Debut Short Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

Charlotte Serena Cooper Dismantles Queer Screen Death Tropes with Genre Pastiche in Riotous Satire ‘Bury Your Gays’

Drawing on years of script supervision, Charlotte Serena Cooper masters the visual grammar of five distinct genres to subvert a tired cinematic cliché.

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Awards, Live Action

Vanity Propels a Disturbing Longing for the Past in Kathryn Ferguson’s BAFTA Nominated Belfast-Set Short ‘Nostalgie’

Kathryn Ferguson dissects the tonal shift in her Belfast-set drama debut where a faded 80s pop star's hope of reliving his glory days hits a chilling reality.

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Awards, Live Action

Gus Flind-Henry & George Malcher Capture the Chaos and Heart of Teaching in BIFA Nominated Short ‘A Sisyphean Task’

Gus Flind-Henry and George Malcher share how small moments, big pressures and authenticity shaped their portrait of teaching in a South London state school.

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Live Action

Georgia Small Shoulders the Crushing, Inescapable Weight of a Partner’s Silent Grief in ‘Baby’

Georgia Small details using voyeuristic, lingering camerawork to externalise the internal flood of anguish in her intimate debut short.

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Live Action, Premiere

Mateo Martinez Weaves Ancestral Ghosts and Emerald Greed Into a Hypnotic Columbian Allegory in ‘Cacique del Monte’

Mateo Martinez depicts the emerald trade through myth & violence as a thief's greed awakens a mountain's curse, binding past to present in sacred green fire.

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Live Action

A Charity Shop Transaction Spirals Into Surreal Chaos in Ken Abalos & Ash Meshkati’s Unpredictable Comedy ‘Easy Sell’

Ken Abalos and Ash Meshkati reveal how a mundane charity shop became a stage for absurd comedy, using ad-world precision to craft every cringe-worthy moment.

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Live Action

Oli Beale Weaponizes Words With Chilling Precision in Double-Edged Revenge Short ‘Good Luck Fuck Face’

Oli Beale unpacks the enjoyable process of brainstorming cancel-worthy barbs for his payback comedy, where humour and cruelty balance on a razor’s edge.

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Live Action, Premiere

Finegan Sampson Unlocks the Painful Beauty of Acting and Emotional Truth in ‘Teach Me How To Cry’

Finegan Sampson shares how a fascination with the transformation of trauma into performance coalesced into his drama about an actor's need to embrace grief.

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Live Action

A TV Star Reckons With Her True Sexual Identity in Alyssa Aldaz’s Dreamlike Short ‘Beverly Heights’

Dissecting heteronormativity and queer repression in the film industry, Alyssa Aldaz recounts how her liminal queer drama began with an evocative dream.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Neglected Young Man Seeks Belonging in the Wrong Place in Jeroen Kooistra’s Desolate Debut ‘Triton’

Jeroen Kooistra recounts how a shared creative itch evolved into his stark short film exploring how our need for belonging can be manipulated to serve others.

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Live Action, Premiere

James Nicholas Green’s ‘Victory To The Mimers’ Turns Silent Art Into a Roaring Satire On Class, Solidarity & Family

James Nicholas Green gives DN the low-down on his comedic take on England's 1980s class struggle which moves the political fight from the pits to the stage.

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Live Action, Premiere

Eva Blackwell-Rogelj’s ‘Watering Hole’ Scrutinises the Blurred Divide Between Female Empowerment and Exploitation

Eva Blackwell-Rogelj unpacks how she dove deep into the opaquely murky waters of female sexuality vs male objectification in her troublingly familiar short.

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