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    Documentary Casimir Nozkowski

    Checkmate

    The Internets Celebrities Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam go in for an investigative report on Check-Cashing. Themes explored include usury, economic instability, commercial banks and their profit line, and the cycle of poverty.

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    Drama Andrea Arnold

    Wasp

    **CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - The 2003 Oscar winner, this film is a searing and intimate portrait of a single-mom and her 4 children in contemporary Britain.

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    Comedy Zach Lasry
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    Seth

    Manic man-child Seth lives in his own demented world where time is of the essence, his only friends are his stuffed animals, and the words of Michael Jordan inspire him to take all the shots he can.

  • Festival

    Sundance Film Festival London 2017

    Now in it's fifth iteration and for the second time at Picturehouse Central in the heart of England's capital, Sundance Film Festival London seems to be steadily growing in audience awareness and stepping out of the shadow of its US Big Brother.

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    YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video

    Right on the heels of Vimeo's successful celebration of itself with their own Vimeo Festival, YouTube came out last night with an exclusive event at New York's Guggenheim Museum to celebrate the best work on their site. The event was a celebration of YouTube Play, touted by the company as a "biennial of creative video.

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    A Shorts-centric Preview of SXSW 2024

    Black holes, nuns and Nicholas Cage all feature in this round-up of work from our previously featured filmmakers at this year's SXSW

  • News

    100 Important Directors of Animated Short Films

    Nothing excites the internet masses (yours truly included) like a best of list. A new one out lists a bunch of really important animation directors and their representative works.

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    Romance Garrett Murray & Shawn Morrison

    Forever's Not So Long

    George discovers that the end of the world is the perfect time to lose everything.

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    Retro Short Films: Tribeca 2011 Film Festival

    Tribeca's (Online) Film Festival this year is quite extensive: 6 feature films, 9 in-competition shorts and these—9 "retro" shorts from the festival's past, all available for free! We'll cover this year's competition shorts in a series of forthcoming posts, but remember that Tribeca has their own spin on this online thing, so make sure to reserve a 24-hour screening window for each film in advance. These 9 retro shorts are a bit easier to manage, rather than signing up for specific 24-hour screening periods, they are available to view at any time between now and May 1st.

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