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  • News

    Ruin Picked Up by Fox

    The action-packed 3D short Ruin has reportedly been picked up by Fox to be made into a live-action feature in a healthy six figure deal. Sound familiar? Just 6 months ago 20th Century Fox picked up another action-driven 3D animation Rosa under similar circumstances.

  • Interview

    Interview with Jossie Malis (Bendito Machine)

    Many filmmakers look at short films as their teenage years—happy to get past them and on to something bigger. Jossie Malis is one of the few who understood the power he'd created with his minimalist animated short Bendito Machine and has spent the past 6 years building a franchise around it.

  • News

    VHX Launches a Platform to Sell Films

    With the success a few big names like Louis CK and Aziz Ansari have had selling their work directly to fans, VHX announced it is launching their Artist Program to help other (hopefully, lesser known) artists do the same. It's the dream of content creators everywhere, right? Cutting out the middle man and selling your work directly to fans.

  • Crowdfunding

    Fund Sean Dunne's Oxyana on Kickstarter

    Sean Dunne—the master of fringe Americana—is looking to make his first feature film. We've featured three of his masterful shorts in the past (The Bowler, Stray Dawg, and the amazing American Juggalo—which took our top prize for Docs in this year's SOTW Awards!).

  • Festival

    Palm Springs ShortFest Online Festival (2012)

    North America's largest festival dedicated to short film returns next week. For the second year organizers have created an online component to supplement the proceedings.

  • Festival

    Vimeo Festival + Awards 2012 Winners!

    Following the smashing success of their inaugural festival back in 2010, Vimeo once again called on digital filmmakers from around the world to submit their work. The best of which were honored at last night's award festival with $5,000 grants and $25,000 for the grand prize.

  • News

    The Very Short List

    Short of the Week has curated a selection of 3 interesting films for the Very Short List. In today's collection, we've picked our favorite stories behind the stories starting with Mikey Please's epic Making The Eagleman Stag and followed by two other masterpieces.

  • SOTW

    5-Year Anniversary!

    It's been 5 great years here at Short of the Week as we take a look at where have we been and where are we going.

  • SOTW

    Introducing… Paper.

    A year ago, I released my film, The Thomas Beale Cipher, online. Since then, many have asked me 'what's next?' Certainly another film seemed like the obvious next step.

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