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‘Limbo’: Guillermo del Toro Loves This Inventive Short Fantasy Film and You Will, Too — Watch
Shot on 35mm film, Will Blank's new film is a stark but moving adaptation of a graphic novella by comic book artist Marian Churchland.
By Kate Erbland
Raul Castillo Talks Working on Surreal ‘Limbo’ Short With Sam Elliott
Award-winning live-action short “Limbo,” starring Raul Castillo and featuring the voice of Sam Elliott, will premiere on Vimeo on June 27.
By Terry Flores
How Viral Video Contests Led to Will Blank’s Beautiful Fantasy Short, Limbo
Recently receiving its online premiere after months of plaudits on the genre festival circuit, Will Blank’s Limbo is a beautifully executed fantasy short concluding with an unexpected philosophical gut punch.
By Scott Macaulay
“The stories about masculinity that excite me most are written by women”
Raul Castillo, star of "Limbo" talks about short films and how they help Latinos evade the trap of typecasting
By Gary M. Kramer
A Talking Dog Voiced by Sam Elliott Grants Wishes in This Surreal Short Film
If your day is too normal, Will Blank’s latest short film will turn that right around. Limbo is a desert-set tale of distance, regret, and a wish-granting dog that looks like Falkor.
By Scott Beggs
Sam Elliott Is A Wish-Granting Dog In Striking Short 'Limbo'
Sam Elliott will forever be the cowboy advising the Dude, the sage of the bowling alley, the voice you want in your head at a particularly low moment. So the man, the myth, the legend was perfectly cast in an enchanting and odd short film called “Limbo.”
By Kristy Puchko
A Booty Call Goes Amusingly Awry in a New Short Film, Just in Time for Valentine’s Day — Watch
Get a sneak peek at the first film in a new series of love-themed shorts from popular rising filmmakers Will Blank and Jake Bradbury.
By Kate Erbland
Watch: Short Film Series Twentieth Century Faux, by Jake and Will
With a sea of short films washing up on the shores of YouTube and Vimeo each day, how can filmmakers make their work stand out? One team with a solution is Jake & Will — Will Blank and Jake Bradbury — for whom their 16-episode online short film series Twentieth Century Faux is both a smartly packaged exploration of millennial anxieties as well as a kind of personal filmmaking challenge that connects these two filmmakers back to the essential pleasures of making movies.
16 Shorts in 16 Days? Yes It Can Be Done and You Should Try It
Filmmakers Will Blank and Jake Bradbury decided to get together one day a week to conceptualize and shoot a film, just for the hell of it. In the process, they found it to be a potent cure for struggling filmmaker malaise.
By Oakley Anderson-Moore