Short Film Review

The bold, experimenting spirit of Tonya Kay hates all that is safe and boring. She revels in attaining new heights, and in her directorial debut, ‘The Ascension of Ava Delaine’; Ms Kay pushes the envelope with a single-take film…
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An aesthetic victory, Jesse Harris’ ‘Wind in the Night’ showcases its director’s cinematic vision and expertise over his craft. Guillermo (Salvador Chacon), a drug mule, leaves his family behind to embark on a delivery trip he is less than…
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The film opens to a drive along a picturesque path. Streets filled with snow, Bobby (Jack Boggan) is driving his car while attending phone calls. His chain of thoughts open to the audience, we know him as well as he presents himself. His…
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Maria (Aixa Kay) works as a live-in maid for a wealthy couple and struggles to please her pre-teen daughter, Zara (Zara Nikou Sichani). She buys her a used Polaroid camera for her birthday and the girl isn’t too pleased. But, when Maria…
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Writer/Director Juri Ferri chooses to film ‘UB-13’ on a 35 mm to make it look authentic to the WWI era. And lo and behold, we have ‘UB-13’; a ghost escaped from the hellish submarines of the early 20th century that remains the inspiration…
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Produced by Jaden Braunwarth and Zlatina Pacheva, ‘Camping Trip’ is the thriller you’d probably find time-tested, but uniquely told under Amy McLeish’s able direction. At 16:13 minutes, the film is short enough to leave an impact, but also…
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‘Their War’ does not intend to leave you bawling your heart out or shatter it outright. No, it quietly plants the sprouting seeds of a stinging pain within you. The cast carries this knowledge with them and they remain true to it, not…
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‘Malacostraca’, a soft-shelled class of crustacean, was not conceived by nature to be particularly disturbing, but Charles Pieper’s 2018 psychological horror has certainly made it so! Struggling writer Chris (Charlie Pecoraro) and his much…
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Produced by Nicole Hilliard-Forde, Matt Hilliard-Forde, 'We Forgot to Break Up' is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Chandler Levack. The film centres on Evan Strocker (Jesse Todd) a music journalist, who has just finished writing a…
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12:39 minutes are too short a time to live anyone’s life. But, director-writer Kathryn L Scurry manages to bring to screen the life of a woman and her choices. Choices that she has been confronted with, decisions that she had been coerced…
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