Outtakes Recipes for the Future: Family Archives and Memory Work in Endless Cookie 18 Jun 202529 Sep 2025 Endless Cookie (2025) is a feature animated documentary, directed by Peter and Seth Scriver, that follows two half-brothers —one Indigenous and the other white—on an adventure to create an animated…
Festival Spotlights… Festival Spotlight: Hot Docs 2025 17 May 202526 Sep 2025 It's our third year attending the Hot Docs Film Festival at Short Ends Collective! Juan Ospina and Elya Myers have gathered a short compilation of our time at the 32nd…
Outtakes Intercepted: Resilience through the Barren 23 Jan 202529 Sep 2025 Intercepted is the latest documentary by Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaker Oksana Karpovych. Recipient of the Grand Prize award for the National Feature Competition at the RIDM 2024, Intercepted shows the destruction left…
Festival Spotlights… Spotlight on International Resistance and Resilience for Hot Docs 2024 17 May 202429 Sep 2025 For the Hot Docs 2024 festival, I focused on documentaries centered around resistance and resilience. Now, more than ever, apathy and detachment has become a mode of being. We’re presented…
Hot Docs Festival Spotlight: Hot Docs 2024 17 May 2024 For the second year in a row, Short Ends had the opportunity to attend the 31st edition of Hot Docs and we’ve collected a compelling short list of a variety…
Festival Spotlights… The Digital Ethnographic Potential of Animated Documentaries in Knit’s Island 6 Feb 202429 Sep 2025 In the realm of independent animated productions, the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) remains a strong player in North America and an engaging and communal experience for animation lovers, almost…
In Conversation… In Conversation Leslie Norville, Black Life: Untold Stories and Industry Perspectives 3 Nov 202317 Aug 2024 With the American film industry strikes having detrimentally halted or delayed production on many films at different levels for one hundred and forty-eight days, Short Ends Collective had the opportunity…
Festival Spotlights… Festival Spotlight: Hot Docs 2023 9 Jun 202328 Sep 2023 For the first time, Short Ends had the opportunity to attend the 2023 Hot Docs 30th Film Festival anniversary and we’ve collected a compelling short list of a variety of…
Festival Spotlights… Violence, Resistance, and Values: Ukrainian Spotlight for Hot Docs 2023 9 Jun 202328 Sep 2023 This year, in the unfortunate circumstances of ongoing war the world has gained access to the Ukrainian documentary cinema, and one will probably see fiction cinema about the Russian invasion…
Music Make A Joyful Noise: Musical Expression in Summer of Soul 1 Jun 20231 Jun 2023 A holler. A wail. A cry out. In harmony, the crowds riled up with a surge of energy. This was just the beginning of the line-up at the Harlem Cultural…
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