At The End of the Cul-de-sac
In the world of modern short filmmaking, few have defined the form as much Paul Trillo. To call his films “unique” would be an understatement. His oeuvre is an outstanding compilation of creative...
View ArticleMile 19
A portrait of a man who is deceivingly ordinary and secretly extraordinary, Vincent DeLuca’s short documentary about marathon runner and US Postal Worker, Johnnie Jameson, is sure to move you. A...
View ArticleNew Hot Shot Distributor NEON Taking Shorts to Theaters
Talk to any short filmmaker and while they love the internet for getting their work seen by audiences and industry, they usually fell in love with movies via the cinema. Shorts used to run in front of...
View ArticleVote for Moët Moment Film Festival's Top 10 for a chance to win a trip to the...
We got great feedback last month from filmmakers out there when we promoted a call for entry to the “Moët Moment Film Festival” which promises a $25k prize to the winner of its 60-second film...
View ArticleAlzheimer's: A Love Story
Perhaps the test of a relationship is not the first few years, but the last. After all, the final years of a relationship can be the most heartbreaking, especially if one partner is slowly losing...
View ArticleBonfire
Perhaps it’s because filmmaking is such a male dominated industry, but it feels like there are an inordinate number of “dude friendship” films as opposed to female-driven ones. In that sense, Jason...
View ArticleBad at Dancing
Bad at Dancing is outrageous. It is cringe-inducing. It is uncomfortably sexual, yet entirely unsexy. It is fantastically implausible, yet simultaneously and disgustingly real. Oh yeah, it’s pretty...
View ArticleAsphyxia
Inspired by a “surreal” real-life experience at a motel a few hours outside LA, Asphyxia is a dark and moody 10-minute thriller about two strangers and their dangerous sexual encounter. Exploring the...
View Article5 Films About Technology
Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat…who needs the messiness of IRL human interactions when all we need is a thumb, a smartphone and wifi or data to communicate? As anyone under 40 can surely tell...
View Article1, 2, 3... You Please
Once upon a time there was a fair princess with a broken heart and a severe case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). 1, 2, 3… You Please is a classic fairy tale brought crashing into 21st Century,...
View ArticleSaturday
We all see disaster and tragedy every day now on our news media of choice; the dead, the injured, the lost – we see them all. What we see less of is the deep scars that any individual tragedy leaves...
View ArticleTime Chicken
Employing a playful Claymation aesthetic to tackle a famous philosophical question that dates back thousands of years to Ancient Greece, Nick Black’s 6-minute stop-motion Time Chicken looks to finally...
View ArticleHigh Hoops
For many of America’s poorest youth, sports are a way out—a chance to break away from the confines of spartan brick buildings and chainlink fences. But, the odds are stacked against the dreamers. Many...
View ArticleThese C*cksucking Tears
With its repeated references to mud flaps, cold beer, and sexy tractors, country music doesn’t really seem like a medium predisposed for LGBT self-expression. But, Patrick Haggerty isn’t your normal...
View ArticleExtn.21
What’s the most terrifying thing you can imagine? For a time in multi-disciplinary artist Lizzie Oxby’s life, the answer to the question was “Hearing your own voice coming back to you”. Extn.21...
View ArticleThe End of Independent Film As We Know It?
Indie filmmakers are seeing the world of filmmaking change around them from how you learn the craft of storytelling to how films are funded, produced, edited, discovered, and distributed. A recent...
View ArticleThe Last Virgin in LA
If you want to feel sexually self-conscious or inadequate just talk with your friends about the topic – or better yet, get judged by someone whose opinion you didn’t even ask for in the first place....
View ArticleWelcome to My Life
For fans of kids animation, this latest short from Cartoon Network’s Elizabeth Ito is a must-see as a new voice for kids animation.The story follows a soft spoken teenage monster named T-Kash who...
View ArticlePlease
Though the title, style and playfully vague synopsis may lead you to assume this is a family-friendly short, prepare for things to get weird and bloody in this absurd fable centred around a lost child...
View ArticleDay 40
As the title suggests, the film is about Noah’s Ark, but this ark’s more of a pirate ship than a paradise. Sol Friedman’s Day 40 is his second exploration (and mockery) of faith, and its release has...
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