George Saunders-Adapted Short Screens at Cleveland International Film Festival
PITTSBURGH – Sticks, a short film based on the George Saunders short story of the same name, will screen at ...
Tag: Short Film
Shorts: ‘Crisis Actor’ Shows That We Can’t Perform Our Way Through Life
There are two things that I couldn't help but connect in Lily Platt's unexpected, disarming short film, Crisis Actor. When ...
Franz Böhm & Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer On Making a Film Amidst Conflict for ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’
"Take the children and run." There is an almost overwhelming tension strung throughout Franz Böhm's BAFTA-winning short film Rock, Paper, ...
Out On Film: ‘Two People Exchanging Saliva’ Crescendos with Shopgirls, Slaps, and an Absurdist, Devastating Heart
A radio commercial for the lottery promises an usual prize in Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh's surreal, and ravishingly shot ...
Tony Mucci & Tyler “Hook” Senerchia On the Journey of a One Hundred Dollar Bill for ‘Money Talk$’
When you see a one hundred dollar bill, something in your chest catches. For a lot of us, that's still ...
Shorts: ‘Stay’ is a Quietly Drawn Fleeting Kiss
We hook up for many various reasons. We could be getting over a breakup, trying to escape a bad relationship ...
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