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The Palme d'Or winner is unabashedly political and deeply challenging.
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The Index
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"Fuck Your Policy" Brings Nonbinary Voices Into the Light
"Couch" Turns Petty Revenge Into a Love Letter to Female Friendship
"Saverio" Turns a Stranger in the Backseat into a Journey Toward Compassion
"The Worm's-Eye View of the Bird" Turns First Heartbreak into a Hand-Drawn Fable
Blackmagic Design Announces New Lower Price for Blackmagic PYXIS 6K and Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K
Bow Street Academy LA Opens Fall Acting Classes
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Interviews
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Interviews
Directing First-Time Actors and Learning to Navigate Independent Filmmaking
Prashanth Kamalakanthan explains how "you can do it too" while discussing his latest film "Removal of the Eye"
Editors’ Picks
Queer Representation On Screen
Two of the best films featuring queer characters this year.
Time Crunch: What I Learned From Participating in Two Timed Film Challenges
A race against the clock to see who can make the best movie.
How To Land a Needle Drop
Music can elevate a sad moment to a devastating one. It can perfectly illustrate the turmoil inside a character's head. It can give a fight scene the certain zing it needs to stand out.
TRC Shorts Fest
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Grief Answers the Phone in "May I Put You On Hold?"
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Ash Blodgett's "May I Put You On Hold?" strands a woman in the Afterlife on eternal hold, using the absurdity of customer service to ask what actually matters before the line goes dead.
"Tradwife" Stages a Reckoning With Domestic Perfection
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Jacob Combs's "Tradwife" turns a livestreamed dinner into a high-wire act of survival, asking how far a woman will go to keep her picture-perfect performance alive, and who she's really performing for.
"Intervention!" Turns the Tables on Growing Up
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Zoe Albano-Oritt's "Intervention!" flips a sisterly showdown into a sharp comedy of arrested development, where sobriety, popularity, and the fear of living your life all end up in the hot seat.
"Pool Guy" Finds Grace in the Deep End
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Nancy Friedrich's "Pool Guy" turns a heartbroken man's poolside afternoon into a warm comedy of connection, where the deep end becomes a place to be seen rather than a thing to fear.
