Short film Oscar nominees 2019
Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival Which short films will shine at the Oscars this year? The Academy Award nominations are out and I bet most of you are thinking – I’ve never heard of these shorts! Plenty of them are online and available to watch at the links below. I’ve checked them out, and […]
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Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival Toi Whakaari was New Zealand’s first drama school and remains Aotearoa’s leading performing arts school. Many of our most well-known actors are Toi graduates – Cliff Curtis, Robyn Malcolm, Tim Balme, Miranda Harcourt, and David Fane to name just a few. The ‘Toi Film’ strand of Toi Whakaari is […]
Read More →True stories make top shorts for 2017 | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: True stories make top shorts for 2017 | Show Me Shorts Film Festival It’s time to look back and make our lists of top films from 2017. Thanks to my programming gig at Show Me Shorts I’ve seen hundreds of films and can […]
Read More →Kiwi Documentaries: Locked and Loaded | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Kiwi Documentaries: Locked and Loaded | Show Me Shorts Film Festival The Loading Docs initiative produces ten short (3-minute) New Zealand documentaries each year. They’ve just unveiled the new films, and our team at Show Me Shorts is super impressed with the boldness […]
Read More →Branded content: the future of short films | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Branded content: the future of short films | Show Me Shorts Film Festival Today it is common practice for us to skip or block advertising when we are watching TV shows or online video content. Interrupting our entertainment with an unwanted 30-second advertisement […]
Read More →Sci fi short films: the final frontier | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Sci fi short films: the final frontier | Show Me Shorts Film Festival Science fiction is a seductive genre. We humans love to debate our possible futures and the affects on us of technology to come – be it via alien take-over, government […]
Read More →Disney short films keep us dreaming | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Disney short films keep us dreaming | Show Me Shorts Film Festival Cartoons don’t get the respect they deserve. If you’re eight or eighty you’ve probably got a favourite Disney animated short film. Mine were always the How To Goofy cartoons. Since Mickey […]
Read More →Filmmaking competitions forge teams | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Filmmaking competitions forge teams | Show Me Shorts Film Festival So many times I have thought – damn I could make a sweet short film that could lead onto greatness. But figured screw it, I haven’t got the time to spend being Spielberg […]
Read More →Fantastic shorts to unwrap this Christmas | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Fantastic shorts to unwrap this Christmas | Show Me Shorts Film Festival Nothing beats film for a way to escape the real world, and what better way to dodge the family Christmas dramas than the world of fantasy (with a dash of sci/fi)? […]
Read More →Hopelessly devoted to romantic shorts | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Hopelessly devoted to romantic shorts | Show Me Shorts Film Festival Do you remember your first love? Apricot, written and directed by Ben Briand examines first loves and melancholic memories. The search for love is sometimes fraught with disaster but being a hopeless […]
Read More →Highlights from Francesca Rudkin! | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Highlights from Francesca Rudkin! | Show Me Shorts Film Festival Film and music reviewer (Rialto Channel, NZ Herald, Breakfast TV, Good Morning), and Show Me Shorts ambassador Francesca Rudkin discusses four of her favourite shorts from this years Show Me Shorts Film Festival. […]
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