Shortlist 2015
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ShortList 2015: Former Felons Earn ‘100 Second Chances’ by Cooking
Four-minute film traces a day in the life of chefs-to-be as they slice, baste and whisk their way to rehabilitation
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Shortlist 2015: ‘Meghan is on a Bender’ Captures a Bad-Decision Spiral
The main character gets mugged, and instead of letting it go, decides to confront her attacker
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ShortList 2015: How ‘Symphony No. 42’ Built a Narrative a Few Seconds at a Time
Réka Bucsi’s experimental animated short consists of almost four dozen vignettes, most about animals
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Shortlist 2015: ‘Mulignans’ Flips the Script on Race in Mob Movies
“One of our intentions was to offend,” director Shaka King says
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ShortList 2015: Tension Trumps Conception in ‘The Baby’ (Video)
Director Ali Asgari’s film about women in strict societies who fight for their right to have children unconventionally
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ShortList 2015: Animated ‘Bear Story’ Tells Dark, Personal, Political Tale
In Gabriel Osorio’s short, a bear is a stand-in for his grandfather during the bloody Pinochet regime in Chile
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ShortList 2015: How Cheap Weekend Project ‘Russian Roulette’ Turned Into a Sensation
Nobody was more surprised than director Ben Aston when his film, made in two weekends for 50 pounds, became a festival hit
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ShortList 2015: ‘One-Year Lease’ Turns Awful Landlord Into Unknowing Movie Star
Voicemail messages from a nosy landlady formed the basis for Brian Bolster’s short documentary
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ShortList 2015: ‘Myrna the Monster’ Proves Humans All Feel Like Aliens Sometimes
Writer-director Ian Samuels combines puppetry, animation and live action for his look at an ultimate outsider
