Tag: Indeed Rising Voices

Awards Season, Film Festivals, Film Review, Short Film

Film Review: Boyfighter – A Visceral Vision of Legacy and Love by Julia Weisberg Cortés

Screening at the OSCAR-qualifying HollyShorts film festival In Boyfighter, director Julia Weisberg Cortés delivers a lyrical gut-punch, a film that stares unflinchingly into generational trauma while holding space for tenderness, reckoning, and repair. This Oscar-qualified short, premiering at HollyShorts as part of the 2025 Indeed Rising Voices program, marks a defining moment in Cortés’ evolving career. Known for emotionally intimate work grounded in cultural identity, Boyfighter sees her … Continue reading Film Review: Boyfighter – A Visceral Vision of Legacy and Love by Julia Weisberg Cortés

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Academy Awards, Awards Season, Filmmaker Interview, Filmmaker Spotlight, Films, Live action short, Oscars, Short Film

OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Interview with Kelly Yu director of the Oscar-qualifying ‘Endling’ of Indeed Rising Voices

A few years ago, I came across an incredible profile on the Atlantic by journalist Ed Yong about a man who had devoted his entire life to taking care of the last surviving tree snail in Oahu named George. It led me to learning about all the Endlings in our history (which is the term coined to the last survivor of a species whose death … Continue reading OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Interview with Kelly Yu director of the Oscar-qualifying ‘Endling’ of Indeed Rising Voices

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OSCAR Spotlight: Interview with co-writers/directors Kevin and Kelly Luu of Indeed Rising Voices ‘Technicians’

What inspired you to tell this particular story about automation and impact it has on humans, especially in the context of the nail salon? Our film was created through the Hillman Grad & Indeed Rising Voices Short Film program, where the prompt was ‘What does the future of work mean to you?’ This immediately led us to think of the Vietnamese American nail industry, a … Continue reading OSCAR Spotlight: Interview with co-writers/directors Kevin and Kelly Luu of Indeed Rising Voices ‘Technicians’

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