Right on the heels of Vimeo's successful celebration of itself with their own Vimeo Festival, YouTube came out last night with an exclusive event at New York's Guggenheim Museum to celebrate the best work on their site. The event was a celebration of YouTube Play, touted by the company as a "biennial of creative video.
You've seen the scenario before: some talented, young filmmaker releases his latest short film on Vimeo and BOOM practically overnight it goes viral. A few million views and a couple hundred thousand comments later, they garner industry attention, eventually cinching a movie deal with Hollywood.
Sean Dunnethe master of fringe Americanais looking to make his first feature film. We've featured three of his masterful shorts in the past (The Bowler, Stray Dawg, and the amazing American Juggalowhich took our top prize for Docs in this year's SOTW Awards!).
Gints Zilbalodis joins us to discuss how he made award-winning animated feature Away on short film funding
When the wealthy patriarch of a family dies, his bereaved family discover an unusual request in his will—he demands to be stuffed and kept on constant display in their home.
Tiffany works the graveyard shift as a security guard at a government building. Over the course of one work night, she finds herself facing unspoken realities after a chance encounter.
The Short of the Week team has voted. The Best Short Films from 2018.
Animator Will Anderson joins us to discuss his latest BAFTA-nominated short 'Have Heart'
The bittersweet life story of a young girl who grows up to be a crazy old cat lady.
