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Kish
Imagine you lost your eyesight. How would your understanding of the world around you change? Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper’s (the filmmaking duo behind California is a place) Kish tells the story...
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The Internet Warriors
The internet troll. The keyboard warrior. The caps lock commando. Whatever you call them, we’ve all encountered them. Maybe some of you reading this have done a little trolling yourself, but what is...
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Yellow
One of the most impressive things a short film can achieve is to establish a sense of place. Yellow, above all else, transports the viewer viscerally into the low-stakes world of amateur dirt-track...
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After Sophie
Billed as the story of a “documentary filmmaker [who] investigates the troubling, unexpected suicide of a teenager”, Minhal Baig’s After Sophie is so much more than its synopsis promises. A complex,...
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Strange Beasts
Can’t get enough Black Mirror? Wish each episode was a significantly shorter?*Puts on a used car salesman accent* Well, boy do I have the short film for you!Director and VFX artist Magali Barbe’s...
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Wednesday with Goddard
The complexity of simplicity is a challenge for all designers, and few in the animation and motion design space have more effectively met that challenge than Nicolas Ménard. His minimalist style...
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Zipi y Zape y la Isla del Capitán: El cuento del Capitán
Elegant and beguiling, Zipi y Zape y la Isla del Capitán: El cuento del Capitán is a homage to a forgotten art; a classically conceived animated fairytale by Spanish directorCarlos Salgado. Running...
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Old Hollywood Wakes Up to the Threat of Netflix
If you follow the entertainment industry, you should be well aware of the fundamental shifts afoot. On the heels of Nick Bilton’s sobering Vanity Fair article Why Hollywood as we Know it is Already...
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Traitor Knight
With films like the iconic Revenge of the Nerds, dark dramas like Goat, or most recently the blockbuster comedy Neighbors, it’s easy to imagine the potentially dangerous and unethical things that...
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Frolic n' Mae
Long recognized as a unique animation talent, Danny Madden’s latest short, Frolic n’ Mae, expands both his field of potential, and our impression of him as a filmmaker. A feel-good adventure film,...
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Check Please
It’s a rarity when a film can make you see red with rage, but also make you laugh out loud and filmmaker Daniel Sorochkin has done just that with his latest romantic comedy. A play on the implications...
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Offside
Tackling issues like womanhood, single parenting and female football is no mean feat for any film director, but 23 year old, Westminster University graduate Jimmy Dean, has embraced the challenge...
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Bozo
Break-ups can be tough, sometimes relationships have to end – even though neither of you really want it. But what’s sometimes tougher is staying apart. A film of reignited love and sympathy boners,...
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Con Amor
What is most effective in Con Amor is what is left unsaid. A classic moral parable, the film refuses to make explicit its implicit meanings, and this uncertainty elevates writer/director Cole Webley’s...
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Downward Dog
Before I even watched Downward Dog—a web series that has now inspired an ABC sitcom—I had convinced myself I was going to hate it. I mean, c’mon! A talking dog piece? Again? Didn’t that recent...
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Best Films of the Month: March
With winter now officially over for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, March is a month you can shake off that duvet, emerge from the daze of hibernation and start planning those essential annual...
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Fool's Day
April 1st. The unofficial worst day on the internet. Everything you read today is all lies disguised as jokes. It’s awful.But, on the bright side, the fact that it’s April Fool’s Day affords us the...
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Mammoth
As scientists have warned us for years now, climate change real…it’s happening. And, it seems that documentary has been the primary art form leading the battle cry. Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth...
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The Counselor
A crisis hotline center. A rookie operator. A suicidal woman in desperate need of help. It’s a general setup we’ve seen a few times before in the world of shorts. But, it’s one that continues to...
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Mend and Make Do
Billed as a ‘life-sized’ animated short, Bexie Bush’s Mend and Make Do is a film big on scale and big on heart. The charming story of Lyn Schofield, a widowed OAP with a lifetime of tales, Bush’s...
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