Simon Penochet

  • News

    Oscar Short Film Nominees

    Via a live streaming broadcast beginning at 5:30 am where I am, this year's Oscar nominees were announced. I ended up hitting snooze and missed it, but I had an inkling that the information maybe—just maybe, would not be that hard to find at a more sane hour of the day.

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    Drama Daphné Chabrier & 2 Others

    Dernier Acte (Last Act)

    In a theater, a man tries everything to save this magical place from destruction

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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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    Comedy Peter Peake

    Pythagasaurus

    When talented directors at the famous Aardman Animations studio are given free reign, they come up with crazy stories like this one about a dinosaur who's good at math.

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    Sci‑Fi Ruairi Robinson

    Corporate Monster

    After being fired from his job, a dangerously unstable man’s life spirals out of control when he starts to see parasitic beings that puppeteer our world from the shadows.

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    Drama Lucy Bridger

    Returning

    A retired teacher confronts some unexpected emotions as she struggles through the discomfort of a heatwave

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    Dark Comedy Simon Legrand & 4 Others

    Leucotopia

    A giant blue man wanders an alien planet, his actions controlled by the chickens in his mind

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    Documentary Topaz Jones & Rubberband

    Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma

    Winner of a 2021 Sundance Jury Prize, Topaz Jones's visual album is an autobiographical journey into his formative influences. Told in vignettes, it is modeled off the Black ABC's—an invention from 1970, when Black educators in Chicago developed an alphabet flashcard set to provide Black-centered teaching materials to the vastly white educational landscape.

  • Interview

    Interview with Tom Stern

    Tom Stern talks to us about the concept and inspiration for his film, The Autobiography of Tom Stern: Chapter Six, The New Science.

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