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How to Work With Short of the Week This Award Season
If your short is in the running for top prizes, we lay out how best we can help you.
SOTW
S/W 2018 Year In Review
A reflection on a great 2018 in short film curating, a peek ahead to 2019, and a playlist of shorts that were especially beloved by our curators.
Comedy
Ben Callner
Adman
An ingenious short film narrative made up of entirely fake ads. What does a man, a woman, ice cream, chewing gum, dog food, beer, and a lot of other things have in common? Commercials.
Documentary
Ema Ryan Yamazaki
Instruments of a Beating Heart
First graders at a Tokyo public school are presented with a challenge for their final semester: to form an orchestra and perform at a school ceremony.
Horror
Sava Zivkovic
Irradiation
After being escorted to a mysterious irradiated site, Evgeniy finds himself experiencing strange visions and questioning the very reason he was sent to investigate the site in the first place.
Drama
Michael Forstein
Meat
Desperate for work, an idealistic college student agrees to a one day trial as a door to door meat salesman.
Drama
Joseph Wallace
Salvation Has No Name
A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a priest and a mysterious, foreign woman but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
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How We Launched Our Film Online: The Thomas Beale Cipher
On January 24th, 2011, Jason Sondhi and I released our festival-winning short film, The Thomas Beale Cipher, out onto the great wild web. Like many filmmakers, I wrestled with the decisions of when and how to put my film online.
Comedy
Chris Black
Jim
A Black middle-school student faces an awkward moment as his class reads a beloved American novel.
Drama
Michael Dudok de Wit
Father and Daughter
A moving tale of a daughter, an absent father, and the ties we share that surpass time or logic
