the nation and its workers, he will tolerate no criticism of the destruction that ensues. Not only will his callous vanity compel him to slander an innocent man over harmless – and accurate – criticism, he has swarms of online brown shirts waiting to execute every order they receive from his precious Twitter page. The American people cannot let such behavior stand. Trump is a fool, a bully, an idiot, a bigot, and a sellout, but he is an incredibly dangerous one thanks to his fanatical and violent following. Fascism is creeping into the American body politic and if we don’t resist now, the doors to tyranny may soon be wide open.In Depth

Short Films that Grew Up

Posted on August 19, 2009

Slide 1: Intro

Quite often filmmakers take on a short film only to find that after it’s finished there is so much more to say. Shane Acker worked for years to finish his 11-minute short 9 in 2004. And when it was released, audiences and filmmakers paid attention: it was invited to festivals around the world; it received a Academy Award nomination in the Best Animated Short Film category; and it got watched by two directors––Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov––who would soon step up to produce a feature film version of 9. What sold these directors and others on making a feature, beyond Acker’s obvious talent, was the wondrous universe he’d created, a world that begged to be bigger than