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Q&A with Nick Borenstein
Q&A Mike Ambs Q&A Mike Ambs

Q&A with Nick Borenstein

“I guess you could say the development of 99 started when I was born. The film is inspired by the real relationship between my mother and I…”

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Q&A with Steffi Tupe
Q&A Mike Ambs Q&A Mike Ambs

Q&A with Steffi Tupe

I decided to make this short after reading James Joyce's short story Two Gallants from Dubliners. It inspired me to write and make this film, but about two ladies.

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Q&A with Nick Borenstein
Q&A Mike Ambs Q&A Mike Ambs

Q&A with Nick Borenstein

I have danced my whole life and always wanted to dance in a film. It felt like the right evolution of my work, especially as we live in a scary, intense and often, overwhelming, world.

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Q&A with Andy Fisher
Q&A Mike Ambs Q&A Mike Ambs

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
Q&A Mike Ambs Q&A Mike Ambs

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
Q&A Mike Ambs Q&A Mike Ambs

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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