Bitter Films

  • Branded Content

    Best Branded Films

    What is a branded film? Genres are much easier to define in hindsight. For now, it's a question we can only partly answer.

  • BFI London Film Festival

    A S/W-Centric Preview of BFI London 2023

    From short film to feature, we take a look at the S/W filmmakers with debut features at the 2023 BFI London Film Festival.

  • The Short List

    The Short List: Jacob Chase

    “Who am I to say no to Steven Spielberg?" - Jacob Chase joins us to discuss how he turned his short film 'Larry' into Amblin produced feature 'Come Play'.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: April 2023

    Prepare to be tense, teased and touched as the Short of the Week team pick their latest Best of the Month films from our April coverage.

  • Article

    The Changing Game of Distribution

    This year marked an interesting milestone for the Oscar nominated animated short films. For the first time in recent memory, people actually watched them.

  • Festival

    Fluxus 2010 Online Film Fest

    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.

  • Interview

    Interview with Jamie Travis (The Armoire)

    Toronto native Jamie Travis has been making short films for more than a decade. When he finally made the leap to features (his debut For a Good Time, Call… premiered at Sundance and will hit cinemas this fall), he gave shorts lovers everywhere a wonderful gift by releasing all his previous work online.

  • S/W Awards

    The Short Awards 2022: Category Winners

    From the 233 short films we featured on Short of the Week in 2021, our team has selected 14 we think deserve extra praise and attention. This is the 2022 Short Awards

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