Fantasia 2014: ‘Kite’ is juvenile and hyper-stylized without reason
Kite is hyperbolic in every sense imaginable. It’s hyper-stylized without reason, hyper-violent, and incredibly stupid.
Short films
FrightFest and Horror Channel announce nine world premieres for short film programme
FrightFest in association with Horror Channel will be screening nine specially selected short films, all World Premieres, at this year’s August event at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Sq. From James Moran’s sickly slick serial killer tale and Dominic Brunt’s ghastly vision of war time Hell, to Will Gilbey’s hard-boiled noir cop thriller and Mike Mort’s …
First Image from New Pixar Short ‘The Blue Umbrella’
One of the best things about a new Pixar film being released is that they are always accompanied by a new Pixar short! As a lover of short films and a lover of animation, there is nothing better. Here is the first still from The Blue Umbrella the new Pixar short: From the film’s publicist: …
YoungCuts Film Festival Announces Top 100 International Short Films
Textbook Videos Presents 11th YoungCuts Film Festival The YoungCuts Film Festival is pleased to announce 2012’s Top 100 short films by the world’s best young filmmakers. Lead sponsor TextbookVideos.com will present the films in Montreal’s De Seve Theatre at Concordia University on Friday October 12th and Saturday, October 13th. ***** On Friday, October 12th, the …
Hey, Toronto: Fantasia and CFC present The Night Shift, a collection of out-there genre shorts
On June 9th at the Bloor Cinema, you can catch a three-pronged program of ghastly shorts entitled The Night Shift. Part of the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival (running from the 5th to the 10th) and co-presented by Fantasia, it showcases the latest and gnarliest in international work, from Toronto to Estonia. The full program …
Dark Bridges Film Festival: Day 3
Sunday September 26th marked the third and final day of the Dark Bridges Film Festival. Opening the festival was the Saskatchewan Shorts showcase which featured local short films varying from zombie comedies to an end of days Western and everything in between. Black Field, the first feature of the day hails from Manitoba and takes …
Short Fuse: Severe Fantastic Fest Shorts!
This year’s festival collection of horror shorts was generally above-average mixed bag. There are four, in particular, that simply astounded me, and the seven remaining films varied from decent fun to pointless exercises in horror standards. Following are my brief takes on all the films shown. Dara: Dir. Timo Tjahjanto & Kimo Tjahjanto, Indonesia, 2009, …
Fantasia 2009 – A Preview of Fantasia’s Québécois Shorts
Fantasia’s Short Film Highlights Just at this year’s Fantasia Film Fest sees its features splaying out far from the realm of hardcore genre flicks into other realms, its local shorts, presented in two different categories (Courts Métrages Québécois and Courts Métrages Québécois DIY) display a wide range of genre, approach, form and subject matter, fromt …