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.
Its been a couple of days since Andrew's article detailing the path we took in putting our short film The Thomas Beale Cipher online. Some folks have taken it as an attack on film festivals, and I won't say that they're completely wrong about that.
Andrew W. Jones is a pretty unique filmmaker, the kind we like to highlight here on SotW.
On January 24th, 2011, Jason Sondhi and I released our festival-winning short film, The Thomas Beale Cipher, out onto the great wild web. Like many filmmakers, I wrestled with the decisions of when and how to put my film online.
As the SXSW Film Festival gears up this weekend, regular SOTW contributor, Jason B Kohl, sat down with two filmmakers from UCLA's MFA Directing Program en route to Austin. Their shorts couldn't be more different from each other in every aspect from production through post, but the two had many common insights to share.
You don't need me to point out the extreme imbalance when it comes to the number of women in the film industry. Kathryn Bigelow earning the Oscar in 2010 for Hurt Locker might be a signal that times are changing, but for many they're not moving fast enough particularly when compared to other arts like literature, theater, and music.
Last week we introduced the GoShort Festival's online slate of short films, providing quickie reviews of 5 of the 10 selected films. Today we finish up the coverage by taking a look at the remaining 5 films.
The concluding chapter of BMW's branded documentary experiment which I'm posting a day late. Apologies, I know you must be simply FURIOUS with me! No, really, if you've been eagerly awaiting these, then I'm sorry.
The 2011 Movie Extra Tropfest short film festival took place today in Australia, and of the 16 films, Animal Beatbox by Damon Gameau was declared the winner. [caption id="attachment_4816" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Click to Watch "Animal Beatbox""][/caption] The field was strong this year, with Joel Edgerton of the Blue-Tongue Collective represented for his film Monkeys, as well Mankind is No Island filmmaker and prior winner of Tropfest New York, Jason Van Genderen for The Unspoken.
