T-Port Blog

Watch the Official Trailer for our 2022 Lighthouse Selections

By: T-Port Team
15-12-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
We are proud to present the official 2022 T-Port Lighthouse Selections – a highly curated list of some of the best short films by emerging filmmakers T-Port has to offer. Thoughtfully curated by short film experts Olha Raiter (Lviv International Short Film Festival) and Enrico Vannucci ( Locarno Film Festival, Talents and Short Film Market […]
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From perfect inspiration to some serious on-set challenges, director Romi Menachem on everything she learned directing ‘Out of Play’

By: T-Port Team
01-09-2022
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Drama, Fiction, Filmmakers, Uncategorized
30-year-old screenwriter and director Romi Menachem went through a lot with the cast and crew of her short film “Out of Play”. The film follows Bar (12), a longtime member of the boys’ clique and the class’s soccer team, who is forced to re-earn her place in the team’s lineup. The production faced serious challenges […]
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A straightforward story told unconventionally: Henrik Dyb Zwart shares the creative process behind “Everything at Once” before its premiere at Venice

By: T-Port Team
25-08-2022
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Drama, Fiction, Filmmakers, Uncategorized
Henryk Dyb Zwart’s film “Everything at Once” premieres at the Venice Film Festival on September 9 (courtesy of our partners at Festival Formula.) We caught up with the 34-year-old director to find out about his sources of inspiration from poetry to punk rock, and what it took to ´develop his multi-frame short film. Tell us […]
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Denial, ambiguity, and mourning – a conversation with Audrey Karras, director of ‘One Last Breath’

By: T-Port Team
21-07-2022
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Drama, Fiction, Filmmakers, Uncategorized
Audrey Karras shot her short film “One Last Breath” in just 4 and a half days. We spoke to the French director about the challenges she encountered through the creative process, and how it was for her to work with actors. Audrey created her film as part of her studies with our partners ESEC Paris. […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight – Exploring the tragicomical with Alica Bednáriková

By: T-Port Team
29-06-2022
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Awards, Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
Ahead of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week we caught up with director Alica Bednáriková whose film “Liquid Bread / Chlieb Náš Každodenný” will be screened at the festival, presented by European Film Promotion’s Future Frames programme. The programme puts a spotlight on outstanding young directors from Europe. Ten film students and graduates will […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight – DIY filmmaking and the power of reality : An interview with filmmaker Jacob Perlmutter

By: T-Port Team
16-06-2022
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Awards, Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
  Jacob Perlmutter made his film “A Wall” during lockdown. The narrative sees a repressed woman falling passionately in love with a wall in her house. We spoke to the filmmaker about the minimalist shoot and why he finds reality more fulfilling than dreams. Tell us about yourself I’m a London-based filmmaker with… my debut […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight: On mortality and defying your own expectations – an interview with director Pedro M. Afonso

By: T-Port Team
14-06-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Uncategorized
    Director Pedro M. Afonso’s short film “To Examine One’s Self” is currently available on T-Port via our partners Festival Formula. The film, which was inspired by practices described by his partner who was studying medicine, proved to be a “transformational process” for Afonso, changing how he saw his own mortality. We caught up […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight – Cannes Edition ☉ Orin Kadoori on Cannes, her process, and passions

By: T-Port Team
18-05-2022
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Awards, Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
26-year-old Orin Kadoori is a third-year student at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. Her film “Sheherut (Kinship)” made the selection for La Cinef at Cannes 2022. We found out more about how it feels to be chosen for such a prestigious honour and what comes next. Tell us […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight at Cannes 2022 ☉ Lodz Film School’s Olga Klyszewicz on Cannes acceptance and her creative process

By: T-Port Team
18-05-2022
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animation, Awards, Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
It’s going to be a busy fortnight for director Olga Klyszewicz – whose short film “We Are Not There Tomorrow” premieres as part of the Selection La Cinef at Cannes 2022. We caught up with her to find out how it felt to find out and what this means for her filmmaking future.  Tell us […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Animators Petra Stipetić and Maren Wiese on switching to stop-motion

By: T-Port Team
10-05-2022
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animation, Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
We caught up with the animators, and students of hFMA,to talk about their film “Jeijay,” a short about everyday life, dating apps, and weird dates. “Jeijay” is available to watch to subscribers on T-Port as part of the hFMA catalogue.  Tell us about yourselves: We are – Petra Stipetić (*03/01/1992 in Zagreb, Croatia) and Maren […]
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Heading to Cannes – With Our Partner ‘Lights On’

By: T-Port Team
09-05-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
The Cannes film festival will be happening from May 17 – 28 2022 and we are proud to announce that several short films from our partners have made the final selection. Two films in the competition are from our partners at “Lights On” – previewed below. Members can view the rest of the T-Port catalogue […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Creators of “Oliver’s Pixie Hunt”

