HTN Short Film Contest Winner Archives - Hammer to Nail

SHORT FILM CONTEST WINNER/RUNNER-UP: WINTER ‘15

Michael Tully — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:46:59 +0000

The Oscar nominations were just announced this morning and the Sundance previews are starting to arrive, but we’ve got some even bigger news to drop on the world today… that’s right, it’s time to announce the winner and runner-up in […]

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BEST FRIENDS

Michael Tully — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:43:17 +0000

A slice-of-daily-life home movie that triumphs on multiple levels, Best Friends is a laugh-out-loud funny, piercingly honest, and touching depiction of 20-something creative frustration.

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ONE YEAR LEASE

Michael Tully — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:27:13 +0000

Brian Bolster’s painfully hilarious One Year Lease left me feeling all sorts of contradictory emotions: frustration, relief, despair, glee.

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MASTER MUSCLES

Michael Tully — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:06:44 +0000

In just over 13 minutes, Hernandez’s film creates a finely-detailed sketch of an atypical relationship between two people and leaves it to our own twisted minds to shade it in with the possibilities of their relationship with the rest of the world.

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SHORT FILM CONTEST WINNER/RUNNER-UP: SUMMER ’13

Michael Tully — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:53:14 +0000

At the conclusion of every one of these contests, when the time comes to announce the current winner and runner-up, I’ve increasingly begun to feel like a broken record. But it’s true. You guys are making our jobs seriously difficult […]

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SOCIAL BUTTERFLY

Michael Tully — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:52:28 +0000

While Social Butterfly transitions from frisky humor to unexpectedly sensual drama in only 13 minutes, there remains a heavier and more ominous overcurrent of longing and sadness throughout.

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CHAIR, THE

Michael Tully — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:39:05 +0000

Though it’s a fictional tale set in a specific, small community, David still manages to elevate his 12-minute film to a universal, mythic realm.

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SHORT FILM CONTEST WINNER/RUNNER-UP: AUGUST 2012

Michael Tully — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:19:22 +0000

***FIRST OFF, AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE: WE ARE TAKING A BREAK FROM OUR SHORT FILM CONTEST FOR SEPTEMBER THROUGH NOVEMBER FOR FILMMAKING REASONS OF OUR OWN HERE AT HTN, BUT WE WILL BE BACK FOR A YEAR-END BLOWOUT IN DECEMBER. EXPECT […]

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SHORT FILM CONTEST WINNER/RUNNER-UP: JULY 2012

Michael Tully — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:01:49 +0000

We’re not sure if it was Mike “Sundance/Cinemad” Plante or Benh “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Zeitlin being our judges for our July 2012 contest (of course, we can’t forget about May contest winner Levi Abrino, who rounded things out!), […]

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VOYAGERS, THE

Michael Tully — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:01:03 +0000

With this wedding present of a film, Penny Lane takes a risky concept and turns it into something deeply personal and cosmically transfixing.

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