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    Drama Lily Cole

    Balls

    If there was a 95% chance your baby would die if they stayed with you...would you try to give them away?

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    Documentary Emily Thomas & Derek Knowles

    Last Days at Paradise High

    After the most destructive fire in California history destroys the town of Paradise, the end of the school year takes on added meaning for two seniors and their beloved teacher.

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    Short of the Year Playlist

    This year marks the 15th edition of the Short Awards - with 2022's 'Short of the Year' soon to be announced, we take a look back at our previous winners and ask...Are these the best films we've ever featured on the site?

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    Documentary Ariel Schulman & Henry Joost

    A Brief History of John Baldessari

    A towering figure in the art world, standing at 6'7", John Baldessari's epic career is crammed into 5 and a half frenzied minutes. Narrated by Tom Waits.

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    Lessons From a Decade of Short Film (2010-2019)

    The 2010s was the decade that streaming video exploded into the mainstream, read how Short film drove improvements in streaming quality, shaped how films are made, defined new genres, and changed how we think about film releases.

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    Drama Dane Winn

    Ada

    Stranded on an arctic island with a dying man in 1921, an Alaskan seamstress must overcome her fears of the wilderness and find the strength to survive if she ever hopes to return home to her son. Inspired by the true story of Ada Blackjack.

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    Documentary Adam Baran

    Trade Center

    The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus.

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    The Short List: Lance Oppenheim Interview

    Fresh off his first feature's appearance at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim joins us to discuss his short form work, his transition into features, and the importance of being your own MC.

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    Documentary Ellen Evans

    Motherland

    After a lifetime in Britain, three men are sent "home" to Jamaica. Far from their families and friends in the UK, they must construct new lives from nothing.

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