Early Birds

This September, Jeroen Bogaert’s Early Birds will screen at no less than four festivals. The short will visit San Francisco, Cambridge, Atlanta and finally San Sebastián, where Early Birds has been selected for the International Film students Meeting. To top it all off, the film has also been confirmed for the 56th BFI London Film Festival.

Early Birds had its world premiere earlier this year at the Palm Springs International Shortfest. Some months after its screening in California, the short is still picking up invitations  worldwide. At the London Film Festival (10-21 October) Early Birds is one of six movies programmed in the Back To School: Student Film from London section.

The Palm Springs International Shortfest has selected four Flemish short films from over 3,000 worldwide entries. Anke Blondé’s Dura Lex, VAF Wildcard winner Boris Sverlow’s Shattered Past, Jeroen Bogaert's Early Birds and Michael Palmaers’s Nuru were added to the fest’s line-up. Palm Springs promises to once again attract a Hollywood crowd with its star-studded shorts such as Pitch Black Heist with Michael Fassbender and The End with Charlotte Rampling.

Michael Palmaers’s Nuru – described by the festival as a ‘dazzling, CG-enhanced story’ – is no stranger to the festival circuit. The film has already been selected for Fantasporto, Clermont-Ferrand, ANIMA and the Leuven international Short Film Festival. Nuru is inspired by The Explanation and The Empire of Light by surrealist painter René Magritte and was produced by Eric Goossens for Walking the Dog (A Monster in Paris).