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  • SOTW

    S/W 2017 - By the Numbers

     SITENumber of Featured  Films on the Site in 2017: 300Number of News Pieces + Articles: 51Total Hours of Programming: 59 hours 35 minNumber of Paid Submissions: 3254Accepted Films: 141, a 5.6% Acceptance Rate CREATORS + CONTENTAvg.

  • SOTW

    Welcome to the New Short of the Week!

    Learn about what's new—our custom player, channels, mobile video, and more. We've taken advantage of the latest web technologies to build a site that combines the very best video viewing experience with insightful reviews. Come and give it a test drive!

  • Article

    The Viral Experience: What Happens When You Reach The Top

    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.

  • Best of the Month

    Best Films of the Month: March

    Take a journey of self-discovery, a journey of spiritual enlightenment or a journey through intimate friendship in our 3 favourite short films from the month of March.

  • SOTW

    The Short of the Week YouTube Channel

    Introducing the S/W YouTube channel—Subscribe for short films premieres from a diverse set of emerging voices pushing the boundaries of filmmaking.

  • News

    Kon Satoshi: Good Morning; Magnetic Rose

    Word arrived Stateside this morning, not through any official announcement, but through the tweets of his friends and collaborators. Kon Satoshi, one of the leading lights of Anime, director of the films Perfect Blue and Paprika, has sadly passed away at age 47.

  • Play
    Drama Suzie Templeton

    Dog

    **CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - BAFTA-winning claymation explores the suffocating atmosphere in a young boy's household, as he and his father must confront their dog's deteriorating condition.

  • Best of the Month

    Best Films of the Month: June

    So hard! 24 films was the number of films we featured in June, a number that, as always, was whittled down from the immensely higher number of films our team watched. When you're already picky, pruning your selections gets unbearably tough, but that's the point of this series—to highlight some of the truly best of the best, can't-miss shorts of the past month.

  • Festival

    Watch These Sundance 2018 Short Films Online Now

    It’s that time of year again, the Sundance Film Festival is a week away. We feature a lot of Sundance films on Short of the Week, hence our excitement for the 2018 program.

  • Black Filmmakers

    From Short Film To Series: 5150

    Director Denzel Whitaker and producer John Trefry joins us to discuss the release of 5150, a short film intended to be turned into a series.

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