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Animation

Gavin C Robinson Searches for the Ideal Life in BAFTA Winning Animated Short ‘Hart’s Desire’

Gavin C Robinson tells DN how he brought together an aspiring hermit, an aspiring socialite and a shared flask of tea for his charming animation 'Hart’s

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Animation

Brian Tornay & Salman Sajun Serve Up a Kinetic Celebration of Tennis in ‘LETS PLAY’

Salman Sajun tells DN how he & co-director Brian Tornay served up a kinetic stop motion celebration of all that is racquets, balls, nets and tennis skirts in

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Live Action

Playing with the Subtle Power of the Small Moment in Paavo Hanninen's 'The Heart Wants What It Wants'

In Paavo Hanninen’s two-hander The Heart Wants What It Wants, former lovers attempt to rekindle the flame by re-enacting the past, only to discover that

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Live Action

Experience the Cruel Pain of Love & Leftovers in Clarissa Duque’s ‘Sogni Culinari’

Clarissa Duque tells DN how she cooked up an endearingly cruel tale of leftovers in her grin inducing short film 'Sogni Culinari'.

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Live Action

Reimagining Documented Truth as Fiction in Misha Koroteev & Alex Sobolev’s Short ‘Partly Tired Slightly Dead’

Misha Koroteev discusses how he & co-director Alex Sobolev turned a reportage image into compelling short about loss and sacrifice ‘Partly Tired Slightly

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Live Action

Matthew Charof Crashes the Party in Short Film Adaptation ‘Firefly’

In Matthew Charof’s short film 'Firefly', when Remy and Juliet decide to crash a backyard barbecue , it’s not long before events escalate for the worse.

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Live Action

Navigating the Twists & Turns of Armen Antranikian’s Psychosexual Short ‘The Girlfriend Game’

Director Armen Antranikian guides us through the production twists and turns of his erotic thriller 'The Girlfriend Game' and explains why movies and sex are

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Live Action

‘She Wolf’ or How we Ended up in Argentina Without Any Wolves

Awarding-winning directing duo Aggressive take DN behind the scenes of 'She Wolf', their new enigmatic tale of haunted consciences, reincarnation and

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Music Video

Maegan Houang Transforms Chastity Belt’s Melancholic Sound into a Bloody Fight for Survival in ‘Black Sail’

Maegan Houang joins DN to discuss how she found gruesome horror on the Oregon Trail in her meticulously observed period music video ‘Black Sail’.

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Live Action

Food Dwelling Ghosts & Bears on Bicycles, Welcome to Gus Péwé’s Askew Short ‘Same Ghost Every Night’

Director Gus Péwé tells DN how he used the happy accident of unscripted moments as the creative lifeblood for his charmingly askew short 'Same Ghost Every

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Music Video

Clément Oberto Takes ‘One Step’ into an Odyssey in Sweetness in his Hybrid Music Video/Short Film

Existing somewhere within the nebulous intersection of the short film and the music video, Clément Oberto explains how he and a team of trusted collaborators

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Documentary

Spacey Blak Captures a Compelling Portrait of Artist Mathieu Ajan in Guerrilla Short ‘Something Hit Me’

London based Director Spacey Blak straddles documentary and fiction with 'Something Hit Me' – a portrait piece created for artist Mathieu Ajan. Blak takes DN

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