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While You Were Sleeping

Pixflow Admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:59:27 +0000

Director Anderson Wright‘s short documentary is a touching and powerful portrait of an often invisible workforce

Shot on location in Salt Lake City, Utah, While You Were Sleeping gracefully observes the quiet nature of various local cleaners, each offering an intimate testimony on their occupation and their perspectives.

Beautifully lensed by DP Patrick Golan, and expertly cut by editor Matt Schaff‘s gentle pacing, the film’s meditative tone allows space for recognition, acting as a poignant reminder of how undervalued and underpaid key workers are in today’s society.

The Mystery

Pixflow Admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:01:43 +0000

“Early 90’s, that was the heyday of squirt boating. Squirt boaters were everywhere. And then all of a sudden, they were just gone

In the midst of the extreme sports craze of the 90s, squirtboating was the cutting edge of whitewater kayaking. But as the sport faded into obscurity, what happened to all those people?

Jay Allen Glaspy

Pixflow Admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 12:42:00 +0000

A third-generation sharecropper and descendant of slaves, Jay Allen Glaspy was “born in the cotton fields,” and worked in them until age 19. Mr. Glaspy’s journey reveals a man with unwavering devotion in the face of adversity

San Francisco-based director Ivan Cash tells the story of a third-generation sharecropper named Jay Allen Glaspy. A descendant of slaves, Glaspy was ‘born in the cotton fields’ and worked in them until he got married at the age of 19 and set out for New Jersey. While Glaspy’s continued to face racial prejudice throughout his life, his story is one of unwavering devotion in the face of adversity and hope for the future.

Echoes

Pixflow Admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 10:06:40 +0000

‘Echoes’ is a film that forces the viewer to confront the repetitive, systematic murder of Black people at the hands of unaccountable white police officers

It is told through a barrage of cable news and on-the-ground coverage spanning more than 20 cases.

Steps have been taken to avoid major triggers, such as on-screen deaths or significant physical harm to Black people, but please be warned, this content may still be triggering.

Portlands Brandend Hart (Portland’s Burning Heart)

Pixflow Admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 13:32:54 +0000

“Portland’s Burning Heart” uses a combination of iPhone footage

on-the-ground photography and haunting voice over to tell the story of Portland’s ongoing street protests from the perspective of a woman who knows them well: Emmy-winning photojournalist Beth Nakamura of The Oregonian. Beth is the burning heart at the center of the film, and over the course of its 13 minutes, we watch as she evolves from local reporter to teargas-dodging, stab-vest-wearing conflict journalist.

Commissioned by the Dutch public network HUMAN in anticipation of the 2020 US elections, the film is a collaboration between Nakamura and the Tim Hetherington Visionary Award-winning filmmaking team Jongsma + O’Neill.

Additional editorial support, transcoding, and edit bay rental provided: Jan Beddegenoodts, Laurent Fluttert and Paul de Heer

The Cinder Cone

Pixflow Admin — Fri, 14 May 2021 10:13:10 +0000

In the Spring of 2014 a small group of close friends broke ground on a building project in Skamania County, Washington in the Columbia River Gorge

Their primary endeavor was a multi-platform treehouse, but also included a skate bowl and a wood-fired soaking tub as well. The crew came from all over the country and from a variety of backgrounds. Some were professional carpenters, others learned on the job, gaining experience along the way. The Cinder Cone is Foster Huntington’s short film that documents this year-long process of building his dream home with this community of tight-knit friends.

Offline dating

Pixflow Admin — Wed, 05 May 2021 11:02:25 +0000

Last weekend my single friend Tom challenged himself to find his next date – OFFLINE

Tom Greaves didn’t want to meet his next date online. So he challenged himself to meet strangers face-to-face. The heartwarming result is a tale of modern romance by BAFTA-nominated director Samuel Abrahams. Shot in East London over one weekend, the film questions the status quo of internet dating, by challenging Abrahams’s newly-single friend Greaves to find his next date — offline — and sparking an international press and social media debate on the effects of technology on dating. Featured in The Guardian, USA Today, The Daily Mail, among other outlets, the film is a VOTD winner, a Shots.net contender, and a winner of a Lovie Award, which celebrates Europe’s best online content. It was nominated for Best Short Film at the Webbys and also received an honorary mention in the Editing category. “Offline Dating” made its worldwide theatrical premiere as part of the Official Selection of the BFI London Film Festival, and its North American premiere at Seattle International Film Festival.

