ShortList
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TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival Returns June 28-July 12
The 2023 event will feature 12 of the top award-winning short films that have premiered at major festivals over the past year
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How the ShortList Film Festival Finalists Overcame Dark Subject Matters, Unexpected Production Challenges (Video)
Entries ranged from a documentary on abortion helpline workers to a love story in space told with puppets
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‘-Ship: A Visual Poem,’ ‘No More Wings’ Take Top Prizes at TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival 2020
“Welcome Back” by Tiffany Kontoyiannis of the University of Southern California wins the ShortList Film Festival student competition
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Livestream the ShortList Film Festival 2020 Awards Ceremony
The awards ceremony, which starts at 4 p.m. PT, will also include panel discussions with the filmmakers and jury members
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ShortList 2020: How ‘Sticker’ Filmmaker’s Love of the Underdog Inspired His Satire of Bureaucracy (Video)
Macedonian film follows a father stuck in a dark comedy of errors
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ShortList 2020: ‘Cosmic Fling’ Director Anticipated Life in Isolation Even Before the Pandemic
Animated short about a man stuck on an asteroid debuts in a world of lockdowns and quarantines
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ShortList 2020: How ‘T’ Finds a Vision of America in Black Rituals Surrounding Death (Video)
“We really do reside at a fork in the road, and that a lot of people are desperately in need of healing,” director Keisha Rae Witherspoon says
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ShortList 2020: ‘No More Wings’ Explores the Meaning of Home Over a Plate of Chicken
British playwright Abraham Adeyemi didn’t want to direct his short screenplay, but he was forced into it and is now an award-winning filmmaker
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Shortlist 2020: How Failure of the Health-Care System Inspired Elivia Shaw to Make ‘The Clinic’ (Video)
Short film centers on Dr. Marc Lasher and his volunteers inside a mobile clinic who try to help drug addicts without passing judgment
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ShortList 2020: How Charlie Tyrell Made Beautiful Music Out of Busted Instruments in ‘Broken Orchestra’
Tyrell’s short documentary chronicles the use of discarded instruments from Philadelphia schools to perform a special composition written for them by Oscar-nominated composer David Lang
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ShortList 2020: ‘Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa’ Filmmakers on Urgent Need to Make the Short (Video)
Documentary follows counselors working for a Philadelphia abortion helpline who try to help women seeking to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to
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ShortList 2020: How a ‘Creepy’ A Cappella Group Inspired the Dark Comedy ‘The Devil’s Harmony’ (Video)
Dylan Holmes Williams’ film follows a bullied teenage girl who leads an a cappella club to seek revenge on her schoolmates
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ShortList 2020: ‘-Ship’ Director Explores Black Masculinity by Asking ‘How Do We Heal?’ (Video)
“I identify as queer, so a lot of my childhood was making myself small,” writer and director Terrance Daye says
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ShortList 2020: ‘How to Make a Rainbow’ Director Shows a Trans Mom Finding ‘Support System’ in Her Daughter (Video)
“There’s a really special and genuine quality that children have when it comes to self-expression that a lot of adults struggle with,” director Ryan Maxey says
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Shortlist 2020: How a Real-Life Bike Theft Inspired ‘White Eye’ (Video)
Short film centers on a man who finds his stolen bike on a street and sets in motion a sequence of events that profoundly impacts the lives of a group of Middle Eastern immigrants
