Short of the Week – Firebase Phil W. Bayles July 31, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Louise Burrell July 17, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 – War & Cheese David Brake July 10, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/170083208 On August 7 2014, Oleg Sirota heard how his beloved Russia was banning the import of all Western cheeses; a retaliation to the sanctions forced upon them for their invasion...
Short of the Week: It’s All Right, It’s OK Louise Burrell July 3, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/231158508 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: Martin Carmen Paddock June 26, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/shortoftheweek/220985345 Norfolk seems the last place on earth where the apocalypse could start. In Sholto Crow’s comedy-drama Martin, however, a man’s quiet treasure-hunting...
Short of the Week – Mariner Louise Burrell June 12, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Sinead McCausland June 5, 2017 Independent, Short of the Week 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 Phil W. Bayles May 29, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 James Andrews May 22, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 – The Afghan Bruce Lee David Brake May 15, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/196163571 December 2014. That’s when Abbas Alizada had his 15 seconds of fame. From simply glancing at him, you can see why. Aged 21, the martial artist from Afghanistan was the...
Short of the Week – Face Lift Thom Denson May 8, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Carmen Paddock May 1, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 – At the End of the Cul-de-Sac Naomi Soanes April 24, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/211551365 It’s not often that we see an entire film captured as one continuous shot, let alone by a drone. But it's likely that it's something we're going to be...
Short of the Week – The Wolf and the Wayfarer Bertie Archer April 17, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/mkamal/wolfscreener Set within the breathtaking Sequoia National Park, a vast unblemished paradise of trees, hills and glades, The Wolf and the Wayfarer is a stunning piece. As beautiful...
Short of the Week – Mend and Make Do Ersin Ali April 10, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/209115026 When looking backwards in time it is easy to wryly smile at the use of the phrase 'Back in my day' or 'When I was younger...'. These clichés, denote something humorous about...
