Friendship Tag Archive

Animation, Live Action, Premiere

Live-Action Grime Meets Hand-Drawn Whimsy in Cameron Macgowan’s Silent Eco-Fable of Scavengers and Sprouts ‘Seed’

Shot with friends in Kananaskis wilderness dressed in scavenged junk, Cameron Macgowan's charming wordless short grew through years of unhurried collaboration.

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Live Action, Premiere

Sisterhood Turns Up Where a Husband Never Will in Kitty Percy’s Bittersweet Roadside Comedy Drama ‘For Better’

Kitty Percy's short roots for solidarity over romance as a lonely woman on a roadside in a wedding dress realises she's been waiting for the wrong thing.

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Live Action, Premiere

Maya Winkler Explores Boobs, Existential Dread & the Absurdity of Women’s Healthcare in Off-Kilter Comedy ‘Lumps’

A breast lump scare spirals into deadpan chaos as two mid-20s women navigate the absurdities of the medical system with twisted humour and defiant joy.

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Awards, Live Action

An Unlikely Friendship Blossoms in Lee Knight’s Touching Oscar-Nominated Short Film ‘A Friend of Dorothy’

Clearing the set to calm a nervous icon, Lee Knight reflects on creating a deeply safe and supportive environment for an absolute acting legend to shine.

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Live Action, Premiere

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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Live Action, Premiere

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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Live Action, Premiere

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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Live Action

Imran Perrettas ‘Ish’ Captures the Seismic Heartbreak of a Childhood Friendship Fracturing Under External Pressures

Imran Perretta details using black & white to recast Luton as a timeless landscape in his story of a friendship torn apart by a racially profiled police

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Live Action

Neeraj Ghaywan Unpacks the “Code 360” Method Behind the Emotional Power of India’s Academy Award Entry ‘Homebound’

Neeraj Ghaywan expounds on how a friendship between two young men in rural India became an Oscar contending universal parable for today’s troubled times.

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Live Action

Games Night Unravels Into a Brutal Tribunal of Guilt in Alex Sovoda’s ‘Circumstantial Forgiveness’

Alex Sovoda breaks down tension building in a single location, using static wide shots and chaotic close-ups to turn a games night into a pressure cooker.

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Live Action, Premiere

Ethan Edwards Crafts a Biting Literary Duel of Confided Secrets Revealed in Razor-Sharp Two-Hander ‘Goose’

Edwards reveals how he discovered the perfect psychologically damning secret and why he avoided traditional rehearsals to craft an authentic battle of wills.

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