It’s the return of Shorts Round Up of the Week! And this week, Emilie Black steps in to the driver’s seat bringing readers some reviews for four of the latest short films from very unique indie film voices.
If you’d like to submit your short film for review consideration, submissions are always opened to filmmakers and producers.
Two men who became friends out of need end up dealing drugs for the mysterious Frog while under the cover of being apprentice-rangers. Soon things take a turn that leads then down a dark path.
A young man is convinced to go kill someone. Without fully knowing what he’s getting into, he charges forward and things get ridiculously bloody.
A man kills the one person who has helped in and takes his place as the preacher to a small community of immigrants. As the local police searches for a killer, his conscience starts acting up.
A film producer reaches out to two podcasters to get them to shoot a documentary about murder and a demon in a wooded area near Los Angeles. They head to the location to gather footage and evidence, bringing along a photographer they know for help. Once there, they get exactly what they were looking for and maybe a bit more.
The Ventures are the number one instrumental rock group in the world and everyone has heard at least one of their tracks. To celebrate their 60th anniversary in the business, this documentary digs into where they are from, what makes them so popular, and what’s next for a group that’s been around since the 1960s.
A student joins a trawler’s crew to go out into deep sea and study new species and their behavior. Once deep out, they get marooned and have to find a way to stay alive with something on their boat.