{{Short description|Canadian multimedia artist and curator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Infobox artist | name = Coral Short | image = Coral Short au Rialto -- 2.jpg | caption = Coral Short photographed in Montréal, Québec, Canada in the Rialto Theatre. | birth_name = | birth_date = 1973 | birth_place = Victoria, British Columbia | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | field = | training = | movement = | works = }}
'''Coral Short''' (born 1973) is a queer Canadian multimedia artist and curator. Based in Berlin and Montreal, they are best known for their performance art, as a curator of short film programs, and as a creator of affordable queer artist residencies.<ref name="Arsen">{{Cite web |last=Arsen |first=Jordan |date=1 March 2013 |title=Play like a Caterpillar, Sting like a Butterfly: Coral Short |url=http://edgywomenblog.com/2013/03/01/play-like-a-caterpillar-sting-like-a-butterfly-coral-short/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030309/http://edgywomenblog.com/2013/03/01/play-like-a-caterpillar-sting-like-a-butterfly-coral-short/ |archive-date=4 March 2016 |website=Edgy Women Blog}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Baldwin |first=Lori |date=2018 |title=Berlin: history, hedonism, and wildness |url=https://www.artquest.org.uk/berlin-history-hedonism-and-wildness/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725033255/https://www.artquest.org.uk/berlin-history-hedonism-and-wildness/ |archive-date=25 July 2018 |access-date=24 July 2018 |work=Artquest}}</ref>
==Career== Short was educated at Concordia University and obtained their master's degree in fine art at the Chelsea School of Art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coral Short: Education, Training, and Certification |url=https://www.coralshort.com/training-1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251204020123/https://www.coralshort.com/training-1 |archive-date=4 December 2025 |access-date=28 November 2015 |website=coralshort.com}}</ref> They use textiles, video, nature, and their own body as their media.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Goldie |first=James |date=20 July 2015 |title=Artist calls for gentleness at Vancouver Queer Arts Festival |url=https://xtramagazine.com/culture/artist-calls-for-gentleness-at-vancouver-queer-arts-festival-68291 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250517065310/https://xtramagazine.com/culture/artist-calls-for-gentleness-at-vancouver-queer-arts-festival-68291 |archive-date=17 May 2025 |access-date=3 December 2025 |work=Xtra Magazine}}</ref> Short has curated independent queer films internationally in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe. In this capacity, they have worked with organizations such as MIX NYC,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Havmoeller |first=Birthe |date=12 November 2013 |title=MIX NYC: Craftivism Curated by Coral Short |url=https://www.femininemoments.dk/blog/mix-nyc-craftivism-curated-by-coral-short/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251204225642/https://www.femininemoments.dk/blog/mix-nyc-craftivism-curated-by-coral-short/ |archive-date=4 December 2025 |access-date=4 December 2025 |website=Feminine Moments}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Q5ZjFi1ypcc |title=MIX 24 is Live Performance (Insiders) |date=9 November 2011 |type=Video |language=en |publisher=MIX NYC |access-date=4 December 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251204225848/https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Q5ZjFi1ypcc |archive-date=4 December 2025 |url-status=live |via=YouTube}}</ref> MIX Copenhagen,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Næve |first=Kimmi Amilla |date=6 March 2015 |title=KaPow Collectives guide til Kvindernes Internationale Kampdag |trans-title=KaPow Collective's guide to International Women's Day |url=https://modkraft.dk/blog/kimmi-amilla-n-ve/kapow-collectives-guide-til-kvindernes-internationale-kampdag-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251204231150/https://modkraft.dk/blog/kimmi-amilla-n-ve/kapow-collectives-guide-til-kvindernes-internationale-kampdag-0 |archive-date=4 December 2025 |access-date=4 December 2025 |language=nl |quote=KAPOW COLLECTIVE og MIX COPENHAGEN har glæden af at have Coral Short på besøg, der i Husets Biograf vil præsentere en række af udvalgte kortfilm. |trans-quote=KAPOW COLLECTIVE and MIX COPENHAGEN are delighted to have Coral Short visit, who will present a number of selected short films at Husets Biograf.}}</ref> Entzaubert Festival (Berlin),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harper |first=Lina |date=9 August 2010 |title=Montreal's radical queers team up with Berlin's radical queers: Pervers/Cité brings Berlin's Entzaubert film fest to Montreal for one night only |url=https://xtramagazine.com/culture/montreals-radical-queers-team-up-with-berlins-radical-queers-34667 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240912053152/https://xtramagazine.com/culture/montreals-radical-queers-team-up-with-berlins-radical-queers-34667 |archive-date=12 September 2024 |access-date=4 December 2025 |work=Xtra Magazine}}</ref> and the Queer Arts Festival.