AFI

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    AFI Fest 2010 Short Film Showcase

    Titular character of Marcel the Shell While festivals and online outlets still exist as two different worlds, it seems that every online mainstay wants to become a festival (see YouTube Biennial, Vimeo Festival), and every festival wants to have a presence online. We've covered Cannes and Sundance's forays, and now at the end of the yearly festival season the American Film Institute's AFI Fest has a turn with a selection of 11 shorts available through its website.

  • New Filmmaker Series

    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.

  • BIPOC

    The Short List: Minhal Baig Interview

    Minhal Baig joins us to discuss her journey from short film to feature as Hala becomes the first narrative fiction film acquisition for Apple TV+

  • Festival

    Palm Springs Shortfest Online Film Festival

    Palm Springs! We are very close to the arrival of North America's most important film festival dedicated to shorts. I know not everybody follows the festival scene, and I know it gets confusing because I'm always tweeting that Festival X is the most-_____ festival in all of _____, but for short films, trust me, Palm Springs Shortfest is a pretty big deal.

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    Drama Joey Ally

    JOY JOY NAILS

    Korean manager Sarah gets her claws out when she suspects Chinese new-hire Mia of being after her man - only to discover that everyone's a victim at JOY JOY NAILS.

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    Action Ryan Prows

    Narcocorrido

    Winner of a Student Oscar, drug violence seeps over the border in this taught and violent action short.

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    Experimental Nasos Gatzoulis

    Tim of the Jungle

    **CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - A high school student attempting to complete his musical opus keeps getting distracted by the intense fights of his mentally imbalanced father and overly doting mother.

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    Documentary Geoffrey Feinberg

    The Hanging

    Nineteen-year-old Kirill hangs out on the rooftops of apartment blocks in Moscow, where his brazen stunts have earned him the nickname "Russian Spiderman"

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    Drama Kevin Lacy

    Young Americans

    First love. First kiss. First bank robbery. A teenage girl recruits a former high school classmate with a crush on her to help her rob a bank.

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    Fantasy Liam LoPinto

    The Old Young Crow

    Mehrdad, an Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman in Tokyo. Many years later, he reflects on Chiyo’s sudden disappearance through his old sketchbook in a combination of animation and live-action techniques.

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