Palm Springs! We are very close to the arrival of North America's most important film festival dedicated to shorts. I know not everybody follows the festival scene, and I know it gets confusing because I'm always tweeting that Festival X is the most-_____ festival in all of _____, but for short films, trust me, Palm Springs Shortfest is a pretty big deal.
An overconfident understudy lets a taste of fame go right to his head.
Numerous S/W Alums have features at the festival this year. We revisit their featured shorts, and tease their upcoming full-lengths.
Using state-of-the-art virtual production techniques comes one of the most technically impressive sci-fi shorts of recent memory. In London 2053, a world champion hoverboarder finds herself imprisoned in a luxury skyscraper apartment by her controlling manager. With the help of a well meaning stranger she engineers an ingenious high-rise escape, but soon finds herself riding for her life.
No preamble, if you want to learn more about this fantastic online competition, check out the first half of our coverage from yesterday. Again, due to embedding restrictions, please visit the festival website to view the films.
With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers - Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi - step into the voters' shoes to narrow down the 45-title shortlists to their picks for the 15 short films that deserve to advance to the nominations round.
Commissioned to make some art for an International Law firm, Short of the Week alum Rory Waudby-Tolley turns to short film to take a humorous look at the world of corporate art
A riveting and experimental medium-form film from Ornana ((notes) on biology). A boy becomes obsessed with his handheld recording device, subverting his reality.
Mohammed Alsaleh is a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada after fleeing torture and imprisonment by the Assad regime. While rebuilding his life in Vancouver, he assists newly-arrived Syrian refugee families to resettle, finding new homes and new beginnings.
And the winner is...
