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To all our fans in the New York area! Both Andrew and I will be out at the NYC Short Film Festival this weekend to take in some great shorts and support our film The Thomas Beale Cipher which is currently on the festival warpath.  Come out and say hi, we'll be the devilishly handsome ones hanging out after both the Friday and Saturday programs.

It's fun when mainstream sites do pieces on short film, and in a rare treat, two such articles were published online today. First up is a brief article and slideshow from the online magazine Slate via is DoubleX blog, where contributor Sasha Watson explores the trend of fashion advertising films.

From the video site we believe hosts some of the most impressive short films around, comes a much overdue official festival. And they're going big.

Continuing what has become a beloved tradition, today kicked off the National Film Board of Canada's Online Short Film Contest. We let you know about it last year too, but if you're unfamiliar here's the deal: the NFB picks 10 short films, tosses them up on YouTube for a limited time and then declares a winner based upon how many "likes" the videos received.

Aint it Cool News is the geek website of record for me personally. I think it was vintage gigantic-Harry's guest appearances on Ebert's TV show back in 1999 that sealed the deal, and I have been a faithful reader since.

This was a strong year for short films. I can tell by the divided results from our Oscar poll that had close battles in both the animated and live action categories.

TropFest! 'Tis truly excellent to have Australian short film goodness back in one's life. I post the winners every year, so I don't want to repeat myself too much, but TropFest is a unique short film festival, birthed in Australia.