Short of the Week – In A Heartbeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2REkk9SCRn0 Among the three-hour, exposition-heavy blockbusters it can be easy to forget how much can be done with just a few minutes and no dialogue at all. In a...
Short of the Week – Firebase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm0V24IEHao Earlier this year, Neill Blomkamp – the man behind the brilliant District 9 and the criminally underrated Chappie – founded Oats Studios: an independent...
Short of the Week – Balloonfest
https://vimeo.com/223715406 In a documentary that could just as easily be a Christopher Guest film, director Nathan Truesdell pulls together archive footage of a frankly bizarre event that occurred in...
Short of the Week: It’s All Right, It’s OK
https://vimeo.com/223333998 Winner of Sundance 2016’s Special Jury Award, director Jim Cummings is back with a trio of short films created for First Look Media. Each of the shorts are shot in just one...
Short of the Week – Much Better Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCq6tbwHN0U Never will you have watched a short film before that says so much without saying anything at all. Following the adventures of a lonely bookmark, who is...
Short of the Week – Mariner
https://vimeo.com/219933301 Based on writer, director and producer Thyrone Tommy's own experiences, Mariner tells the mesmerising tale of Nate, a young navigation cadet taking his final college exams. A...
Short of the Week – Over
https://vimeo.com/121667533 Cinema's main purpose is not just to tell a story, but the story of a person. When these stories and people are shrouded in mystery, they become more fascinating to...
Short of the Week – Strawberries Will Save The World
https://vimeo.com/216918144 The world is a bloody scary place sometimes, and even our beloved Short of the Week section can’t escape that fact. Too often recently, our shorts have dealt with heavy...
Short of the Week – Good Crazy
https://vimeo.com/216850224 What does it mean to be crazy? And what does it cost to be good? Writer/director/star Rosa Salazar's charming comedy takes a sideways look at those questions, as well as...
Short of the Week – Face Lift
https://vimeo.com/214617676 In 2017 body image issues among young adults are a very real problem, with unrealistic beauty standards for women and men plastered across billboards and the media in...
Short of the Week – Futur Sauvage
https://vimeo.com/189522268 Dystopias are a hot property right now; thankfully the genre deals in possibility (albeit the terrifying ones) and thus is hard to exhaust. In Futur Sauvage, the future is...
Short of the Week – A Mighty Nice Man
https://vimeo.com/209597030 Based on Patricia Highsmith’s book of the same name, HBO-backed A Mighty Nice Man tells the eerie story of a little girl’s loss of innocence. When Charlotte and her...
Short of the Week – Sweet Maddie Stone
https://vimeo.com/154873241 Brady Hood’s realist NFTS short film, Sweet Maddie Stone, proves the electrifying force of the realist genre. The story is simple, but its protagonist is not; Jessica...
Short of the Week – Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhrWuMzK7Mo An average British family are getting ready for a trip. Mum and Dad are rounding up their two young children, checking their route online and loading a...
Short of the Week – Cracked Screen: A Snapchat Story
https://vimeo.com/202796971 Social media and cinema have never been the cosiest of bedfellows. Most films that have directly tackled the ubiquity of things like Facebook and Twitter tend to go down the...