USA Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

A Mother’s Contentment Is Thrown Off-Balance When Her Daughter Returns Home in Lily Weisberg’s Drama ‘Working Summer’

Lily Weisberg unpacks the gorgeous hazy visual language of her film about a daughter who's taken aback by the fullness of her mother’s independent life.

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Live Action, Premiere

Strut Into the Sordid Fetishised Underworld of LA’s Karaoke Bar Scene in Naomi Christie’s ‘Object of Desire’

Naomi Christie speaks about the micro-aggressions and lived experiences which informed the seedy reality of her darkly comic tale of race objectification.

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Live Action, Premiere

Two Women Ruminate on the Essence of Life and the Paths They Took in Samantha Soules’ Introspective ‘Birdwatching’

Samantha Soule opens up about the necessity of harnessing nature as an essential third character in her ethereal story of a woman trying to find her way.

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Awards, Live Action

Sam & David Cutler-Kreutz’s Oscar Nominated ‘A Lien’ Finds a Young Family Crushed by a Vicious Immigration Process

Sam & David Cutler-Kreutz explain how problem solving during pre-production led to a fruitful creative journey for their heartrending immigration short.

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Live Action, Premiere

The Loss of a Pregnancy Leads a Bride-To-Be Down an Impulsive Road Towards Healing in Rachel Sweeney’s ‘Fish Bowl’

Rachel Sweeney shares why she wanted to use comedy to normalise the rarely discussed complex emotions around miscarriage in her gallows humour short.

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Live Action, Premiere

The Honeymoon Is Over Before It Begins in Brendan Beachman’s Darkly Comic Marriage Drama ‘A Wedding Day’

Brendan Beachman delves into why California's vistas were the perfect backdrop for his marriage dramedy about newlyweds discovering a life altering clarity.

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Live Action, Premiere

Nathan Ginter’s Darkly Comic Body Horror ‘The Third Ear’ Sees a Nude Model’s Self-Image Begin to Spiral

Nathan Ginter takes us inside the ways he and his crew maximised the potential and adaptability of their locations when crafting their body horror grad short.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Chance Encounter With a Hustler Shifts a Suicidal Young Man’s Perspective in Lovell Holder’s ‘You Say Hello’

Lovell Holder opens up on why moving to a non-linear structure during post yielded a more compelling version of his queer drama about a young man on the brink.

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Live Action, Premiere

Kat Mills Martin Deconstructs the Regressive Notion of the Obedient Mother in Comedy Drama ‘Celeste in Spring’

Kat Mills Martin unveils the methodology behind the restrained shooting style of her subversive pregnancy drama about a woman's desire for a one-night stand.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Cursed Man’s Mounting Misfortune Plays Out for All to See in Maxwell Hughes Klaiber & Jordan Moran’s ‘JOB’

Maxwell Hughes Klaiber discusses the highly effective voyeuristic perspective he & Jordan Moran took in their short capturing the worst day of a man’s life.

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Live Action

Max Novick’s Relationship Dramedy ‘Poly’ Navigates the Delicate Dance of Power in a Pregnant Throuple

From careful zooms to POV shots, Max Novick discusses enveloping the audience in his dramedy about pregnancy sparked jealousy within a Brooklyn throuple.

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Live Action

Hazel Mckibbin Scrutinises Intricate Gendered Power Dynamics In Her Subtextual Drama ‘She Always Wins’

Hazel McKibbin talks about building an intricate dance of dominance, deference and self-diminishment between lovers and family in her charged drama short.

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