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Latest Work
One woman faces her final obligation in her isolated, waning days among a post-apocalyptic world. A film by Red Dawn Trio.
One woman faces her final obligation in her isolated, waning days among a post-apocalyptic world. A film by Red Dawn Trio.
As fires erupt across Northern CA, Colin’s dog disappears. Colin slips out of the house in hopes of quickly finding his lost companion in the blanket of ashy smoke that has descended on the Bay Area. A film by Henry Kinder.
A nervous, aspiring singer comes in for an audition in this claustrophobic one-shot short. A film by David Lombroso.
Like the ebbs and flows of waves in the ocean, a woman rides out different stages of an anxiety attack and through memory and space regains control and relief. A film by Nat Gee.
When Luke starts to talk about his new girlfriend, Tyler, who happens to have the same name and career as his roommate, things get a little awkward. A film by Ari Itkin & Devon Diffenderfer.
Grief work, initially defined by Freud, is redescribed by Derrida as a ‘work of mourning’ that requires an internal idealization of the voice and the body of the lost other, “ideally and quasi-literally devouring them”. A film by Fatma Belkis.
Pete takes his new girlfriend to see his childhood home before his parents sell it. It's the perfect house for a romantic weekend — 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and not haunted. A film by Kemp Baldwin.
Set in the Land of the Freaks and the Home of the Depraved, Sam and Adrian endure a dystopian date night at The Country Club. A film by Lucky Marvel.
After their parents divorce, ex-step-siblings Abby and Sean are forced to confront if they were ever really family. A film by Eliza Jiménez Cossio & Lexi Tannenholtz.
Lingering feelings start to reveal themselves when two friends reunite after some time apart. However, things take a strange turn after an unexpected visitor arrives. A film by Jivensley Alexis.
Featured Filmmakers
John e. has always been inspired by people and their pets. They are from Latnix and Jewish descent and a graduate from Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in 2013.
Born in Romania and raised in NYC, Nona Catusanu-Popp is a cinematographer and visual artist. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in Film and TV and went on to study in the Cinematography Master’s Program at The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in the Czech Republic. She is a recipient of the ASC Vision Mentorship Award.
Katherine Castro is a New York City-based Cinematographer. After studying architecture and photography while living in the Dominican Republic, Katherine returned to Boston in 2008, where she began working in film and TV as a Local 600 Camera Assistant.
Hiran Balasuriya is a Sri Lankan filmmaker based in New York who has worked for several production companies of note, including Kontent Films and Remedy Editorial in San Francisco, as well as BBC Films and Ponda Films in London.
Liza Gipsova is an award-winning NYC-based cinematographer fascinated by humans, light, and stories of identity, location, and the why. She draws from an exhaustive background in traditional, digital, photographic, and theater arts, before coming up in the ranks of the camera department and co-founding Curiouser Creative Studio, a visual media production company.
Henry Kinder is a filmmaker from Berkeley, CA, seeking to explore the messy ways in which humans rub up against their environments. His short documentary Desert Mourning (2020), investigates the love three very different individuals have for a shared, contested landscape in southern Utah. The film premiered at the Mountainfilm festival, and went on to play festivals across the country. He has experience producing and directing shorts, music videos and commercials, and is actively working to find creative solutions to decarbonize the film industry.
Lexi Tannenholtz is a filmmaker based in NYC. She is currently in post-production on Chestnut by Jac Cron starring Natalia Dyer with Utopia Films and Shudder’s Bad Things by Stewart Thorndike starring Gayle Rankin and Molly Ringwald. She also just wrapped production on Booger by Mary Dauterman starring Grace Glowicki which took part in the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival Creators Market.
Nat Gee is a Brooklyn-based director and film festival programmer. She creates visceral stories, with stylized terrains, bold scores and soundscapes. She's deeply meticulous with cinematography, design and color palettes. Nat is interested in physical performances and audacious feminine worlds. Waves also premiered on Filmmaker Magazine and Directors Notes and she's in post on Buried, which won a Jerome Foundation Artist Grant.
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Updates
“Through my teen years, my focus had turned to music, but when I got to college, I began immersing myself in film studies courses and crewing on thesis films. It was incredibly exciting to rediscover a world of comprehensive creation that blended so many things that I had grown to love independently…”
“I started writing fiction when I was a kid, then fell in love with movies as a teenager. It didn't take long for me to pick up a camera and start shooting, a journey that has taken me all the way through to today. As a filmmaker, my work is informed by narrative and literary traditions... it's all language to me.”
“I would pace around and talk ideas out loud to myself. Reciting potential dialogue over and over again to see if it worked till I was able to catch a new idea.”
“I went through the footage, took notes, and filmed the new footage, which is a commentary. Emotionally, it was complicated. It took some time for me to be able to watch to footage, and took a little more to sit and talk about it. It took a few years.”
“I dropped the feature ideas to focus on making something at my childhood home. I only had a handful of months to come up with an idea, procrastinate because of self-doubt, write it, rewrite, say, “fuck it, let’s make it”, cast it, scrape together the budget, pull together the best cast and crew, and then head to CT to have long weekend sleepover production party.”
“We wanted to be very intentional with every joke and line of dialogue, no filler, all killer as they say. You be the judge! But more so, if we're gonna put people through this dizzying scene of constant back and forth, every word needs to push the story forward and tell us something about these characters.”
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