Howdy everyone, Jason here. So you've been thinking about putting your short film online.

The competition is now closed. Thanks to all who participated!   Short of the Week presents The Great Film Competition! We are on a quest to find great short films.

Who do you think should win the Oscar for best short films? Vote Now.

Yay. Our Facebook page hit 500 fans this morning.

Oh yeah, it's that day of the year. It's a good blogging tip to have appropriately themed content for special occasions and holidays, but I've got nothing new.

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.

More and more filmmakers are approaching us looking to get their film in front of a large online audience. And these recommendations are becoming a bigger portion of the films we choose to feature.

Festival trailers are a cool little sub-genre of design and animation. Short and sweet, they are nice displays of creativity.

Short of the Week is now rockin' it like 2009! Visit our new Facebook page and click the "like" button to get our curated short film selections right in your news feed. As an added enticement to follow us, we're adding a new category of post which will be FB-exclusive—SotW Recycled—where once a week we'll dip into our now over 3-year back catalog of reviews and recommend a past favorite you might not have seen.

Short of the Week was just hit by the round of malware attacks affecting many innocent Wordpress blogs over the last couple weeks. Fortunately, Google caught the infection early and prevented the attack from doing more harm.