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Q&A with Andy Fisher
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Q&A with Andy Fisher

I don't make shorts as a means to sell a feature idea. I should! But that's not me. I like making shorts because those are the type of ideas that come out of me. Little ones.

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Have Had, and to Love a Stranger
Brianna Zigler Brianna Zigler

Have Had, and to Love a Stranger

‘Have Had’ is a bittersweet exploration of lost familial love, and pain begotten through blood. Time cannot heal all wounds, and some will wounds remain open forever despite our best efforts and intentions.

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Q&A with Tynan DeLong
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Q&A with Tynan DeLong

It started with a Hi-8 camera. It was the first camera I had as a teenager and so I got one off eBay in 2017 to try and make shorts that captured that same "anything goes" spirit of the videos I made as a teen.

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A Friend at the End of the World: The Key to Common Structure
Brianna Zigler Brianna Zigler

A Friend at the End of the World: The Key to Common Structure

‘Common Structure’ was shot over the course of four days in the Catskills region, and all began with a “conversation about the sublime.” Both Anne and Bill “had a preoccupation with those moments where life feels so immersive, like time is somehow suspended and yet every detail is hyper magnified.

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Q&A with Cidney Hue
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Q&A with Cidney Hue

Ovum was my response to Carrie Fisher's call to turn your heartache into art. In 2016, I started a collective with fellow sci-fi directors and we had been writing and workshopping our short narrative scripts. What would happen if our current society continued on this political decline whilst VR technology advanced?

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Q&A with Tanmay Chowdhary
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Q&A with Tanmay Chowdhary

“I had never been to Europe before. I knew I had to film something, I didn't know what.“ The end result was this hybrid narrative-doc short that explores cross border perspectives on the relationship between identity and space in the post globalization era. 

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Love and Crystals: On Heart Chakra and a Heart in Animation
Brianna Zigler Brianna Zigler

Love and Crystals: On Heart Chakra and a Heart in Animation

In director, writer, and animator Angela Stempel’s beautiful short film Heart Chakra, a young girl falls prey to the promises of a spiritual awakening and a direct path to the man of her dreams – so long as she aligns all her chakras just so, and utilizes the right set of crystals and numerology.

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Q&A with Angeline Gragasin
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Q&A with Angeline Gragasin

“Yanvalou” was inspired by a personal struggle to connect with human beings—and my own body—within the conflicting cultures of the dance studio and digital startup environments. Though not a documentary per se, the film is based on a true story from my own personal experience.

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