Short of the Week: Two Cars, One Night Dave McLaughlin February 8, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week Ideal for post-Waitangi Day recovery, Two Cars, One Night is an Oscar-nominated short about childhood, love and connection from Taika Waititi, director of Boy. It tells of the growing love between a young boy...
Short of the Week – Pre Vis Action Cathy Brennan February 1, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://youtu.be/ZdrwseAC9Jw Gareth Evans is now one of the leading names in action cinema. The genre-defining intensity and brutality within The Raid I & II changed the game. With this latest...
Short of the Week – The Diary of Ochibi Cathy Brennan January 25, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/125447393 The Diary of Ochibi is a charming piece of entertainment whose stylistic tendencies harken back to the pre-Disney days of animation. With no sound, save for the chirpy music,...
Short of the Week – Actresses Olivia Luder January 19, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/147391888 You should love yourself before loving another - and yet actress Sarah (Taylor Hess) seems to have missed the memo. Shot at night - the kind of time when you begin to get...
Short of the Week – Russian Roulette Nick Evan-Cook January 11, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/90733535 Password: russian At ORWAV we’re no strangers to the bizarre but brilliant works of rising short film director Ben Aston, and Sundance London winner Russian Roulette –...
Short of the Week – Mind the Gap Cathy Brennan January 4, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/103459634 While Mind the Gap may have a bit of a bare-bones narrative, with little dialogue besides the titular recording, this short by Luke Flanagan succeeds in its modest...
Short of the Week – The Technician David Brake December 21, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/119240048 Graduation films pour out in their droves, varying from pure dreck to the astounding. Luckily our latest Short of the Week lands towards the positive end of this...
Short of the Week – We’ll Find Something Eddie Falvey December 14, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week We'll Find Something (2015) from casey gooden on Vimeo. Casey Gooden's We'll Find Something tells the story of a young, outwardly hip couple on a search for food in New York City. The couple...
Short of the Week: Two and Two Nick Evan-Cook December 7, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHOOV83j7bo Babak Anvari's Persian 2011 BAFTA-nominated short Two and Two uses a classroom setting and its credulous inhabitants to highlight the absurdity and...
Short of the Week: Shells David Brake November 30, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOSy3HLbFrU&app=desktop From a minuscule budget, this evocative and smartly done war short has been born. Powered by the energy coursing through the veins of its...
Short of the Week: Emily Eddie Falvey November 16, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFVw6Bw0HFY While Eddie Redmayne stole The Theory of Everything's limelight for his exquisite performance as Stephen Hawking, it is well worth remembering that Felicity...
Making It Big: Dragon’s Lair: The Movie David Brake November 11, 2015 Features, Independent, Making It Big For nearly two decades, Don Bluth and Gary Goldman were the leading lights in the animated film world, creating countless classics. To name but a few, we're talking The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The...
Short of the Week: Escargore Bethany White November 9, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/mdsnz/escargore Beheaded. Flambéed to death. Exposed to lethal amounts of radiation. These are just a few of the macabre fates of the stars in this short. But if you’ve overdone...
Making It Big: A Place Among the Undead Tom Bond November 5, 2015 Features, Independent, Making It Big Every generation has its iconic vampires: from Dracula to The Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire to Buffy, and True Blood to Twilight. Now, the star of one of those shows has taken to Indiegogo to create...
Short of the Week – 97% David Brake November 2, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/143233550 Finding love in the modern digital age? We've been here before. Eight minutes of dialogue-free drama? Well, we've seen that before too. Yet similarity does not equate to...
