Bruce Smolanoff

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    Fashion Film Roundup Part 2

    We published part 1 of this fashion film roundup to honor the end of New York fashion week and since then London and Milan have had their turn. Now we're in the thick of Fashion Week Paris, the final of the 4 consecutive world fashion weeks, and at last here is part 2.

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    Best Films of the Month: July

    The perfect antidote to sequel season - sit back and enjoy our top picks from July, as we serve you up three wholly original short films.

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    Drama Lucy Knox

    Hot Mother

    A mother and her daughter are going through a very stressful time together. They hope that their stay at a spa hotel in the mountains will help relax the situation. But the isolated retreat becomes the setting for a physical and psychological nightmare.

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    Dramedy Michael Cera

    Brazzaville Teen-Ager

    In a self-effacing attempt to save his father from a death by deterioration, a young man enlists his curmudgeonly boss and Kelis to perform a song, and a miracle.

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    Action Masashi Kawamura & Iku Ogawa

    Hidari

    A pilot version of the stop-motion samurai film which tells the story of "Jingoro Hidari," a legendary Edo-era sculptor. After being betrayed by his peers and losing both his father and his right arm, Jingoro is on a journey of revenge with his cat and a mechanical prosthetic arm.

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    Laugh | SOTW Awards 2014!

    Laughter has a way of making the impossibly uncomfortable a bit more bearable. These boundary-pushing storytellers used a spectrum of humor from the light and quirky to the dark and disturbing that had us both rolling on the floor and learning a little something new along the way.

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    Dark Comedy Eros V

    Meat Puppet

    On the day he promised his girlfriend he’d grow up, a man-child inadvertently traps himself inside a puppet.

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    Documentary Andrew Wilcox

    Some Kind of Quest

    Take a journey to Northlandz: a 52,000-square-foot model train installation outside of Manhattan, and into the ornery mind of the man who brought it all to life.

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    Comedy Jim Cummings

    Thunder Road

    Officer Arnaud loved his Mom. At her funeral he expresses that feeling...in a memorable way. Winner of the Sundance 2016 Grand Prize.

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    Documentary Michael Kinsella-Perks & Will McBain

    Elephant Food is for the Strongest Teeth

    In Kano City, Northern Nigeria, crowds gather to watch local heroes face off in the ancient Hausa martial art of Dambe. Part battle, part dance, part live mythology, it’s a cultural tradition that has survived and thrived in the region.

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