A Bright Summer Day for the Lady Avengers
Filmmaker Magazine Presents: 25 New Faces 2025
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Directed by Birdy Hung | 12 mins | 2024
Giallo meets Edward Yang in Birdy Wei-Ting Hung’s oneiric, gorgeously photographed short, which filters a schoolgirl’s sexual awakening in 1980s Taiwan through a series of potent, cinema-induced daydreams.
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Video Barn
Directed by Bianca Poletti | 14 mins | 2025
“Just press play!” The mysterious tape found by two best friends at the one remaining rental store in town turns out to be a real video nasty in this stylishly sinister short by Bianca Poletti, channeling David Cronenberg and Wes Craven. -
Ragamuffin
Directed by Kaitlyn Mikayla | 15 mins | 2025
Photographer and first-time director Kaitlyn Mikayla shoots off the starting line with this vérité-inflected tale of a weekend down at the motocross track, during which an adolescent racer questions her sexuality as well as her relationship to both her...