When we started our YouTube channel, we never could have predicted that one of our shorts would surpass 100 million views – but here we are, and the views for Anne Thorens’ Diagonale just keep climbing. It’s no surprise that with all those views come countless comments and questions. With that in mind, we invited writer/director Thorens to join us for an interview to share her insights on making Diagonale and discuss how audiences have reacted to her film.
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Top Ten Shorts 2017 - Georg Csarmann
Georg Csarmann / Vienna Contributor / @georgcsarmann Recently I had the opportunity to give a guest lecture at my alma mater to talk about S/W, online curation and short films in general. It was the perfect occasion to think about how the state of short-filmmaking and online distribution has changed in the past 7 years since I came on-board of S/W.