by John Wildman | Feb 19, 2019 | Shorts and to The Point
Will Stewart’s ALL WE ARE introduces itself as a deceptively simple two-hander. The short film, which recently screened at the Oxford Film Festival, begins as a young gay man appears at an older gay man’s door following an email exchange. It’s a date with rules and...
by John Wildman | Feb 19, 2019 | Shorts and to The Point
Rachel Sweeney’s DEAD GIRL, which just screened at the Oxford Film Festival, begins with every actor’s basic, routine, indignity on a film set. In this case, it’s an actress playing the dead girl in a television procedural. Not enough to drain the life force out of...
by John Wildman | Nov 5, 2018 | Shorts and to The Point
Nick Neon’s ZERO ONE, which recently screened at aGLIFF (the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival) in Austin, is a familiar story treated with so much style, eye-catching visual flair and clever ear-catching lines that it seems almost unfairly fresh...
by John Wildman | Nov 5, 2018 | Shorts and to The Point
One of a couple short films that struck me in a major way at this year’s aGLIFF (All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival) in Austin, Erica Rose’s GIRL TALK is a look at how one young woman navigates her way through her world and her relationships,...
by John Wildman | Sep 8, 2018 | Shorts and to The Point
Mira Lippold-Johnson’s BAD THINGS took the 2018 WTxFF Storyteller Award (for best writing). It was Lippold-Johnson’s second time at the Women Texas Film Festival, having screened in 2016 with her short film, THE LETTER E. BAD THINGS follows a young black girl who...
by John Wildman | Sep 8, 2018 | Shorts and to The Point
Natalie Dickinson and Arianne Martin’s short film, SKINNY, was the two filmmakers the 2018 Women Texas Film Festival’s Radical Award (representing the “most visionary” film and filmmakers at the film festival) this past August. SKINNY is an equally funny and harrowing...
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