Grad Short Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

Sam Tricomo Asks Audiences to Find Empathy Without Forgiveness in His Darkly Transgressive Pilot ‘Puke Bitch’

How do you make audiences care about people who do terrible things? Sam Tricomo's dark pilot strips away backstory, letting silence and loneliness do the work.

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Documentary, Premiere

‘Fjallferð’ Finds Song, Storm and Community Strength in the Mountains of Iceland’s Annual Sheep Round-Up

Three Self shooting directors, $6.5k and six days of unpredictable Icelandic weather. Caution Media on why scale is a question of ambition rather than budget.

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Animation

Exploring Survival Mechanisms and Resilience in Laurence Thérien’s Annecy-Winning Short Film ‘Ball Face’

Fresh from winning the Cristal for a Graduation Film at the 2026 Annecy Festival, Laurence Thérien joins us to discuss RCA short film 'Ball Face'.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Mother and Two Daughters Circle Their Shared History in Chanelle Eidenbenz’s Subtly Searing Short ‘Resort’

Mosaic editing and a rich sonic world coalesce in Chanelle Eidenbenz's auto-fictional short where a fractured family orbits each other without quite landing.

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Film Festival, Live Action

Cannes Double-Hitter Vida Skerk Finds Solidarity in the Industrial Sublime in Haunting ‘Left Behind, Still Standing’

Vida Skerk's second consecutive La Cinef Cannes selected short binds a closing British steelworks and the immigrant overseeing it into one haunted reckoning.

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Animation, Film Festival

Fanny Capu Unburdens the Next Generation From the Suffocating Weight of Legacy in Stop-Motion Cannes Short ‘Pickled’

Fanny Capu on engineering a dancing puppet for her grad NFTS Cannes premiering short that asks what each generation is owed and what heritage it can discard.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Teenage Couple’s Young Love Meets a Harsh and Unsettling Morning After in Liz Rao’s ‘The Truck’

Eschewing traditional car shots, Liz Rao reveals how she mirrored the restrictions of regressive laws by trapping her characters in a tense confined space.

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Awards, Documentary

Huiju Park Directs Herself Through Family Trauma With Narrative Precision in BAFTA Doc Short ‘Welcome Home Freckles’

The second documentary nominated for Best British Short, Huija Park separates filmmaker from self in an intimate return home after four years of silence.

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Live Action

Victor Nauwynck Pumps Primal Desire Into Marital Decay in His Transgressive & Visually Arresting Short ‘The Bull’

Victor Nauwynck discusses how pivoting from a planned, restrained visual style to reactive handheld cinematography unlocked his film's animalistic crescendo.

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Change Her RCA Short Film

Animation, Film Festival

The Future of Animation: Six Standout Short Films from the 2025 RCA Grad Show

From bold visuals to inventive storytelling, here are six standout films from the 2025 RCA Show that feel destined for the festival circuit.

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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 Darkly Obsessed Woman Contemplates the End of Everything in Matthew B.C.’s Comedy Short ‘Death!’

Matthew B.C. tells DN how he and his crew maximised their minimal budget to create a high-quality short that's both funny and unsettling.

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