Alan Ng

Deer Season

By Alan Ng | February 2019

Sounds a little silly to bring this up, but short films are a lot like jokes. You have a set-up and a…

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Sounds a little silly to bring this up, but short films are a lot like jokes. You have a set-up and a punch line. This is obvious in the comedy short, but...

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In 1993, two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson (Leon Hughes) and Jon Venables (Ely Solan) murdered a small toddler James Bulger. The news shocked Britain...

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From Spain comes Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s short film, Madre, that raises your stress levels with 19 minutes of a parent’s worst nightmare. Marta (Marta...

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From French-Canadian filmmaker Marianne Farley comes Marguerite, the story of an awkward, yet captivating relationship between an elderly woman Marguerite...

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In Guy Mattiv’s short film Skin, he takes head-on red-neck racism with a twinge of Twilight Zone in this powerful morality tale. Skin opens with a...

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Many filmmakers will tell you that short films are the training ground leading up to the big feature film. Whether you’re a writer, director, or actor,...

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Up next in the series I call Movies-I’m-Forced-To-See-Because-I-Have-A-Kid is A Dog’s Way Home. I did not choose to see this film, but I did, and...

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If I were forced to break down the primary elements of a short film, I’d divide it into story, acting, and production (Clearly, I have no academic...

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I’m not a big fan of overused clichés, but since the one I’m about to use has recently fallen out of the modern vernacular, here goes. Sexina: Pop...

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James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez did something that I wish had happened a long time ago. That is to the big screen a “Disney”-princess-type story but...

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