Film Series

For the 20th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar®-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories offered — Animated, Live Action and Documentary — this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sun, Mar 2.

What would mid-February be without some swoon-worthy V-day fare? This year, we’ve opted to pack it all into a week to maximize your rosy revelry. Featuring sentimental classics, contemporary anti-romance riffs, and even a Pizza and a Movie, all in celebration of the thing we could all use a little more of right now: L-O-V-E.

As the yearly Awards Season comes to a close — and in advance of our A Red Carpet Evening fundraiser on Sun, Mar 2 — our now-perennial Best Picture Marathon spools forth from Feb 21-Mar 1.

Perhaps no artist better epitomizes the narrative freedom of the American arthouse than David Lynch. At once reverent to the classic cinema that came before him and fearlessly experimental and modern, Lynch’s cinema was one entirely of its own. His films exist in a netherworld of imagined nostalgia, magical realism and unbridled, joyous creativity, and they’ve pushed the bounds of the art form and inspired countless pretenders for nearly five decades. But there’s no substitute for the special weirdness this auteur of the outré brought to his singular, nightmarish, but ultimately humane visions. Each film is also an exploration of genre that uses his unique perspective and odd obsessions to plumb the complex and darkened depths of human emotion. In deference to the artist’s recent passing, we dive into his oeuvre and salute the master with a stiff black coffee and some damn good pie.