Filmmaker Update
Filmmaker Updates: Awards & In Development
Wait! Did S/W alums just clean up at the Oscars? We've got some juicy updates from our previous featured filmmakers.
Drama
Elham Ehsas & Azeem Bhati
Our Kind of Love
Samira, an Afghan refugee, is on her first date in London.
Black Filmmakers
Great Black Short Films, Chosen by Black Filmmakers
In honor of Black History Month in the US, we invited previously-featured filmmakers to select shorts by Black Artists that they are inspired by.
Comedy
Ben Aston
Russian Roulette
London seems a little less lonely when Lucy meets a libidinous cosmonaut on chatroulette.
Horror
James Berry
Out To Run: A Tale of Blood Velvet
A gay couple finally have a chance for a shared future when everything gets turned on its head.
Thriller
Laura Beckner
Willing to go there
An actress (Deborah Ann Woll) answers a call from an unknown number and the conversation takes a strange turn as the man on the other end preys on her deepest vulnerabilities.
Documentary
Artemis Shaw
& Alexander Wolf Lewis
Single Room Occupancy
When the tide of gentrification reaches her Harlem single room occupancy building, a former Bond Girl documents her mission to save the neighborhood and her home.
Documentary
Rachael DeCruz
& Jeremy S. Levine
The Panola Project
Highlighting the heroic efforts of Dorothy Oliver to keep her small town of Panola, Alabama safe from COVID-19, this short documentary is a chronicle of how an often-overlooked rural Black community came together in creative ways to survive.
Drama
Spencer Gillis
Sweep
A tense chance encounter at a local recycling center leads to an instant friendship, which, in turn, leads to a bitter moment of reckoning.
Documentary
Rick Mereki
Eat. Learn. Move.
3 friends create three indelible short travel films, each centering around a specific topic.
