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OSCAR SHORT FILM REVIEW- SPOTLESS: Poverty its many levels and the devastating mental effect on individuals and family life

The opening scene of rundown apartment blocks conjured images of economic inequality, poor education, gang violence, and more. The film opens up on an average, early morning scene in which a young woman realises her monthly menstrual cycle has begun and there are no period products for her to access in their home.  Director Emma Branderhorst has approached female periods with subtlety and resolve to … Continue reading OSCAR SHORT FILM REVIEW- SPOTLESS: Poverty its many levels and the devastating mental effect on individuals and family life

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OSCAR SHORT FILM REVIEW – STREET REPORTER – Homelessness is an everyday event witnessed by everyday people from every walk of life. They are vilified and glorified by mainstream media and the public in general.                                                                                                                                        

Director Laura Waters Hinson and producer Bryan Bello’s docufilm has been presented with a wonderful touch of sensitivity, sincerity, and humanity. The film progresses at a gentle pace, very much like a slow meandering river; yet the core message is not lost. The film progresses at a gentle pace, very much like a slow meandering river; yet the core message is not lost.  Two stories … Continue reading OSCAR SHORT FILM REVIEW – STREET REPORTER – Homelessness is an everyday event witnessed by everyday people from every walk of life. They are vilified and glorified by mainstream media and the public in general.                                                                                                                                        

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OSCAR SHORTS FILM REVIEW – Sandstorm – A schoolgirl going through juvenescence, exploring her feminism in a patriarchal society

Director and writer Seemab Gul has opened a small window in a male controlled society, showing how girls and women manage their day to day life in it. The introduction of pubescence as a catalyst is a master stroke by Seemab because it is this period when a fragile body ravaged by frenzied hormones causes the greenness of youth to explore the limits of themselves and the … Continue reading OSCAR SHORTS FILM REVIEW – Sandstorm – A schoolgirl going through juvenescence, exploring her feminism in a patriarchal society

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OSCAR SHORTS FILM REVIEW – The Ocean Duck: Inspired by Rumi’s thirteenth century epic poem the Masnavi

Huda Razzak produced and directed The Ocean Duck and has very successfully unravelled a particular point in the extensive Islamic theological works of the ‘Masnavi,’ Joining the old with the present is a well worked formula that Huda in the form of a very simple and refreshing animation has brought to life for the viewing pleasure of all ages. The Ocean Duck and has very … Continue reading OSCAR SHORTS FILM REVIEW – The Ocean Duck: Inspired by Rumi’s thirteenth century epic poem the Masnavi

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OSCAR SHORTS FILM REVIEW – Triggered: Tara Westwood has taken on a highly controversial topic and one that has truly ripped open the beating heart of America, Gun Control!

The short introduction to this must see film hurtles into a scene that is so emotionally restrained and at the same time so overpowering in its delivery, that I am taken aback, my mind and senses racing and trying to understand ‘What is going on!’ and yet I can’t pull myself away from it. Hypnotic and building to a crescendo that is heart wrenchingly tragic … Continue reading OSCAR SHORTS FILM REVIEW – Triggered: Tara Westwood has taken on a highly controversial topic and one that has truly ripped open the beating heart of America, Gun Control!

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