SPOILER AND WARNING - This film really contains a live birth.
Online
You can now check out Everything You Wanted to Know About Sudden Birth* (*but were afraid to ask) STREAMING ONLINE, along with a couple of other awesome birth shorts over at Alamo on Demand!
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Synopsis
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sudden Birth* (*but were afraid to ask) is the amazing story of how the Berkeley police department, the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, an Academy Award winner and Mr. Spock from TV’s Star Trek are all connected by "Sudden Birth", one of the most unintentionally hilarious and disturbing educational films ever created.
In color.
Awards
Oak Cliff FF, USA (Jury Special Mention - Documentary Shorts)
Seattle International Film Festival, USA (Grand Jury Special Mention - Documentary Shorts)
International Moving Film Festival, Iran (Semi-Finalist - Documentary Shorts)
Podcast
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Screenings
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland (work in progress)
Sundance Film Festival, USA (World Premiere)
Aspen Shortsfest, USA
Florida Film Festival, USA
Independent Film Festival of Boston, USA
DOKfilm, Norway
Maryland Film Festival, USA
Montclair International Film Festival, USA
Chicago Critics Film Festival, USA
Mountainfilm, USA
SFDoc Fest, USA
Norwegian Short Film Festival, USA
AFI Docs, USA
Free Range Film Festival, USA
Curta Vila do Conde, Portugal
Rooftop Films, Brooklyn, NYC USA
Funcinema, Argentina
Victory International Film Festival, Australia
Sydney Underground Film Festival, Australia
Shorts Mexico, Mexico
Long Weekend du Court, Canada
Drunken Film Festival, USA
Philadelphia Film Festival, USA
Hot Springs International Documentary Film Festival, USA
This is England Film Festival, France
DOC NYC, USA
Interfilm Short Film Festival, Germany
AFI Fest Los Angeles, USA
Other Cinema Special Screening, USA
Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, USA
Landshut Short Film Festival, Germany
The Crew
Written & Directed by
Scott Calonico
Excecutive Producer
Jeffrey J. Radice
Produced by
Scott Calonico
Skip Elsheimer
Harmon Leon
Starring
Heinrich Beernink, M.D.
Leonard Nimoy
James Caan & Raquel Welch
Skip Elsheimer
Amy Beernink
R. Paul Kerston
Kieth Merrill
Jonathan Tegan
Kay Tegan
Editing by
Nathan McGinty
Archival Research & Transfers
Rick Prelinger
Skip Elsheimer
Sound
Eric Friend
Color
Joe Malina
Details
Documentary Short
UK/Germany/US
11’ , Color/B&W
1080P
DCP/Quicktime ProRes