ShortList
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ShortList 2019: How Trump’s Travel Ban Nearly Derailed ‘Green’ Drama About 2 Immigrant Brothers
The lead actor in “Green,” a German citizen of Turkish descent, was initially denied a visa to the U.S. in 2017 under the Trump administration’s travel ban
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ShortList 2019: How ‘One Cambodian Family’ With Emily Mortimer Accidentally Became a Political Film
A.M. Lukas’ gentle comedy about her own experience in an immigrant family arrives at a time when its message of acceptance is a timely one
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ShortList 2019: How ‘Las Del Diente’ Tackles Women’s Fertility Issues in a Cartoon With Teeth
Ana Perez Lopez’s began the film as a director’s thesis project for Cal Arts but soon realized she wanted to delve deeper into the subject
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ShortList 2019: Paloma Martinez’s ‘Enforcement Hours’ Offers a Timely Look at a Hotline for Immigrants
“Hatred seems to be coming out in the open,” the Mexican-American documentary filmmaker says of the current political climate
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2019 ShortList Film Festival Finalists Announced: Watch and Vote for the Winner!!
The ShortList showcases 12 award-winning short films hand-picked from the world’s top film festivals of the past year
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TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival Is Now Accepting Submissions
Past ShortList Audience and Jury prize winners have gone on to Academy Award success
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Oscar-Nominated ‘Weekends’ Animator on Channeling His Boyhood With Divorced Parents
ShortList 2018: “As a kid, you have an emotional reaction to what’s happening to your parents,” Pixar animator Trevor Jimenez tells TheWrap
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The Scene at ShortList 2018: TheWrap’s 7th Annual Short Film Festival (Photos)
Filmmakers and filmgoers gathered at AMC Century City to celebrate this year’s slate of award-winning shorts
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‘Blindspotting’ Star Rafael Casal Explains Why We Shouldn’t Doubt Short Filmmakers (Video)
2018 ShortList Film Festival: “It’s like asking a writer whether or not a haiku is valid,” the “Blindspotting” actor tells TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman
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How Nazis, Drunk College Kids and Stubborn Goats Shaped This Year’s ShortList Finalists (Video)
ShortList Film Festival 2018: “We’re not going to pout and cry about it. We’re going to make something happen,” filmmaker David Fortune tells TheWrap at ShortList Film Festival
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‘The Driver Is Red,’ ‘Magic Alps’ Take Top Prizes at TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival 2018
In addition, Savannah College of Art and Design student Mark Alex Vogt’s “The Peak” won in the student competition
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ShortList 2018: Why ‘Nevada’ Director Chose Naked Puppets to Tell Her Sexy Story (Video)
“It’s way easier to show naked stop-motion puppets than it would be live action actors,” says director Emily Ann Hoffman
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ShortList 2018: ‘Wave’ Filmmakers on the Importance of Language in Internet Age
Short tells the story of a man who wakes up after a head injury and no longer knows a word of English
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ShortList 2018: How ‘My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes’ Explores Family Secrets (Video)
“The title’s a way to disarm a person,” says director Charlie Tyrell of his short documentary about the troubled relationship with his late father
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ShortList 2018: How ‘Fish Story’ Uncovered a Whopper of a Strange Family Legend (Video)
“The film was basically made on no budget, because my expectation was that it wasn’t going to lead anywhere,” says director Charlie Lyne
