ShortEnd Magazine

For collectors, the chase for the priceless PEZ is worth all its waiting time and research, but it’s ultimately the supportive community of PEZheads that renders the hobby unique, a fact explored in director Chris Marshall and prod...
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The morning following the packed Atlanta premiere of Blood Car, cast and crew members of the film—Alex Orr, Adam Pinney, Tony Holley, Hugh Braselton, Mike Brune and Katie Rowlett—gathered to talk about the filming process, the script d...
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Atlanta Film Festival volunteer Tara Goers tells us how the circuit really is.

Actor Mike Brune rumbles in and out of the film festival life with Blood Car.

Fun and easy, PEZheads-The Movie has the charm of its toy counterpart and will also, with hope, develop all of its longevity.

Outrageous and outstandingly funny, Alex Orr's Blood Car is definitely a fun ride and thankfully a far cry from the socio-poltical dogma of so many of today’s films.

In an honest glimpse of the Hollywood landscape as seen through the eyes of talent such as Jasmine Guy, Malinda Williams and Sheryl Lee Ralph, Angles Can’t Help But Laugh allows Teri J. Vaughn as interviewer to figure out what’s actually happening for actresses of color within the business and more importantly, uncover what can actively be done to prevent the pitfalls in the future.

Far from a cry to the feel-good, François Dompierre’s feature film debut All the Days Before Tomorrow, while truly admirable for its well-conceived editing, falls flat on its face with cliché in the narrative, particularly in terms of dialogue, rendering ultimately a predictable film with the saving grace of slightly interesting characters.

In film, the story is everything, and this adage is no better defined than with Brian Savelson’s Counting Water. Chosen as one of the Atlanta Film Festival Grand Jury shorts winners, the seven-minute stop-motion animation, mad...
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With Everything Will Be OK, the tongue-in-cheek animator Don Hertzfeldt uses monotony, eccentricity and depression to their best comic effect. It’s an initial laugh-out-loud ride that quickly forges into emotionally stark territory as main character Bill realizes that his life is more than a bit meaningless.

In Jessica Yu's Protagonist he classic tragic hero character arc applies fittingly if a bit pointedly, a reminder that the emotional stories of our lives are those that have always been told and will always be told.

Jennifer Sharp's compelling romantic-comedy The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks subverts classically notions of black cinema.

Following a group of Penn State University student journalists from The Daily Collegian for a year, Aaron Matthews’ documentary The Paper perfectly defines national media issues by studying a microcosm of its machine.

Kendra Skeene hadn't planned on co-producing PEZheads-the Movie along with her husband Chris Skeene and director Chris Marshall. It was much more than an active desire, a happy accident. "(Chris) dragged me along to the first convention, and I just kind of figured that I'd be in the way," she says. "But, then all of the sudden I realized that they needed someone to take care of things like making sure people signed release forms or setting up interviews so they could go do other thin...
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