Director Nicolas Cantarelli at Laposta in Buenos Aires: “Ten years ago I was told that Stanley Kubrick did actually film the Apollo 11 moon landing as a hoax. This conspiracy theory got stuck in my head for quite some time. This short film [done during the lockdown] is a tribute to that idea and of course a tribute to Kubrick himself.” [Watch]
Director/writer Fausto Montanari at Lobster Studio in Sofia, Bulgaria: “The structure of this film is built around a series of daily life episodes where the concept of absence is the main protagonist of the scene.” [Watch]
Art director, photographer Jon Krippahne in New York: “Silence is violence. That’s a phrase I’ve chanted at protests, in the face of cops who look just like me. But as I protested more and more, I realized it wasn’t just cops that needed to hear that message. It was friends, family members, and anyone else whose privilege protected them from the realities of racial injustice. [Watch]
Director Stefan Wernik at Armchair Productions in Sydney, Australia: “Our new film has been a labor of love, it’s a story of tenderness, COVID, and Coffee. [Watch]
Born in Ireland and currently based in Los Angeles, animation director Chris O’Hara uses snappy action and dark comedy to look at the downward spiral of our growing obsession with pill culture in his newest short film “Quick Fix”. [Watch]
Based on a script from their video producer Alix Ablaza, the team at design and animation studio Good Form in Toronto tackle the subject of anxiety and loneliness in this new short film, a labor of love 18 months in the making. [Watch]
