Consider a recent popular movie like Brazil's The Way He Looks (2014) which was first a short film named I Don't Want To Go Back Alone (2010). Now, though, shorts are often direct sales pitches for features. Short films are no longer the primary calling cards they once were for up-and-coming directors given the prevalence of TV work and DIY webseries. Short films don't tend to last the way features can, given that it's hard to be reminded of them, culturally, and they aren't 'for sale' or advertised on streaming often in the way TV shows or movies are.
To kick things off let's discuss queer shorts for Pride Month. This new series might become anything or nothing but we love alliteration so Sundays it is. We thought it time to indulge in one of our least documented movie interests: short films.
