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Heavily cropped still from Clinical Intervention  — Episode 19 of The MUTE Series. A pregnant woman on a drip is walking outside a hospital.

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MUTE films have shown, and continue to show, at a number of international film festivals, series festivals and WebFests including:

LATEST NEWS…

"CLINICAL INTERVENTION" ADDED TO VIMEO COMEDY

April 2025. The nice people at Vimeo Curation have selected "Clinical intervention" for the Vimeo Comedy channel, their esteemed showcase for all things funny.

This is England Film festival

THE MUTE SERIES WINS PRIZE IN FRANCE

March 2025. Classic MUTE film "Cover Story" wins the 'Prix Humour' at Festival Plan-Sequence in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France — the film festival that celebrates films that use only one shot.

This is England Film festival

THE MUTE SERIES GETS RETROSPECTIVE IN FRANCE

November 2024. Seven MUTE films are playing on 22 November at the This is England film festival in Rouen, France. The mini-retrospective will be accompanied by a Q&A with The MUTE Series creator Andy Lambert.

Screenvision Media

THE MUTE SERIES HITS BIG SCREENS IN THE U.S.

Sept/Oct 2024. Two of the new MUTE films, “The Prisoner” and “Stop”, have been picked up by Screenvision Media for their pre-show package and will screen as supporting shorts across 36 screens in 7 independent cinemas throughout the USA in September and October 2024. The films will play in art house movies theaters in California, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Illinois.

Ted Bolan, SVP, Creative Director at Screenvision Media, was struck by the films’ innovative style and dry wit. “Andy’s fun and quirky short films provide us, Screenvision Media, with unique and engaging content for our cinema pre-show to entertain moviegoers,” said Bolan, “… and provide independent filmmakers like Andy an opportunity to show their films in front of an audience on the ultimate screen in media.”

"CLINICAL INTERVENTION" ADDED TO VIMEO COMEDY

April 2025. The nice people at Vimeo Curation have selected "Clinical intervention" for the Vimeo Comedy channel, their esteemed showcase for all things funny.

THE MUTE SERIES WINS PRIZE IN FRANCE

This is England

March 2025. Classic MUTE film "Cover Story" wins the 'Prix Humour' at Festival Plan-Sequence in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France — the film festival that celebrates films that use only one shot.

THE MUTE SERIES GETS RETROSPECTIVE IN FRANCE

This is England Film festival

November 2024. A dozen MUTE films are screening on 22 November at the This is England film festival in Rouen, France. The mini-retrospective will be accompanied by a Q&A with The MUTE Series creator Andy Lambert.

THE MUTE SERIES HITS BIG SCREENS IN THE U.S.

Screenvision Media

September/October 2024. Two of the new MUTE films, “The Prisoner” and “Stop”, have been picked up by Screenvision Media for their pre-show package and will screen as supporting shorts across 36 screens in 7 independent cinemas throughout the USA in September and October 2024. The films will play in art house movies theaters in California, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Illinois.

Ted Bolan, SVP, Creative Director at Screenvision Media, was struck by the films’ innovative style and dry wit. “Andy’s fun and quirky short films provide us, Screenvision Media, with unique and engaging content for our cinema pre-show to entertain moviegoers,” said Bolan, “… and provide independent filmmakers like Andy an opportunity to show their films in front of an audience on the ultimate screen in media.”

September 2024, "Stop" plays at "Visioni in Movimento: Corti sulla Mobilità" in Italy, a selection of short films about transport, curated by Alessia Gasparella, artistic director of AIACE VDA.

August 2024, "The Prisoner", "Clinical Intervention" and “Stop” selected for FilmFest Weitersatdt, the open-air film festival in Hessen, Germany.

June/July 2024, “Stop” and "An Emotional State" play at the 25th shorTS International Film Festival in Trieste, Italy.

June 2024, “Clinical Intervention” in competition at Très Court International Film Festival playing across 60 cities in 20 countries.

June 2024, “Stop” plays at Emden-Norderney International Film Festival

June 2024, 12 episodes of "The MUTE Series" plays in a side bar with a Q&A at Rabat Comedy International Film Festival

May/June 2024, "The MUTE Series 2024" in competition at Die Seriale in Gießen, Germany's best known festival for digital series

May/June 2024, “Clinical Intervention” plays at Vienna Shorts, Austria's leading short film festival.

January 2024, “Stop” plays at the ICA as part of the London Short Film Festival.

Summer 2022, “Deliverance” plays as a short film in 25 cinemas across the USA as part of Screenvision’s Pre-show package for Upscale Art House theatres from New York to California.

Feb 2020, MUTE films screening at featured Shoot the Breeze screening in Kino Bermondsey, London

May 2018, “The Gents” featured in Vimeo Comedy

June 2017, “Dress Code” awarded a Vimeo Staff Pick.

In early 2017, “The Searchers” plays as a short film in 25 cinemas across the USA as part of Screenvision’s new Pre-show package for Upscale Art House theatres from New York to California.

Dec 2016, The MUTE Series selected as one of the Top Five Indie Series of 2016 by Tubefilter

March 2016, The MUTE Series wins Best International Series at the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Series Web 2016

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