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'Extraction' Director Joins the World’s Wildest Short Film Festival

Nairavoice · Nov 9, 2026 · 5 min read

A short film is often a labor of love; it can be months and even years in the making, as a director musters their resources to bring it to life. But what if you only had two days to go from concept to finished film? That’s the rule in the world’s wildest short film competition, and they’ve just brought one of the biggest directors of high-octane action on as a judge.

Collider is proud to exclusively announce that Sam Hargrave will join AGBO’s No Sleep ’til Film Fest. Hargrave is a veteran stunt performer, stunt coordinator, and second-unit director who began his directing career with a number of short films before making his feature directorial debut with the 2020 Netflix actioner Extraction, starring Chris Hemsworth as a mercenary on a mission in Bangladesh. Hargrave subsequently helmed Extraction 2 and this fall’s vehicular adventure film Matchbox: The Movie. Next up for him is Extraction 3, which is currently in post-production.

The prompt for the AGBO No Sleep ’til Film Fest will be released at 5 p.m. PT on January 8, 2027; participants in the festival then have 48 hours to write, film, and edit their movie, which must be three minutes or less in length. It must then be submitted to the festival by 5 p.m. PT on January 10. It will be judged by a panel that includes Hargrave; Fortnite creator Donald Mustard; AGBO Chief Creative Officer Angela Russo-Otstot; President of Film & Television Michael Disco; Executive Vice President of Film & Television Kassee Whiting; Senior Vice President of Film & Television Ari Costa; and AGBO founders Joe and Anthony Russo, who will be fresh off the release of Avengers: Doomsday, their latest MCU blockbuster.

Winners will then be announced on February 11; they will receive filmmaking technology, equipment and products supplied by RED Digital Cinema, Avid, GoPro, Blackmagic Design and Happy Coffee, alongside additional prizes from AGBO and Red Bull. The festival is free to enter and is open to filmmakers worldwide.

Four villains, and four arguments the films were honest enough to
actually let them make. Here is the one you lean towards, the part of it that holds up, and the
exact point where it stops holding up.

You align with the one who was right about the problem and wrong
about the solution. Killmonger is the most persuasive villain Marvel has produced because
the film never pretends his anger came from nowhere.

You notice who was abandoned and you cannot let it go, which is a moral instinct before
it is anything else.
His argument lands because Wakanda really did watch and do nothing, and the film makes
T’Challa admit it out loud.
Where it breaks is the method, since a man who was failed by power decided the answer
was to hold more of it.
Michael B. Jordan plays him as somebody performing certainty over grief, which is why
the last scene of that film still works.

You align with the protector, which is the most understandable
and most dangerous position on this list. Namor is not chasing power or revenge, he is doing
whatever keeps his people hidden, and he has been doing it for centuries.

Your loyalty has a hard border around it, and everything inside that border matters far
more to you than anything outside it.
Talokan is the best realised world Marvel has built since Wakanda, and the film makes
you understand exactly what he is guarding.
His logic is airtight right up until it requires somebody else’s people to pay for his
people’s safety.
He would rather be feared by the surface world forever than trust it once, and history
has given him reasons.

You align with the patient one, the only man on this list with no
powers, no army and no hurry. Zemo lost his family in Sokovia and then spent years working
out that you do not fight the Avengers, you introduce them to each other’s secrets.

You go quiet when you are hurt, and the quiet is where the thinking happens.
Zemo is the only MCU villain who completely won, and he did it with a notebook, a plan
and a great deal of self control.
His grief is real, and the film is careful never to let you forget that he started as an
ordinary man with a family.
Where it fails is the cost, since taking apart the people who hurt him meant hurting a
great many people who did not.

You align with the one who decided the answer was arithmetic.
Thanos is not angry and not grieving in any way he will admit to, he simply reached a
conclusion and never once revisited it, which is precisely what makes him frightening.

You are capable of holding a position that costs you everything, and you would call that
conviction rather than stubbornness.
Infinity War works because it is structured as his film, with a goal, a journey and a
sacrifice, and the heroes are the obstacle.
The flaw in the plan is not the cruelty, it is that he never seriously considered a
single alternative to it.
Josh Brolin plays him tired rather than triumphant, which is the choice that turned a
purple giant into a real character.

What Is AGBO?

AGBO is the production company founded by Joe and Anthony Russo; its first production was the Sam Levinson thriller Assassination Nation. It has since gone on to produce the Extraction films, Avengers: Doomsday and its upcoming sequel Avengers: Secret Wars, and the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once. It has also produced a number of series for the small screen, including Deadly Class, From, and Citadel.