Short of the Week

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    Sci‑Fi Derek Van Gorder & Otto Stockmeier

    C: 299,792 km/s

    The story of Lieutenant Commander Malleck, and her radical act of mutiny aboard the KESTROS IV. With the help of her co-conspirators, she attempts to harness this weapon of mass destruction for a grand new purpose.

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    Experimental Till Nowak

    The Centrifuge Brain Project

    The "Centrifuge Brain Project" gives an insight on scientific experiments with amusement park rides.

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    Dark Comedy Simon Cottee

    The Wedding

    A melancholy boy attends his estranged Father's wedding to a large Latina woman aboard a small and cramped boat on a shark infested sea.

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    Fantasy David Field

    Caterpillar

    Photographer David Field’s eerie world comes alive in this ten minute fable of an elderly woman’s transformation.

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    Sundance 2013 Online Short Film Program

    A cherished tradition, every year Sundance releases a selection of short films from their competition lineup onto the internet for the duration of the fest. It is an excellent way for fans at home to connect with the goings on, and for short film fans in particular, a great way to spy some of the year's top shorts early in their festival run.

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    The Weekly—Official Short of the Week Email Newsletter

    Let me introduce to you The Weekly—our weekly email newsletter that contains all our Short of the Week films, stories, and articles from the past week. We love social media, but let's face it, sometimes the best way to browse the latest news is over email.

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    Drama Louis Sutherland & Mark Albiston

    Six Dollar Fifty Man

    Eight-year old Andy thinks he has superhuman abilities in this Cannes-honored film from New Zealand.

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    Documentary Joshua Z Weinstein

    I Beat Mike Tyson

    In 2005, an unknown Irish boxer beat Mike Tyson, then he disappeared. Filmmaker Joshua Z Weinstein rediscovers boxer Kevin McBride, raising his children in a gritty Boston suburb. Kevin's body is deteriorating, yet he compulsively continues to fight.

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    Sci‑Fi Kasra Farahani

    NOON

    A future Earth where the Sun hangs still in the sky, and times of day are fixed locations, a soul-deadened coyote reluctantly guides a band of rebels infiltrating an industrial fortress.

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    SOTW Awards 2013 Nominees

    We are excited to announce the official Short of the Week Awards 2013 nominees! We've nominated the top 10 films in each of our three categories—Animation, Live-Action, and New Media—as the most innovative stories from the past year. These are filmmakers who are breaking new ground in the stories they tell, the techniques they use, and the way they reach an audience.

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