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For the third year we are back with our annual Tribeca Exit Survey! You can check out our previous additions here and here. We take pride in watching every single short at the fest and the four of us are here to share what stood out to us in several categories. Thank you to Tribeca and the programmers for another incredible festival. We can't wait to see what jouney these shorts set off on. 1) As always we will start things off with Live Action. What was your favourite live a

In Part 2 of our Tribeca coverage we continue to make our way through watching the shorts and selecting our favourites to talk about. See which two live action short and documentary shorts caught our eye as well as our interview with Director of Fabric, Frank Sun below. Fabric, dir. Frank Sun At last year's Tribeca Film Festival, Frank Sun presented We Are Kings, his highly personal short about an Asian boy obsessed with DVDs and films. Through the lens of nostalgia, the dire

Tribeca will always hold a special place in our heart here at ShortStick. It was the first festival we ever covered back in 2023, which now marks our 4th year of ShortStick and covering the fest. We kick off our coverage with reviews of four of our favourite shorts we have seen so far. Check below to see our thoughts as well as our interview with Lily Weisberg and Michael Bloom of Rare Birds. Rare Birds, dir. Lily Weisberg Rare Birds sets an immediate tone. The warm crackle o

After taking a bit of a break over the past few months to reset, we are thrilled to be back for the 2026 festival season. We have an exciting slate of festival coverage planned for this Spring/Summer and there is no better way to start it off than talking about our favourite documentary shorts seen at Hot Docs. Brandon and Pedro are joined by guest writer Jeff Bulmer to shoutout some of the best shorts we saw throughout the week. A Quiet Storm, dir. Benjamin Nicolas In A Quie

Sadly, the 2025 Oscar season is now over! It is a season that ended with an exciting tie in Best Live Action shorts, with 4 worthy winners across the 3 shorts categories in Two People Exchanging Saliva, The Singers, The Girl Who Cried Pearls and All The Empty Rooms. Before the 2026 season picks up with coverage of the spring and summer festivals we have been taking a bit of a break from shorts coverage in order to be ready to go for the new season. Thank you to each of our re

The Utah native Gregory Barnes is one of the newest voices of cinema out of the Beehive State. Raised Mormon, the director approached the theme in his 2021 Sundance short The Touch of the Master's Head. In 2025, Barnes produced two succussful shorts in Paradise Man (ii) which also premiered at Sundance and ShortStick favourite Nervous Energy, which played at Cannes and NYFF. In the last year of Sundance in Park City,Utah, Barnes gives his farwell with Together Forever, a film