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Apologies if this post leans political, but considering recent headlines concerning a certain orange world leader and the elimination of the budget of small government funded programs, it’s hard not...
View ArticleSundance award-winner Jim Cummings creates a trio of short films for First...
Winner of the Special Jury Award at Sundance 2016, with his now legendary short Thunder Road, director Jim Cummings is back with a trio of short films created for First Look Media’s new venture...
View ArticleDangerous Curves
Dangerous Curves begs the question, do curvy women threaten our ideals of beauty? The answer is yes and brave women like Roslyn Mays (the focus of this doc) couldn’t be more inspiring role models....
View ArticleShort Film 'Weird Box' uses your Instagram pics in its creepy story
With Reality TV still proving ever-popular, the idea of using the everyday person as a star in entertainment is no new thing. However, things just got a little bit creepier with Noah Levenson’s...
View ArticleApple enlists Michel Gondry to shoot short film entirely on iPhone
No stranger to the format, Apple have hired French auteur Michel Gondry to shoot a short film entirely on an iPhone. The 11-minute piece, entitled Détour follows a family as they head off on vacation,...
View ArticleFish Story
Created to solve what director Charlie Lyne describes as “one of the few remaining un-Googlable mysteries”, 14-min documentary Fish Story delves below the murky surface of one family’s bizarre claim...
View ArticleBest Films of the Month: June
In what looks like being one of our strongest months of 2017, our ‘Best of the Month’ playlist sees us to fail to cut down the last 30-days of content to just three films. So instead we’re rebelling...
View ArticleHot Dog Hands
My first tendency when typing up this review was to slap our NSFW “Mature” tag on it. There isn’t any nudity or extreme violence in the film, it just really feels wrong to watch, as Matt Reynolds, an...
View ArticleThe Midnight Service: Home Invasion
Looking to make their audience laugh, scare them a little bit and tell a real story (that’s mostly true), Brett Potter and Dean Colin Marcial’s The Midnight Service: Home Invasion is the pilot episode...
View ArticleKathryn Bigelow Wades into VR with Conservation Doc "The Protectors"
Oddly, the most star-studded project of the entire Tribeca 2017 Film Festival was this short 360 documentary that embeds viewers amongst soldiers tasked with protecting African elephants from ivory...
View ArticleWar & Cheese
Sweet dreams are made of cheese. At least that’s the case for almost impossibly goofy Oleg Sirota, the star of Ben Garfield’s 9min documentary War & Cheese. A large dose of humour and a pinch of...
View ArticleAsphalt
An engrossing, experimental exploration of a traumatic life event, Asphalt from Turkish director Süleyman Demirel is an intriguing exercise in stark dramatic simplicity. Through the course of a single...
View ArticleFound
Australian production studio The Woolshed Company return to Short of the Week with their follow-up to Man, a 20-minute Thriller so tense you won’t dare breathe (although we advise you do) for its...
View ArticleSecrets
Tell me your deepest secret. Want to play? Director Phinehas Hodges explores the potentially damaging effects this dangerous game could have on a relationship, in his sharp and intoxicatingly dark...
View ArticleMobile
Mobile milks the most out of a simple setup, combining excellent character design and animation with a keen directorial eye for movement and action to create a kid-friendly short that’s full of...
View ArticleThe Bigger Picture
When it comes to acclaim in the short film world, prestige doesn’t come much bigger than seeing your film win a BAFTA and get nominated for an OSCAR (unless of course it won!). Add to this awards at...
View ArticleZygote
Channeling John Carpenter and Ridley Scott, Neill Blomkamp and his Oats Studio team deliver an impressive sci-fi horror short film as the fourth instalment of their ‘Volume 1’ anthology. Starring...
View Article9 Great Zombie Shorts
Horror shorts have a tendency to be cookie-cutter, it is one of the reasons we feature relatively few of them relative to the popularity of the genre. The exception to this though has always been the...
View ArticlePANACÉE
Inviting you to explore a ‘distant future’ populated by giant flying wales and other strange creatures, Jules Boulain-Adenis’ 6-minute EMCA grad film PANACÉE blends sci-fi and fantasy to create a...
View ArticleLe nom que tu portes (The Name You Carry)
A seemingly simple story about a boy suspended from school for a violent act, Hervé Demers’ 17-minute short takes a surprisingly touching and intimate turn as a father spends some unexpected time with...
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