In this report from Austin Film Festival 2019 Kristy Strouse covers two interesting, female driven shorts, notes from a writer’s panel with Liz Hannah, and a review of The Bygone.
The NFFTY is scheduled to end on October 27, 2019, with these last seven short features: Virgencita, Green, Men Helping Women, Winner of Peace, Charley Horse, The Best is Yet to Come and Lavender.
Capturing a legacy of fear, Pia Borg’s short documentary Demonic is the perfect depiction of a time when the depths of the mind, imagination and fear gripped a nation.
We spoke with Elizabeth Blake-Thomas about her short film Unseen, about the kidnapping and trafficking of young girls through fake social media modeling contests.
An interesting, esperimental short film, The Flying Fish explores the more surreal realms of our existence that lights and cameras alone struggle to conjure up alone.
Amy Schatz’s “In the Shadow of the Towers: Stuyvesant HIgh on 9/11” recounts the harrowing day through the eyes of high school students who saw it happen first hand.