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Academy Awards, Director Spotlight, Filmmaker Interview

Oscar Spotlight: LAST MINUTE – Michael Cusumano and Charity Schubert on Parenthood and Life Before Google

Set in 1989, LAST MINUTE takes the predicament of a homework assignment left until the eleventh hour and turns it into a funny and heartfelt exploration of community, memory and the unexpected value of everyday challenges. Through the story of a single mother navigating her son’s homework crisis, writer-director Michael Cusumano and actor-producer Charity Schubert revisit a world on the brink of technological change, asking … Continue reading Oscar Spotlight: LAST MINUTE – Michael Cusumano and Charity Schubert on Parenthood and Life Before Google

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Academy Awards, Director Spotlight, Filmmaker Interview

Oscar Spotlight: I AM THE PRIZE – Sai Karan Talwar on Masculinity, Manipulation and the Performance of Success

From the seductive promises of online self-help culture to the increasingly complicated expectations surrounding contemporary masculinity, writer-director Sai Karan Talwar explores the fragile relationship between identity, influence and control in I AM THE PRIZE, an Oscar-qualified short film starring Russell Tovey. Examining the psychological contradictions of a charismatic self-help figure, I AM THE PRIZE, from writer-director Sai Karan Talwar, asks uncomfortable questions about the people … Continue reading Oscar Spotlight: I AM THE PRIZE – Sai Karan Talwar on Masculinity, Manipulation and the Performance of Success

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Academy Awards, Awards Season

Female Directors to Watch in the 2027 Oscar Race

A new wave of female filmmakers is making a major impact on the 2027 Oscar race, with Oscar-qualified live-action shorts tackling family trauma, gun violence, school distress, mortality, identity and the political legacy of pop culture through bold, deeply personal storytelling. Among this year’s standouts are Saoirse Ronan’s PAPER PLANE, Kathryn Ferguson’s NOSTALGIE, Nora Arnezeder’s AGNÈS, Georgia Parris and Natalie Lauren’s UNAUTHORISED ABSENCE, and Kat … Continue reading Female Directors to Watch in the 2027 Oscar Race

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Academy Awards

OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: FROM THE FRONTLINES OF WAR TO THE OSCARS: DIRECTOR AHMAD ALAMELDEEN’S SAFE ZONE EXPOSES THE HUMAN COST OF HUNGER AS A WEAPON

Drawing on 12 years working in some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, writer-director Ahmad Alameldeen delivers a powerful Oscar-qualified animated short exploring survival, humanity and the devastating consequences of using starvation as a weapon of war. For 12 years, writer-director Ahmad Alameldeen witnessed the devastating realities of war firsthand. From Iraq and Syria to Somalia, Libya and Nigeria, he worked alongside some of … Continue reading OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: FROM THE FRONTLINES OF WAR TO THE OSCARS: DIRECTOR AHMAD ALAMELDEEN’S SAFE ZONE EXPOSES THE HUMAN COST OF HUNGER AS A WEAPON

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Filmmaker Interview

OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: LUKA GALLE’S THE CATCHER TURNS INVISIBLE BIRDS INTO A POWERFUL STORY OF HUMAN CONNECTION

Oscar-qualified Belgian filmmaker Luka Galle opens up about loneliness, feeling invisible in society and how his deeply personal experiences inspired an imaginative and moving short film. What if the very things we cannot see are the ones that understand us best? It is an extraordinary question at the heart of THE CATCHER, the Oscar-qualified Belgian short film from writer and director Luka Galle, whose beautifully … Continue reading OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: LUKA GALLE’S THE CATCHER TURNS INVISIBLE BIRDS INTO A POWERFUL STORY OF HUMAN CONNECTION

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