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OSCAR Spotlight: CORPSE FISHING directed by Jean Liu takes inspiration from the real-life story of ‘body-fishermen’ on the Yellow River

CORPSE FISHING has qualified to be considered for the 2025 Oscars, it is directed by Jean Liu. British Chinese filmmaker Jean Liu’s evocative short COPRSE FISHING follows twenty-year-old Yan (Harmonie He) who strikes a deal with a stranger named Old Bo (Jizhong Zhang) to go fishing for bodies in a desperate attempt to find her missing father. This brilliant drama was inspired by the real-life story of … Continue reading OSCAR Spotlight: CORPSE FISHING directed by Jean Liu takes inspiration from the real-life story of ‘body-fishermen’ on the Yellow River

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OSCAR Spotlight: HIS MOTHER directed by Maia Scalia and starring Bethany Anne Lind

His Mother has qualified to be considered for the 2025 Oscars, it is directed by Maia Scalia. What is a ‘Mother?’  someone who is loving, caring, compassionate, protective, extraordinary, and much, much more. A very down to earth and raw depiction of a mother; Maia Scalia, successfully merges what a mother is and a child’s misguided mindset; it questions the audiences view of motherhood and asks … Continue reading OSCAR Spotlight: HIS MOTHER directed by Maia Scalia and starring Bethany Anne Lind

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HOLLYSHORTS Spotlight: Dovecote directed by Marco Perego starring Zoe Saldaña

The dark and overcast sky opens to an ethereal other world; a colourless place with long corridors and arches that become engulfed with a longing and an ache, that screams, one day very soon. The choice to draw on raw acting and cinematic sound added a bold depth to the film and successfully melded the transition from ‘in here,’ to ‘out there.’ raw acting and … Continue reading HOLLYSHORTS Spotlight: Dovecote directed by Marco Perego starring Zoe Saldaña

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HOLLYSHORTS Spotlight on Derek Magyar’s River of Grass starring Dylan McTee and Marceline Hugot

Writer and director Derek Magyar’s short film is based in the American backwaters of the seventies; it is a wonderfully slow-paced tale, very much in keeping with the time and everglade lifestyle. PTSD a misunderstood medical disorder clashing with the strongly emerging blight of drugs is a heady cocktail for disaster. Actor Dylan McTee’s role is noteworthy for his depiction of the repressed sufferer unable … Continue reading HOLLYSHORTS Spotlight on Derek Magyar’s River of Grass starring Dylan McTee and Marceline Hugot

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BAFTA Spotlight: Interview with Bafta Nominated Crab Day directed by Ross Stringer

What drew you to start a career in animation? I never planned it really, but I’d started playing around with animation as a hobby in college, and then I tried my luck at a university course, and then I tried my luck at an MA, and then I was an animator. I think it had something to do with being exposed to independent short films … Continue reading BAFTA Spotlight: Interview with Bafta Nominated Crab Day directed by Ross Stringer

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