S/W Awards
The 2019 Short of the Week Awards
The Short of the Week team has voted. The Best Short Films from 2018.
Drama
Hugo Covarrubias
Bestia
Inspired by real events, Bestia enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.
Interview
Interview with Robin Risser (Solitude)
How did Solitude come about? Solitude is my thesis project for my degree at ESAG-Penninghen Paris. It's a universal feeling that reaches every one of us at some point of time regardless of religion, language or country.
Documentary
Lee Phillips
Upstate Purgatory
Albany County Jail is purgatory made real. Within its grim walls, four individuals ponder on what led them here, and what awaits them on the other side.
Horror
Nuhash Humayun
Foreigners Only
When a homeless tannery owner keeps finding apartments reserved for "foreigners only," he'll do whatever it takes to have skin in the game.
Documentary
Anders Hammer
Do Not Split
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.
Filmmaker Update
S/W Alum Mickey Duzyj on his new Netflix Show "LOSERS" and the Short that Inspired It
An editorial-illustrator turned award-winning documentary filmmaker, Mickey Duzyj parlayed his breakthrough short film into a Netflix series—one that poignantly tells the surprising, and noble stories of some of sports' most infamous figures.
Thriller
Josh O'Caoimh
& Mikai Geronimo
Fall of the Ibis King
The antagonist of a strange opera becomes increasingly unsettled, following the unlikely return of the former lead actor.
Comedy
Bianca Giaever & Rachel Antonoff
Crush
An internet breakout filmmaker + a rising fashion designer with tons of celeb friends = an adorable fashion film about love.
Drama
Antonio Vasaturo
also the heart is a muscle
After beating cancer a boy realizes he can no longer lie to himself and faces an identity crisis. Seduced by the muscular bodies of bodybuilders, he begins to explore his physique and his sexuality.
