Captain T&T
Dir: Christopher and Leizelle Guinness
Runtime: 11m
It’s summer vacation and a six year old boy named Thin Foot tries to figure out what his superpowers are so he can right the wrongs he sees in his everyday life in this touching short from Trinidad.
****
Five Feet High and Rising
Dir: Peter Sollett
Runtime: 30m
(Source: Short of the Week)
Victor scours the Lower East Side for Amanda and finds trouble along the way in this Sundance, Cannes and SXSW award winning short from 2000 that eventually became the feature Raising Victor Vargas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_OZlEGxp0
This article appears in Jul 10-16, 2013.