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    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.

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    Sci‑Fi Ethan Shaftel

    Flesh Computer

    A man taking care of his cybernetic pet is threatened by a group of idle troublemakers.

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    Oscars 2021: The Short Films battling for an Academy Award

    With Oscar voting starting tomorrow, the S/W team explores the shortlists for the 2021 Academy Awards and highlights our favorite film in the Animated Short Film, Documentary Short Subject & Live Action Short Film categories

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    Fashion Film Roundup Pt. 1: Scorcese, Miller, Lynch & Ritchie

    The assault that the city of New York has been under for the last week, perpetrated by 5'11, birdlike amazons, garbed in freakish war paint and extravagant, yet bizarrely soft battle armor, is now over. I speak of course of Fashion Week New York which ended yesterday, one of the 4 international fashion weeks which rule the industry and establish the direction the fashion world will take in the coming year.

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    2022: A Year of Short Films

    From alumni news to Oscar winners, take a look back at a year on Short of the Week

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    Experimental Anna Apter

    /Imagine

    To explore themes of solitude and our artificial online existences, filmmaker Anna Apter created this short film with the sole assistance of AI tools and her dog.

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    Comedy Sara Gunnarsdóttir / created+written by Pamela Ribon

    My Year of Dicks

    An imaginative 15-year-old is stubbornly determined to lose her virginity despite the pathetic pickings in the outskirts of Houston in the early 90’s.

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    The Future of Live-Action | SOTW Awards 2013

    Short of the Week is about more than just highlighting the best in bite-sized narratives—it’s also about fostering a dialogue amongst the innovative creators telling earth-shattering stories in new and interesting ways. And, what better time to do that than the week of the 2013 Short of Week Awards? All week, we'll be having roundtable interviews with the award winners to learn more about their creative process as well as the broader storytelling landscape where short films are proving to be the leaders in the industry.

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    Documentary Timi Akindele-Ajani

    Nubia Way: a story of black-led self building in Lewisham

    The story of a group of Black Londoners who built their own homes in 1990s Lewisham, examining self-building as an act of resistance against housing discrimination faced by Black British communities.

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    Is AI the Future of Filmmaking?

    Overview of how AI may shift the filmmaking world over the coming years—the opportunities and questions it raises.

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