Hollyshorts

Film Festivals, Interviews, Short Films

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HollyShorts 2024: Pinar Binay, K.D. Chalk, Kim Cohen, and Nicole Crespo on the power of collaboration

by Rebecca Martin

August 16, 2024

A happy place for me is talking to filmmakers. I love the way their faces light up with passion about the work they are doing. In most of my conversations

Indie Films, Interviews, Mental Health Awareness, Short Films

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A Different Conversation: Maia Scalia on Her Stunning Directorial Debut, “His Mother”

by Matt Fagerholm

August 9, 2024

If only people had listened to her. She saw the warning signs while others kept repeatedly turning a blind eye, and now her only child is on the brink of

Interviews, Short Films

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HollyShorts 2024: Interviews with Jessica Barr on “Tight,” Louisa Connolly-Burnham on “Sister Wives,” Hanna Gray Organschi on “Merci, Poppy,” and Andrew Nadkarni and Nalini Nadkarni on “Between Earth & Sky”

by Rebecca Martin

August 2, 2024

The 20th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival starts next week on August 8th and runs until August 18th. The festival is Oscar-qualifying, and I will be cheering on our previously featured

Film Festivals, Interviews, Short Films

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HollyShorts 2023: Speaking with Rachel Annette Helson about her short “Good Daughter,” starring Samantha Sloyan

by Rebecca Martin

August 10, 2023

Cinema Femme had the opportunity to speak with filmmaker Rachel Annette Helson about her short “Good Daughter,” that will have its World Premiere at HollyShorts Film Festival on Saturday, August