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Co-Founder & Managing Editor at Directors Notes, Rob's 20+ year obsession with short film has led him to develop a unique perspective on the medium. Driven by his curiosity and excitement for emerging filmmaking talent, he's motivated by sharing these exciting new voices with the world.

Animation

Seedling

Animator Lee Tao reminds us just how beautifully traditional techniques can look in his short Seedling.

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Animation

Magnus

An old train travels through landscapes, to get to an ancient city.

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Animation, Music Video

Loose Fit: Table Beggar

Shooting a successful music video isn’t the easiest of tasks under normal circumstances, however, when you decide to take your edit, export it as an

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Animation

Blik

Faceless characters inhabit the world of Polder Animation director Bastiaan Schravendeel’s Blik, a character driven 3D animation in which a young boy

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Music Video

Broken Social Scene: Sweetest Kill

Feeling like a scarier, more disturbing version of the Where the Wild Roses Grow promo, ex-wardrobe stylist Claire Edmondson doesn’t pull any punches in

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Live Action

We Miss You

Created by three film students who didn’t care about nature, We Miss You is not only a cinematic treat and a beguiling short, but is also a

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Animation

Megalomania

Meticulously crafted 3d animation constructed in 3d Studio Max is strategically combined with the occasional live-action sequence shot on the Canon 5D mkII to

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Animation

Phobias

Everyone has something they’re scared of and Christopher Wright’s ‘Swimmer Man’ experiences a few of the stranger fears in his

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Animation

I Need Your Clothes, Boots & Your Motorcycle

A hand-drawn stop-motion interpretation of Terminator 2, celebrating 20 years since the movies original release.

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Live Action

Plot Device

Effects laden short about a young wannabe filmmaker who obtains a mysterious device that unleashes the full force of cinema on his front lawn. Powered by Magic

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Animation

The Archiver

Thomas Obrecht, Guillaume Berthoumieu and Marc Menneglier, students of French 3D animation and digital special effects school ArtFx bring us The Archiver, the

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Music Video

Use Somebody

Touching music video from inti calfat for this beautiful rendition of Use Somebody by the Kings Of Leon, performed by Scala & Kolacny brothers. The

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