Etheria Film Night, the annual showcase of horror, science fiction, fantasy, action and thriller films directed by women, will feature nine short films in the 2021 Official Short Films Showcase Lineup. The festival will stream exclusively on Shudder, beginning Friday, June 25 through July 25.
Ahead of the world premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest, the new trailer debuted for the powerful documentary short film RIP SENI directed by Daisy Ifama. The film is a reaction to the ‘RIP SENI’ signs that appeared outside Bethlem Royal Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in South London following the death of a black man who died at the hands of police officers.
The Oscar-nominated animated short Genius Loci, along with César Award winners And Then the Bear and So What if the Goats Die? are among the lineup for New French Shorts 2021, the annual showcase of the new cinematic gems in short form from France.
Sierra Pettengill’s new documentary short The Rifleman, about the architect of the modern NRA is available to watch on Field of Vision, Vimeo, YouTube, and Facebook.
The 2021 Tribeca Festival announced its 2021 Shorts Program lineup comprised of 64 short films “striking hopeful and optimistic tones from 20 countries worldwide.” World Premieres account for 70% of the competition slate, which is the highest percentage in Tribeca history. The short films will be presented in eight programs: two documentaries, two narratives, two hybrids (including both narrative and documentary), one animation, and one New York shorts program.
MTV Documentary Films’ Academy Award® nominated short subject documentary Hunger Ward from director Skye Fitzgerald chronicling Yemen’s devastating humanitarian crisis and the disproportionate impact on its children, will be released on Paramount+ this Friday, April 2nd.
Netflix will release the short film Two Distant Strangers, recently nominated for an Academy Award® in the Live Action Short Film category.
“The Present”, nominated for the 93rd Academy Awards for “Best Live-action short film” category, will be streaming exclusively on Netflix on March 18th. The film is directed by the Palestinian- British director Farah Nabulsi, marking her directional debut and starring renowned actor Saleh Bakri.
MTV Documentary Films acquired the documentary short subject Hunger Ward which will have its world premiere on Pluto TV’s 24/7 Documentary Channel, Pluto TV Documentaries at 7pm ET on Monday, March 1st.
HBO released the trailer for COVID Diaries NYC, chronicling the lives of five young filmmakers, ranging in age from 17 to 21, who turn their cameras on themselves to tell the stories of their families during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. The deeply personal film illuminates the plight of essential workers and their families during the early days of the COVID-19 crisis as they navigate the deadly virus and a country riven by social upheaval. COVID Diaries NYC debuts Tuesday, March 9 (9:00-9:40 ET/PT) on HBO.
The short documentary COVID Diaries NYC, debuting Tuesday, March 9 (9:00-9:40 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO, chronicles the lives of five young filmmakers, ranging in age from 17 to 21, who turn their cameras on themselves to tell the stories of their families during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. The deeply personal film illuminates the plight of essential workers and their families during the early days of the COVID-19 crisis as they navigate the deadly virus and a country riven by social upheaval.
Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut, the short film “The Human Voice” starring Tilda Swinton will open in theaters in New York, Miami and Los Angeles on March 12, 2021. It will be accompanied by a digitally restored re-issue of Almodóvar’s classic “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown”.