Thanks to… Harry Barber, Honey Ribs, All the Ninja’s @ 52, Blink, Cut & Run, Wave, Framestore.

And a special thank you to all the lovely people we met!

IN GUNS WE TRUST

Pixflow Admin — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 09:35:20 +0000

In Kennesaw, a small American town in the state of Georgia, a good citizen is an armed citizen. By law, since 1982, each head of household must own at least one working firearm with ammunition

À Kennesaw, petite ville américaine dans l’état de Géorgie, le bon citoyen est le citoyen armé. Depuis le 1er mai 1982, chaque foyer doit posséder une arme à feu fonctionnelle et des munitions.

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

Toronto international film festival TIFF, CANADA
TIFF Canada’s Top Ten film festival, CANADA
Tribeca film festival TFF, USA
Regard sur le court métrage au Saguenay, CANADA
Melbourne international film festival, AUSTRALIA
SODEC à Cannes, FRANCE
Téléfilm Not short on Talent, Cannes, FRANCE
Indie Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Guadalajara film festival, MEXICO
Festival du cinéma en Abitibi, Canada
Aesthetica short film festival, UK
Cinéma Vérité, IRAN
Vancouver international film festival, CANADA
Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec, CANADA
Off-courts de Trouville, FRANCE
Mecal international short film festival, SPAIN
Images en vue, IDLM, CANADA
Kaliber 35 short film festival, GERMANY
Paris court devant, FRANCE
Muestra Jovenes, CUBA
Brevard short film festival, USA
Hot Springs documentary film festival, USA
Rendez-vous du cinéma Québécois, CANADA
Prix Prends-ça Court !, CANADA
Victoria film festival, CANADA
Belfast photo festival, IRELAND
Les nuits photographiques de Paris, FRANCE
The Frontline Club, UK
Gimli international film festival, CANADA
Grands prix du journalisme independant, CANADA
FCVQ Ciné POP-UP, CANADA
Collectif Prod, Café de Paris, FRANCE
LAB 111 Short Night, NETHERLANDS
Short of the week, VIMEO, USA

Windows

Pixflow Admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 07:36:52 +0000

An open window becomes an invitation to look inside—but who is watching? In the digital world, our private lives are being shared with others, and it’s not always being shared voluntarily

Windows provide a metaphor for the screens we use to observe others.

Taking inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, American filmmaker and artist Jason Allen Lee subdues the explosive 1954 classic by drawing metaphorically on the act of surveillance. Lee exposes the ways we are perpetually and passively looking at strangers—on smartphones and computers—just as others are looking at us. The windows are seen in the film mirror the windows we hold in our hands, which draw us into a world of infinitely recurring and mutual surveillance, even while we are in public.

Festival

*2018 TIMELAPSE FILM FESTIVAL BEST-IN-SHOW*
*2018 INDIE MEMPHIS FILM FESTIVAL WINNER HOMETOWNER DEPARTURES SHORT*
*2018 BLOW-UP ARTHOUSE FILM FEST HONORABLE MENTION*
*2018 OFFICIAL SELECTION NYC INDIE FILM FESTIVAL*

Withdraw

Pixflow Admin — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 11:24:30 +0000

This is not a story about war, or poppy cultivation, or even the ongoing governmental issues that have been so prevalent in Afghanistan’s more recent history

This piece offers up an intimate description of a country that is just coming out of a thirteen year period of foreign military occupation. With the vast amount of negative coverage Afghanistan has seen over the last decade, reportage illustrator George Butler aims to portray a first-hand impression of how things are developing and how life continues despite the uncertainty of the countries situation.