{"id":32503,"date":"2020-01-02T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=32503"},"modified":"2020-01-02T17:26:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T22:26:07","slug":"the-5-choice-indie-shorts-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/02\/the-5-choice-indie-shorts-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Choice Indie Shorts of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/indieshorts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32505 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/indieshorts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/indieshorts.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/indieshorts-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/indieshorts-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>As with every single year, we try to cover as much indies as possible, but we just never have the time to see them all, sadly. As with previous years, this top five comprises five of the best indies I saw all year. It\u2019s not to say the films that didn\u2019t make the list are terrible films, <strong><em>or<\/em><\/strong> that the films the other writers on Cinema Crazed enjoyed aren\u2019t good, either. This is merely my own subjective list of five independent film shorts I highly recommend to you that I saw this year. It\u2019s good to remember this is opinion, and not gospel.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see what films the Cinema Crazed collective consider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/category\/movie-reviews\/a-indie\/\"><strong>A+ Indies<\/strong><\/a>, visit the link included!<\/p>\n<p>Also, be sure to let us know some of the best indie films you saw all year!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/239291570\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><strong>5. Ready For Love (2018)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Directed by:<\/strong> Dylan Pasture, Lauren McCune<br \/>\nDylan Pasture, and Lauren McCune\u2019s mock documentary is a heartbreaking and gut wrenching look at an idealistic young girl named Amber Lynn Weatherbee who wants love. She wants to find the ideal life out there where the man of her dreams can introduce her to the perfect, but she\u2019s not too sure where he is. Maybe he\u2019s on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe Bachelor\u201d? Director and writer McCune is great as Amber Lynn, a beautiful woman who has a lot to offer, but can never seem to find what she\u2019s looking for. It\u2019s a thought provoking look at our search for happiness.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OMxk6P_85xA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><strong>4. Detainment (2018)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Directed by: <\/strong>Vincent Lambe<br \/>\nBased on the transcripts of the horrifying murder of two year old James Bulger in 1993, \u201cDetainment\u201d is a shocking and disturbing dramatization of the interview of his murderers. Much to the sheer disbelief of detectives, Bulger\u2019s murderers were two ten year old boys who inexplicably kidnapped, tortured, and killed him after hours of physical harm done to him in their custody. Vincent Lambe\u2019s short drama is polarizing, but a brutally haunting look at the crime that unfolded and the following interrogation that resulted in recounting of what happened, but no answers as to why. Leon Hughes and Ely Solan are fantastic, especially in the way they portray two boys that inexplicably decided to commit a heinous act with zero justification. It\u2019s a horrendous but compelling depiction of a senseless crime.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/307572734\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><strong>3. Allen Anders \u2013 Live at the Comedy Castle \u2013 circa 1987 (2018)<br \/>\nDirected By: Laura Moss<br \/>\n<\/strong>Laura Moss\u2019s experimental mock documentary is an excellent and bizarre look at a comedian\u2019s eternal nightmare, or perhaps anyone\u2019s eternal nightmare. Without any actual explanation or clarity, Moss\u2019s film is set on a night in 1987 where comedian Allen Anders is filmed on a grainy camcorder filming his comic routine in front of an audience. Filmed with a deadpan tone, \u201cAllen Anders\u201d has so much inherent lunacy bubbling beneath the surface that\u2019s left to interpretation for the audience. While it never clarifies what it is we\u2019re watching, \u201cAllen Anders\u201d is a gem that will inspire some interesting debate.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/276905711\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><strong>2. \u00bfQuieres Que Hoy Te Bese? (2018)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Directed By:<\/strong> Iker Arce, Miriam Ortega Dominguez<br \/>\nWhat feels like a tale about a young girl becoming a vampire ultimately transforms in to something much more sinister, and directors Iker Arce, and Miriam Ortega Dominguez are able to create what is a very intriguing and mystifying tale that connects vampirism to coming of age. Nerea is a beautiful young girl who finds a sudden infatuation with blood when she realizes she\u2019s menstruating. Finding a hunger for blood and lacking an appetite for everything else, Nerea looks for a way to confront this appetite, while thinking back to where it all started. \u201c\u00bfQuieres Que Hoy Te Bese?\u201d is a much more human horror film than it originally seems, and tackles a lot of fears about growing up, and heinous crimes committed to those we love.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/295591903?color=92dbf5\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><strong>1. Caroline (2018)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Directed By:<\/strong> Logan George, Celine Held<br \/>\nCaroline is a tense and another gut wrenching drama based far too deep in to reality. With the rash of parents leaving their children and animals in steaming hot cars, prompting local governments to stand up and enact regulations, \u201cCaroline\u201d touches on such an incident. On a hot Texas day, a single mom has to attend a meeting with her tax agent and is stuck with her kids. She leaves them in charge of six year old Caroline who finds trouble when their car\u2019s A\/C breaks down. \u201cCaroline\u201d is brilliantly filmed to create the feeling of distress and heat exhaustion, even though directors Logan George and Celine Held insist their child actors were at no time under immense heat exhaustion. In either case, \u201cCaroline\u201d is an all too reality based drama with top notch performances, great direction, and a tough but empathetic message about the stresses of being a single parent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with every single year, we try to cover as much indies as possible, but we just never have the time to see them all, sadly. As with previous years, this top five comprises five of the best indies I saw all year. 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