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2017 NITEHAWK SHORTS FESTIVAL

Review

  1. HuffPo Impact Award Winner NIGHT in Paper Magazine

    Posted January 8th, 2018 by Caryn Coleman in News, Review

      SHORT FILM ‘NIGHT’ SHOWS THE SUBTLE RACISM OF EVERYDAY LIFE “In the writing process of NIGHT, I talked to many women from various backgrounds in New York who helped me edit and revise the script. They explained to me that it’s hard for white women to understand their privilege unless they were to experience what […]


  2. GREENPOINTERS: Nitehawk kicked off its 5th Annual Short Film Festival on Tuesday with moving and eclectic pieces

    Posted November 10th, 2017 by Caryn Coleman in Review

    Read the whole article about NSF on Greenpointers here! It’s not about us, or me, it’s about what they’re doing. So the goal is for them to have a platform for their short films in a cinema setting, and then meet each other, and then meet other people, and for us to kind of grow […]


  3. KINOSCOPE: Nitehawk’s Shorts Festival, Part Two

    Posted November 10th, 2017 by Caryn Coleman in News, Review

    Read Part One of Patrick Devitt’s piece on the Nitehawk Shorts Festival. “Robin Comisar’s TIFF-sensation, Great Choice (2017) is without a doubt the highlight of this year’s Midnite selections. Comisar takes as its basis a 94 Red Lobster television spot , which, when viewed outside the context of the short, now comes across as a dated advertisement. An almost […]


  4. KINOSCOPE: Nitehawk’s Shorts Festival, Part One

    Posted November 10th, 2017 by Caryn Coleman in News, Review

    Read Part One of Patrick Devitt’s piece on the Nitehawk Shorts Festival. “There is a clear egalitarian outlook ingrained in the festival. Coleman’s programming stays away from the focus on stars, or the obsessive culture of selfies, photos ops and autographs. Nitehawk Shorts Festival shows instead a generosity of ideas that endeavors to spark a […]


  5. HUFFINGTON POST: One Neighborhood’s Short Film Festival Reflects A Greater, Unstable World

    Posted October 3rd, 2017 by Caryn Coleman in News, Review

    A unique array of short films are headed to Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Shorts Festival this fall.


  6. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Review of Nitehawk Shorts Festival Selects

    Posted June 28th, 2017 by Caryn Coleman in News, Review

      “A program about as strong as recent shorts anthologies assembled by Sundance and the Academy (if generally more modest of budget), it should fare well as it tours like-minded arthouses around the country.”   Read the rest of the review here.


  7. FILM JOURNAL: Review of Nitehawk Shorts Festival Selects

    Posted June 28th, 2017 by Caryn Coleman in News, Review

      Read the rest of the review here.



  8. HUFFINGTON POST: Meet The Women Directors Revolutionizing Horror Films

    Posted April 4th, 2017 by Caryn Coleman in News, Review

    Karyn Kusama, Annie Clark and others discuss short filmmaking and working in a male-dominated field.  


  9. THE ART NEWSPAPER: Artists on the shorts list

    Posted February 24th, 2017 by Caryn Coleman in News, Review

    THE ART NEWSPAPER: Artists on the shorts list This Thursday, 10 November, Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn will host Art Seen, a selection of short films to explore the relationship between art and filmmaking, as part of its fourth Nitehawk Shorts Festival (9-13 November)…READ THE REST HERE