By: T-Port Team
04-04-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
    This is a special edition of T-Port Filmmaker Spotlight – this time we got a chance to talk to three emerging filmmakers who collaborated to create one of T-Port’s most enchanting titles, the German hybrid short, “Oliver’s Pixie Hunt” (“Oliver auf Kammerjagd”), which is presented in our partner’s Bauhaus University Weimar catalogue.  The […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Luis Schubert and “Blind Spots”

By: T-Port Team
04-04-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
Luis Schuber’s latest short film may be the most “Meta” project on T-Port. Titled “Blind Spots”, the film’s orginal use of the “film within a film” trope, makes it a deeply gut-punching viewing experience – with a compact runtime of just 9 min. The festival darling was screened at Palm Springs ShortFest, Slamdance and Filmfest […]
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In Solidarity with Ukraine / Filmmaker Gleb Osatinski Statement

By: T-Port Team
08-03-2022
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Uncategorized
I was born in Kharkiv. For half of my life, I had lived there before I left. I remember the streets I walked and people because it was my childhood. My family left. We left because we had enough and the glimpse of freedom allowed us to part with the world we hated every day.  […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Lighthouse Selections – Part 1

By: T-Port Team
08-03-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
For the 2021 edition of T-Port Lighthouse Selections – our curated program of short films by emerging talent, we discussed with the filmmakers about their artistic journey, their challenges in the filmmaking process as well as their sources of inspiration.  Here we present the first part of the interviews, of the shorts selected by guest […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Lighthouse Selections – Part 2

By: T-Port Team
07-03-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
For the 2021 edition of T-Port Lighthouse Selections – our curated program of short films by emerging talent, we discussed with the filmmakers about their artistic journey, their challenges in the filmmaking process as well as their sources of inspiration.  Here we present the second part in the series of interviews from the shorts selected […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Serhat Karaaslan and “The Criminals”

By: T-Port Team
18-01-2022
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Film Festival, Filmmakers, Independent, Uncategorized
Serhat Karaaslan is a Turkey-born emerging filmmaker, working on both short and feature-length projects.  His latest short film, “The Criminals”, is a Turkish-language crime-drama which follows a young couple trying to find a hotel room to spend the night in together, but they are rejected from all hotels for not having a marriage certificate. Once […]
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T-Port Lighthouse Selections – Guest Curators Announced

By: T-Port Team
15-11-2021
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Uncategorized
We are very happy to introduce the curators of this year’s edition of T-Port Lighthouse Selections. Lighthouse Selections is T-Port’s in-house curated section that receives increased exposure to our network of industry professionals, selected by leading industry programmers. Céline Roustan has been a curator and champion of short films for half a decade working for […]
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T-Port Talent Spotlight ☉ Ngwatilo Mawiyoo and “Joy’s Garden”

By: T-Port Team
11-11-2021
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Uncategorized
Ngwatilo Mawiyoo’s short film, “Joy’s Garden”, was just recently released, and is already gaining festival success, including an award at the Zanzibar International Film Festival, and 5 nominations in Kenya’s film awards. The film is a personal drama following Edwin, who abruptly goes from being an absent father to becoming the sole caregiver of Joy, his […]
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4 T-Port Films shortlisted for the Oscars 2021

By: T-Port Team
10-02-2021
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Uncategorized
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced yesterday (Tuesday) the shortlists in nine categories for the 93rd Academy Awards. 4 of the films in the short film category are presented on T-Port. We are extremely proud of T-Port talents and congratulate the filmmakers and our partners for the achievement. The final nominations will […]
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Dana Lerer, Wins T-Port Talent Village award at Les Arcs Film Festival

By: T-Port Team
13-01-2020
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Uncategorized
T-Port Selection Filmmaker, Dana Lerer is the winner of the T-Port Talent Village Award at Les Arcs Film Festival with her first feature project, ‘Double Happiness’. 
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Little Hands (Salaud Morisset) on the Oscars shortlist

By: T-Port Team
10-01-2020
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Uncategorized
Little Hands, The short film by Rémi Allier, represented by our partners, Salaud Morisset, has been announced for the Oscars shortlist.
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T-Port is wrapping up Torino Short Film Market with a selection of 25 films

By: T-Port Team
02-12-2019
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Uncategorized
The market was held between November 21-23 in Italy and presented 25 of T-Port films in the market’s video library.
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T-Port films receive Student Academy Awards

By: T-Port Team
18-10-2019
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Uncategorized
Our partners - Salaud Morisset, University of Southern California and The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School, Lodz received students academy awards for their films. Click to read and see winning films!
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