{"id":2455665,"date":"2020-03-11T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=322413"},"modified":"2020-03-11T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T04:10:00","slug":"aspen-shortsfest-tickets-on-sale-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-shortsfest-tickets-on-sale-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Shortsfest tickets on sale Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen Shortsfest, Aspen Film\u2019s Oscar-qualifying short-film festival, is still scheduled to run from March 31 through April 5 at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen. The festival is also scheduled to host screenings at the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale April 3 to 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Tickets go on sale Thursday at the Wheeler box office and aspenshowtix.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The festival will include 11 programs featuring 71 new films from 31 countries and culled from 3,000 submissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">More than 60% of films in the lineup are directed or co-directed by women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A new director of programming, Jason Anderson, has joined the festival for 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cHe has been the perfect addition, leading our programming team and with them, coming up with an incredibly varied and impressive roster of short films seeking Oscar qualification,\u201d Aspen Film executive and artistic director Susan Wrubel said in an announcement. \u201cShortsfest continues to attract the work of wildly imaginative and talented individuals from around the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Along with its Oscar-qualifying prizes in five categories, Shortsfest includes its annual Ellen Award, named for Aspen Film founder and executive director Ellen Kohner Hunt. And for the third year, Aspen Film will present its Vimeo Staff Pick Award, a live iteration of the platform\u2019s Staff Picks laurel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Full lineup and more info at <a id=\"N0x1680530N0x1666f40:N0x1680530N0x16cf2a8\" href=\"https:\/\/aspenfilm.org\/\">aspenfilm.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/aspen-shortsfest-tickets-on-sale-thursday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspen Shortsfest, Aspen Film\u2019s Oscar-qualifying short-film festival, is still scheduled to run from March 31 through April 5 at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen. The festival is also scheduled to host screenings at the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale April 3 to 5. Tickets go on sale Thursday at the Wheeler box office and aspenshowtix.com. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 11:05:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}