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MY NAME IS MOE
COKE BOYS
THE CROOK AND THE CREEK
LUMINOUS
THE TUNNEL: THE OTHER SIDE OF DARKNESS
LEFTOVER FEELINGS: A STUDIO B REVIVAL
SING, FREETOWN
CHICKEN

STUCK
Simplicity is key. Filmmaker David Roncone seems to abide by that motto as his short horror film, Stuck, is as basic as it gets. This

MY NAME IS MOE
Young filmmaker Kabir McNeely’s short, My Name Is Moe, gradually grows in resonance until it arrives at an unexpectedly poignant conclusion. Sensitively dealing with serious

COKE BOYS
Props to filmmaker Omar Cook for multitasking. He writes, co-produces, edits, shoots, co-directs, and stars in the latest crime short Coke Boys. Sure, the 20-minute

THE CROOK AND THE CREEK
Commendable for its production values and an acute sense of pacing, Bruce Wabbit and Sohaib Syed’s The Crook and the Creek touches upon something truly

LUMINOUS
Astronomy aficionados, rejoice! Sam Smartt’s meticulous (almost to a fault) documentary Luminous is tailor-made for the space geeks among us who are endlessly interested in

THE TUNNEL: THE OTHER SIDE OF DARKNESS
Before you could bid farewell to the “found footage film” subgenre, along comes Adrian Nugent’s The Tunnel: The Other Side of Darkness, a documentary about

LEFTOVER FEELINGS: A STUDIO B REVIVAL
The “godfathers of Americana music”, John Hiatt and Jerry Douglas represent the spirit of Nashville. With an easy-going camaraderie, they compose music that at first

SING, FREETOWN
The majority of Western audiences are most likely not aware of Sierra Leone’s tumultuous history. Torn apart by civil war, corruption, and devastating Ebola outbreaks,

CHICKEN
Writer/director Josh Leong’s Chicken is a near-perfect short film that’s both subtle and supremely ambitious, quiet and heartbreaking, and relevant without resorting to speechifying. Dealing