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At the Formal

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This short film takes us through a common adolescent social ritual, with one shocking difference.

Directed by Andrew Kavanagh

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Mixtape

Rites of Passage Mixtape

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Five short films about traditions and transitions, in which familiar events have unusual outcomes.

5 Episodes

It’s a classic coming-of-age story: the girls are in dresses, the boys are in suits, and everyone is losing their minds. This short film—almost entirely made up of one continuous shot—takes us through a common adolescent social ritual, with one shocking difference.

What can you do when the day you’ve been dreading finally arrives? In this short film, a couple braces themselves for a potentially life-altering moment as their son heads to trial.

Ten Meter Tower

Two Swedish filmmakers recruited people to attempt something most of us have never done before: jump off a diving platform that’s ten meters high (about 33 feet)—on camera.

After a young man makes a shocking discovery about his recently deceased father, he must decide whether he can accept the truth about who (or what) his dad really loved.

Bringing Babs Home

Meeting his dad’s significant other is one thing; accompanying her on a plane ride is another. In this epilogue to Babs, Robbie takes the trip of a lifetime.