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You Can Watch and Vote on Short Films Like “Myrna The Monster” in The Wrap’s Digital Shortlist Film Festival

August 10, 2015

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If you didn’t want to trek to a specific art house theater or a film festival to potentially see some short films that are clever, funny, heartfelt, heartbreaking, original, The Wrap’s Shortlist Film Festival might be for you.

Industry news site, The Wrap, has curated their own short film festival and are currently screening them on YouTube for your viewing pleasure as well as the opportunity for you to vote on your favorites.

So, you can watch some great short films like the live-action animated dramedy Myrna the Monster from Ian Samuels, SMILF from Frankie Shaw featuring Thomas Middleditch, and many more.

FYI, screening/voting ends on Aug. 18th. Go and watch all 12 short films here.

“Myrna The Monster” Does Laundry Like The Rest of Us

January 24, 2015

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A few weeks ago, we posted to the trailer to MTV Other’s intriguing short Myrna The Monster that’s currently playing at Sundance.

If you’re not familiar, Kathleen Hanna voices a displaced alien that’s just to find her way through the world like the rest of us billions and billions of people.

Even doing laundry can just be as melancholic for an alien as it is for a human. Watch here.

Watch Trailer for MTV Other’s Sundance Selected Short Film “Myrna The Monster”

December 26, 2014

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Writer/director Ian Samuels and MTV Other have made a short film, Myrna The Monster, following an alien that tries to just make a go of living in LA, which, even sans alien, can be alienating (pun absolutely intended).

It’s currently selected to play at next year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Watch the trailer here.