SILK has been awarded Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking at the 2013 Newport Beach Film Festival.  See the full list of awards here.

SILK will screen at the New York Shorts Fest, May 28-30, at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema in New York City.

SILK has been accepted to the Oscar® qualifying Palm Springs International ShortFest, as well as the Oscar® qualifying USA Film Festival in Dallas.

SILK has been accepted to the Louisiana International Film Festival in Baton Rouge.  It will screen at 11:45am on April 20 at the Old State Capitol.

Get the full schedule here.

From the New York Times:

As the shadows lengthened around her family’s hut here in one of Kabul’s sprawling refugee camps, a slight 6-year-old girl ran in to where her father huddled with a group of elders near a rusty wood stove. Her father, Taj Mohammad, looked away, his face glum.

“She does not know what is going to happen,” he said softly.

Read the full story here.

SILK will screen at the Newport Beach Film Festival, 8:30pm, Wednesday, May 1st. We’ll be at the Triangle Square cinema.

Check out SILK at the Sarasota Film Festival, April 5-14 in Sarasota, Florida.

SILK has been accepted to the Madrid International Film Festival, and has been nominated for Best Short Film, Best Actress (Shohreh Aghdashloo), Best Editing (S. Robyn Wilson), and Best Makeup/Hair (Jennifer Zide).

Read more at the festival’s official website.

From Ynet:

Many Arab women are forced to marry at a very early age, entering life replete with violence and threats in the shadow of much older husbands. ‘It is like a jail, but no one hears you,’ says one.

Read the story here.

Check out SILK at the Sun Valley Film Festival, March 14-17 in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Also, see SILK at the Charleston International Film Festival, April 24-28 in Charleston, South Carolina.