Matthew Rankin

  • Filmmaker Update

    Filmmaker Updates: December 2020

    From high-profile Christmas ads to box-office features, we take a look at the exciting new projects from filmmakers previously featured on Short of the Week

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    Comedy Matthew Luhn

    Sprite Fright

    When a group of rowdy teenagers trek into an isolated forest, they discover peaceful mushroom creatures that turn out to be an unexpected force of nature.

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    Sci‑Fi Matthew Jankes

    Umkhungo

    Made a with a grant from Focus Features, a boy comes into mysterious abilities and is branded a demon. Relying on a jaded street thug for protection, the pair go on the run. Set at the intersection of sci-fi and superstition in South Africa, can the boy stay one step ahead of his pursuers, and, importantly, learn to control his burgeoning power?

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    Dramedy Tyler Riggs

    Blue Boy

    Insecure New Jersey bodybuilder, Joey Rossi aka Joey Muscles, starts doing steroids in a last ditch effort to go pro.

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    Film Noir Matthew Savage

    Reign of Death

    1940's visual styling combines with a futuristic setting in this sci-fi take on the hardboiled gumshoe. Now in development as a feature.

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    Horror Matthew Van Gessel

    We Want Faces So Bad

    Alexx must ‘face’ the reality of her overnight transformation when she joins her faceless friends in their nightly manifesting ritual.

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    Drama Matthew Puccini

    Lavender

    A young gay man (Michael Hsu Rosen) grows increasingly entangled in the marriage of an older couple (Michael Urie, Ken Barnett).

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    Comedy Matthew Richmond

    Loveseat

    If walls could talk? They don't. But, no one said anything about the couch...

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    Documentary Matthew Salton

    Patty Are You Bringing Weed in from Jamaica?

    In 1968 Patty was a flight attendant, who realized she could smuggle primo pot in from Jamaica with relative ease. Now 77 years old, this is her version of what happened.

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