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Live Action

A Venting Session Between Friends Quickly Spirals Out of Control in Kyle Jon Shephard’s Surrealist Comedy ‘Stress Head’

Kyle Jon Shephard walks DN through the combination of practical and digital VFX behind the titular head in his frantically kinetic stress-fuelled short.

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A Young Woman Reckons With the Questionable Past Behaviour of a Childhood Friend in Hannah Levin’s ‘Golden Child’

Hannah Levin shares how she balanced out the comedic beats, sticking to the story and keeping the narrative moving in her bold, reckoning comedy short debut.

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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

Ryan Walker-Edwards Explores the Joy of Black Queer Relationships in Playful Hook-Up Short ‘MAN>CODE’

Writer/Actor Ryan Walker-Edwards opens up about working behind and in front of the camera to bring a rarely seen story of Black queer intimacy to screen.

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