THE SHORT OF IT
A weekly vodcast discussing and supporting independent filmmakers of short films and content creators.
Lisa Olivieri | Producer, Director, Recovery City
Lisa Olivieri is an award-winning documentary filmmaker in the Boston area. Her first documentary, Blindsided, is an intimate portrait of a female artist slowly losing her sight and hearing while surviving her abusive girlfriend. The film has won numerous awards, including the Artistic Achievement Award in Directing from the qFLIX Film Festival/Worcester, and the Jury Award for Best Documentary from The Women’s Film Festival/Philadelphia. Blindsided aired on Maine Public Television in 2016 and received national grants from LEF Foundation, Frameline Film and Video Completion Fund, Women in Film Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Olivieri is best kn...
DK Racine | Writer/Director, Mercy
DK is a freelance creative from Massachusetts and writer/director of the short film, Mercy.
DK's main areas of focus are photography, videography, and filmmaking.
DK is someone who feels the most creatively inspired by music. DK's ultimate dream is to connect their work with this medium.
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Rui Lopes | Co-Owner/CEO, Anawan Studios
Growing up in his home country of Cape Verde, his mother would buy him coloring pencils and clay to keep him busy. His high school years at Brockton High School engraved into his mind an obsession with expressing his thoughts via oil paint and clay sculpting... and as an adult living in San Francisco, he accidentally discovered his next transition as an artist: filmmaking.
Favorite Anawan Project...
I've always known that we had a real solid group of ambitious and resourceful creatives...but it wasn't until Vindicta that our ambitons were put to...
