Staff pick film, Sisters, directed by David Chontos, competed in the Audience Awards 2016 Animation Shorts Film Festival and screened at AudFest in April. Part exercise of passion, and part love letter, ‘Sisters’ is a fragment of some lost, tragic opera. Trapped in...
The Honeys and Bears by Veena Rao: Staff Pick
Staff pick film, The Honeys and Bears, directed by Veena Rao, competed in the Audience Awards 2017 Women's Film Challenge and screened at AudFest in April 2017. Members of the Harlem Honeys and Bears, a synchronized swim team for seniors, describe the freedom of the...
BRIX AND THE BITCH by Nico Raineau: Staff Pick
Staff pick film, BRIX AND THE BITCH, directed by Nico Raineau, is competing in the Audience Awards 2017 LGBTQ Shorts Film Festival. Trapped in a seedy and illegal fight club, one woman's only chance for escape is to win a brutal brawl against the one person she...
Rabbit Blood by Yagmur Altan: Staff Pick
Staff pick film, Rabbit Blood, directed by Yagmur Altan, was a jury winner in the Audience Awards' 2016 Animation Shorts Film Festival and screened at AudFest in April. Just an ordinary day at an old mysterious Turkish country house where it's residents have an...
An Object At Rest by Seth Boyden: Staff Pick
Staff pick film, An Object At Rest, directed by Seth Boyden, won the Audience Awards 2017 Wild and Green Shorts Film Festival and will screen at AudFest 2018. An Object at Rest follows the life of a stone as it travels over the course of millennia, facing nature's...
Drawcard by Antonia Oreña Barlin: Staff Pick
Staff pick film, Drawcard, directed by Antonio Oreña Barlin, competed in the Audience Awards 2016 Live Action Short Film Festival and screened at AudFest in April. When a lighthearted office prank goes a little pear shaped, Ed is left to pick up the pieces and try to...
The Typist by Kristine Stolakis: Staff Pick
Staff pick film, The Typist, directed by Kristine Stolakis, competed in the 2015 Up & Left LGBTQ Short Video Contest. From the archives of the “queer Smithsonian,” San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society, comes the forgotten history of a gay Korean War veteran...
Today Will Be Our Last Day on the Streets by Elise Tyler: Staff Pick
Staff pick film, Today Will Be Our Last Day on the Streets, directed by Elise Tyler, competed in the Audience Awards 2017 Women's Film Challenge and screened at AudFest in April. Amber and Matt are young, in love, eight months pregnant, and homeless. They are also...
The Love Suckers by Jim Politano: Staff Pick
We all know love can suck and nothing shows it better than our latest staff pick film. The Love Suckers directed by Jim Politano, veteran film and TV actors Eddie Deezen, Caryn Richman, and Larry (The Soup Nazi) Thomas star in a comedy about a troubled married couple...
Lumiere by Tay Steele: Staff Pick
Staff pick film, Lumiere, directed by Tay Steele is due to screen at Audience Awards 2017 Live Action Shorts Film Festival in October 2017. From Hawaii to Tahiti, Lumiére takes us behind the lens of North Shore photographer Amber Mozo, to find what the ocean gives to...