Short of the Week

  • 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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    Documentary James Lees

    The Apology Line

    Holding a secret you can't share? A few guilty souls called a toll free number to leave these anonymous messages.

  • SOTW

    Watch Oscar Short Film Nominees

    In our announcement Tuesday I mentioned my skepticism in finding any of the Short Film Oscar nominees online, but you, our readers, did not share my defeatist attitude and unearthed a couple! Thanks go out to Hans and Sam, now you can watch one film from each of the 3 short film categories: Documentary Short Subject, Short Film (Live-Action) and Short Film (Animation). Follow Short of the Week on Facebook [caption id="attachment_4586" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Click to Watch"][/caption] Documentary Short Subject—The Warriors of Quigang: A Chinese Village Fights Back In Quigang, a tiny hamlet of 1,900 people, a nearby chemical plant is polluting the land and water.

  • Festival

    Sundance 2011 Short Films Online: Program 4

    A new Thursday, a new set of Sundance shorts. This is the second of three batches of 2011 in-competition shorts that Sundance is sharing via the YouTube Screening Room, and the fourth of five short programs.

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    Documentary Rob Perri

    I'm Keith Hernandez

    The mostly true look at the wild escapades of 80's baseball legend, Keith Hernandez [NSFW].

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