Love Your Shorts Film Festival's Summer Rewind to feature Oscar winner
Love Your Shorts Film Festival's Summer Rewind to feature Oscar winner
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“I’m Not a Robot,” winner of the 2025 Academy Award for best live action short, will highlight this year’s Summer Rewind hosted Aug. 29 by Love Your Shorts Film Festival.
The tale is about a woman who fails a series of CAPTCHA tests on her computer at work and becomes obsessed with a disturbing question: Could she be a robot?
The Dutch film is one of 10 that will be screened at the Summer Rewind event at The Ritz Theater in Sanford. The program will feature some of the most talked-about films from the Love Your Shorts 15th annual festival in February, where “I’m Not a Robot” also won the festival’s Best Sci-Fi and Best of the Fest awards before it won an Oscar.
The shorts (below) are a sampling of all the festival’s categories: Comedy, Drama, Animation, Documentary, Sci-Fi/Horror, International, Florida Flavor, and E for Everyone.
Films will start at 7 p.m. at the historic 1923 theater at 201 S. Magnolia Ave. Film fans in attendance will have a chance to win two tickets to the 16th annual festival next February.
Tickets for the Summer Rewind are $12 and can be obtained at LoveYourShorts.com or purchased at the door.
Love Your Shorts Film Festival is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit run by volunteers in Sanford
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Summer Rewind Fact Box
What: Love Your Shorts Film Festival’s Summer Rewind, a variety of short films featured from the February 2025 festival.
When: 7 p.m. Aug. 29, 2025
Where: The Ritz Theater, 201 S. Magnolia Ave., Sanford
Cost: $12.
Information and tickets: LoveYourShorts.com and facebook.com/LoveYourShorts.
(The 16th annual Love Your Shorts Film Festival is scheduled Feb. 12–15, 2026, at The Ritz Theater. Filmmakers, sponsors and volunteers who would like to be involved can go to LoveYourShorts.com.
(For additional information, contact board member Gene Kruckemyer at PeriodsCommas@aol.com or 407-406-4628.)
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The 2025 Summer Rewind lineup:
Birdy Man
Anni Zhang and Yutong Qiu, United States, 2:06
A man teasing a seagull with food on a pier learns a lesson.
Vance and the Afterlife
Sam Kimbrell, United States, 10:17
A corporate stiff dies and meets his afterlife guide for directions.
Contracting the Cooties
Skylar Levine and Maya Bayewitch, United States, 5:09
A second-grade girl touches a boy’s hand, unaware that she just contracted the “cooties.” Her friend must help find the cure before it’s too late.
Edson’s Gravy
Ryan George Kittleman, United States, 2:22
An ode to Russell Edson’s poem Gravy.
Les Betes
Michael Granberry, United States, 11:38
A mysterious rabbit summons a host of strangers to entertain a wicked king and his court.
Gopher Games
Brent Fannin, United States, 18:11
As much of Florida’s landscape is being squeezed by developers, protections for gopher tortoises are slowly being chipped away.
The Mooning
Mason Klesch and Vivian Osness, United States, 3:11
The truth behind the 1969 moon landing.
Stressy Squishy
Katherine Fan, United States, 2:03
A stress toy that is traumatized by bullying and abuse decides to go to therapy for help.
Ms. Rossi 3: Ms. Rossi Meets the Mob
Pat Battistini, United States, 19:50
While traveling for work, Ms. Rossi gets picked up by the wrong driver at the airport.
I’m Not a Robot
Victoria Warmerdam, Netherlands, 22:22
After failing CAPTCHA tests, music producer Lara becomes obsessed with a disturbing question: Could she be a robot?
Attached: Summer Rewind poster and screen shots for Oscar winner “I’m Not a Robot” and the animation “Gravy.”