Written, directed, and edited by Ryan Oksenberg, Teardrop, inspired from real-life events, is a mind-boggling, inquisitive short on a seemingly good samaritan’s gesture that eventually gets the best of him. Too bizarre to be considered real, too far-fetched to be considered fictional, the film, all of 9:36 minutes, leaves its audience grappling with fear, humour… Continue reading Teardrop: A Psychological Drama On Abuse Of Help
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Where’s Kate?: Whodunit Hidden Under Hilarious Comedy
The unexpected development of the storyline and its subsequent climax is what stands out the most in writer-director Keith Macri’s 18-minute film. A short centred on a dinner table conversation that turns from bizarre to hysterical, offering its listeners an endless source of enjoyable puns and more, Where’s Kate? is hard to compartmentalise into a… Continue reading Where’s Kate?: Whodunit Hidden Under Hilarious Comedy
Engaged To Be Engaged: Delightful Rom-Com, Very Well Written
The credit for Engaged To Be Engaged goes through and through to its screenplay, written by Krystle Ferdinand, that balances the four characters right from the start. Ingeniously placed in its writing are the hints on the rising definitions of gender equality, feminism and more. The story, while focused on an interracial couple’s dating, touches… Continue reading Engaged To Be Engaged: Delightful Rom-Com, Very Well Written
She’s Not Your Type: Hilarious Face-to-Face Encounter With Your Worst Date
This one is for the keeps! A poignant addition to your library that will come in handy every time you or your friends decide to not take your brain along for your date. A 10-minute laughathon at the expense of Barry and the hapless companions of his double date, She’s Not Your Type is rich… Continue reading She’s Not Your Type: Hilarious Face-to-Face Encounter With Your Worst Date
Panic In Valley City: Healthy Banter Saves The Day
Couple jokes are clichéd. Quarantine ones, even worse. And yet, in directors Antonio Harper and Abby Burton’s pre-lockdown world, these jokes churn out something warm and pleasantly enjoyable. Based on Bernie Golias and Sarah Golias’s true story, as we are informed in a very dramatic, 50s cinematic style (a choice that is fitting considering the… Continue reading Panic In Valley City: Healthy Banter Saves The Day
Promenade: A Peek Into The Thresholds of Adulthood
Coming-of-age short films exist, but few and far between. Ollie Ward’s Promenade is that, and more. It goes slightly beyond that, and surprisingly, a little less than that. They are a bunch of kids, really. All in the prime of their youth, carefree, unbridled. With their personalities yet to be forged, this is effectively a… Continue reading Promenade: A Peek Into The Thresholds of Adulthood
Yearbook: A Poignant Short On Human History & Its Subsequent Futility
Contrary to the headline, writer-director Bernado Britto’s Yearbook is not dreadful or hopeless. In fact, if anything, it instils a new perspective and understanding to everything passing by our lives. An animated short, all of 5:38 minutes, Yearbook is the story of human history, a futuristic take on the present reality. The film opens to… Continue reading Yearbook: A Poignant Short On Human History & Its Subsequent Futility
Don’t Try This Alone: A Comedy On Quitting
Don’t Try This Alone, warns the title of Artii Smith’s 28-minute comedy, but as it turns out, trying it with a companion does not yield its characters very many great results either. Over the course of the film, Kevin (Ryan Keem) and Benny (Nobuaki Shimamoto) try and fail on a loop to give up smoking… Continue reading Don’t Try This Alone: A Comedy On Quitting
I Make Good Sounds At Parties: Monologue Of A Socially Awkward Loner
This one feels personal; a personal shout-out to all those bashful, struggling individuals out there – not so much the party poopers, or the wallflowers, but the ones that desperately want to fit in and can’t. If you know someone like this, watch I Make Good Sounds At Parties, with empathy – for director Amanda Prager’s 8:14-minute… Continue reading I Make Good Sounds At Parties: Monologue Of A Socially Awkward Loner
The Sleeping Life Of Sofia: Optimism On Being An Adult, Struggling Artist
As much as this is a showcase of the despair of hitting thirty – and hitting thirty as a struggling artist – Marcelo Mayen’s The Sleeping Life Of Sofia operates with the knowledge of life’s malleability, as a sea of possibilities. The protagonist, thirty-year-old surrealist painter Sofia, for all that she is depressed, falling apart,… Continue reading The Sleeping Life Of Sofia: Optimism On Being An Adult, Struggling Artist