Sex, grief, farting in bed next to your partner. These are a few things our society may deem worthy of the title “intimate”. But childbirth? Imagine sharing the most vulnerable moments of that experience with the world.
This is the basis of Lorna Street Dopson’s fifteen-minute short film Untitled Post-Baby Project, which was created and directed by Lorna Street Dopson during the pandemic and won the prestigious 2020 Louisiana Film Prize.
How can a film with a single character delivering just six minutes of conversation with the world have so much to unpack? That’s the compacted depth of Ms. Blue, the short film by Mary McDade Casteel starring Adella Gautier in one of her final film roles before her passing in August of 2021.
Samantha, a short horror film written and directed by Josh Carley premiered February 8th as a featured short on the ALTER Youtube channel.
One out of two couples say they met online. Is that true? That’s the first of five suspicious statements in the opening scene of Phony, a movie that explores the nature of online dating and consent without asking for consent.
How disappointing is it to send a perfect email and immediately receive a “Delivery failed: return to sender” slip of automated disappointment airmailed back to your inbox? Now, find comfort knowing that inside your email, there’s an underappreciated, chain-smoking blue devil-like creature named Todd that has the tedious day job of sending your bounced messages back to you.
There’s a poetic beauty to having the free will to choose a healthy path for your life, then consciously recommitting to the one most likely to get you killed. This is the conflict facing the undercover DEA agent in Scott R. Sullivan’s new short pilot episode of Gravity, a tense and gritty journey into an underworld where the only way out is often greeting a bullet.
Terry+Sam is an authentic portrayal of a modern relationship in your thirties, created by Eritria Pitts and Ben Donnellon. We talked to Eritria about shooting Terry+Sam in her home city of New Orleans.
“I Think I’m Dying” is a corona rom-com about two isolated, paranoid individuals reconnecting during quarantine. We spoke to Paavo Hanninen, NOLA filmmaker, about making this corona short.
We’re always thrilled to have our Louisiana fellow filmmakers featured on our blog, and this time we talked to Arvid Cristina about his new short horror film Hypnagogia, recently screened at Screamfest NOLA.