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.

Reign of Death, the subject of our recent feature review, is one of the most confidently stylish shorts we've seen in a while. Its director, Matthew Savage, has served as a concept designer for several big budget features including The Dark Knight and Kick-Ass, but, not being content with that arrangement, has been stepping up to the director's chair.

Just stumbled upon something really cool by complete accident! Maybe I should be ashamed to call myself an "short film expert" and not have heard of this since it's in its 10th year, but Fluxus is an online film festival based out of Brazil that combines museum exhibition of short films and installations with a sophisticated online exhibition experience. What that means for us who don't live in São Paulo is that 40 current, high quality festival-circuit films are online right this moment to watch! Still from Bastien Dubois' Madagascar.

Yesterday Sondhi posted his featured review of The Un-Gone. Earlier this week I got in touch with director Simon Bovey to dive a little deeper into the creative process behind this splendid short.

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.

Going to embark on some overdue maintenance over the next week or two. Mainly we'll be updating broken links.

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.