
![Bite Me! [Sergei Safiullin, USA, 2019]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_5d21ba55ddfb4edcafcf90cbac8ba9b1~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_5d21ba55ddfb4edcafcf90cbac8ba9b1~mv2.webp)
Vincent Dolan
Aug 4, 2020
Bite Me! [Sergei Safiullin, USA, 2019]
Eighty calls will have been made to domestic violence hotlines across the US in the same time it takes to watch Bite Me! This is a stark fac

![One Bad Post [Mycle Scheuer, UK, 2019]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_98c12aa8e117474ba3a9c3cd36c4bf48~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_98c12aa8e117474ba3a9c3cd36c4bf48~mv2.webp)
Patricia Watney
Jul 30, 2020
One Bad Post [Mycle Scheuer, UK, 2019]
Two friends, Chaz and Frankie stumble from a reunion party into the woods and Chaz, having had one too many, begins feeling sick. Frankie fo

![Decrescendo [Olivia Chiesi, USA, 2019]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_086d74df662e453a986d6417f0b0299d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_086d74df662e453a986d6417f0b0299d~mv2.webp)
Dean Archibald-Smith
Jul 28, 2020
Decrescendo [Olivia Chiesi, USA, 2019]
The 11-minute short opens with a young man in sunglasses driving a luxury, vintage convertible through the palm tree-lined Hollywood Hills.

![Misophonia [Bhavik C. Pankhania, UK, 2019]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_4522c113d595425784a8d948daeb7afd~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_4522c113d595425784a8d948daeb7afd~mv2.webp)
Vincent Dolan
Jul 21, 2020
Misophonia [Bhavik C. Pankhania, UK, 2019]
The protagonist is sat in a restaurant waiting for his girlfriend to arrive, looking at a ring he has with him. A series of images appear sh

![Sandra Loves Guns: Life and Death of a Drug Lord [Julia Tarissan & Swann Darcy, France, 2019]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_809070993b464a6dbdc38a584bcb2533~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_809070993b464a6dbdc38a584bcb2533~mv2.webp)
Vincent Dolan
Jul 21, 2020
Sandra Loves Guns: Life and Death of a Drug Lord [Julia Tarissan & Swann Darcy, France, 2019]
The story revolves around J. J. Jones, a drug lord or “socially conscious businessman”, as he prefers, whom a journalist is interviewing. J.

![Deer Season [Cameron McHarg, USA, 2018]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_78952284339445028f28312e1f3817bf~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_78952284339445028f28312e1f3817bf~mv2.webp)
Thom Carter
May 11, 2020
Deer Season [Cameron McHarg, USA, 2018]
In its preoccupations and formal economy Deer Season feels of a lineage of twentieth-century American stories, but the men’s experiences are

![Reckless Love [Josh Wichaison, Australia, 2018]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_0f97af31371043139e79ccb7fa3a2258~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_0f97af31371043139e79ccb7fa3a2258~mv2.webp)
Sam Briggs
Feb 5, 2020
Reckless Love [Josh Wichaison, Australia, 2018]
One positive is the effective use of colouring and lighting transitions to communicate not only shifts in the passage of time, but also in t

![Subverse (Ep. 1+2) [Joseph White, USA, 2018]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_481929183e8349809a78e6c6daebf6cd~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_481929183e8349809a78e6c6daebf6cd~mv2.webp)
Sam Briggs
Jan 7, 2020
Subverse (Ep. 1+2) [Joseph White, USA, 2018]
Subverse is the brainchild of sci-fi director, Joseph White, a web series that follows lead character, ‘Max’ on his journey into the sordid

![Sheriff [James L. Adams, UK, 2019]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_9d2c770aca794c7f84d0079f156cd2ec~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_9d2c770aca794c7f84d0079f156cd2ec~mv2.webp)
Sam Briggs
Jan 7, 2020
Sheriff [James L. Adams, UK, 2019]
The first is the short’s well-chosen selection of music, which helps remind the viewer of its Western traditions and assists in grounding th

![SHORT FOCUS 2019: Teddy Mate [Rommel Villa, USA, 2018]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_eaf15c1e36a64e58a5f614db31597f35~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_eaf15c1e36a64e58a5f614db31597f35~mv2.webp)
Sam Briggs
Jan 3, 2020
SHORT FOCUS 2019: Teddy Mate [Rommel Villa, USA, 2018]
Teddy Mate delivers a ‘disneyfied’ version of what, regrettably, is still too often viewed as an ‘alternative message’, forced for too long