i’ve been told they screen in an outdoor amphitheater and other filmmakers who have attended say its one of the those unknown gems… great crowds, etc.