Short Film Tag Archive

Animation, Asides

Truth vs Lies

Director Clim & animator João Lucas explore the nature, differences and confusion that can arise between facts and fabrications in CG short Truth vs Lies.

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Film Festival, Live Action

Ellie Rogers Unravels The Cyclical Nature of Trauma In Her Short Thriller ‘They Found Her in a Field’

DN speaks with Ellie Rogers, who reveals how she used time and repetition to tell the story of a woman revisiting the trauma of a past relationship.

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Film Festival

BFI Flare London LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2019: Sign of the Times

DN looks ahead to this year's BFI Flare festival, assessing the selection of works being presented and offering suggestions of what to watch.

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Live Action

Elena Petitti Di Roreto Raises the Global Warming Panic Level With Vogue Italia Horror Short ‘Let it Pour’

Elena Petitti di Roreto tells DN why she felt compelled to convey the danger of global warming within the frame of a horror short in 'Let it Pour'.

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Animation, Asides

The Deep End

Elise Augarten’s The Deep End is the charming hand-drawn story of a little girl who gets lost between the locker room and the deep end of a swimming pool.

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Live Action

Emily Elizabeth Thomas Tackles Southern Gun Violence With a Twist in ‘Lola: Girl Got A Gun’

DN speaks with Emily Elizabeth Thomas who discusses her approach to armed violence on screen, working with child actors and creating a Texas-set trilogy.

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Live Action

Charlie Watts on Making Every Second Count in His Multi-Layered One-Shot Micro Short ‘Under’

Charlie Watts discusses ratcheting up the tension in his 77 second, one-shot micro-short ‘Under’ - the story of four individuals under one bridge.

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Live Action

A Young Woman Tries to Find Harmony Between Her Past & Future Selves in Clément Oberto’s ‘Unacceptable Behavior’

Clément Oberto discusses 'Unacceptable Behavior' his portrait of a young woman trying to find harmony in the balance between childhood and adulthood.

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Live Action

A Bodybuilder Falls Under the Spell of a Financial Dominatrix in Hunt Beaty’s Modern Kink Short ‘Pay Pig’

DN speaks to director Hunt Beaty about finding inspiration in the vast world of internet powered fetishes for his financial domination short 'Pay Pig'.

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Asides

Kew’s Marianne North

Rok Predin brings the beautiful paintings by renowned Victorian botanical artist Marianne North to stunning animated life for International Woman’s Day.

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Live Action, Premiere

Jamieson Pearce Queries Morality and Mother/Son Dynamics in his Short Film Drama ‘Adult’

Jamieson Pearce tells DN how he approached his dramatic exploration of the emotional complexity of parental relationships in queer drama short 'Adult'.

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Art & Fashion

Will & Carly Confront a Rising Tide of Youth Violence in Poetic Anti-Knife Crime Short ‘No More Knives LDN’

Directing duo Will & Carly tell DN why they felt compelled to address escalating knife crime by combining slam poetry & 16mm film in 'No More Knives LDN'.

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