The coveted Vimeo “Best of the Year” awards have been announced. In its 17th year, the annual awards celebrate the most outstanding shorts and video creators on the independent platform.

Trosper’s penetrating and affecting screenplay, based on the book by Thomas E. Gaddis, delicately and artfully sketches the 53-year imprisonment of the 72-year-old ‘Birdman’, Stroud ...