We chat with Ryan Spindell, one of horror's most exciting young voices, about indie filmmaking and how to make delightfully gory films on a budget.
The Short of the Week team has voted. The Best Short Films from 2018.
It's been over a year since we stopped getting in touch with filmmakers on a regular basis, and one of the things we got back from you readers before our redesign, was that you wanted that sad state of affairs to end. So it will.
Experience a ground-level view of the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in this Oscar-nominated short from Field of Vision. Visceral and pulse-pounding, Anders Hammer provides unprecedented access to the participants as they fight against the mainland Chinese government—actions spurred by the passage of a new Beijing-backed national security law.
The best one-take short films and what to consider if you're making one.
To beg for leniency, defense attorneys are producing entire documentaries for an audience of one: the judge. (Embedding Disabled, Click Thru to Play)
With the majority of his short film work now online, we finally take a look at the filmography of inspirational Dutch filmmaker Rosto, in this dedicated retrospective.
A chat with the director of the SXSW premiere feature "Yes, God, Yes", adapted from the viral short of the same name.
Yesterday marked the online debut of the 2011 Sundance Competition short films, and in that first batch of 4 films we were treated to the World Premiere of New York-based filmmaker Nick Paley's Andy and Zach—my favorite short in the program. Nick Paley happens to be a fan of Short of the Week, so we traded emails regarding the film, Sundance, and his thoughts on short films online.
