Category: Entertainment

Narges and her friend have just a few hours to find someone to take care of her baby for some days.

A film by Ali Asgari.

“A Short Films present by New Europe Film Sales”

Venice Film Festival Official Selection (Orizzonti)

Director: Ali Asgari

Film series: More than two hours Film Series

Cast: Sahar Sotoodeh, Safoora Kazempoor, Faezeh Bakhtiar

Screenplay: Ali Asgari, Farnoosh Samadi Frooshani

Producers: Riccardo Romboli, Sasan Salour

In the not-too-distant future, a tenuous peace between humans and remarkably human-like “machines”—some don’t even know they’re not real—is tested when synthetics begin spontaneously exploding. A military-led search for these unwitting suicide bombers begins, sending a terrified machine woman and her human partner on the run. (synopsis was written by Cheryl Eddy, IO9).

A VFX, Sci-Fi Short Films Presented by Master Key.

See #VFX and “Behind the Scenes” seamfilm.com.

After a recent breakup, two twentysomething exes are forced to put fresh wounds aside and band together in order to get back their security deposit from their cold-blooded landlord.

A #Comedy Short Films, Enjoying #Funny Moments in Short.

Directed by Will Eisenberg

Written by Aaron & Will Eisenberg

Produced by Ian McClellan and Blerim Gjoci

Cast: Aaron Eisenberg, Jennette McCurdy, Colton Dunn, Matthew Broussard, Randy & Jason Sklar

Told without dialogue or a #musical score ‘Leg, Arm, Head’ depicts a highly controlled #dancer, as she moves away from the uniformity and discipline of ballet to explore her own identity as an individual.

Writer and Director: Scout Stuart

Producer: Sophie Broadgate

Executive Producers: Anna Seifert-Speck, Wendy Bevan-Moggs, Doug Smith (for shine a light)

Cinematographer: Ralph Pritchard

Cast: Hannah Buckley, Etta Fusi

Music: “She looks like you” written and performed by Sean Nicholas Savage. Licensed by/courtesy of Domino Publishing Company Limited (PRS)

Pull follows one of the top lead climbers as he explores the ever-changing world of climbing. This full-length short lead climbing documentary will make you come along for a mind-bending breakthrough journey of epic portions, several decades or more in the making. The makers of Pull have captured a story about the future of our sport and lead climbing. In many ways, this is a look into the most future imaginable.

“Keep your eyes on the future, because when it’s here you won’t be able to see, it is invisible.” – Lead Climber Jeffrey Paul Snyder

An independent professional wrestler philosophizes on the craft, narrative, and possible meaning found in what some consider a fake sport.

This film was originally published by The New York Times Op-Docs. The #ShortFilms presented by #NYTimes and also #StaffPicks on #Vimeo. Watch it New #Documentary, #Sports #Drama Short Film on Vimeo and also NYTimes.

Director: Tim Grant
Director of Photography: Bernardo Marentes
Producer: Jon Muedder
Executive Producer: Kathleen Lingo
Executive Producer: Lindsay Crouse
Executive Producer: Andrew Blackwell
Editor: Tim Grant
Editor: Bernardo Marentes
Editor: Emilia Fuentes
Associate Producer: Caleb Farmer
Assistant Camera: Josh Swope
Colorist: Ben Joyner
Re-recording Mixer: Gary DeLeone
Mixed at: Westwind Media
Production Company: Caravan

I was first exposed to wrestling by my dad, whose favorite wrestler was Dusty Rhodes. When I was growing up, he’d surprise-attack me, hollering, “I’m the American Dream,” then lift my 7-year-old body into the air, slam me on the couch and go for the pin. I’d escape after the second count and triumphantly rebound to victory, leaving my dad defeated on our green living room carpet as I paraded around the house with my hands in the air.

Fast-forward a few years: My cousins persuaded their mom to let us record our wrestling matches with her Sony Handycam. It was the first video camera I ever used. We had entrance music, costumes, and special moves. A few years later, in my early teens, I’d stay up half the night with friends playing WCW vs. nWo: World Tour for Nintendo 64. I always selected my favorite wrestler, Macho Man Randy Savage. By this time I was becoming aware of professional wrestling’s being “fake.” But Macho Man said every word with such conviction, with a thought process that sounded nearly insane. I wondered: So if wrestling is fake, does Macho Man know?

Things began to change when my family relocated from extremely rural northern Georgia to slightly less rural western North Carolina. My world got bigger. I started listening to more than just Christian music and watching movies outside my family’s approved watch-list and my grandfather’s westerns. I was drifting away from wrestling. Then I saw Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and became an evangelist for the film, offering my critical review to anyone who would listen: “You have to see it. It has everything. Drama. Romance. Revenge. Good versus evil.” The film became my defining interest by my late teens; if you were going to know anything about me, I wanted it to be that I was into films. I had grown out of wrestling, and I was proud of myself for having the maturity to do so. Wrestling was fake and crude, while legitimate cinema was subtle and poetic. I still loved Randy Savage, but in the way, you love a childhood friend you don’t really relate to anymore.

But in the first few minutes after meeting the wrestler Cauliflower Chase Brown, when we happened to share a table with our significant others at a poorly attended dinner party, I realized how wrong I had been about wrestling. “It’s storytelling,” Chase told me. “There’s more to it than people realize.” He drew comparisons to classical Greek theater, Shakespeare and, most notably, philosophy, his area of study at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. He talked about concepts of truth and the factors that make a character good or evil. The role of catharsis and how to understand a crowd. How wrestling, at its best, is the closest form of theater to jazz. I felt appropriately called out for my judgments of wrestling over the years, understanding that I had reserved the power of story to acclaimed films and other “higher forms” of art as approved by cultural authorities. I had become a snob.

With this film, “The Aria of Babyface Cauliflower Brown,” I’m attempting to recreate the feeling and conviction I had while listening to Chase describes the art he loves. In doing so, I’m mixing many forms and layers of art, style, and storytelling with wrestling. Chase’s rhetoric is overlaid with an aria, Desdemona’s prayer from Verdi’s “Otello,” an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Othello.” Peter Paul Rubens’s painting “The Fall of Phaeton,” an interpretation of a Greek myth, is a key visual reference for framing and color. Slow motion is used as a way to help see wrestling with different eyes, placing it closer stylistically to “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” than “Monday Night RAW.” All these choices were made to elevate wrestling, not from what it is but to a form that snobs like me can understand…..Read IT! on NYTimes