Housewarming

Writer/Director Liam White explains how he aligned audience anxiety with his protagonist's feeling of vulnerability in his tension fuelled short film about an unwelcome visitor who ruins what should be a woman's celebratory moving in day.

I’m a Good Person

Tamsin Topolski details how she represented her protagonist's mental and physical demise through all aspects of the film's colour palette in this darkly comic satirical short where one woman's toxic positivity is mercilessly used against her by her manipulative boyfriend.

Incident

Bill Morrison discusses the defined parameters he adhered to when constructing his harrowing Oscar nominated documentary short comprised of footage from surveillance, CCTV, dashboard, and body-worn cameras synchronized into a split-screen montage reassembling of the event which exposes how Chicago police officers immediately closed ranks and changed the narrative following the 2018 shooting of Harith Augustus.

Magic Candies

From Dragon Ball to Magic Candies, veteran animation director Daisuke Nishio reflects on his storied career, the happenstance that led him to join legendary studio Toei Animation 44 years ago and the considered creative journey behind the studio's first ever Oscar-nominated short film - a CGI adaptation of Heena Baek's beloved picture books.