Mary Kate Van den Berg

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    Documentary Max Joseph

    Dicks: Do You Need to be One to be a Successful Leader?

    Coming off his Zac Efron-starring debut feature "We Are Your Friends", filmmaker Max Joseph has a pressing question—is he too nice to be a great director? An essay-like exploration ensues, which is a fascinating watch for young creatives everywhere

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    Sci‑Fi Joe Sill

    The Cloud Racer

    Set in the near future, a young man and his blue-collar mechanic father compete in a qualifier for an advanced racecraft competition, through a treacherous course against elite racers that runs through the now "Ghost City" of Los Angeles.

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    Portable Film Festival 2010

    The Portable Film Festival, an online festival with a number of categories from short films to music videos to art films, has just wrapped up and announced this year's winners. Previous SOTW's, Apricot and Sign Language (which also took the Virgin Media Shorts competition) earned praise this year, but the top prize went to the Spanish music video, Hamor.

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    Documentary Jesper Dalgaard

    Übermensch

    Two transient young men break into an empty church by the sea to form a blood pact: to get rid of their childhood demons and escape the cycle of anxiety and authorities. “It’s not goth to be afraid of darkness”, they agree.

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    Horror Tony Morales

    Abracitos

    A terrible phone call in the middle of the night shakes Laura's world. As her little sister Ainara plays in her room, the presence of an unknown being will test the mental and emotional stability of the two sisters.

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    Fantasy Maarten Groen

    Rotor

    A lone night security guard sees an intruder on one of the monitors and goes to investigate in this stylish and atmospheric looping-narrative from Amsterdam based production company DPPLR.

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    A Shorts-centric Preview of SXSW 2025

    With more than 21 S/W alums featured in the 2025 SXSW lineup, let’s dive into their films and see what they have in store!

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    Experimental Philip Bacon

    Yellow Belly End

    A sparse, metaphorical rotoscope animation that made waves at Ottawa, Annecy, and Stuttgart.

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    Documentary Ben Proudfoot

    The Final Copy of Ilon Specht

    From two-time Oscar® winner Ben Proudfoot comes THE FINAL COPY OF ILON SPECHT, an intimate deathbed account of the unsung advertising genius who coined L'Oréal's iconic "Because I'm Worth It" slogan in 1973, a four word feminist manifesto that, against all odds, changed advertising forever.

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    Thriller Padraig Reynolds

    The Election

    Three days before the gubernatorial election a candidate and his wife find themselves in the middle of the desert with a horrible dilemma.

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