Filmmaker Joe Weiland’s directorial debut Gorka is a short comedy drama about Gorka, a French exchange student who has arrived in the UK to see what England has to offer. Quickly, however, upon his arrival, his plans of exploration are pushed to the wayside as the English family he’s been partnered with experience a major tragedy. It’s from here on out that Weiland’s film takes off and his portrayal of the importance of human connection during strange, dysfunctional times begins. Weiland brings a buoyant Britishness to his short, which showcases the title character’s world through bright-coloured, open frames as he takes in the odd seaside environment that is Bognor Regis. As the film sets sail for its festival run, which kicks off with the Oscar-qualifying Provincetown Film Festival, Dn caught up with Weiland to talk over the personal genesis of the short, his background studying screenwriting at AFI,...
- 5/8/2023
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
A little boy and a dog. It's the stuff of sweetness and light except when it's not, and it's very, very much not in Jack McGinity's quietly unsettling short film My Shadow Mocks Me. A selection of the Dead By Dawn festival in Scotland this one very much marks McGinity as an interesting talent to watch and I very much look forward to seeing what he does next.Take a look at the complete film below....
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- 5/5/2015
- Screen Anarchy
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