GRIMMFEST 26- OPENING, CLOSING, + SHORTS. Oh, My!
GRIMMFEST 26- OPENING AND CLOSING FILMS REVEALED + SHORT FILM PROGRAMMES! Get ready for gore and so much more! Read More →
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BIRDCALL (Fantasia 2026 short) Analog horror post-pandemic
Years after an avian-spread disease forces humanity into secluded cities, a foolhardy scientist and his wife, a wayward survivor, spend a night at a cabin outside of their compound. Recently infected and unbeknownst to his partner, he uses their seclusion as a trial run for his untested cure. This is Fantasia 2026 short, Birdcall. Read More →
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THE FATED HOUR (Fantasia 2026) Haunting short
In short film The Fated Hour, Florentine tells her fiance about her late sister’s connection to the spirit world, and her potential destiny. Read More →
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‘Switch’ (Tribeca 2026 short) Sexy shenanigans are only the beginning
SWITCH In the Tribeca 2026 television series Switch, two eager and very different women begin a relationship. Maxine is pragmatic and slightly guarded. Lena is full-speed-ahead passionate. Together, they perfectly balance each other. To ramp up the already existing spice, they deep dive into their sexual fantasies. Agreeing that labels are so passe, and since neither desires to remain monogamous Read More →
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‘Whale 52’ (Tribeca 2026 short) Grab the tissues for this powerful story of connection and identity.
WHALE 52 – Suite For Man, Boy, And Whale Director Daniel Neiden gives audiences an extraordinarily moving short about acceptance, love, loss, and identity in Whale 52 – Suite For Man, Boy, And Whale. The universe pairs a young selectively mute student with a musically inclined aquarium volunteer. In an effort to aid communication, Kaufman buys Enam an empty Read More →
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‘General Admission’ (Tribeca 2026 short) Confounding confessions and comedy make great bedfellows in this hilarious short.
General Admission Director Kaily Morgan Smith gets it. Tribeca 2026 short General Admission is a damn hit. In just under ten minutes, we meet a disaster of a woman attending her first anonymous meeting. Launching into her “Hi, my name is,” audiences already know they are in for a smirk-inducing ride. Nina Dobrev is a comic genius here. Huge Read More →
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‘HOLO’ (Tribeca 2026 short) Immersive therapy dying for development.
HOLO In an effort to help Claire process her unresolved trauma, a tech company called Looking Glass creates a motion capture hologram version of her late husband Jared. The session is an advanced form of immersion therapy. But the complexity of their relationship puts everyone involved in danger. Shane West, heartthrob to a generation of women like me thanks Read More →
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‘SAUNA SICKNESS’ (Sundance 2026 short) Hot and bothered.
Sauna Sickness If you told me that Malin Barr had studied the DSM-5-TR before writing her short film Sauna Sickness, I would not bat an eye. Revealing it is based on a past relationship would carry equal weight in terms of its emotional impact. Barr is a master storyteller, regardless of inspiration. The film follows a woman staying at her Read More →
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‘BEFORE YOU’ (2025) Emotional short leaves a lasting impact
BEFORE YOU Filmmaker Lauren Melinda‘s extraordinary short film BEFORE YOU is an emotional rollercoaster you must ride. The film follows a young couple’s journey in early pregnancy, including their undesired outcome. I am intentionally being vague because BEFORE YOU should be vital viewing. In just under 13 minutes, Melinda taps into the visceral trauma connected to pregnancy. There exists a Read More →
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‘LUCID’ (Fantasia 2025) A short gets a long, dizzying, drug-fueled feature.
LUCID Directors Deanna Milligan and Ramsey Fendall‘s 2022 short film LUCID gets the feature treatment, and Fanatsia 2025 audiences are its first test subjects. The film follows Mia, a misunderstood art student who delivers more performance art than quality visual art. She’s stressed and overly dramatic, but that’s pretty much a requirement for us artsy folk. At risk of being Read More →
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‘PORELESS’ (Tribeca 2025 short) Representation honey!
PORELESS Filmmaker Harris Doran delivers Tribeca 2025 audiences a laugh-out-loud short about embracing authenticity and finding your place in this messy but beautiful world. In PORELESS, a fabulous, queer beauty entrepreneur is selected as a finalist in a Shark Tank-style competition to be part of an elite global brand. A last-minute allergic reaction threatens to end his career before it Read More →
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‘ONE REHEARSES, THE OTHER DOESN’T’ (Slamdance 2025) A shockingly profound experimental short.
