FLIP **** New Zealand 2019 Dir: Jessica Grace Smith. 13 mins Funded by the New Zealand Film Commission through its “Fresh Shorts” program, this Wellington-shot film unfolds fifty years in the future where prisoners are barcoded and subjected to retinal scans and a mother named Flip (played by writer-director Jessica…
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LA NORIA ***** Spain 2018 Dir: Carlos Baena. 12 mins Writer-director-editor Carlos Baena has worked in animation for two decades with Industrial Light and Magic and Pixar, which means that his C.V. includes titles like TOY STORY and JURASSIC PARK. LA NORIA, made in collaboration with over 100 other international…
World Premiere: In Darkness I Wait Chapter 3 of The Pale-Faced Lady Saga In Darkness I Wait, chapter 3 of The Pale-Faced Lady Saga makes it’s world premiere debut on September 24, 2020. “No more sadness. No more loneliness. I’ll take it all away. Let me in, but suffer endlessly”…
BREAK IN BREAK OUT **** Canada 2019 Dir: Michael Driscoll. 8 mins This latest short from the clearly talented Michael Driscoll (BE RIGHT BACK, TWO BLACK COFFEES, TO THE BOATS) is a sardonic, frenetic, technically superb take on the now-overdone home invasion scenario for jaded 21st century audiences. There are…
MAGGIE MAY **** Australia 2018 Dir: Mia Kate Russell. 14 mins At the wake for old Sylvia May, who took a fatal fall, the eponymous Maggie May (played with astonishingly detached venom by Lulu McClatchy) utters what will prove to be the story’s defining line: “I didn’t know what to…