To all our fans in the New York area! Both Andrew and I will be out at the NYC Short Film Festival this weekend to take in some great shorts and support our film The Thomas Beale Cipher which is currently on the festival warpath. Come out and say hi, we'll be the devilishly handsome ones hanging out after both the Friday and Saturday programs.
Its been a couple of days since Andrew's article detailing the path we took in putting our short film The Thomas Beale Cipher online. Some folks have taken it as an attack on film festivals, and I won't say that they're completely wrong about that.
Our annual celebration of the short films that delighted us the most from this calendar year.
A cherished tradition, every year Sundance releases a selection of short films from their competition lineup onto the internet for the duration of the fest. It is an excellent way for fans at home to connect with the goings on, and for short film fans in particular, a great way to spy some of the year's top shorts early in their festival run.
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.
Executive producer of the #MOREFilms4Freedom project Loran Dunn joins us to discuss what we can expect from the first three LGBTQ+ themed short films commissioned through the programme
We're excited to announce that Short of the Week's Andrew Allen will be giving a talk at this year's SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. The talk is Stealing in Plain Sight and will cover the challenges that the rise of plagiarism creates for indie filmmakers today.
A father and son travel deep into the woods to make an offering to a mysterious force, but soon realize a key element is missing.
A boyfriend's jealous impulse spirals out of control in 16 minutes of romantic doom.
Follow 10-year-old Pecos Tatum as he becomes a professional Texas cowboy in this short documentary about what it takes to compete at the rodeo.
