Stars: Eric Kole, Renee Bailey, Osy Ikhile, Neferah-Jo Onilude, Kamaiyah Oppong, Victoria Shepherd, Christina Tam | Written and Directed by Eric Kole In The First Time I Never Met You, writer/director Eric Kole crafts a short film that lingers long after the final frame… a gentle, aching meditation on the strange intimacy of strangers, and […]
Glowflare Short Film Festival has announced this week that tickets for its inaugural event are officially on sale! Film enthusiasts, creatives, and anyone who loves innovative storytelling can attend on January 25th 2025, at Beverley Parkway Cinemas, where a curated selection of the world’s best short films will be showcased across six screening sessions, each […]
Stars: Walid Jabri, ‘Spark’ Patty Keach, Joey Mac Intosh, Denis Moreno, Stéphane Picotte, Ryan Stick, Karen Wan | Written and Directed by Vincenzo Nappi The popular stereotype of the nice, polite Canadian is, like that of the overly gracious Southerner in the US, an artifice that quickly vanishes once you spend some time in either […]
Stars: Judson Vaughan, Kevin Stewart, Emilio Salgado | Written and Directed by Judson Vaughan The latest short film from Judson Vaughan, We Will Find You is a product of tireless work for the star who is also credited as writer, director, producer, cinematographer, editor, and sound designer. Considering how many tasks he undertook, do not […]
Stars: David Oyelowo, Jessica Plummer, Amelie Dokubo, Ellen Francis, Sule Rimi, Tara-Binta Collins, Izuka Hoyle, Dominique Tipper, Nikesh Patel | Written by Misan Harriman, John Julius Schwabach | Directed by Misan Harriman Marking his directorial debut, director Misan Harriman opens The After with a familiar sight. Dayo (David Oyelowo) is a workaholic father who wears a […]
Stars: Richie Jackson, Jacques Grimbeek | Written and Directed by Eileen Yaghoobian In a post-apocalyptic world only populated by skateboarders, a quietly spreading synthetic drug is transforming female users into skater zombies. Following on from the 2022 short Skater Zombies that offered a taster of this world, Skater Zombies: The Villain changes gears to shine […]
Stars: Chick Allan, Finn Allan, Daniel Arbon, Patrick Capaloff-Fowler, Olivia Millar-Ross, Russell Miller, Olivia Miller-Ross, Calum Paul, Brodie Toriati | Written and Directed by Jack Fox, Charlie Parker Chaos Rising is a 40-minute proof of concept short film that was paid for via crowdfunding, raising a final budget of £27k – all of which appears […]
Stars: Katell Varvat, Lucien Le Ho, Emma Gautier, Marylou Sampeur, Théodore Laloe, Djack Hazan-Guéguin | Written by Rodrigue Huart, David A. Cassan, Axel Wursten | Directed by Rodrigue Huart Ewa is a lonely 10-year-old girl who believes she is a vampire. She longs to vampirize a neighbourhood boy for companionship and devises a plan to […]
Stars: Carolina Lopes, Mike Sweeney-Collier, Gaz Hayden | Written by Thalia Kent-Egan | Directed by Sebastiano Pupino Director Sebastiano Pupino opens his short film with foreboding music, leading up to a horrific sight that will haunt judgemental conservatives; a tattoo being permanently inked onto a person. To commemorate her recently deceased grandfather, Clari (Carolina Lopes) is […]
Stars: Andrea Granera, Deepti Menon, Josh Cox, Mateo Correa, Milly Miles | Written and Directed by Josh Cox I think it might be harder to make, and get positive reviews, for a short film that isn’t action-packed. It must be a temptation for directors of shorts to fill their time (twenty minutes with Summer After) […]
Well people it’s getting closer to this year’s Romford Film Festival and while I am super excited to be making my way down there for the first time so that I can bring all you awesome Nerdly readers and Nerdly Out Loud viewers some great content, I also wanted to bring you some reviews from […]
A Family Affair A young couple and their son get an unwelcome visitor one snowy Christmas night. They know they could be in danger but fear that sending the stranger back outside might lead to her death. A Christmas set, snow-covered short coming in at about fifteen minutes, I was pretty sure I was going […]
Thorns Thorns sees a young couple go to stay a night at a motel only to have their night interrupted by an unwanted guest. At a little over five minutes Thorns creates an easy to follow story with a satisfying ending. Something most films struggle to do! I really enjoyed how the movie looked and […]
Stars: Tony Banham, Abigail Bush, Elodie Angel, Lewis Cook, Sophie Anna Bel, Laura Ollerton, Ollie Mullen, Miti Goneos, Stos Goneos | Written and Directed by JP Thomson At only thirty minutes long this short film set in real-time builds up to that time of its title 11pm. Apparently, the time when most disappearances occur – […]
Stars: Nicola Goodchild, Patrick Marlowe, Shona O’Sullivan, Phoebe Rawlinson | Written and Directed by Steven Dorrington The horror of social media and the bullying that comes from it is all too real for young people growing up today, so it’s no surprise to see the genre film directors focusing their movies on it. Off Fleek […]
Stars: Rhiannon Morgan, Stephen Oates | Written by C.H Newell | Directed by Benjamin Noah Since hooking up with the Romford Film Festival I have seriously had my eyes opened to the real potential of short movies and the performances and artistry on show. These creators only have 15 to 20 minutes to tell their […]
Stars: Libby Wattis, Caroline Vella, Michelle Grimshaw | Written and Directed by Andrew Ball-Shaw Some of our longtime readers may know during the first national lockdown here in the U.K. I hooked up with the amazing folks at Romford Film Festival and became part of their selection team; which meant I had the opportunity of […]
Stars: Martin Delaney, Josef Altin, Ben Turner | Written by Tommy Draper, Simon Pearce | Directed by Simon Pearce Alex Trent (Martin Delaney) is a young British Police Officer and is part of a task force that has been sent into a rundown building smack dab in the middle of Civil Riots that are dividing […]
Stars: Ashley Jones, Samantha Boscarino, Baker Chase Powell, Darielle Deigan | Written by Marc Cartwright, Cassie Keet | Directed by Marc Cartwright Aidan, a young man crippled by loneliness and insecurity, wants nothing more than to experience love, but he compulsively ghosts any connections he makes through dating sites. Aidan’s co-worker Elaine, generous with her […]
Stars: Neil Gallagher | Written by Neil Gallagher, Peter McKeirnon | Directed by Peter McKeirnon The current worldwide pandemic has made it difficult for filmmakers to, well, make films. But it hasn’t stopped them altogether and has often made people become even more creative than normal. Sins of the Father is part of a soon-to-be-released […]
Stars: Nicholas Michael Jacobs, Shawn C. Phillips | Written and Directed by Nicholas Michael Jacobs I have seen many many found footage horror movies and I am as big of a fan of them as you’ll probably know. It all started with the original The Blair Witch Project and although it took a while for […]
