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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.
"Fuck Your Policy" Brings Nonbinary Voices Into the Light
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, TK James's "Fuck Your Policy" reimagines the talking-head documentary to explore life outside the gender binary, insisting on visibility at a moment when policy works to erase it.
Bow Street Academy LA Opens Fall Acting Classes
Ireland's national screen acting school brings the Gerry Grennell Method to West Hollywood, with seven courses and workshops taking applications now.
"Rabbit" Turns a Child's Imagination Into a Ghost Story
At this year's Not Film Fest, Nathan Catucci's "Rabbit" distills the tension between a mother and child into two wordless minutes of 16mm, letting horror bloom from the ordinary act of preparing dinner.
"Best Practice" Turns a Locksmith's Job Into a Moral Reckoning
At this year's Not Film Fest, Martin Strange-Hansen's "Best Practice" traps a young locksmith between duty and conscience, asking when doing your job quietly makes you complicit in someone else's harm.
"The Rattlin' Bog" Turns Cabin-in-the-Woods Horror Inside Out
At this year's Not Film Fest, Maxwell Klaiber's "The Rattlin' Bog" makes its World Premiere as an "anti-horror" about three friends at a mountain cabin, trading jump-scares for the everyday menace of fragile egos.
"Songs of Salt" Gives Voice to a Vanishing Coast
At this year's Not Film Fest, Isabella Bazoni's "Songs of Salt" gathers the untold stories of the Riviera Romagnola's beach workers and fishermen, asking what it means to safeguard memory and belonging as new EU legislation threatens their livelihoods.
"Behind" Turns a Butt-Dial Apocalypse Into Comedy, Horror, and Sci-Fi
At this year's Not Film Fest, Alessio Avezzano's "Behind" imagines a global butt-dial outbreak that spirals into something far darker, using a stupid premise taken seriously to poke at phone addiction and the way people refuse to back down.
"VITAL" Weighs What a Parent Will Trade to Save a Child
At this year's HollyShorts, Amir Zargara's "VITAL" follows two parents on opposite sides of the world into the shadowy economics of organ trade, asking how quickly our moral boundaries shift when someone we love is at stake.
"Yaoguai" Turns Assimilation Into Horror
At this year's HollyShorts, Mimi Lee's "Yaoguai" makes its world premiere as a 1970s-set horror about a Taiwanese American actress whose survival instincts summon something monstrous, asking what gets erased in the pursuit of universal appeal.
"Bleeding Edge" Traces the Cost of Chasing Perfection
At this year's HollyShorts, Daeyoung Kim's "Bleeding Edge" follows a young Korean-American figure skater through injury and expectation, tracing how a parent's dream can slowly consume the child sent to carry it.
"NEXT" Turns an Audition Room Into a War of Nerves
At this year's HollyShorts, Adam Peltier's "NEXT" drops two former classmates on either side of the audition spotlight, where a war of words and nerves decides which man survives the room.
"Snack Attack" Turns Viral Shame Into a Feel-Good Comedy
At this year's HollyShorts, Adam Moorman's "Snack Attack" follows a would-be hero whose good deed backfires and goes viral, mining our doom-scrolling, surveilled lives for something warm, dark, and genuinely funny.
"Scissors" Turns the Slasher Loose on the Patriarchy
At this year's HollyShorts, Hannah Aslesen's "Scissors" flips the home-invasion slasher on its head, turning five loud, messy, queer women from prey into predators in a night their would-be killer never saw coming.