NAMI' DANCE WITH GOD by Ettore Pasculli will be eligible for the Oscars® 2024

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While the Oscars are still months away, films have to start campaigning early. That’s especially true in categories like Animated Short Film.

In accordance with Academy rules that every short movie eligible for an Academy Award must screen for at least one week in Los Angeles before the end of theatrical run wich will close on September 30, Namì Dance With God by Ettore Pasculli will play September 15-21 at the Lumiere Music Hall Theater in Beverly Hills in LA, one screening a day in the seat main theater for who were able to get tickets.

The short film is distributed by Voce Spettacolo, italian film production and international distribution, founded by Walter Nicoletti, italian Oscar® Qualified Director, Award-Winning Actor and Film Producer, member at Satellite Awards™ , Independent Spirit Awards, Online Film & Television Association and American Film Institute.

SYNOPSIS – NAMI’ DANCE WITH GOD

Logic can get you from A to B. Imagination can get you anywhere. Albert Einstein. Israeli digital artist Marina Amadal recently revived an old photo: that of Czeslawa Kwoka, a 14-year-old Polish girl, deported to Awschwitz with her mother in 1942. The photo moved the social media world for its stark truth, for the innocent beauty and for the tragic fate of the little girl. The avatar of the girl with the name of Namì was created from the photo. In the film NAMI’ (dance with God) she cultivates a great dream: learning to dance, even in a condition of extreme difficulty in life. The discovery of the body through harmony of movement is for her a way to live and escape the tragic barbarism to which her mother, like others, is subjected. Between dream and reality she lives a double life. Partly true and partly imaginary. During the day, the little girl helps her mother in the woodshed and at night, secretly, at the suggestion of a strange inner voice, she goes to the basement of an old shack, which has always attracted her curiosity about her.There she meets a mysterious and severe character, a dancer who hides from fools and fanatics and that he wants to teach her to dance. Through her dance the dancer teaches her much more than just dancing. She transmits to her the thought of the freedom that everyone should possess. Unfortunately, however, the harsh reality of the camp takes the windward. Namì’s mother falls ill and is taken away in full view of the little girl. Namì doesn’t want to dance anymore. She is no longer interested in anything, not even seeing the dancer again. She alone without her mother, when it seems that there is nothing left to do… Maybe through imagination she will still be able to explore the mysteries of unknown dimensions?

Thanks to its week-long run “Namì Dance With God” can be nominated for an Oscar for best animated short film, as it met qualification guidelines.

The 96th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10. This marks the third year the Academy Awards ceremony will be held in March after notching steady viewership bumps the past two years.

The Academy set the submission deadline for animated short film category for the 2024 Oscars for Oct. 16, 2023. Preliminary voting for the shortlists will begin on Dec. 18 with the results announced on Dec. 21. The nominations voting period will run from Jan. 11-16, 2024, with the official nominations announcement on Jan. 23.