ShortList
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‘When the LAPD Blows Up Your Neighborhood’ Wins TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival Industry Award
The Audience Award goes to Sean Wang’s documentary “Năi Nai & Wài Pó,” while Ralph Parker III’s “Sammy, Without Strings” earned the Student Audience Award
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ShortList 2023: How ‘Meantime’ Cuts Our Capitalist Society to the Quick
“The way that our society is organized really harms and traumatizes people that can’t fit in,” director Michael T. Workman says
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ShortList 2023: Devoted Husband Yasuo Takamatsu Looks for His Wife in ‘Nowhere to Go but Everywhere’
“We were so emotionally moved by his unbelievable story that we decided to base our fiction film on his experience,” director Masako Tsumura said
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ShortList 2023: ‘Love, Barbara’ Sheds New Light on Queer Film Pioneer Barbara Hammer
Director Brydie O’Connor credits Hammer’s longtime love Florrie R. Burke for insight into “the lesbian lover filmmaker”
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ShortList 2023: ‘Rest Stop’ Director Wants Audiences to Ask ‘What Feels Safe?’
Crystal Kayiza offers a snapshot in time as a young Ugandan-American girl realizes that her mother is more than just a mom
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ShortList 2023: In ‘Team Dream,’ Luchina Fisher Shines a Light on 2 ‘Incredible, Strong’ Older Black Women Swimmers
The short explores the complicated history of Black Americans’ relationship to swimming through a pair of extraordinary athletes in their golden years
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ShortList 2023: Queer Arab Comedy ‘Cousins’ Explores the Ties That Bind
Writer-director Karina Dandashi tells TheWrap about her short that follows a Syrian American reuniting with her cousin
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ShortList 2023: ‘Birds’ Recalls the Laid-Back Texan Natures of Richard Linklater and Terrence Malick
The Austin-set tone piece by writer-director Katherine Propper follows a large group of teens having a not-so-cruel summer
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ShortList 2023: ‘When the LAPD Blows Up Your Neighborhood’ Takes an Unflinching Look at Overextension of Police Power
Nathan Truesdell’s short doc spotlights multiple South L.A. families who are still without homes after a bungled fireworks detonation two years ago
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ShortList 2023: How Jonathan Laskar Confronted Family Trauma in His Animated Debut ‘The Record’
“The fact that the main character is cut off from his cultural identity is very personal for me,” the French-Swiss filmmaker tells TheWrap
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ShortList 2023: ‘More Than I Want to Remember’ Director Says Her Animated Refugee Doc ‘Could Not Have Been Told Another Way’
Amy Bench’s short documentary centers on Congolese refugee Mugeni Ornella, who also narrates the film
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ShortList 2023: ‘Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó’ Director Hopes You’ll Fall in Love With His Grandmothers
Sean Wang chronicles his elders as they dance together, fart in their sleep and choose joy in their twilight years
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ShortList 2023: Justine Martin Wanted the Focus of ‘Oasis’ to Be Brotherhood, Not Disability
Martin’s short tells the story of two brothers celebrating one last summer together
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ShortList Film Festival Kicks Off With 12 Award-Winning Finalists
Watch and vote! TheWrap streams 12 finalist films from award-winning shorts that debuted around the world over the last year
