SundanceAnnouncesitsFestivalShortFilmSelections

Sundance Announces its 2016 Festival Short Film Selections

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Source: film Sundance today announced the 72 short films that will play in its various short film sections at the 2016 festivals. Spanning narrative and documentary, animation and experimental, the films include plenty of 25 New Faces filmmakers (Darius Clark Monroe, Eva Vives, Calvin Lee Reeder, Terrence Nance, Eddie Alcazar, Kim Sherman, Sebastian Silva, Jack
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Short Film Premiere: Leah Shore’s Transgressive Cookie-Themed Animated Holiday Film

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Source: film Who doesn’t love cookies? And who hasn’t eaten too many in one sitting — perhaps even recently? Filmmaker Leah Shore, who landed on our 25 New Faces list in 2013, set out to make a confectionary-themed holiday card when scatological impulses got in the way. Her typically outrageous and beautifully animated 40-second animation,
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This Animated Documentary Won the IDA Award for Best Short

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Source: film Last Day of Freedom is a hand-drawn animated documentary which chronicles Bill Babbitt’s relationship with his mentally ill brother, Manny, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD who was sentenced to the death penalty after murdering a woman. Using a confessional format to tell a compelling story encompassing the treatment of veterans, PTSD, mental illness, the criminal justice system, racism and
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Watch the New Trailer for Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next

Watch the New Trailer for Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next

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Source: film The new trailer for Michael Moore’s latest documentary Where to Invade Next (above) positions the guerrilla filmmaker as “America’s secret weapon” and “the only one who can save us.” The film tracks Moore as he travels around the globe and explores social programs and policies that work well in other countries (while criticizing school
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Why Ed Lachman Chose to Shoot Carol in Super 16mm

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Source: film Carol is getting raves not just for Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett’s subtle performances, but also for Ed Lachman’s cinematography, which was inspired by mid-century street photographers such as Ruth Orkin, Esther Bubley, Helen Levitt and Vivian Maier. In a first-person story for Indiewire, the veteran cinematographer, who has worked with Werner Herzog, Sofia Coppola, Todd Solondz,
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