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In this Oscar-nominated short film, a man trying to go home to his dog gets stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive a deadly run-in with a cop.
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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, April 9, and Saturday, April 10. All times are Eastern.
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Them (Amazon Prime Video, Friday, 12:01 a.m.): “
Them is certainly a welcome addition to the Black horror cadre that doesn’t seek to sanitize what is truly terrifying to Black people: racists and the past traumas that can literally haunt. It gets painfully uncomfortable, particularly in the two ‘Covenant’ episodes, but although ‘trauma porn’ is often used to describe such renderings, there is nothing gratuitous or pornographic in its depictions of Black trauma. Perhaps in this regard, the exceptional performances of the cast are both blessing and curse.” Read the rest of M Shelly Conner’s review of this horror anthology here. It stars Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Melody Hurd, Allison Pill.
This year’s Oscar-nominated short films will be available to rent from 16 April.
09 Apr, 2021 - 06:23 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
MUMBAI: After the much-awaited announcement of Oscar 2021 nominations last month, film enthusiasts in India can now watch this year’s Academy Award contenders for short films from the comfort of their homes. ShortsTV has collaborated with BookMyShow Stream to present these films exclusively to Indian audiences. The partnership will bring this year’s most spectacular short films under the live action & animation category starting 16 April, 2021.
This year, for the first time, Indian audiences will get the chance to watch Oscar-nominated short films before the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, 25 April 2021. These films can be accessed on rent at Rs 149/- per category.
SHORTS TV
As we prepare for the upcoming
Academy Awards, one category or, to be precise, three categories that are easy to gloss over are the short films. This is because most of us simply haven’t seen or even heard of them. SHORTS TV has made a laudable effort to change this, and the 2
021 Oscar Nominated Shorts can be viewed in theaters and online mostly online this year, if we are being honest.
As a filmmaker in addition to being a film critic, I’m most prolific in the area of making short films because they are easier to get made at a high quality and on a low budget. But as someone who grew up on
Oscar Shorts 2021 run the gamut from maudlin to magnificent The 15 nominated shorts offer everything from vivid cartoons to complex metaphors and shattering stories of lost lives by Norman Wilner on April 7th, 2021 at 8:00 PM 1 of 4 2 of 4
Oscar Shorts 2021
Available to stream at VIFF Connect until April 29
Remember last year, when passing an Oscar pool around the office was a completely normal thing? The 2020 Academy Awards ceremony was one of the very last normal events of the before-times, and the 2021 version currently planned as some strange in-person gathering of partially-to-fully vaccinated celebrities in socially distanced circumstances, and absolutely not over Zoom is going to be a very strange marker for us all.