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Film Festival, Live Action

A Date for Mad Mary

Darren Thornton kicks off our LFF coverage with his realistic exploration of the difficulties of reintegrating into life on the outside after prison.

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Live Action

Jim Hosking Gets Wilfully Weird for Slippery Debut Feature ‘The Greasy Strangler’

Delightfully disgusting, Jim Hoskings' feature debut is definitely the strangest, most grotesque and downright greasiest comedy you'll ever see!

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Live Action

Running Eagle

Konrad Tho Fiedler heads into the frozen climes of the Blackfeet Nation reservation for the unblinking story of a desperate American Indian girl on the run.

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Live Action

#ListenToYourSelfie – The Game | The Party

Truman & Cooper deliver a pair of shorts for ChildLine's #ListenToYourSelfie campaign to help young people recognise the signs of on and offline grooming.

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Live Action

Her Friend Adam

Sexual insecurity spawns jealousy, despair and spiteful recriminations in Ben Petrie’s powerful Sundance award winning short.

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Live Action

LOOKOUTS

David Bousquet and Kristin Bousquet combine practical effects, classic monster building and a bi-linear storyline for their debut fantasy action short.

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Live Action

Point and Shoot

Thomas Leisten Schneider takes a playful shot at the madness of method acting in this short about two aspiring criminals with an important lesson to learn.

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Live Action

Gudrun von Laxenburg: Revolution

The love between two working drones ignites a revolt against a system of oppression in this dystopic sci-fi music video from Gudrun von Laxenburg.

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Live Action

The Female Spirit Wins Out in Amanda Milius’ Post-Apocalyptic Western ‘The Lotus Gun’

DN talks to Director Amanda Milius about morality and clashing cultures at the end of the world in her USC thesis film 'The Lotus Gun'.

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A Nostalgia Obsessed Couple Take an Emotive Romp Through Space & Time in Rafi Shor’s ‘Killing Time’

The past must remain in past, the future doesn't exist and the present is all there is - Rafi Shor discusses playing with time and space in 'Killing Time'

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Zach Zombek Seeks Understanding of the Unknowable in Transformation Short ‘Atoms of Uncontrollable Silence’

Zach Zombek describes how a leave of absence led to renewed vigor for his transformation short ‘Atoms of Uncontrollable Silence’

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Nic Barker Explores the Nuisances of Modern Relationships in his Improvisation Experiment ‘Dead Sharks’

Nic Barker explains how improvisation and experimentation allowed him to create a gritty and unembellished depiction of modern relationships gone bad

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