It's a good year to hold fast to traditions that bring us joy and what is more joyful than the giving of shorts? Nothing! Shortgiving Five is here and we have another wide ranging conversation of various short films to share with each other. This year's shorts are: Lover, Lovers, Loving Love (dir. Jodie Mack)-Not available to the public, Balloonfest (dir. Nathan Truesdell)-available on Vimeo, In Order To Not Be Here (dir. Deborah Stratman)-available on YouTube, and Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (dir. Peter Capaldi)- available on YouTube. Shorts to you all!

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