Live Action Category

Awards, Live Action

Edem Kelman Navigates the Dynamics of Faith and Family for London’s African Diaspora in BAFTA Short ‘Terence’

Edem Kelman on authentically capturing London's African diaspora as he sees them in his BAFTA-nominated story of a security guard with a special gift to heal.

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Live Action, Premiere

Matt R. Smith Takes Us on a Gripping Ride Through a Stylish Tense Nightmare in WTF Horror ‘The Parish’

Matt R. Smith leads DN through building the disturbing atmosphere of his Lynchian-inspired short where a struggling man confesses his darkest recurring dream.

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Radical Vulnerability Powers a Deliriously Earnest Exploration of Selfhood in Collaborative Drama ‘The Unexpressed’

Dancing between sincerity & surrealism 'The Unexpressed's' creative collaborators discuss rejecting conflict in favour of shared unravelling in their sismance.

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A Mother and Daughter Circle the Unspeakable in Amelia Sears’ Quietly Devastating Transposed Mythical Drama ‘Ceres’

Amelia Sears reimagines an ancient myth to explore the invisible weight of coercive control, harnessing the narrative power of stillness and near-touches.

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A Struggling Couple’s Sexual Revival Takes a Titillating Turn in Kyle Jon Shephard’s Shifting Comedy ‘Role Play’

Discover how Kyle Jon Shephard used subtle performance slips & purposeful camera language to track changing power dynamics, hiding intentions in plain sight.

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Live Action, Premiere

Mylissa Fitzsimmons Navigates the Messy Territory of Performing Adulthood in Two-Hander Motel Drama ‘I’m Not Sure’

Mylissa Fitzsimmons unpacks crafting a predatory game, blocking actor movement in a cramped motel to amplify the tension of every glance and approach.

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A Chronic People Pleaser Goes on a Desperate Mission to Embrace His Dark Side in Louis Paxton’s ‘Tippy Toes’

Louis Paxton discusses his process for finding the sweet spot between raw emotional enquiry and laugh-out-loud ridiculousness in his new micro-budget comedy.

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Alex Barnes-Auld’s Barista-Battling Comedy ‘Long Black’ Is a Caffeine-Fuelled Brew Fit to Burst

Alex Barnes-Auld's bladder-busting power struggle comedy combines British humour, the style of a Spaghetti Western, and old school practical effects.

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Annika Chavez Turns a Shared Bathtub Into an Uncertain Stage of Fluid Friendship in Her Wry Short ‘Three Minutes’

Annika Chavez breaks down how experimentation within an organic shoot helped her capture the unspoken weight of a life-changing moment shared in a bathroom.

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Live Action

Emma Miranda Moore Reconstructs a Pivotal Evening Through Fractured Memory in Haunting Drama Short ‘That Night’

Emma Miranda Moore explores how we rebuild—not just recall—our pasts, using jazz-like editing and a constantly moving camera to question memory

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Lorenzo Gonnelli Builds Familiar Tension Only to Collapse It in His Morally Suspended Fractured Short ‘Godless Animals’

Lorenzo Gonnelli talks crafting tension through omission and having the unseen carry more weight than any image shown in his genre subverting thriller.

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Live Action

Ben Wheatley Builds a Cardboard Multiverse in His Gloriously Unpolished Lo-Fi British Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Bulk’

Ben Wheatley chats about embracing the joys of DIY aesthetics in his low-budget mind-bending multiverse thriller, where film form echoes narrative function.

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