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Welcome to our Student Academy Award Series. We are very excited to be back for a third year highlighting and celebrating the Student Academy Winners leading up to the medal ceremony on October 6th. We kick things off with Live Action winner Kubrick, Live I Love You, directed by Zefan Wang. Kubrick, Like I Love You , dir. Zefan Wang Fei is facing a problem that would horrify any cinephile. “My girlfriend doesn’t know who Kubrick is!” (Or Renoir, or Bergman, or Tarkovsky, or…)

Here at ShortStick we like to leave no stone unturned, exploring every genre of short film, including experimental shorts and some of the stranger corners of short film. Some of the best work in short film can be found in more experimental blocks that TIFF offers like Wavelengths and Strange Cuts. We are lucky to have writers on this site like Josh and Pedro who are passionate about this unique style of film-making. Here they write about five of their favourites from these bl

TIFF, as always, brought the heat this year with their short film programs. It is always so exciting to attend a festival full of world and international premieres with every program having a little mix of everything genre-wise. For Short Cuts 5 and 6 we chose to review some of our favourites from the programs including Dish Pit, Arguments in Favor of Love and All The Empty Rooms. Dish Pit, dir. Anna Hopkins A year and a half ago, I quit my job at a local radio station. I had

Short Cuts 3 and 4 are in the books! Short Cuts 3 offered one of the strongest lineups of the festival with standouts like Sea Star, Asparagus Bear and the star-studded The Non-Actor. Throughout both Short Cuts 3 and Short Cuts 4 a common through-line appeared in three shorts I have reviewed for these programs. Check out below as we review Dust to Dreams, What We Leave Behind and Ali - all stories about finding and using your voice. Dust to Dreams, dir. Idris Elba Idris Elba

It has been an amazing start to TIFF this year! Over the next couple weeks we will be covering shorts from every program at TIFF, starting with our favourites from Short Blocks 1 and 2. Each block had some really strong shorts. In Short Cuts 1 Jazz Infernal was a highlight as new immigrant, and son of a legendary trumpet player spends his first day in Canada. Agapito gave us heartfelt emotion and DISC brought down the house with laughter and its stellar screenplay and acting.

Sadly, the 21st edition of Hollyshorts has come to an end. However, there is still time to join in on the fun virtually on bitpix until...