Short Film
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Watch Depression Era-Set Short Film "Jack And The Dustbowl" (Short Shouts!)
From Whitestone Motion Pictures, a short film titled Jack and the Dustbowl, centered around...
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Short Starts: Watch "Ghost Closet '07" - Written by "Chronicle" Screenwriter Max Landis
Short Starts is a column devoted to kicking off the week with a short film, typically one tied to a new release. Today we look at an earlier film by screenwriter Max Landis, who wrote "Chronicle."
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Animator Don Hertzfeldt on His New Short and Why He Wants to Make a Feature Next
Don Hertzfeldt is at the end of one journey and the beginning of another. The indie animator, perhaps best known for his brilliant 2000 short "Rejected," has been steadily churning out spectacularly eccentric animations for years, working on his own using a 2-D process largely of his own m...
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Sundance 2012: Managing Cynicism - This Year’s Great Crop of Sundance Online Shorts
Maybe I’m a bit cynical. That’s not true. I’m excessively cynical. I could claim it comes naturally once you’ve seen too many movies, but that doesn’t seem like a good enough excuse. And the 2012 Sundance Film Festival’s online shorts are a perfectly illustrative ...
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Sundance 2012: Top Online Shorts "Long Distance Information" and "The Debutante Hunters"
All of the nine shorts Yahoo and the Sundance Film Festival have put on the web are pretty good. It’s an impressive crop, and I’d say more consistent than a lot of the stuff festivals have put online in the last year. Yet in any batch of films a few rise to the top. I’ve rounded up...
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Sundance First Look: "Short Films, Big Ideas" and the Three-Minute Filmmaker Challenge
Maybe the best ideas do come in short films. That's the notion behind the Focus Forward which is launching its Filmmaker Challenge. The Filmmaker Challenge will select five winners, determined by a professional jury.
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Short Starts: Watch "Dennis," Short Source of the Sundance Drama "Teddy Bear"
Short Starts is a column devoted to kicking off the week with a short film, typically one tied to a new release. Today, in honor of Sundance rather than a new release, we present a 2007 short that has now been adapted for a feature film.
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The Doc Option: Instead of "Red Tails" Watch "Wings for This Man"
George Lucas is back with his first non-"Star Wars" or "Indiana Jones" production in nearly 20 years, and it's a World War II actioner about the African American pilots and crewmen known as the Tuskegee Airmen. If you're already familiar with the history of these heroic men, by all means go see the ...
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Watch Distressing, Engrossing Short Film "A Silent Whisper" By Darrell Lake
Check out this short film by Darrell Lake titled A Silent Whisper; a well-made 2-character, 1-location piece and I definitely dug it.
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A Brilliantly Silly Short Video Remix: 'Hello'
To brighten your day, Nic Cage, Elvis, Liam Neeson, Kim Novak and Woody Allen have collaborated in perfect harmony in this short video remix. Well... not exactly, but Dutch artist Matthijs Vlot spliced together dozens of movie clips--combining phrases to ultimately create the lyrics of a 1980s...
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