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Before LeBron James chose to join the Miami Heat and form a super team in the Sunshine State, he was the National Basketball Assn.’s hottest free agent ever. As such, teams were pulling out all the stops to lure his talents. That included the New York Knicks, who recruited James Gandolfini and Edie Falco to reprise…

Two Distant Strangers directors Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe won their first Oscar for Best Live-Action Short tonight at the 93rd Academy Awards. In his acceptance speech, Free exclaimed that “God is good,” before launching into a statement on policing in America. “Today, the police will kill three people, and…

The 2021 Tribeca Festival, which announced its full lineup earlier this week, has unveiled a selection of 46 short films from 20 countries in narrative, documentary and animation. Blondie will perform live following the North American Premiere of Blondie: Vivir En La Habana about the rock band's first time performance…

Be Water and We Gon’ Be Alright filmmaker Bao Nguyen and GoFundMe have teamed for Together, a short film about the history and terrible present of anti-Asian racism in America. Ken Jeong, Olivia Munn, Lisa Ling and others appear in the three-minute, black-and-white film tied to the #StopAsianHate​ movement. Watch it…

The first image from Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation’s Blush, has been released. The short film is the first, as part of an expansive multi-year partnership between the two studios. The film follows a stranded horticulturist-astronaut's struggle for survival after he crash lands on a desolate dwarf planet…

Still I Rise, a documentary film series and distribution platform that aims to amplify female voices, is launching its inaugural Still I Rise Fellowship. The $50,000 grant, designed to provide monetary support to complete a 15- to 30-minute short film within six months, will offer $1,000-$5,000 depending on the needs…

Every year, ShortsTV brings the best in short film to the big screen, with a presentation of Oscar nominated shorts in the Animated, Live-Action and Documentary arenas. While movie theaters only recently reopened in Los Angeles and Orange County—with Covid cases, hospitalizations and fatalities on the descent—the…

Quibi’s #FreeRayshawn, written by Marc Maurino, captured the Writers Guild Award for Original & Adapted Short Form New Media. The victory had a much different feel from last September, when the show won two Creative Arts Emmys in a breakthrough for the startup, which earned 10 Emmy nominations. A month after that…

EXCLUSIVE: Timur Bekmambetov, best known for the hyperviolent Angelina Jolie-led thriller Wanted and the bonkers first-person live-action shooter Hardcore Henry, is set to transform the scares of Julian Terry’s horror short Don’t Peek into a full-length feature. Don’t Peek made its world premiere March 15 on the first…

For writer/director Borja Peña Gorostegui and executive producer Amanda Miller, Lost & Crowned marked the culmination of years of hard work, bringing their creative content studio, Psyop, into the Oscars conversation for the first time. Created in concert with Supercell, the CG animated short is the first to bridge…

In his first collaboration with Arnon Manor on the animated short Cops and Robbers, actor Timothy Ware-Hill adapted a spoken word poem he'd written into a stunning eight-minute piece, meditating on rampant displays of police violence within the United States, and the systemic racism behind them. After publishing his…

Throughout their careers in animation, directors Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon have maintained a strong collaborative relationship with children's book author Julia Donaldson. After bringing four of her works to the screen—two of which garnered Oscar nominations—they return to the awards conversation this year with The S…