Carly Short is a filmmaker and artist living and working in Pasadena California. Her work meshes personal and collective histories through the exploration of portraiture and cultural landscape. Carly received her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 2013 and her BFA at the Massachusetts College of Art in 2007. Her films have screened nationally and internationally and have been included in Dance on Camera Film Festival New York, Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema, Images Festival, the Boston Independent Film Festival, Belvedere 21 Film Archive among others. In 2017 Carly was awarded residencies at the Echo Park Film Center and at MOCA she is currently Junior Editor at Catalytic Creative.