The 2012 Toronto After Dark Film Festival this year as always has healthy assortment of short films in their program. Along with the feature length shorts program they also begin each feature with short film to start off the night this year dubbed “Canada After Dark”. Here are few highlights of this year’s festival. Some of them were so strong that many were better that the feature that followed, so make sure you catch these shorts at festival near you soon. Here are some of the highlights:
Not Till We’Re Married
Shannon Rae Hanmer, 8 min, Canada, 2012
A really funny take on dysfunctional online dating directed by Shannon Rae Hanmer and written by Chris Nash (My Main Squeeze, Liplock): a woman is ready to make a commitment to her boyfriend but finds out he has a deformed twin brother attached to his hip who is the one that is really in love with her.
Not Till We’Re Married
Shannon Rae Hanmer, 8 min, Canada, 2012
A really funny take on dysfunctional online dating directed by Shannon Rae Hanmer and written by Chris Nash (My Main Squeeze, Liplock): a woman is ready to make a commitment to her boyfriend but finds out he has a deformed twin brother attached to his hip who is the one that is really in love with her.
- 11/3/2012
- by Kelly Michael Stewart
- Planet Fury
Subtitled "Severe Fantastic Shorts," this section of programming really did pack a punch. Whether you like gross-out special effects (making me really glad I didn't eat during this) or lyrical, emotional short films that demand your attention in a completely different way, "Short Fuse" had something for everyone.
At the Formal/Dir: Andrew Kavanagh/Australia
Though not my favorite of the bunch, I really enjoyed how this no-dialogue short mixed traditions in a way that viscerally represented a high school prom. Very tongue-in-cheek and a great ending, this was a perfect start — and clearly the jury thought so, as this was the winner of the "Short Fuse" program at the Fantastic Fest awards.
Game/Dir: Josh MacDonald/Canada
What appears to be a typical hillbilly slasher short, but with a funny shape-shifting twist. I found the acting in this one lacking, particularly at the end. However, the story is solid and really enjoyable,...
At the Formal/Dir: Andrew Kavanagh/Australia
Though not my favorite of the bunch, I really enjoyed how this no-dialogue short mixed traditions in a way that viscerally represented a high school prom. Very tongue-in-cheek and a great ending, this was a perfect start — and clearly the jury thought so, as this was the winner of the "Short Fuse" program at the Fantastic Fest awards.
Game/Dir: Josh MacDonald/Canada
What appears to be a typical hillbilly slasher short, but with a funny shape-shifting twist. I found the acting in this one lacking, particularly at the end. However, the story is solid and really enjoyable,...
- 10/4/2012
- by Kayley Viteo
- Planet Fury
Hot off its premiere as a trilogy at Fantastic Fest 2012, Toronto filmmaker Chris Nash has just uploaded his terrific triptych of short films about relationships and skin diseases onto the interwebs, so that they may now spread and infect the nightmare hearts of all who come across them. Packaged as the Skinfections Trilogy, Nash has also released this fabulously grotesque poster-art for the trilogy by Toronto-based artist Trevor Henderson.All three films, My Main Squeeze, Blackhead and Liplock, are embedded below, so turn down the lights, cuddle up beside your sweetheart and make sure you don't have half a pizza in your mouth when you click play....
- 10/1/2012
- Screen Anarchy
With the premiere of My Main Squeeze and Liplock at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival last year to much acclaim (as well as gasps and gags), Toronto filmmaker and friend of Twitch Film Chris Nash, perhaps best known in these parts for his award-winning short film Day Of John (an alumni of Fantasia's Small Gauge Trauma series), had finally concluded his series of short films about the trials of relationships and skin diseases. Aptly dubbing the trilogy of films, which includes the 2009 short Blackhead, as the Skinfections Trilogy in the wake of all three films being programmed in Fantastic Fest's Short Fuse programme, Nash has also cut a trailer for the whole shebang; one that that manages to educate, disgust and is sure...
- 9/18/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Fantastic Fest recently announced their selection of more than 40 short films slated to slither and crawl into all the various orifices of this annual extravaganza of genre film. The biopsy of the best genre short films from around the globe will showcase works from several countries, including Spain, South Korea, Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and more.
38-39°C (2011)
Regional Premiere
Director: Jason Hong, South Korea, 8 minutes
A father and son confront the emotional divide that separates them in the intimate setting of a Korean bathhouse.
88:88 (2012)
Regional Premiere
Director: Joey Ciccoline, USA, 14 minutes
Val has lost control of her life. Those around her deny the reality of the extraordinary experiences she feels powerless against. Realizing she must stand alone, she has only one remaining option – to find a way to fight back.
Advantageous (2012)
Regional Premiere
Director: Jennifer Phang, USA 23 minutes
Gwen is the spokesperson for a radical technology...
38-39°C (2011)
Regional Premiere
Director: Jason Hong, South Korea, 8 minutes
A father and son confront the emotional divide that separates them in the intimate setting of a Korean bathhouse.
88:88 (2012)
Regional Premiere
Director: Joey Ciccoline, USA, 14 minutes
Val has lost control of her life. Those around her deny the reality of the extraordinary experiences she feels powerless against. Realizing she must stand alone, she has only one remaining option – to find a way to fight back.
Advantageous (2012)
Regional Premiere
Director: Jennifer Phang, USA 23 minutes
Gwen is the spokesperson for a radical technology...
- 9/13/2012
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The official lineup of short films playing this year's Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, has been announced, and let's just say that there are lots of reasons why you should be packing your bags and heading to the Longhorn State!
From the Press Release:
Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the short film lineup for the eighth edition of Fantastic Fest, happening September 20th-27th in Austin, Texas. Fantastic Fest loves its short films - they provide a fertile ground for new and exciting filmmaking talent to show off their genre goods in an unrestrained format. Here is the lineup for Fantastic Fest 2012:
38-39°C (2011)
Regional Premiere
Director: Jason Hong, South Korea, 8 minutes
A father and son confront the emotional divide that separates them in the intimate setting of a Korean bathhouse.
88:88 (2012)
Regional Premiere
Director: Joey Ciccoline, USA, 14 minutes
Val has lost control of her life. Those around...
From the Press Release:
Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the short film lineup for the eighth edition of Fantastic Fest, happening September 20th-27th in Austin, Texas. Fantastic Fest loves its short films - they provide a fertile ground for new and exciting filmmaking talent to show off their genre goods in an unrestrained format. Here is the lineup for Fantastic Fest 2012:
38-39°C (2011)
Regional Premiere
Director: Jason Hong, South Korea, 8 minutes
A father and son confront the emotional divide that separates them in the intimate setting of a Korean bathhouse.
88:88 (2012)
Regional Premiere
Director: Joey Ciccoline, USA, 14 minutes
Val has lost control of her life. Those around...
- 9/10/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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