by John Wildman | Sep 8, 2018 | Shorts and to The Point
Tracie Laymon’s MIXED SIGNALS won the 2018 Women Texas Film Festival’s Leader Award last month (the Leader Award is the equivalent to the Best Director nod at other film festivals), and for good reason. Laymon’s film is a clever and organic response to the #METOO...
by John Wildman | Aug 13, 2018 | Shorts and to The Point
Kyle Taubken’s short film, PATRICK, achieves one of the most difficult tasks for a short film: It delivers a nuanced story light on obvious moments to grab the viewer that can’t be sharply critiqued or considered with an “A to B equals C” type of assessment. A...
by John Wildman | Aug 13, 2018 | Shorts and to The Point
Will Robbins’s short film, MINORITY, is the Memphis-based filmmaker’s latest entry into the Memphis Film Prize competition, having just been part of the recently concluded film festival/competition event. And while Film Prize showcased some of the best filmmakers in...
by John Wildman | May 8, 2018 | Shorts and to The Point
Catherine Cobb Ryan’s directorial debut, SEASON OF PASSAGE, is not just an example of “direct what you know,” but almost approaches an exorcism by film, if you will, as she tackles an intensely personal look at the experience of going through a miscarriage. Ryan did...
by John Wildman | Oct 25, 2017 | Shorts and to The Point
Travis Bible’s short film, EXIT STRATEGY, conceptually is about as solid and tried and true as it gets in Sci-Fi land: A genius brother tries to figure out a way to manipulate events via time travel in order to save his fire fighter brother’s life. Without taking a...
by John Wildman | Oct 25, 2017 | Shorts and to The Point
A loving ode to the late 60s/early 70s as well as a delicately drawn coming-of-age memoir about a young woman’s upbringing by a “wild” single mother, Suzanne Racz’s short film WILLOW demonstrates the first-time filmmaker’s sense of style behind the camera as well as...
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