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Searchlight Acquires Sundance Short Film 'Wiggle Room'

Searchlight Pictures has picked up the Sundance short film Wiggle Room for their Searchlight Shorts program. From director Julia Baylis and Sam Guest, the short follows Daisy (Deanna Gibson), a teenage paraplegic who is determined to save her wheelchair ramp from repossession and confronts the shady insurance agent who owes her money. Gibson, who made her acting debut in the short, won a special jury award for her performance. Searchlight Shorts have included shorts from directors like Martin McDonough and David Lowry, and are housed on the studio label s YouTube channel. Stories centering on disability were among those front-and-center at this year s Sundance. 

Must-See Shorts from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival

Must-See Shorts from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Snowy After providing coverage on nearly every feature film premiering at Sundance Film Festival this year, today we turn the spotlight on our favorite shorts. With 50 short films accepted from nearly 10,000 submissions, check out our thoughts on a handful of the premiere below, courtesy of Dan Mecca and Shayna Warner. BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop (Jason Park) Heartwarming, clever, and well-paced, filmmaker Jason Park builds a fully-realized, hyper-real Chicago in which BJ (Johnnyboy Tellem) is a hustler on the streets with a traveling bag of problem-solving gifts for his many clients around town. He’s strategic in his timing, catching any and every manner of city-dweller at the moment they need a quick snack, a phone charger, a new shirt-and-tie, or something of the sort. Bookended by a precarious skyscraper interview for a “real’ job, Park captures the spirit of his lead nicely. The entire narrative is lifted by a pitch-perf

European productions take home the majority of the Sundance 2021 short film awards

European productions take home the majority of the Sundance 2021 short film awards Lizard has scooped the Grand Jury Prize, while the French animation Souvenir Souvenir was crowned Best Animation On the left, a still from Lizard, and on the right, director Akinola Davies Jr accepting his award over Zoom The 2021 edition of the Sundance Film Festival has proven to be a good one for European short films, with almost all of the awards in the festival’s short film section going to European productions and co-productions. The winner of the Grand Jury Prize was UK film Lizard by Akinola Davies Jr. Backed by BBC Films and production company Potboiler Films, the film is set in Lagos and follows a little girl who – after being thrown out of her Sunday School lesson – wanders around the grounds of a ‘mega church’. There, she witnesses the duplicity at the heart of those who claim religious piety, while a later violent event exposes the schism between the haves and have-no