Dusty Mesa Productions

  • Filmmaker Update

    Filmmaker Updates: December 2020

    From high-profile Christmas ads to box-office features, we take a look at the exciting new projects from filmmakers previously featured on Short of the Week

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    Documentary Ewan McNicol

    The Roper

    Kendrick, an up-and-coming calf roper from Louisiana, shares his dream of reaching the Las Vegas rodeo finals.

  • Filmmaker Update

    Filmmaker Updates: March 2021

    With the 2021 festival season now underway and annual awards starting to be handed out, we take a look at what some of our previously featured filmmakers have been up to over the last couple of months.

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    Sci‑Fi Brandon Zuck

    Goodbye Blue Sky

    Long after the end of the world, five strangers sharing an abandoned desert motel are forced to choose between love and survival.

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    Experimental Jeong Dahee

    빈방 THE EMPTY

    "A room retains one's traces of life" - An empty space speaks volumes about a man's solitude in this evocative animated short.

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    Parody Jason Willis

    Catnip: Egress to Oblivion?

    Catnip is all the rage with today's modern feline, but do we really understand it? Once and for all the facts about this controversial substance are frankly discussed, in the long-lost drug educational film that never-was, "Catnip: Egress to Oblivion?". A Sundance 2013 short film.

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    Documentary Daniel Lombroso

    American Scar

    At the US–Mexico border, a ragtag group of environmental activists uncover the devastating effects wall-building has had on the local fauna, who have no concept of national borders

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    Drama Filipe Melo

    Sleepwalk

    A man goes on a journey for a slice of apple pie and ultimately explores the relationship between food, memory and redemption.

  • Festival

    An S/W-Centric Guide to SXSW 2021

    With so much to watch at the 2021 SXSW festival, let S/W guide you through the program with our short film / feature highlights from our previously featured filmmakers.

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    Sci‑Fi Emily Carmichael

    Stryka

    Stryka is an awesome reptile woman from another planet who does heists and odd jobs with her (literal) partner in crime, Callen. But she has a secret–she’s been stealing with somebody else.

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