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JUBILEE: ST JAMES AT 200
A teaser for a full-length documentary celebrating the 200th anniversary of St. James Episcopal Church of west Baltimore, the oldest African American Episcopal Church in the South. Part of an exhibition at the Maryland Center for History and Culture opening February 2025.
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CARVINGShot in a single unbroken take, a simple lesson on how to cut the Thanksgiving turkey turns darker by degrees as a young woman reveals to her father the real reason she so desperately wants to learn how to carve.
16 min. 2023.
World Premiere 2024 Minnesota Film Festival
Winner Best Short Film 2024 Phoenixville Film Festival
Winner Best Regional Short Film 2024 Fort Smith Film Festival
Official Selections:
2024 The Film Collective Short Film Festival
2024 Filmland Film Festival
2024 Nyack International Film Festival
2024 New Bedford Film Festival
2024 Greenpoint Film Festival
2024 Jersey Shore Film Festival
2024 North Beach American Film Festival
2025 El Dorado Film Festival
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ANGLE OF ATTACK
Dallas just got a new smoking tat burned on his back and he’s ready to show it off. But not before his best friend Austin drags him and his beer-swilling buddies to an open-mic poetry jam at a posh wine bar. Is the poetry any good? Does the tat really smoke? What awkward angles do friends have to navigate when telling each other the truth, straight up?
12 min. 2022.
World Premiere and Winner Comedy Short Honorable Mention 2023 Oxford Film Festival
Official Selections:
2023 Columbia Film Festival
2023 Filmland Film Festival
2023 Fayetteville Film Fest
2024 Phoenixville Film Festival
2024 The Film Collective Short Film Festival
2024 Nyack International Film Festival
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ANIMAL
Boy meets girl. Boy might become a wild animal at night. Girl might become something even more fearsome. A short film about the existential terror of coming of age.
15 min. 2019.
World Premiere: 2020 Oxford Film Festival
Official Selections:
2020 Imagine Fantastic Film Festival (Amsterdam)
2020 Still Voices Film Festival (Ireland)
2020 Festival Angaelica
2020 Film Fest Petaluma
2020 Hallucinations Collectives (France)
2020 Fixion Film Fest (Chile)
2020 Filmland Film Festival
2020 Arkansas Shorts
2021 Sioux City International Film Festival
About Russell
Russell Leigh Sharman is a writer, filmmaker and anthropologist. He has written for Hollywood since 2008, working for dozens of studios and production companies, including Warner Bros., Fox, Disney, MRC, DeLine Pictures, 21 Laps, Participant Media, Montecito Pictures and… more
JUBLIEE: ST JAMES AT 200
WE WILL BE ETERNAL
CARVING
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Shot in a single unbroken take, a simple lesson on how to cut the Thanksgiving turkey turns darker by degrees as a young woman reveals to her father the real reason she so desperately wants to learn how to carve.
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Dallas just got a new smoking tat burned on his back and he’s ready to show it off. But not before his best friend Austin drags him and his beer-swilling buddies to an open-mic poetry jam at a posh wine bar. Is the poetry any good? Does the tat really smoke? What awkward angles do friends have to navigate when telling each other the truth, straight up?
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ANIMAL
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SUSTAINABLE BARBUDA
ALL DOGS MUST HAVE PEOPLE
NEIGHBORS
SMALL OF HER BACK
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