Short Film: Ahmed Khawaja’s YOU
Ahmed Khawaja continues his particular brand of diary cinema with his latest short, You, which is currently available on the filmmaker’s Vimeo page.
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Short Film: A FILM BY VERA VAUGHN
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
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Fantastic Fest 2017: Satellite Fest Titles Announced
One of the more exciting things about this year’s Fantastic Fest (and believe me there are a TON of exciting things) is the announcement that the festival will be branching out of Austin and screening select films at satellite locations
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Short Film: AND BY WE I MEAN ME
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
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FOR FUTURE REFERENCE: CASA DE MI MADRE
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
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Short Film: FALL
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,
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Short Film: DEBIT WOLF
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
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Kickstart Sunday: HAPPY HAPPY, JOY JOY – THE REN AND STIMPY STORY
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
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Short Film: PLENA STELLARUM
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
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Short Film: CUDDLE BUDDY
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
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FOR FUTURE REFERENCE: IT’S HIM
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
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Kickstart Sunday: A BLACK RIFT BEGINS TO YAWN
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
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Short Film: ADAM AND JOEL
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
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Kickstart Sunday: TWELFTH MAN
This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick comes to us from director Mark Brennan and his short film Twelfth Man, telling the true story of a theatre company attempting to perform Shakespeare‘s Twelfth Night during the 1966 World Cup Final. The film
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Short Film: HAVE HAD
This week’s short film pick comes to us from director Jack Turits and his film Have Had. The film stars Imogen Poots and Ben Rosenfield as siblings meeting each other for the first time after the passing of their mother and the
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Kickstart Sunday: HUMAN SUN
This week’s Kickstart Sunday pick comes to us from director Carl Bird McLaughlin and his short film Human Sun. This dramatic comedy revolves around a motivational speaker who teeters on the verge of a complete mental breakdown right before he
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