Now in it's fifth iteration and for the second time at Picturehouse Central in the heart of England's capital, Sundance Film Festival London seems to be steadily growing in audience awareness and stepping out of the shadow of its US Big Brother.
Our annual celebration of the short films that delighted us the most from this calendar year.
For the trio of films highlighted as our Best of the Month picks for April, the S/W team select a period drama focused on performance and dialogue, a playful documentary exploring the routines of non-playable characters in video games and an experimental animation unravelling the creative process.
What happens when you take an abandoned Brazilian street kid from the favelas of Salvador, and drop him into privileged English society? Three decades later, Pablo is still trying to figure things out.
From Michael Lukk Litwak (The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos and Stacey Danger), the story of a fighter pilot trying to keep his group of friends together as they grow apart.
A lone man traverses the desolate Alaskan wilderness in this extended music video for Portugal The Man.
Journey from a lakeside picnic in Chicago to the furthest reaches of the Universe in this iconic adventure in magnitudes from Charles and Ray Eames
Tiffany works the graveyard shift as a security guard at a government building. Over the course of one work night, she finds herself facing unspoken realities after a chance encounter.
From pitching to production, director Seán Mullan joins us to discuss creating a short for Netflix's inaugural Documentary Talent Fund in the first of a new series of Educational posts here on Short of the Week.
After their plans are unexpectedly canceled, three teenage girls spend a Friday night trawling their local suburbs, desperately searching for the cute new boy from school.
