"Gandhi at the Bat" Returns to the HollyShorts Film Festival

Aug. 5, 2009 - PRLog -- "Gandhi at the Bat," an award-winning mock newsreel about the little-known (and totally fictional) incident when the Mahatma Gandhi pinch-hit for the New York Yankees in 1933, will play at the 5th annual HollyShorts Film Festival in a program of shorts Monday, August 10, 5 p.m., at the Sunset Laemmle (8000 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90046).

The movie, which was directed by Stephanie Argy and Alec Boehm, won the Best Comedy prize at HollyShorts 2008 and will be part of a program of award winners from the fest's previous years, along with A Letter to Colleen, Beholden, Bloom and Old Days.

"Gandhi at the Bat" has played over 30 festivals around the world and won numerous awards, including a prize for filmmaking excellence from the Baseball Hall of Fame Film Festival and a BAFTA honorable mention at the Mill Valley Film Festival.  The two directors have since gone on to make their first feature, "The Red Machine," which stars two of the actors from "Gandhi at the Bat" (Lee Perkins and Donal Thoms-Cappello) and features six others.

The HollyShorts festival, which will screen more than 130 shorts, features and music videos, runs from August 6-13.

The "Gandhi at the Bat" website at www.gandhiatthebat.com has images and before-and-after visual effects demos; screeners and additional information can be obtained by writing to info@gandhiatthebat.com.

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This award-winning 11-minute mock newsreel tells the story of the little-known (and totally fictional) incident when the Mahatma Gandhi pinch-hit for the Yankees in 1933. The movie has played all over the world, including at the Baseball Hall of Fame.