ONE REHEARSES, THE OTHER DOESN’T An extraordinary cinematic memoir where truth and fiction obliterate boundaries, Jessica Hankey‘s short, “ONE REHEARSES, THE OTHER DOESN’T,” rocked Slamdance 2025. Part confessional and all raw emotions, ONE REHEARSES jarring nature is exhilarating. Marjorie Annapav divulges unfiltered intimacy, from her time as a sex worker in the 70s to witnessing a murder. Her life is Read More →
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Sundance 2025 arrives to kick off this year’s festival season. 8 films we are excited for.
The Sundance Film Festival has launched the careers of indie film directors, writers, and actors for 41 years now. Back with in-person and online screening opportunities, this year’s iteration boasts new and bold storytelling from every genre. Here are a handful of films we’ll track in 2025. For all the info on this year’s festival, click here! TOUCH Read More →
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‘B!tch I’m Early (B.I.E.)’ (DWF NY 2024) Jeskid’s new short film takes on the absurdity of the rat race.
B!tch I’m Early In under six minutes, DWF NY 2024 audience winner B!tch I’m Early (B.I.E.) manages to be quintessentially New York and entirely universal in climbing the corporate ladder as a woman. This generational battle of two women, who are more alike than they realize, pit themselves against each other for an office promotion. Quite literally racing to the Read More →
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‘CANCHAS’ (DWF NY 2024) A poignant short and snapshot of our collective trauma
CANCHAS From the moment it begins, DWF NY 2024 short film CANCHAS perfectly captures the chaos, fear, and unresolved trauma of COVID-19. The story follows a dermatologist who has become a vital frontline worker. The intimate hand camera work immerses the audience in those new and meticulous routines we created in masking, social distancing, sanitizing, and disinfecting. Watching brings back Read More →
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‘SHADOWLAND’ (Beyond Fest 2024) A shapeshifting doc from filmmaker Otso Tiainen
SHADOWLAND WORLD PREMIERE / RELEASED IN: 2024 / 98 MINUTES / DIRECTED BY: OTSO TIAINEN Beyond Fest 2024 documentary SHADOWLAND, filmmaker Otso Tiainen sets out to the French Pyrenees to explore an area known as “The Zone,” a place famous for embracing the occult, supernatural happenings, religious experience, and the home of cult director Richard Stanley. This documentary takes Read More →
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‘FISHTANK’ (HollyShorts 2024) A wildly effective metaphor.
FISHTANK Wendi Tang’s stunning new short FISHTANK follows Jules (Tiffany Chu), a Chinese American woman, who has been sober for a year, but can’t stop vomiting goldfish. Things take an unexpected turn when she suddenly meets a fish enthusiast. In Wendi Tang‘s HollyShorts film, FISHTANK, Jules is sober, but now, instead of vomiting from alcohol, she throws up goldfish. When Read More →
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‘THE THAW’ (HollyShorts 2024) A stunning horror folklore begging for a feature
THE THAW Filmmakers Sarah Wisner and Sean Temple‘s striking horror folktale has been killing it on the festival circuit, and rightly so. THE THAW tells the story of a family running low on food for the winter months, tasking their daughter to prepare a sleeping tea that would put them into a deep hibernation state. It does not go well. Read More →
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‘SHOUTING AT THE SEA’ (HollyShorts 2024) A lovely and raw revelation.
Explore the healing power of reconnecting, in Benjamin Verrall’s nostalgic short film, “SHOUTING AT THE SEA,” featuring Harry Michell and Maddie Rice. Read More →
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‘BANGS’ (Fantasia 2024 short) Sinfully relatable.
BANGS Montreal-based comedy duo Emelia Hellman and Nancy Webb (Hellgirl Productions) bring their paranoia-fueled short Bangs to Fantasia Festival’s Fantastiques week-ends du cinéma québécois this summer for the film’s Canadian premiere. On the eve of hosting a dinner party for her 30th birthday, a woman cuts her hair. When her friends don’t notice, it drives her mad. Nancy Webb‘s Fantasia Read More →
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