From Cat Poop to Fish & Chips: Jonathan Hawes On Finding Dark Comedy in the Mundane
In the realm of independent filmmaking, few storytellers can transform the mundane into the magnificent quite like Jonathan Hawes. The...
Jessica Goes to New York: A Wonderland Where You Get Lost To Find Yourself
John Carmel's 16-minute Jessica Goes to New York is a self-reflexive coming of age tale about its titular heroine, a...
Largo: Anywhere is Safer Than Here, But Nowhere Else is Home
Max Burgoyne-Moore and Salvatore Scarpa’s 19-minute drama Largo uses the child’s gaze to show the flipside of the refugee coin:...
Curiosity: Space and Time Lose Their Form in This Modern-day Horror
Michael Cooke’s 12-minute Curiosity is a compounded horror of our times, switching out found footage with streaming for a horrific...
Sky Colored Grass: Love in the Time of Absurdity
Nicholas Kennedy’s Sky Colored Grass is a 9-minute drama about what it is like to fall in love in an...
The One That Got Away: The Thrill and Heartbreak of (Unrequited) Love in Post-Apocalypse Story
Opening with a sequence of a woman running through the woods while gunshots ring out around her, Scott Talbot’s The...
The Mistake: A Drama of Sibling Rivalry and What We Do to Be Seen
Artii Smith’s The Mistake is a drama with psychological thriller undertones to it as two brothers clash and meditate on...
Krisis: A Poetic Drama of Finding Life
Luca Mazzara’s 11-minute Krisis situates itself in the dreamscapes created in the shadow of chronic illness. Following a woman’s path...
Curating Grief: Loss and Objects: An Intimate Display of How to Carry Lost Loved Ones Within Us
Jamie Max Lee’s deeply personal—and deeply tender because of it—32-minute documentary Curating Grief: Loss and Objects is as much about...
Crease(ЗАЛОМ): An Austere Drama on the Microcosm of School
Demitri Zujew’s 19-minute Crease brings its audience deep into the fold with its close-ups in 1.33:1 right off the bat....