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Takeuchi |first=Craig |date=28 July 2015 |title=Queer Arts Festival asks where do you draw the line in 2015? |url=https://www.straight.com/arts/497176/queer-arts-festival-asks-where-do-you-draw-line-2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416062942/https://www.straight.com/arts/497176/queer-arts-festival-asks-where-do-you-draw-line-2015 |archive-date=16 April 2024 |access-date=4 December 2025 |work=The Georgia Straight}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=TRIGGER WARNING: a video curation by Coral short |url=https://queerartsfestival.com/trigger-warning-a-video-curation-by-coral-short/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250812221905/https://queerartsfestival.com/trigger-warning-a-video-curation-by-coral-short/ |archive-date=12 August 2025 |access-date=4 December 2025 |website=Queer Arts Festival}}</ref>
===Multimedia and performance art=== While still attending Concordia University in 1998, Short formed Women With Kitchen Appliances, a performance art collaborative.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Deachman |first=Bruce |date=24 January 2003 |title=Making noise with mother's kitchen gear: Women With Kitchen Appliances perform in various ways, but they always have fun. Bruce Deachman reports |work=Ottawa Citizen |pages=Ds |id={{ProQuest|240523630}} |quote=The Montreal-based group....was started a few years ago by Coral Short as a student project for Concordia University's visual arts program.}}</ref><ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Artiste: Coral Short |url=https://electriques.ca/filles/fr/artiste/short_co |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240220172532/https://electriques.ca/filles/fr/artiste/short_co |archive-date=20 February 2024 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Les Filles électriques |language=fr}}</ref>
In 2012, Short's project ''The Hole-y Army'' featuring choreographed queers and 100 hand-made puppets<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schlesinger |first=Jessica |date=29 June 2012 |title=Coral Short Brings the March Back to Dyke March |url=https://www.curvemag.com/blog/art/coral-short-brings-the-march-back-to-dyke-march/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918030938/http://www.curvemag.com/Curve-Magazine/Web-Articles-2012/Coral-Short-Brings-the-March-Back-to-Dyke-March/ |archive-date=18 September 2012 |access-date=3 December 2025 |work=Curve}}</ref> was integrated into Dyke Marches in New York City, Montreal,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Podmore |first=Julie |title=Lesbian Geographies: Gender, Place and Power |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |year=2015 |isbn=9781472443953 |editor-last=Browne |editor-first=Kath |location=Surrey, England |language=en |chapter=Contested Dyke Rights to the City: Montreal's 2012 Dyke Marches in Time and Space |oclc=948603331 |access-date=4 December 2015 |editor-last2=Ferreira |editor-first2=Eduarda |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tguNCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22coral+short%22+lgbt&pg=PT5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529001908/https://books.google.com/books?id=tguNCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT99&dq=%22coral%20short%22%20lgbt&pg=PT5#v=onepage&q=%22coral%20short%22%20lgbt&f=false |archive-date=29 May 2016 |url-status=live |via=Google Books}}</ref> Ottawa, and Toronto. Short identifies as a third-wave feminist and is notable within the craftivism movement. They describe this work as "a slow, thoughtful activism [and] a strong powerful display of resistance."<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Fry |first=Rachel |title=Craftivism: The Role of Feminism in Craft Activism |date=2014 |access-date=4 December 2025 |degree= |publisher=Saint Mary’s University |url=https://library2.smu.ca/bitstream/handle/01/26228/Fry_Rachel_MASTERS_2014.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |place=Halifax, Nova Scotia |language=en |oclc=1365569478 |page=94 |chapter=Chapter Four: Defining and Identifying as Craftivist/Feminist |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314135531/https://library2.smu.ca/bitstream/handle/01/26228/Fry_Rachel_MASTERS_2014.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |archive-date=14 March 2024}}</ref> ''Stop Beating Yourself Up'', first performed in 2013 at Edgy Women in Montréal, involves Short wearing boxing gloves and hitting themself for three hours.