If you’re a movie buff who endeavors to get all your homework done before the annual Academy Awards ceremony reveals industry picks for the best films of the previous year — you’re not done yet. There’s still just a little homework left for you.
Fortunately, the Old Liberty Theater in Camas and the Kiggins Theatre in Vancouver are ready to help, and the films themselves are bite-sized and bundled into three tasty groups.
The 14th annual series of “Oscar Shorts” includes films that are so good, they’ve been nominated for top honors — yet so brief, they never make it to the multiplex for the routine screenings that full-length features enjoy. Most of these Oscar Shorts are between 10 and 20 minutes long; just a few are shorter or longer than that.
Normally, film festivals or the ever-diversifying world of independent online producers, like Netflix, are your only chances to see such short pieces. But over the next couple of weekends, you can see them all on the big screen in Vancouver or Camas. They’ve been grouped by genre: live action (fiction films); animation; and documentary. And within those genres they come in every conceivable flavor, from sweetly funny to deadly serious, from personal to political, from individual to global.