ShortList
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ShortList 2017: How Incarceration Doc ‘Alone’ Highlights ‘Universal Importance of Love’ (Video)
Short film follows Alone Watts, who becomes a single mother overnight when her partner is jailed
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ShortList 2017: ‘American Paradise’ Tells a Funny But Timely Story of Race in America (Video)
Director Joe Talbot even adds a nod to Donald Trump in his comic short, which he says “spoke to something terrible that is happening in the country”
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ShortList 2017: ‘Lucia, Before and After’ Reveals the Woman Behind an Abortion (Video)
“It’s a very personal experience and it’s very different for everyone,” director Anu Valia tells TheWrap
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ShortList 2017: ‘The Silence’ Is Haunting Tale of Grief Lost in Translation (Video)
Young Fatma refuses to share a diagnosis with her mother in directors Farnoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari’s short
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ShortList 2017: ‘Broken’ Animates the Horror of a Women’s Prison (Video)
Short film draws from accounts of women who had been held in East Germany’s fortress prison at Hoheneck
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ShortList 2017: ‘Promise’ Captures Rural China Through Bond Between Boy and Pig (Video)
Director Tian Xie tells TheWrap his film is a window into the harsh realities of poverty
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ShortList 2017: ‘Chekhov’ Is Real, Hyper-Personal Film (Video)
Jack Dunphy makes a short film out of a secretly-recorded call: “I had an idea that the conversation would take some sort of turn”
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ShortList 2017: ‘What Tears Us Apart’ Is ‘Rare’ Tale of Child With More Than Two Parents (Video)
“As a one child born in China, I have been very sensitive to the topic of abandonment and adoption,” Wei Hu tells TheWrap
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ShortList 2017: ‘The Geneva Convention’ Is Based on Filmmaker’s Dream (Video)
“I actually forgot everything about this situation, but I dreamt about it,” Benoît Martin says of the event that inspired his film
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ShortList 2017: ‘No Other Way to Say It’ Delivers a Voiceover Nightmare (Video)
“Now when I do a voiceover session, people are afraid to give me notes,” filmmaker Tim Mason tells TheWrap
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Finalists Announced for 2017 ShortList Film Festival, Including New Student Category
Voting begins today and runs through August 22
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MEET: The ShortList Film Festival Jurors! Matt Ross, Misha Green, Lisa Bunnell and More!
TheWrap’s annual online festival will kick off August 8 and stream for two weeks. Our industry jury will vote on the winner!
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ShortList 2016: Finalists Talk About Selling Wedding Rings to Pay for Projects (Video)
The filmmakers behind the 12 contenders for TheWrap’s fifth annual contest recount their financing challenges to CEO Sharon Waxman
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ShortList 2016: Film Insiders See ‘Appetite for Experimentation’ in Shorts (Video)
Jury members Bec Smith, Jennifer Levine, Catherine Hardwicke and Kevin Iwashina discuss market for short indies at awards event Wednesday night
