Short of the Week

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    Sci‑Fi Grzegorz Jonkajtys

    The 3rd Letter

    High-level CG is married to live-action in a haunting dystopian vision of a world where humans utterly depend on bio-mechanical alterations to withstand a deteriorating climate.

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    Documentary Zackary Canepari & Drea Cooper

    Uppercut

    Silicon Valley coders formed a real life fight club to escape their everyday lives.

  • News

    Oscar Short Films in Theaters Today

    If you live in the US, UK or Canada, you may be able to see the live-action, animated and documentary Oscar-nominated short film programs in a theater near you starting today. Shorts International is again the driving force behind this great series.

  • Branded Content

    BMW Activate the Future: Part 2: The Future Just Isn’t What it Used to Be

    My particular bent is to render an optimistic future because we are rehearsing for our own future—why not do it as pleasantly as possible? —Syd Mead The next installment in the BMW short documentary series: Activate the Future dropped today with part 2: "The Future Just Isn't What it Used to Be". Much of the same cast of talking heads from part 1 join us again, and this time talk about how the sci-fi has historically gotten major transportation advances wrong; plus why there is such a difficulty in predicting the course of future developments.

  • Interview

    Q&A with Kirby Ferguson (Everything is a Remix)

    Part 2 of Everything is a Remix dropped days ago and, based largely on its growing base of supporters, has since found an online audience of hundreds of thousands. We caught up with director, Kirby Ferguson, to find out how he managed to pull it all off.

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    Documentary Kirby Ferguson

    Everything is a Remix

    Good artists copy—great artists steal. How everything from music to movies is influenced, based on, or derivative of previous genius.

  • Festival

    Sundance 2011 Short Films Online: Program 5

    Sundance is over, and with this, the last batch of 2011 Sundance short films released to the Screening Room, this unique collaboration between the most prestigious North American festival and YouTube will be over too. Well.

  • Branded Content

    BMW: Activate the Future Part 1: The New City

    BMW is of course no stranger to short film, they set the standard for branded short filmmaking with their amazing The Hire series in 2001 and 2002. They are back this time with Activate the Future, a 4-part documentary series regarding sustainable mobility.

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    Thriller Andrew McDonald & Marko Slavnic

    Table 7

    An innocent dinner takes a turn when a listens in on the conversation in this thrilling yet charming story.

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