Enter the disturbing world of David OReilly (Please Say Something) for a spin into low-poly, subconscious madness.
Simple, fresh animation about the complex relationship between a cat and mouse.
As you might have noticed, this year we dispense with what has our been our traditional year-in-review Top Ten list (examples here) in order to highlight even more quality deserving content than that stale format allows. The SotW Awards are the result, and last week, after surveying an incredible year's worth of short film picks, we presented our favorite Animation, Live-Action and New Media pieces of 2011.
David O'Reilly (the creator behind Please Say Something, one of my favorite films of this year) has a new film The External World that has done well at festivals (Cannes, Sundance). It's not out yet, but this trailer is now up.
A new Thursday, a new set of Sundance shorts. This is the second of three batches of 2011 in-competition shorts that Sundance is sharing via the YouTube Screening Room, and the fourth of five short programs.
We like reading up on animation festivals because more often than not you can find several of the winning short films online already. Ottawa International Animation Festival is North America's premier showcase for animation, and having wrapped up at the end of October has proven itself no exception—some of its excellent winners are already up on the web.
We invited the lovely and talented Emily Carmichael to answer a few questions over email regarding her short film, The Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting, which incidentally was, by far, one of our favorite Sundance films of the year.
Florian Grolig ('In the Distance') joins us to discuss his new mobile puzzle game 'High Rise'
The ultimate guide to your short film release from festivals to online to promotion, these step-by-step instructions tell emerging filmmakers how to find an audience for their film and kickstart their career.
