SHIFT Creative Fund

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    Philips & Ridley Scott Team Up for 3D Short

    Philips and RSA are at it again for the 6th film in their Parallel Lines series. This one is set to be shot and screened in 3D and released this Fall.

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    Drama Alberto Mielgo

    The Windshield Wiper

    Inside a cafe while smoking a whole pack of cigarettes, a man poses an ambitious question: "What is Love?" This Oscar-winning short from Alberto Mielgo is a collection of vignettes of rare beauty and style. (Pressing play opens the film in a new window)

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    Experimental Greg Barth

    Epic Fail

    From one of our most creative current filmmakers, an avant-garde essay that questions how we perceive truth, information and politics, seen through the dual lenses of our real and virtual identities.

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    Dark Comedy Milena Dutkowska

    Bogdan i Róża (Bogdan and Rose)

    A long-married couple live in resentful silence, their daily reciprocal malice escalating to extremes. In this pressure cooker of a relationship, something will have to give.

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    Adventure Eoin Duffy

    The Missing Scarf

    On a quest to find his missing scarf, Albert the squirrel unearths problems far beyond his own.

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    Interview: San Francisco Film Festival Shorts Directors

    Making a great short film requires a certain kind of alchemy; because there are no hard-set rules in regards to running time, subject matter, or even medium, filmmakers traverse a tricky path on the road to festival -- and online audience -- acceptance. I was lucky enough to sit down at the San Francisco International Film Festival with a few of the shorts filmmakers that were in attendance and get insight into their process, ask what lessons they learned on their latest productions, and find out what they believe makes a good short film.

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    We're Looking For a Head of Ads & Partnerships

    We are looking for a creative thinker to head up Short of the Week's Ads & Partnerships efforts. This is a part-time position to build an advertising and creative partnerships program from the ground up for the web’s top destination for short film and innovative filmmaking.

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    Sci‑Fi Andrew Finch

    Others Will Follow

    The lone survivor of the first mission to Mars uses his last moments to pass the torch.

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    Documentary Wes Hurley & Nathan M. Miller

    Little Potato

    Masculinity, movies, and what happens when a Russian mother becomes a mail-order bride to an unpredictable American man.

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