<ref>{{Cite news |last=del Giusto-Enos |first=Elysha |date=5 March 2013 |title=Sugar, Spice and Blood Packets: EDGY Women 2013 Mixes Sport With Extreme Feminism |url=http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/sugar-spice-and-blood-packets |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208114525/http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/sugar-spice-and-blood-packets |archive-date=8 December 2015 |access-date=4 December 2015 |work=The Link}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url = http://www.sadmag.ca/news/2015/07/interview-qaf-artist-coral-short/|title = Interview QAF Artist Coral Short|last = Fleerackers|first = Alice|date = 30 July 2015|work = Sad Mag|access-date = 4 December 2015|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208155240/http://www.sadmag.ca/news/2015/07/interview-qaf-artist-coral-short/|archive-date = 8 December 2015}}</ref> They repeated the same performance, ''Stop Beating Yourself Up'' (this time for one hour) at Vancouver's Queer Arts Festival opening art party in 2015.<ref name=":0" />
''Scream Choir'' is 2014 a sound piece consisting of a large group of people screaming in the formation of a traditional choir.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=Coral Short (Collaboration with Sarah Wendt): Scream Choir |url=http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/enc14-urban-interventions/item/2318-enc14-performances-scream-choir |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616093033/http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/enc14-urban-interventions/item/2318-enc14-performances-scream-choir |archive-date=16 June 2015 |access-date=1 February 2016 |website=Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics}}</ref> ''The Laughter Choir'' is a similar 2015 sound piece with a choir of laughter and was performed at Art in the Open in collaboration with Sarah Wendt (and Russell Louder assisting) along with Scream Choir.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 February 2013 |title=Art in the Open / Art à ciel ouvert |url=https://thistownissmall.com/art-in-the-open-art-a-ciel-ouvert/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822014957/https://thistownissmall.com/art-in-the-open-art-a-ciel-ouvert/ |archive-date=22 August 2018 |access-date=21 August 2018 |work=this town is small |language=en-US}}</ref> ''Fake Orgasm Choir'' is a 2016 work featuring a large group of people standing in the formation of a traditional choir. Instead of singing notes, they fake orgasms.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROKhPKMbeg0 |title=Fake Orgasm Choir |date=6 March 2016 |last=Yuen |first=Kalileo |type=Video |language=en |access-date=21 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101220645/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROKhPKMbeg0 |archive-date=1 January 2019 |url-status=live |via=YouTube}}</ref> In 2017, Short used their previous experiences in working with the voice as an instrument and presented a human noise workshop on sound experimentation and production from the body at Sound Acts co-curated by FYTA in Athens, Greece.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coral Short |url=https://www.soundacts.com/coral-short.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822050001/https://www.soundacts.com/coral-short.html |archive-date=22 August 2018 |access-date=21 August 2018 |website=Sound Acts |language=en}}</ref>
''Future Visions'' is a 2014 work presented as a website of over 100 video tarot cards representing queer voices from Europe and North America.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 2014 |title=<em>Future Visions</em>: Angela Gabereau (Montréal) and Coral Short (Montréal) |url=http://www.htmlles.net/2014/index.php?page=events&lang=en&evId=92 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217172841/http://www.htmlles.net/2014/index.php?page=events&lang=en&evId=92 |archive-date=17 February 2016 |access-date=1 February 2016 |website=The HTMlles 11: Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture |publisher=Studio XX}}</ref> Other performance pieces include ''Gay Incantations'' (2013),<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 March 2013 |title=Gay Incantations x The One Project |url=http://www.sadmag.ca/news/2013/03/gay-incantations-x-the-one-project/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208135442/http://www.sadmag.ca/news/2013/03/gay-incantations-x-the-one-project/ |archive-date=8 December 2015 |work=Sad Mag}}</ref> ''Nest'' (2014),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Havmoeller |first=Birthe |date=22 July 2014 |title=Nest by Coral Short |url=https://www.femininemoments.dk/blog/nest-by-coral-short/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208163858/http://www.femininemoments.dk/blog/nest-by-coral-short/ |archive-date=8 December 2015 |access-date=28 November 2015 |work=Feminine Moments}}</ref> and ''Plush'' (2015).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Archer |first=Kristin |date=24 October 2015 |others=Photos by Lisa Vuyk |title=Supercrawl 2015 [Part 4/4] |url=https://ihearthamilton.ca/supercrawl-2015-4/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250618030317/https://ihearthamilton.ca/supercrawl-2015-4/ |archive-date=18 June 2025 |access-date=4 December 2025 |website=I Heart Hamilton}}</ref>
