Budget Paradise
Filmmaker Magazine Presents: 25 New Faces 2025
•
13m
Directed by LaTajh Simmons-Weaver | 14 mins | 2025
Their easel and paints in tow, Chester roves Oakland in search of a spot to put brush to canvas undisturbed. LaTajh Simmons-Weaver’s vibrant vérité short is a city symphony in miniature and a reflection on an artist’s need for support.
Up Next in Filmmaker Magazine Presents: 25 New Faces 2025
-
Sister Salad Days
Directed by Adesola Thomas | 17 mins | 2025
Magical realism ripples through Adesola Thomas’s debut short, a Black Southern gothic tale in which the prospect of an unwanted marriage begets new dimensions in the relationship between two sisters. -
WassupKaylee
Directed by Pepi Ginsberg | 20 mins | 2025
Set in a house of budding TikTok content creators where 17-year-old would-be prankster Kaylee (Devin France) is the newest recruit, Pepi Ginsberg’s extremely online coming-of-age tale is tender but spiked with tension. -
A Bright Summer Day for the Lady Aven...
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.
