A Milestone Celebration for HollyShorts Film Festival 2024
by Karen Pecota

The HollyShorts Film Festival 2024 celebrates its twenty-year anniversary. Festival PR Director/Publicist Catherine Lyn Scott with London Flair Public Relations leads a wonderful team of festival organizers and panelists to present a quality program of short films. In addition to the presentation of short film storytelling, informational panels are set up to assist and encourage filmmakers, cast and crew is a highlight of the festival program. Business connections are fostered, and relationships built, as one never knows who will work with whom on future projects.

The ability to find and feature quality short films is not only present in the HollyShorts Film Festival program but it is evident in the number of short films from their program that become qualified to compete for the Academy Awards in the short film categories. This in and of itself is an amazing honor.

Noteworthy is that the HollyShorts Film Festival annually honors individuals in four categories. At the 20th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival these people mentioned below are the 2024 honorees:

Luminary Award:
For work in front and behind the scenes camera--directorial debut SHADOW BROTHERS SUNDAY
Alden Ehrenreich

Lifetime Achievement Award:
60-year career TOP GUN, MASH, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, TV 1963-2022, Skerritt has been in more than 200 Television episodes)
Tom Skerritt

Visionary Award:
For directing (LORDS OF DOGTOWN, THIRTEEN, TWILIGHT, “Under the Bridge,” a 2024 Hulu series)
Catherine Hardwicke

Rising Star Award:
20-year-old actress…the role of Pearl in the Hulu series “Little Fires Everywhere”
Lexi Underwood