Octopod Films

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: February 2023

    Enjoy a trio of unsettling animated shorts in our Best of the Month picks for February 2023.

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    Drama Logan George & Celine Held

    Valencia Road

    While driving to the reading of her father’s will, a woman is faced with an anomaly on the side of the road.

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    Comedy Mark Lester

    Orange Drive

    A year in the life of a guy and his car. A funny/romantic/tragic short film.

  • Horror

    A Truly Scary Short Film Playlist

    Horror shorts can be a lot of things: campy, funny, gory, spooky, even sweet. For this playlist we don't want any of that—these are shorts to inspire fear.

  • Filmmaker Update

    The Watchlist (February 2022)

    If you're looking for proof of how making short films can further your career, check out this playlist of features and series from our previously featured filmmakers.

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    Drama Roberto Gutierrez

    Lucy

    A solitary Foley Artist secretly films his neighbor and reconstructs the sounds of her life, while creating an imaginary relationship that leads him to discover closely the true sound of his obsession: Lucy.

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    Documentary Bentley Brown

    First Feature

    Working underground in the year before the legalization of cinema in Saudi Arabia, a team of mostly women shoots its first feature-length movie amid societal pushback.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: March 2022

    A woman with a black hole for a head, a charity badminton tournament and a world full of happy dildos and flaccid-nosed creatures all feature in one of our weirdest Best of the Month playlists ever.

  • SOTW

    IRL : Summer '19

    Join our IRL event in NYC for an evening with talented people & ground-breaking short films on June 6th.

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    Horror Jamie Delaney

    MJ

    In an attempt to find acceptance and purpose in an alienating postmillennial world, an unhinged young woman develops a violent addiction to social media.

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