Best of the Month
Best of the Month: September 2024
For the trio of films picked by our team as Best of the Month we've got stories of rule-breakers, magical portals and police camps.
Festival
A S/W Centric Look at Encounters 2022
Back for its first in-person edition since 2019, the UK’s leading short film Encounters returns to Bristol with an eclectic programme of short films, industry panels and interactive experiences.
Dark Comedy
Sean Buckelew
Drone
A malfunction at a CIA press event causes a Predator drone installed with an ethical AI personality to go rogue as it attempts to understand its purpose in the world.
Trusts & Estates
A hand-drawn animated documentary satire adapted from a conversation overheard in a Santa Monica restaurant in 2011. Four lawyers engage in a bantering dinner conversation that quickly devolves into a grotesque and brutal comedy of cruelty and hypocrisy.
Filmmaker Update
Filmmaker Updates: October 2020
Find out what some of our previously featured filmmakers have been up to recently - as we take a look at projects in development, distribution deals and awards in our 'Filmmaker Updates' series.
Festival
SXSW 2022: A Short-Centric Guide
Headliners, features, pilots, shorts - We take a look at our previously featured filmmakers in the 2022 SXSW program.
Comedy
Sara Gunnarsdóttir / created+written by Pamela Ribon
My Year of Dicks
An imaginative 15-year-old is stubbornly determined to lose her virginity despite the pathetic pickings in the outskirts of Houston in the early 90’s.
Dark Comedy
Sean Buckelew
I Am A Robot
A roomba with a foot fetish, a self-driving car that hits people on purpose, and a supercomputer that wants to kill us all.
Experimental
Mitch McGlocklin
Forever
Distinctively captured via Light Detection and Ranging equipment (LiDAR), this meditative short that played Sundance 2021 centers on a protagonist spurred to introspection when an AI algorithm denies his life insurance application.
