Some of the most emotional holiday storytelling comes from brands. With phenomenal animation production and touching stories, we picked out our three favorite animated ads of the season.
As the SXSW Film Festival gears up this weekend, regular SOTW contributor, Jason B Kohl, sat down with two filmmakers from UCLA's MFA Directing Program en route to Austin. Their shorts couldn't be more different from each other in every aspect from production through post, but the two had many common insights to share.
Clive Owen reprises his role as "The Driver", and Neill Blomkamp (District 9) directs a long-awaited new chapter of BMW's famous branded film series, "The Hire". Warning: Sweet car chases and explosions ahead.
A young black man is killed in an altercation with a vigilante neighbor and the police. An indignant crowd gathered together. The feeling of injustice is high. A group isolates itself. Emotion engenders riot .... In the absence of words, can the body take its revenge?
From the creative duo behind "Greener Grass", a new short. A little boy feels betrayed when his mother has another son and decides to give her a taste of her own medicine—by summoning another mother.
Paul is the custodian of a nuclear missile silo, living alone in the vast underground structure. More interested in his passion - painting and sculpting the missile - than his duties, he gets a lousy performance review that threatens his job.
A short, short comedy exploring our nastyass petty side, and the insecure lil' ho inside all of us. Part of our SXSW Shorts Week coverage. #SXSWshorts
Vengeful robots pummel downtown Montevideo in this early short film from director Fede Alvarez
