Happy Holidays everyone! Ivan prepared a YouTube show on Dark, Twisted Holiday shorts just this month you should check out, however, at this point, I'm a wee bit tired of shorts that explicitly reference the season. There has to be more than that to make a classic.
"A whole lot of bikes, a whole lot of fun"...welcome to Black Bike Week.
Chelsea Lupkin / NYC Contributor / @chelsealupkin2017 was the year that I couldn’t shut up about short films. There may have been major Hollywood features and awesome Netflix series vying for my attention, but short films took the proverbial cake for me.
SITENumber of Featured Films on the Site in 2017: 300Number of News Pieces + Articles: 51Total Hours of Programming: 59 hours 35 minNumber of Paid Submissions: 3254Accepted Films: 141, a 5.6% Acceptance Rate CREATORS + CONTENTAvg.
Georg Csarmann / Vienna Contributor / @georgcsarmann Recently I had the opportunity to give a guest lecture at my alma mater to talk about S/W, online curation and short films in general. It was the perfect occasion to think about how the state of short-filmmaking and online distribution has changed in the past 7 years since I came on-board of S/W.
Rob Munday / UK Editor: Head of Content / @_RobMundayWriting these ‘end of year’ lists can be tricky. Too often we’re influenced by what they say about us and end up writing the list that projects the perfect image or the list you feel makes you look most knowledgeable.
Desperate for money to buy a motorcycle, Lucas makes a deal with a stranger to let him take some "innocent" pictures in exchange for cash.
Jason Sondhi / NYC Co-Founder & Managing Editor / @jasondhiIn 2017 I fell back in love with shorts. I'd spent 2016 in a bit of burnout—after close to 5 years on Vimeo's Staff Picks team, the daily grind of watching had started to take its toll.
Pounding the tarmac through the seasons, a band of runners are brazenly challenged with intimate questions as they pace their routes.
