The critics at the Cahiers Du Cinema had a practice in the first decades of the magazine to let admirers of a given director review that director’s films. The thought was to give those with the best chance of seeing a film’s
One of my favorite shorts from this year is Christopher Good‘s comedy Brad Cuts Loose. It was featured in a Kickstart Sunday way back in March of 2016 and Kevin reviewed it a year later when it came out, scoring
In this entertaining and oddly timely short film, director Andrew Laurich tells the story of an unlikely assassin who heads back in time to take down Hitler in A Study in Tyranny. Equal parts comedy and think piece, this well-shot black and
Ahmed Khawaja continues his particular brand of diary cinema with his latest short, You, which is currently available on the filmmaker’s Vimeo page.
This week’s short film pick comes to us from director Sorrel Brae with A Film By Vera Vaughn. This inventive thriller stars Marin Ireland as a filmmaker editing her next project only to find her own life may be closer to
This week’s short film pick comes to us from director Christopher Jason Bell and his film And By We I Mean Me. This odd yet enthralling little character piece stars Frank Mosley as a working man grappling with the fact that
Hyphenate-heavy Frank Mosley’s short film, Casa De Mi Madre, was produced during his time in Cuba while attending an Abbas Kiarostami-led filmmaking workshop and with the support of Black Factory Cinema and
This week’s short film pick comes to us from director Claire Hanrahan and her nasty little thriller Fall. This 6-minute short revolves around a girl getting revenge on her neighbor who used her to cheat on a spelling test. Boy, kids can
This week’s short film pick comes to us from director Chris Shields and his film Debit Wolf. Waking up on a park bench, a woman finds her hands covered in blood, not knowing what happened or how she got there. Through a series
This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick comes to us from directors Ron Cicero and Kimo Easterwood and their documentary Happy Happy, Joy Joy – The Ren and Stimpy Story. As an obsessive Ren & Stimpy fan as a kid, I would love to
This week’s short film pick is actually one that we’ve discussed on the podcast before when it premiered at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival, and that’s Matthew Wade‘s Plena Stellarum. This trippy piece of animated weirdness is now screening online for
This week’s short film pick comes to us from director Max Barbakow with Cuddle Buddy, a sweet, funny, 10-minute short about a depressed woman who hires a cuddle service around the holidays as a last ditch effort to relieve just a sliver
Grief and the pain of loss sits at the center of writer/director Sophy Romvari’s latest short film, It’s Him, touching upon on a distancing effect that grief and loss often produce within the individuals affected,
This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick comes to us from director Matthew Wade and his upcoming film A Black Rift Begins To Yawn. We’ve been a fan of Matthew’s work since first checking out his film How The Sky Will Melt
Theodore Collatos’s latest short is one that is positioned as an origin, of sorts, for his upcoming feature-length film, Tormenting the Hen (which I covered here); an influential starting point that informs a certain segment of his feature, specifically, as variations of
