Short Ends is a collective online publication based in Montréal and founded in 2021.
Short Ends wishes you a happy New Year! 🎆 We had the pleasure of attending the latest edition of the Ottawa International Animation Festival .animationfestival . From classic cell animation and experimental textures to digital renders, we covered the always-enriching, genre-bending festival from our perspective!📽️🕹️
Stay tuned! Our coverage goes live today at 6 pm!
It is always good to return to where we have always been welcomed🫧This year’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema brought to Montreal a sturdy selection of films that are committed to expanding the possibilities of visual storytelling and cinematic language. Check the link in our bio to go through the films we love and the filmmakers who are at the vanguard of the industry📹
Proud to have been able to attend this year’s TIFF, looking back at all we experienced, we’ve reflected on some of the themes explored throughout the films we chose—our fervent attachments to the land, our (dis)connections to our pasts and histories, and dreaming towards optimistic futures ahead.
We had the pleasure of interviewing:
Executive Producer Leslie Norville on Black Life: Untold Stories series streaming on CBC Gem.
Director Ángeles Cruz on Valentina o La Serenidad, and longtime collaborators Danae Ahuja Aparcio and Myriam Bravo on thé film.
As well as, International Critics Prize Winner (FIPRESCI) Meredith Hama-Brown on her film Seagrass.
Available to read on our profiles page!
Short Ends had the pleasure to attend the latest edition of the and here are the rest of the capsule reviews we wrote 🍁
Check the link in our bio to go through our coverage 🎬
Short Ends had the pleasure to attend the latest edition of the and here are four of the ten capsule reviews we wrote 🍁
Check the link in our bio to go through our coverage 🎬
Short Ends had the pleasure to attend the latest edition of the and here are three of the ten capsule reviews we wrote 🍁
Check the link in our bio to go through our coverage 🎬
Short Ends had the pleasure to attend the latest edition of the net 🍁
Check the link in our bio to go through our coverage 🎬
For our last edition this year we are look at “In transit/ion” 🫧☁️
🌟 Join us on an exploration of cinematic transitions in our upcoming vlog: "In transit/ion." 🚀
🎥 Film is all about movement, Classics like Russian Ark push the boundaries of motion with a single shot that spans the entirety of the Winter Palace’s history while Moulin Rouge! uses fast cutting to embody the energy of the cabaret. But what really intrigues us is how characters and spaces navigate transitions – those moments of change, of betwixt and between. where nothing is concrete but change is inevitable. 🌌
How does visual media capture these transitions? How do characters, spaces, and environments confront change on the big screen? And what does it all mean for us as the audience? 🧐
If you're a writer with a love for film and are interested in writing for Short ends. Send us your pitches, ideas, and thoughts on transitions in film on the submissions page on our website in the bio by September 30th 📅
Our latest edition is now available on our site!
👺👹Bizarre, surreal, and imagined. Dream-like and nightmarish. We had a chilling time writing our pieces for our Phantasmagoria edition. (Link in bio)💭👻
For our third edition this year, we are looking at Phantasmagoria. 🔮🌚
Before film, theatres ruled. Today, we associate phantasmagoria with the bizarre, surreal, and imagined. Shots contain unconventional elements that contradict, challenge, or misdirect the audience. It can feel dreamy as if evoking a nostalgic half-thought at once familiar. But it can also be nightmarish. Fears of ghosts, phantoms, and demons converge, and the screen that separates us from them grows thinner with each moment. Phantasmagoria asks you to question your reality and its normalcy. It asks: Is there another way to see the world? 🌌
If you're interested in writing for Short Ends, see our submissions page on our website in the bio and write us a pitch by July 7. 📅
For the first time, Short Ends had the opportunity to attend the 2023 Hot Docs 30th Film Festival anniversary and we’ve collected a compelling short list of a variety of documentaries featuring the perspectives of writers Elya Myers, Juan Ospina, and Maria Natalyuk.
Click the link in the bio to see our picks from this festival season! ✨️
For our second edition, we are looking at Music! 🎶💫
In the wake of film composer Angelo Badalament’s passing, his long-time friend and collaborator, David Lynch uttered, ‘Today, no music’.
Music, and sound itself, has always served as the emotional rudder of visual media. Its presence moves us. We sing aloud lyrics in the shower or learn to play them on the piano. We associate them with people, places, feelings, moments of time that all move to its powerful rhythm. Yet when absent, it unsettles us. Scenes are stilted and anxiety-producing in the void of sound.
How is music mediated by visuals? What kinds of relationships do we have to music? How does music speak (or sing) to you?
If you’re interested in writing for Short Ends, see our submissions page on our website in the bio and write us a pitch by April 7th.📅
Our latest edition is up on the website! 💫 Check our take on habitats. Call it a place, a relationship, or an imagined reality, a lot was said and conteded on this edition. 🏔🌱
We’re back for our 2023 edition at Short Ends, and we are looking to feature new perspectives for our upcoming theme: Habitats! 🌏
We are accepting pitches until January 27th if you are interested in becoming a writer for this edition. 📅
See our submissions page to see the collective definition and write us a pitch!🤩
Short Ends had the pleasure to attend the latest edition of the 📣 Check the link in our bio to go through our picks 🎬
Let us know what your favourite movies were! 💫
Short Ends had the pleasure to attend the latest edition of the 📣 Check the link in our bio to go through our picks. This year our team focused on black and diasporic stories, as well as Canadian cinema!🎬 Let us know what your favourite movies were! 💫
📣 We are looking to finish the year in style! Any idea, any theme, any film, if you want to highlight your writing in our Outtakes section, this is a reminder to hit us up! 📮
❗️Remember, Outtakes is our new space opened to feature any type of writing outside from our Thematic Editions!
You can check our previous outtakes in the link in bio.⬆️
Summer is here and with it our new edition centred around food! Check our writer's pieces! 🍜🥧
Spring is finally blossoming and our Coming of Age edition is finally live!! 🌸
Have a peak at each of the writers pieces 👀
https://shortends.ca/category/editions/coming-of-age/
Our latest Outtake is out now! The journey to find opportunities takes some people far from home. Divided between what they know and what they want, they fight to belong and to remember. Just like our kind Peruvian friend, Paddington Bear. 🐻
http://shortends.ca/2022/03/24/paddingtons-plight-contended-homes/
We are looking for guest contributors for our May 2022 edition! Our theme will explore Coming of Age stories. ✨
Send us your pitch by March 8th at the latest! 🖊
More info here: http://shortends.ca/submissions/
Spring is almost here and our upcoming theme is "coming of age" for May! 💐 What film do you think about when you think of coming of age?
Happy birthday Short Ends! 🎂🥂
As we honour our first year anniversary, our writers wrote the newest edition "Honour" out now!
Keep an eye out for our next edition 👀
https://shortends.ca/category/editions/honour/
🤖 Dig into our "Into the Digital Age" edition by diving into each writer's research released November 2021!
https://shortends.ca/category/editions/into-the-digital-age/
We published our "Small Town Stories" edition in September 2021! 🏡
Check out our collective definition and have a look at each writers personal film analysis!
https://shortends.ca/category/editions/small-town-stories/
You've got a friend in me! 🤗 Released in July 2021, our third edition was our "Buddy Films" theme!
Re-explore the edition by reading our pieces on our website!
https://shortends.ca/category/editions/buddy-films/
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