The Doorpost Project is the best online film competition out there. I realize that might not be saying much as the web is lousy with short film competitions.
David O'Reilly (the creator behind Please Say Something, one of my favorite films of this year) has a new film The External World that has done well at festivals (Cannes, Sundance). It's not out yet, but this trailer is now up.
One of my personal favorite shorts, Soft, by British director Simon Ellis has come home to the internet. I reviewed the film in 2008, however the article at that time linked to a pirated copy of the film, and that video was soon taken down.
Things get tense as a young boy struggles to accept his father's disability.
An experimental look at the beautiful juxtaposition of technology and the body.
I watched a ton of skate and surf movie as a kid growing up in the hotbed of alternative sports culture, Southern California. I was an accomplished if not spectacular practitioner of both, and would eat up the opportunity to see new tricks, new athletes, performing at the top of their game, re-watching those VHS tapes to the point of destruction.
A female warrior battles an unstoppable foe in this sci-fi film from Ghost in the Shell creator Mamoru Oshii with an ending that's difficult to explain.
Reporter, Holly Malone, is out to bring down drug lord, Dancoolo, and break the story of her career. It's a fan film masterpiece with the perfect mix of wacky characters, memorable one-liners, and over-the-top effects.
A heart-breaking tale of love and loss told through a sequence of snapshots.
A triptych of personal stories recounted in the first person, Lies is a remarkable and profound series of animated vignettes dramatizing "lies"—ones we make to strangers, ones we tell to those we love, and the ones we use to convince ourselves.
