Sam Worthington at the 2010 ShoWest Awards at the Paris on March 18, 2010.
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban arrive at the 46th Academy of Country Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 3, 2011.
Tropfest, the world’s largest short film festival, will be coming to Las Vegas this June, the Cosmopolitan announced today. The internationally recognized festival will be held at the hotel’s Boulevard Pool from June 1-3 to celebrate Tropfest’s 20th anniversary.
In addition to indie music acts and film-themed anniversary events, the festival will feature a Tropfest “All-Star” competition showcasing the best films from the event of the past two decades. A panel of industry and celebrity judges will choose an overall winner from 12 finalists.
"Tropfest filmmakers have created some groundbreaking short films over the years, and I'm thrilled the U.S. audience can experience them first-hand with our All-Star competition," Tropfest founder and Director John Polson said in a news release.
The weekend’s festivities will be filmed by Starz Cinema, Tropfest’s national broadcast partner, and screened across the country at a later date.
Over the past two decades, Tropfest has built a name for itself as a platform for emerging actors, directors, writers and other film industry professionals and is supported by some of the industry’s biggest names, including Nicole Kidman, Baz Luhrmann and Russell Crowe. Tropfest alumni include actor Sam Worthington and the actor-director duo Jason Gann and Tony Rogers, whose Tropfest short "Wilfred" is now a popular TV series in the U.S. and Australia.
Tropfest Las Vegas is the newest iteration of the festival; others are currently held in Australia, Abu Dhabi, New York, Paris, China and Malaysia.
All events for the Las Vegas festival are non-ticketed and open and free to the public, although packages and $200 VIP tickets can be purchased beginning Friday via the Cosmopolitan’s website.
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