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Author: Juan Ospina

Juan Ospina is a regular contributor as well as a co-founder of Short Ends Collective. He holds a BFA in Film Studies at Concordia University where he graduated with Honors. His interests encompass New Wave cinemas, the Gangster genre, Anime, Latin-American films and, as a rule, movies that make him cry.
Outtakes

Paddington’s Plight: Contended Homes

24 Mar 202229 Sep 2025
I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages.…
Honour

To Die for Love: A Parallel Study of Honour in the Western

1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022
I am an avid Western film consumer, or at least I was at some point in my life. For me, the Western has always been about honour. Honour is a…
Festival Spotlights…

Festival Spotlight: RIDM 2021

1 Dec 202128 Sep 2023
Short Ends had the pleasure to attend (in-person & virtually) the latest edition of the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaires de Montréal (RIDM). Although the festival has come and gone, these…
Into the Digital Age

Personal Footage v. Archive: Digital Footprints and Documentary

1 Nov 202131 Oct 2021
A couple of weeks ago, before I started writing this piece, I stumbled upon a realization. I was outside of my workplace, in one of the rare short breaks I…
Festival Spotlights…

Festival Spotlight: FNC 2021

31 Oct 202128 Sep 2023
Short Ends had the pleasure to attend (in-person & virtually) the latest edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC). Although the festival has come and gone, these are six films that…
Small Town Stories

Only Dogs go to Heaven

1 Sep 202130 Aug 2021
In the small town of La Boca, Chile, where there seems to be nothing but a handful of residences by the seaside, one of the houses stands out from the…
Buddy Films

Fleeting Friendship Rituals

1 Jul 202130 Aug 2021
Not so long ago I found myself on a smoky terrace surrounded by a handful of faces I did not recognize. In my hand, a near-empty can of beer protected…
Underdogs

Rolling with the punches: underdogs and losers in Rocky and Fat City

1 May 202130 Aug 2021
Let me tell you the condensed history of my relationship to my hometown team. Until a couple of years ago my hometown team had not won anything since the 1980s.…
New Beginnings

Shizuku’s dream: Passion and individuality in Whisper of the Heart

1 Mar 202130 Aug 2021
There are just a handful of films that can pack so many layers into one condensed cinematic space as Yoshifumi Kondo’s 1995 animated film Whisper of the Heart. There are…

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