Simon Ellis

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    Documentary Nathaniel Schmidt

    Ice Ball

    Will Steger, the legendary polar explorer, inspires a community by preserving the forgotten craft of ice harvesting.

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    Thriller Simon Scheiber

    The Lighthouse

    A lighthouse keeper’s surprising discovery pulls him out of his monotonous, daily routine and takes him onto a journey into uncharted territory in this neo-noir stop-motion crafted over the course of 7 years

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    Fantasy Simon Cottee

    The Duck

    A duck hopelessly in love with a rock that can never love him back must take action before his heart breaks.

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    Dark Comedy Simon Cottee

    The Wedding

    A melancholy boy attends his estranged Father's wedding to a large Latina woman aboard a small and cramped boat on a shark infested sea.

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    Experimental Blu & David Ellis

    Combo

    Street artist Blu animates large-scale creatures as they crawl across an abandoned Argentine cityscape.

  • Filmmaker Update

    Bite Size Halloween: Behind the Short Films of 2021

    Get in the mood for Spooky Season with our behind-the-scenes look at 20th Digital Studio's Bite Size Halloween - 18 genre shorts screened as part of Hulu's Huluween programming.

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    A S/W-Centric Guide to Encounters 2020

    With UK's leading short film festival forced online, we dive into the Encounters 2020 programme and take a look at what the festival has to offer this year - including some new films from some old S/W favourites

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    Widening the Lens Contest : Encounters & BFI

    Looking to address the issue of a lack of diversity within the film industry the BFI Diversity Fund & Encounters Festival have created an exciting opportunity for new and emerging filmmakers from under-represented groups to create a short film.

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    Happy Father's Day!

    Indeed. Congrats to the fathers out there, and to all of us who have, or have had fathers (everyone I guess).

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