In 2016, Short began curating regular film screenings in Berlin, including a sporty queer video program called 'Pumped' for Gegen, Berlin's biggest queer party.<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 June 2016 |title=GEGEN OLYMPICS |url=http://gegenberlin.com/2016/06/13/gegen-olympics/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711215857/http://gegenberlin.com/2016/06/13/gegen-olympics/ |archive-date=11 July 2017 |access-date=21 August 2018 |work=Gegen Berlin |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2017, they received a grant from Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa to pay 115 of the video artists they curated that year.<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 January 2018 |title=Venice, Berlin, Montreal, Amsterdam! |url=https://coralshort.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/venice-berlin-amsterdam/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822015039/https://coralshort.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/venice-berlin-amsterdam/ |archive-date=22 August 2018 |access-date=21 August 2018 |work=Coral Short |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2018, they began a series of short eco performance works on their Instagram.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coralshort.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/summer-healing/|title=Summer Healing|last=Short|first=Coral|date=July 24, 2018|website=Coral Short|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822014932/https://coralshort.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/summer-healing/|archive-date=22 August 2018|access-date=August 21, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> They also facilitated three plant based ASMR workshops with Jean P'ark at Martin-Gropius-Bau as part of Welt ohne Außen: Workshops, curated by Isabel Margarita Lewis. These workshops were an opportunity to hear and create beautiful noises as well as relax.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=Coral Short & Jean P\'ark: Ecosensual Echos |url=https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell/festivals/gropiusbau/programm_mgb/gropius_bau_ausstellungen/gropius_bau_18_welt_ohne_aussen/workshops_welt_ohne_aussen/gb18_welt_ohne_aussen_workshops_detail_260565.php?openedFromSearch=true |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822015103/https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell/festivals/gropiusbau/programm_mgb/gropius_bau_ausstellungen/gropius_bau_18_welt_ohne_aussen/workshops_welt_ohne_aussen/gb18_welt_ohne_aussen_workshops_detail_260565.php?openedFromSearch=true |archive-date=22 August 2018 |access-date=21 August 2018 |website=Berliner Festspiele |language=de}}</ref>
===Selected films=== * ''We Don't Want to Marry'' (2013)<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Movie: We Don't Want to Marry |url=https://frauenfilmfest.com/movie/we-dont-want-to-marry/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250423080356/https://frauenfilmfest.com/en/movie/we-dont-want-to-marry/ |archive-date=23 April 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Internationales Frauen Film Fest |language=en-US}}</ref> * ''Gay Incantations'' (2013)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Media: GAY INCANTATIONS PART I |url=https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000926.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251210005631/https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000926.html |archive-date=10 December 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Transgender Media Portal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAd0FdtmmW8 |title=GAY INCANTATIONS PART I |date=24 June 2013 |type=Video |language=en |publisher=Coral Short |access-date=9 December 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251210010340/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAd0FdtmmW8 |archive-date=10 December 2025 |url-status=live |via=YouTube}}</ref> * ''Genderless Jellyfish'' (2013)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=Movie: Genderless Jellyfish |url=https://frauenfilmfest.com/en/movie/genderless-jellyfish-2/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250523145837/https://frauenfilmfest.com/en/movie/genderless-jellyfish-2/ |archive-date=23 May 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Internationales Frauen Film Fest |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Media: Genderless Jellyfish |url=https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000087.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250920161006/https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000087.html |archive-date=20 September 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Transgender Media Portal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=San Francisco Transgender Film Festival |url=https://m.bpt.me/event/878305 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108090703/https://m.bpt.me/event/878305 |archive-date=8 November 2014 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Brown Paper Tickets}}</ref> * ''Narcissus'' (2011)<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=Media: Narcissus |url=https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000879.