Short Film Reviews
For the documentary short film section, The Academy mostly nominated shorts about the refugee crisis that attempt to humanize the victims.
This year’s nominees for the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film are a diverse selection of stories from across the globe.
With varying styles and lengths, the 2017 Animated Short Films offer innovation, emotion, and satisfying storytelling.
In Broadcast Signal Intrusion, a psychological horror short film, a grief-stricken video archivist becomes increasingly obsessed with the meaning behind a sinister television signal hijacking.
We sat down with Nick Padley, director of the horror short film GENE, which is making the rounds on the festival circuit.
Somatic is a short film from director Will Nash, delving into complex questions of cloning and the nature of our reality.
Something Blue should be added to the increasing list of films where absence, of one sort or another, is at the vigorous heart of the film itself and as the cliché says, it makes the heart grow fonder.
Color is an animated short film about a creature that looks a lot like a lima bean with legs. This little creature has a beautiful yellow color that it tries to hide to fit in with the creatures and the buildings in the town it lives in.
As readers may or may not know, I took a break from writing these past few months as I was running my first ever film festival. The Drunken Film Fest (DFF) had its inaugural year in Bradford, England this past summer and it was pretty successful for a first year free film festival, if I do say so myself. However, my background when it comes to festivals is not in running them, but rather in trying to get accepted to them.
During September, we featured a short film every day, to promote general awareness of short films and the great talent behind them, and to help people find some excellent shorts. Today we’re listing all the short films we featured. We’re also including a bunch of fun graphs to illustrate the data behind the short films!
Killer Friends is a short horror-comedy written by Zach Noe Towers and co-directed by Towers and Tina Carbone. The film stars Jenna-Lee Carreiro, Dave Racki, and Peggy Sinnott alongside Towers, who plays the indestructible jerk himself, Scott. With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemies?
It’s the final day of our #ShortFilmADay challenge (more here), if you will believe it! I, for one, hardly can – these thirty days have gone by so fast and we’ve seen so many amazing short films! But you didn’t think we wouldn’t go into October without some final fireworks, right?
“Sure, I’ll see you again before either of us knows it”. It’s a sentiment resonating with most of us after the passing of a loved one. This line opens the beautiful, bleak, January Hymn, written and directed by Katherine Canty.
With the #ShortFilmADay challenge, Film Inquiry promotes the watching of short films, and supports indie film and filmmakers! It’s never to late to join! Find more information about the challenge here.
With the #ShortFilmADay challenge, Film Inquiry promotes the watching of short films, and supports indie film and filmmakers! It’s never to late to join! Find more information about the challenge here.