John William Ross

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    Dark Comedy Tamsin Topolski

    I'm a Good Person

    A dark satirical comedy that explores toxic positivity and the darkness we dismiss by looking on the bright side.

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    The New Filmmaker: Eddie OKeefe

    His life changed the day he released his dreamy short, The Ghosts, online and sent him down a new path to his debut feature, a Black List-honored script, and a pilot deal with Hulu for a new series.

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    The Watchlist (April 2022)

    Looking for your next go-to TV show? Or want to know what's hot in the world of features? Check out our freshly compiled watchlist, featuring exciting new projects from Short of the Week alums that are available to watch now.

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    Live-Action Winners! | SOTW Awards 2013

    This year’s winning live-action filmmakers represent a diverse group: a star feature film directing duo, a veteran commercial director, a pair of award-winning photojournalists, a Canadian writing/directing duo, and a young LA up and comer. What all these creators share is an ability to tell fantastic stories.

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    Documentary Grant Slater

    Mammoth

    In the remote Russian Arctic, an aging scientist and his son are trying to recreate the Ice Age. They call their experiment Pleistocene Park—a home for woolly mammoths resurrected by modern genetics that could help defuse a carbon time bomb and slow down global warming.

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    Horror David Dinetz & Dylan Trussell

    Chainsaw

    A mysterious man unleashes terror in a haunted house when he enters with a real chainsaw.

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    Thriller Matt Duffer & Ross Duffer

    Eater

    A rookie cop works the night shift at a police station with a cannibal prisoner on the loose, in this college short from the Duffer Brothers (Stranger Things).

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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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    Comedy Chris Black

    Jim

    A Black middle-school student faces an awkward moment as his class reads a beloved American novel.

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    Comedy Bianca Poletti

    Radical Honesty

    At the tail end of a great date, Jack and Rachel bond over a shared interest in deconstructing traditional relationship structures, but when Jack reveals the reality of his "radical" open relationship, things take a turn for the absurd.

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