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Darrel Manson

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Animated films at HollyShort Film Festival

Animated films at HollyShort Film Festival

Aug 17, 2023

Animation makes up an important part of the world of short films. That is true at HollyShorts Film Festival. Here are a few of the animated films I’ve been sampling. The first four are considered adult themed, the others are for children or families. American Sikh,...

Comedy at HollyShorts Film Festival

Comedy at HollyShorts Film Festival

Aug 17, 2023

Today I’m going to take a look at a few of the comedies playing at HollyShorts Film Festival. It should be noted that most of the comedy shorts I sampled had a dark humor as their base. Full Time, directed by Jon Ryan Sugimoto, is about a recent graduate who is hired...

Name dropping at HollyShorts Film Festival

Name dropping at HollyShorts Film Festival

Aug 14, 2023

HollyShorts Film Festival is taking place in Hollywood. This festival is all about shorts and the jury award winning film in each category will become Oscar qualified. The festival is both live at the TLC Chinese theaters at Hollywood and Highland, and virtually at...

Opening night at HollyShorts Film Festival

Opening night at HollyShorts Film Festival

Aug 12, 2023

HollyShorts Film Festival is taking place in Hollywood. This festival is all about shorts and the jury award winning film in each category will become Oscar qualified. The festival is both live at the TLC Chineses theaters at Hollywood and Highland, and virtual at...

Aporia – Don’t mess with the past

Aporia – Don’t mess with the past

Aug 11, 2023

If you could change something in the past, would you? If so, how would you know the consequences of that change? Aporia from director Jared Moshé, takes us into a world that makes us doubt we could handle such changes. Sophie (Judy Greer) is mourning the death of her...

Darkness – From Within

Darkness – From Within

Jul 28, 2023

Most of Emanuela Rossi’s Darkness (Buio) takes place within a house with all the doors and windows boarded up. But the title refers to a much more malevolent darkness. It is not the absence of light that makes this picture so dark, but the ever-growing realization...

Return to Dust – Marriage and Love

Return to Dust – Marriage and Love

Jul 20, 2023

We are accustomed to stories of love and marriage. We almost always think about those two things in that order: first love, then marriage. Return to Dust, from writer/director Li Ruijun, gives us an alternative to the relationship of those two concepts. In rural...

Love Gets a Room – Life and Death Coexist

Jun 23, 2023

The title card that opens Rodrigo Cortés’s Love Gets a Room, gives us the setting of the story (Warsaw in January 1942) and the context of the Warsaw ghetto filled with 400,000 Jews with suffering and inevitable death everywhere. The title card ends with the...

Scarlet – Fairy tale between wars

Jun 9, 2023

Scarlet (L’envol) is something of an international mash-up. Italian director Pietro Marcello has very loosely adapted a novel (Scarlet Sails) by Soviet writer Alexander Grin into a story of French village life in the interbellum years. As the film opens, Raphaël is...