The jury has made their selections, the Audience Choice votes are in, and the S/W team has chosen the one standout short from our 2024 coverage to receive the Trailblazer prize. That means it’s officially awards time!
Phillip Van, a recent NYU grad, has received accolades for his Berlin Int'l Film Festival creation, High Maintenance. A film that earned him a Student Academy Award and numerous festival honors.
Who am I? It is a question we all ask. For high-schooler Katori Shintarou the question becomes more urgent when the Earth Defender Freshmen show up to defend the world—from him!
Newly orphaned and freshly wounded from a loss, a boy lends his companion a prosthetic arm for the day. The companion records the arm being exposed to different textures and materials. What will become of the limb and the video recordings?
A subtly powerful examination of domestic abuse, the problem of Marie and Fred's relationship comes into focus during preparation for an evening dinner party.
Gints Zilbalodis joins us to discuss how he made award-winning animated feature Away on short film funding
Fran is thinking about dying, but a man in the office might want to date her.
A future Earth where the Sun hangs still in the sky, and times of day are fixed locations, a soul-deadened coyote reluctantly guides a band of rebels infiltrating an industrial fortress.
A portrait of the New Orleans "Bounce" scene, this racy short documentary is, amazingly, branded content for Nokia.
A woman falls into a fantastical world after the loss of her child in Haolu Wang’s “The Pregnant Ground”, a wildly imaginative and deeply political exploration of the fears concerning female bodies and pregnancy.