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250920170455/https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000879.html |archive-date=20 September 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Transgender Media Portal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=Queer City Cinema 9 - The 9th Biennial International Queer Film & Video Festival - June 9 - Transgender |url=https://www.queercitycinema.ca/2012/?s=program&d=9 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250805182706/https://www.queercitycinema.ca/2012/?s=program&d=9 |archive-date=5 August 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Queer City Cinema}}</ref> * ''HUMANimals'' (2011)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=Humanimals |url=https://vucavu.com/en/groupeinterventionvideo/2011/humanimals-(1) |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250812080050/https://vucavu.com/en/groupeinterventionvideo/2011/humanimals-(1) |archive-date=12 August 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=VUCAVU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://vimeo.com/38192460 |title=HUMANimals |date=2012 |type=Video |language=en |publisher=Coral Short |access-date=9 December 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924204609/https://vimeo.com/38192460 |archive-date=24 September 2016 |url-status=live |via=Vimeo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=Products: HUMANIMALS |url=https://www.givideo.org/products/humanimals |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250621231052/https://www.givideo.org/products/humanimals |archive-date=21 June 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Groupe Intervention Vidéo |language=en, fr}}</ref> * ''Lesbian Hand Gestures'' (2011)<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Cineffable 2013 - Lesbian Hand Gestures |url=https://www.cineffable.fr/festivals/25efestival/Films25/pgw/lesbian-hand-gestures_En.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250216015302/https://www.cineffable.fr/festivals/25efestival/Films25/pgw/lesbian-hand-gestures_En.htm |archive-date=16 February 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Paris International Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival |publisher=Cineffable |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://vimeo.com/39869424 |title=Lesbian Hand Gestures |date=2012 |type=Video |language=en |publisher=Coral Short |access-date=9 December 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514050859/https://vimeo.com/39869424 |archive-date=14 May 2024 |url-status=live |via=Vimeo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Doherty |first=Shauna Jean |date=2015 |title=In A Queer Time and Place - A curated screening - VIVO Media Arts Centre |url=https://www.shaunajeandoherty.com/new-page-4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251210-020723/https://www.shaunajeandoherty.com/new-page-4 |archive-date=10 December 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Shauna Jean Doherty |language=en-US}}</ref>
Short was awarded the HARDtv Hot Shorts Award at the 2012 Inside Out Film and Video Festival for ''Narcissus'', a short about trans love.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Quan |first=Danielle Ng See |date=1 June 2012 |title=Margarita grabs audience award at Inside Out Festival |url=https://playbackonline.ca/2012/06/01/margarita-grabs-audience-award-at-inside-out-festival/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251210004836/https://playbackonline.ca/2012/06/01/margarita-grabs-audience-award-at-inside-out-festival/ |archive-date=10 December 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=Playback Online}}</ref> In 2014, Short withdrew ''We Don't Want to Marry'' from the Vancouver Queer Film Festival program because the festival accepted advertising from a pro-Israel group Yad b'Yad.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Barsotti |first=Natasha |date=14 August 2014 |title=UPDATE: Queer film festival criticized for pro-Israel program ad |url=https://xtramagazine.com/power/update-queer-film-festival-criticized-for-pro-israel-program-ad-62952 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251210003835/https://xtramagazine.com/power/update-queer-film-festival-criticized-for-pro-israel-program-ad-62952 |archive-date=10 December 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=Daily Xtra}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.coralshort.com Official website] * [http://futurevisions.me Future Visions.] Collaboration with Angela Gabereau, * [https://web.archive.org/web/20151208155240/http://www.sadmag.ca/news/2015/07/interview-qaf-artist-coral-short/ SAD Mag Interview (2015)]
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