Winners, Alums, & Personal Faves: Céline Highlights the Best Shorts from TIFF 2018
Our Toronto bureau-chief shares her picks for the most interesting shorts coming out of TIFF.
Our Toronto bureau-chief shares her picks for the most interesting shorts coming out of TIFF.
We take a look at the 2021 Encounters Film Festival programme and pick out our highlights from this year's extensive selection of short films.
After several years together, William and Cecilie break up. The same night, to treat the sorrow with love, they decide to do the drug MDMA together. For better or worse, this results in an emotional rollercoaster ride over a whole weekend as the two are isolated together in their apartment.
With the Oscars ceremony taking place this Sunday (March 2nd), the S/W team predict the winners in each of the three short film categories.
**Now Available on VoD only** - An Oscar Nominee in 2016, Chau, a teenager living in a Vietnamese care center for kids disabled by the chemical Agent Orange, struggles with the reality of his dream to one day become a professional artist.
We talk filmmaking with one of UK’s burgeoning directors—including a love for The Goonies and how to motivate young actors with Star Wars clips.
If your short is in the running for top prizes, we lay out how best we can help you.
Painter Titus Kaphar looks to film as a medium in the face of an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism.
Multi-hyphenate star Donald Glover and frequent collaborator Hiro Murai craft a meandering but poignant indictment of hip-hop materialism.
With science fiction story-lines and topics of sexuality proving to be big discussion starters here on Short of the Week, it would have seemed like an opportunity missed if we didn't speak to emerging filmmaker Connor Hurley about his short film The Naturalist. Based around concepts of genetically altering sexual orientation and set in an unspecified dystopian future, we talked to the director about the influence of existing work on his narrative/tone and looked at how he went about creating a timeless aesthetic for his film: It's hard not talk about The Naturalist without first looking at the concept - where did the idea for the narrative come from? I remember I was probably around 12 years old, pursuing both my passion for filmmaking and facing questions of my own sexuality.