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    Dark Comedy Don Hertzfeldt

    Everything Will Be OK

    Heavy topics in simple line-drawings—experience the dark and funny story of Bill's spiraling bout of mental illness by the great Don Hertzfeldt.

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    Horror Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair

    Don't Go Where I Can't Find You

    As a composer uses music to connect with the ghost of her dead lover, her mind starts to spiral into chaos.

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    Experimental Frederic Siegel

    Sit Down, Don't Touch Anything

    A face is born out of chaos. It struggles to exist. It struggles to find its purpose. It struggles to sit on a chair. In fact, it struggles with a lot of things. But thank god, it’s trying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    15 Things Wrong With Your Short Film

    Here are the most common mistakes filmmakers make with their short films that stick out like a sore thumb to programmers and curators. Find out how to avoid them.

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    Drama Finbar Watson & Alec Green

    Teacups

    For almost half a century, Don Ritchie (Hugo Weaving) would approach people contemplating suicide at the edge of a cliff near his home. Teacups is a poignant animation about his life, his surreal interactions with hundreds of suicidal individuals and his journey to reconcile the suicide of his best friend.

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    Q&A with New Theatrical Shorts Distributor Dedza

    "Our acquisition process is very different from a traditional distributor" - Dedza founder Kate Gondwe joins us to discuss the release of 'Who Will Start Another Fire', a short film anthology by emerging filmmakers released in virtual cinema and on Svod today (June 11th).

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    Drama Law Chen

    I Don't Make the Rules

    An ex-pro football player works various blue collar odd jobs in order to make ends meet in NYC and will do whatever it takes to get an entry level office job at a law firm.

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    Horror Anthony Melton

    Don't Move

    Set on one fateful night, six friends gather for their monthly ‘games night’… and accidentally unleash a demonic force that might tear them and their friendships to pieces. Part of the Bloody Cuts anthology.

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    Documentary Topaz Jones & Rubberband

    Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma

    Winner of a 2021 Sundance Jury Prize, Topaz Jones's visual album is an autobiographical journey into his formative influences. Told in vignettes, it is modeled off the Black ABC's—an invention from 1970, when Black educators in Chicago developed an alphabet flashcard set to provide Black-centered teaching materials to the vastly white educational landscape.

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