ShortList
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ShortList 2020: How ‘Girl in the Hallway’ Animates a Heartbreaking Tale of Abduction and Murder (Video)
First-time director Valerie Barnhart built her film around a wrenching monologue by slam poet Jamie DeWolf
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The ShortList Film Festival 2020 Finalists Announced: Watch and Vote for Your Favorite Films!
The ShortList showcases 12 award-winning short films hand-picked from the world’s top film festivals over the past year
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TheWrap Announces Jury for The ShortList Film Festival 2020
TheWrap’s 9th annual shorts film festival streams online August 6 -19
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ShortList 2019 Filmmakers Share Their Biggest Challenges and Inspirations (Video)
“It’s letting it all happen and then solving each problem,” says “One Cambodian Family Please for My Pleasure” director A.M. Lukas
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‘Enforcement Hours,’ ‘Departing Gesture’ Take Top Prizes at TheWrap’s Shortlist Film Festival 2019 (Video)
ShortList 2019: Two documentaries take top prizes and “No Sanctuary,” by Nathan Knox of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, wins the student competition
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ShortList 2019 Filmmakers Share Their Biggest Challenges and Inspirations
“It’s letting it all happen and then solving each problem,” says “One Cambodian Family Please for My Pleasure” director A.M. Lukas
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‘Enforcement Hours,’ ‘Departing Gesture’ Take Top Prizes at TheWrap’s Shortlist Film Festival 2019
ShortList 2019: Two documentaries take top prizes and “No Sanctuary,” by Nathan Knox of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, wins the student competition
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ShortList 2019: ‘Selfies’ Director Satirizes Instagram Culture – But Doesn’t Own a Smartphone
Claudius Gentinetta’s animated short explores how smartphones have pervaded every corner of our lives
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ShortList 2019: ‘Sister’ Director Reflects on Growing Up in China’s One-Child Generation (Video)
Director Siqi Song used her experiences growing up in 1990s China, and those of her friends, in this stop-motion family fantasy
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ShortList 2019: Why ‘One Leg In, One Leg Out’ Director Chose Not to Show Sex Worker’s Past (Video)
Lisa Rideout’s short follows a transgender woman who wants to start taking classes while still doing sex work at night
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Shortlist 2019: ‘Hula Girl’ Directors Finally Give Unsung 94-Year-Old ‘Her Moment’
How missing out on fame didn’t break the spirit of “Hula Girl” Joan Anderson
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ShortList 2019: ‘The Field’ Director on How She Found Radical Intimacy Amid Indian Cornstalks
In director Sandhya Suri’s first fiction short film, a woman prioritizes her desires and challenges narrative stereotypes about Indian women
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ShortList 2019: ‘Departing Gesture’ Director Brian Bolster Casts Cold Light on AIDS in the Deep South (Video)
Bolster’s doc introduces a Mississippi funeral director who buries those rejected by their families after dying of AIDS
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ShortList 2019: ‘How Does It Start’ Director Amber Sealey’s Inspiration? Her Own Pre-Teen Diary (Video)
“There are a lot of films where there are boys aged 10, 11, 12 who are masturbating or spying on girls or interested in sex … We don’t have that same thing for young girls,” Sealey says
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ShortList 2019: Jon Frickey’s Animated Identity Tale ‘Cat Days’ Began With a Sick Day in Japan
Frickey says he wanted to capture “the feeling that everyone tells you what you are” when “it becomes clear, deep down inside, nope, that’s really not what I am”
