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    Action Gil Freston

    The Big Break

    When two friends meet up for lunch in Hollywood, their obsession with fame and a series of violent mishaps sets them on the run from the police.

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    Comedy Jon Mackey

    Belly Flops

    An out-of-work LA actress needs a gift for a baby-shower. An insane Las Vegas gambler needs a weird candy. What they find is each other

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    Drama Joel Villegas Saldaña

    David Se Va

    David begrudgingly left Tijuana for Los Angeles when he was 12. Years later, he learns of his estranged father’s passing and returns to a place he once thought was home (Link opens in new tab).

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    Branded Film Series

    A short history of the developing genre and its successes and failures over the past decade.

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    Romance Juan Pablo Zaramella

    Luminaris

    A beautiful pixilation short imagining a world controlled by light, and a young man determined to find his own agency within it.

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    Drama Daniel Zvereff

    Drago

    A young boy's dream of becoming a doctor is challenged when war forces him and his mother to flee their village and start a new life in New York City.

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    Oscar Short Films 2024: A Voter's Guide

    With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers, Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi, take on the role of voter and whittle the 45-title shortlists down to the 15 short films they think should advance to the nominations round.

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    Sci‑Fi Kasra Farahani

    NOON

    A future Earth where the Sun hangs still in the sky, and times of day are fixed locations, a soul-deadened coyote reluctantly guides a band of rebels infiltrating an industrial fortress.

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    Documentary Elivia Shaw

    The Clinic

    For a few hours every Saturday, Dr. Marc Lasher and a group of volunteers provide free medical care and clean needles to IV drug users from across Fresno County, California.

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    An Introduction to Podcast Directing with Stefanie Abel Horowitz

    With fictional podcasts identified as a potential career path for directors, Stefanie Abel Horowitz (sometimes, I think about dying) joins us to discuss what it was like to work with Rami Malek and Cole Sprouse and the difference between directing podcasts and short films.

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