Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces: 2025 Part 2
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Director: Multiple Dirs
2024 / 81min / DCP
WassupKaylee, dir. Pepi Ginsberg, 19 minutes
A young teen would-be influencer joins a TikTok content house and struggles to stand out in Ginsberg’s tense and tender near-tragedy that’s also a witty critique of viral video culture.
A Brighter Summer Day for the Lady Avengers, dir. Birdy Wei-Ting Hun, 12 minutes
In Hung’s dreamy, critically astute blend of film essay and fiction, which draws on both Edward Yang and Dario Argento, a young girl has a menacing encounter while in a Taiwan movie theater watching the 1981 exploitation film The Lady Avenger.
Sister Salad Days, dir. Adesola Thomas, 17 minutes
Southern gothic and magic realism fuse in Thomas’s Atlanta-set ghost story about two Black sisters—one alive and one deceased—and the pact they construct around an arranged marriage.
Crime Film, dir. Auden Lincoln-Vogel, 10 minutes
A simple used car sale takes on unexpected dimensions in Lincoln-Vogel’s short, which is shot on expired 16mm black-and-white stock and straddles the narrative and experimental worlds.
Queerbait, dir. Nate Gualtieri, 10 minutes
An inappropriate power dynamic between a classics scholar and his transmasc protoge is the set-up for Gualtieri’s grippingly suspenseful thriller, which is executive produced by Cate Blanchett.
Tiger, dir. Loren Waters, 13 minutes
Waters won a 2025 Sundance Short Film Special Jury Award for her emotionally transporting portrait of Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger who, after family tragedy, relaunches her legendary Tiger T-shirt company.
Q&A with select filmmakers moderated by Filmmaker Editor-in-Chief Scott Macaulay on Saturday, December 6th
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