"Seized": Where journalism, the first amendment, and comedy intersect
"Seized" shows us a group of people who won't back down in the face of those who want to strip them of their Constitutional rights.
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09.10"MotherWound" Turns Generational Trauma Into a Creature You Can't Look Away From
09.10"Head Case" Finds the Surreal Inside a Family Dinner
08.10"Coconut Girl" Turns Childhood Shame Into Belonging
08.10"You & Me (& Chaz & Rodney)" Finds Tenderness in the Awkward Age
08.10Grief Goes Off Piste in "The Blue Diamond"
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The Index
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"The Ticket" Turns a Lottery Win Into a Full-Contact Comedy
"Finding JaMia's Spirit" Rewrites What We Tell Children About Death
"Mind the Gap" Finds Comfort in the Uncertainty of Being Alive
"Easy Going" Builds a New Monster from Vietnamese Folklore
"Love in All the Wrong Places" Turns the Hunger to Be Loved Into Inherited Magic
"Severed" Turns Obedience Into Dark Comedy in a Dystopian World
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Interviews
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Interviews
Degree of Certainty
An interview with director Simon Schneider and producer Maxwell Kagan on their newest project and the roots of the climate crisis.
Editors’ Picks
Queer Representation On Screen
Two of the best films featuring queer characters this year.
Time Crunch: What I Learned From Participating in Two Timed Film Challenges
A race against the clock to see who can make the best movie.
How To Land a Needle Drop
Music can elevate a sad moment to a devastating one. It can perfectly illustrate the turmoil inside a character's head. It can give a fight scene the certain zing it needs to stand out.
TRC Shorts Fest
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"MotherWound" Turns Generational Trauma Into a Creature You Can't Look Away From
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Hana Holloway's "MotherWound" gives inherited pain a body and a hunger, following a young woman who tries everything before naming the thing following her.
"Head Case" Finds the Surreal Inside a Family Dinner
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Georgia Sampson's "Head Case" turns a single room and one uncomfortable meal into an existential reckoning, asking what it means to be cared for by people whose concern arrives sideways.
"Coconut Girl" Turns Childhood Shame Into Belonging
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Ayesha Agarwal's "Coconut Girl" follows a young daughter of Indian immigrants through the sting of being different, tracing how the very thing that marks a child as an outsider can one day become a source of pride.
"You & Me (& Chaz & Rodney)" Finds Tenderness in the Awkward Age
At this year's TRC Shorts Fest, Lilly Lion's "You & Me (& Chaz & Rodney)" turns a first-hookup plan into a study of a shifting teenage friendship, tracing the pressures two girls face to take the next step.
