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Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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Directed by Gurinder Chadha | 30 mins | 1990
The vivacious, Bhangra-infused debut of "Bend it Like Beckham" (2002) writer-director Gurinder Chadha takes an expansive look at what it means to be British through the eyes of second-generation migrants from Asia. From the participants’ heterogeneous responses emerges a distinctly postcolonial, anti-nationalist message.
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Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson | 11 mins | 2020
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Jazz Christmas
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Directed by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn | 9 mins | 2007
The decadent gathering of this early Kalman and Horn short does not take place on Christmas but rather New Year's Eve, 1927, nor does it feature any jazz proper—but it does have characters performing a riff on The Strokes’ “Ne...
