Shorts: ‘something still’ and That Elusive Pursuit of Light
A hello and a goodbye live perilously close to one another in the opening moments of Ariel Mahler's sexy, affecting ...
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Shorts Exclusive: HollyShorts Film Festival and Filmio Studios Launch Audience Short Film Discovery Partnership
The Academy Award-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival has partnered with Filmio Studios, the production studio associated with the industry leading film.io ...
Shorts Exclusive: Tribeca-Bound ‘I’m Not Home’ Debuts Trailer Featuring Julian De Niro & Eli Brown
EXCLUSIVE: I’m Not Home, a memory-soaked, atmospheric debut from writer-director Elena Parasco, will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, ...
Shorts: ‘Once Upon a Time in the Apocalypse’ is a Tension-Fueled Triumph
As we zero in on a remote cabin surrounded by snow in the opening moments of Tiago Pimentel's Once Upon ...
‘anyone lived in a pretty how town’ Signals to the Preciousness of Life
A man excitedly slides on the ice in the middle of a bustling town square early on in Daniel Kreizberg's ...
Shorts Exclusive: ‘A Friend Of Dorothy’ Tops Manhattan Short Audience Poll As Oscar Favorite For Live Action Short
The short has been voted the film most likely to win the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film ...
Florence Miailhe On Painting Memories Directly Under the Camera for ‘Butterfly’
Nothing on this year's Animated Short Film shortlist looks like Florence Miailhe's Butterfly, and it is a prime example of how ...
Meyer Levinson-Blount On Capturing Collective Trauma with One Accusation for ‘Butcher’s Stain’
There is a restrictive feeling that comes over you as you watch Meyer Levinson-Blount's Oscar-nominated Live Action Short Film, Butcher's ...
Natalie Musteata & Alexandre Singh On World Building and the Romantic Dance Between Absurdity and Danger for ‘Two People Exchanging Saliva’
Two People Exchanging Saliva draws you into a world where the most dangerous thing you can do is kiss another ...
Julia Aks & Steve Pinder On Injecting the Remarkable Balance of Humor and Education for ‘Jane Austen’s Period Drama’
Ahhhh, romance in the Regency Era. The foggy fields, the bonnets, anticipated proposals, a general misunderstanding of how a woman's ...
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