The 2016 Short of the Week Awards
Our annual celebration of the short films that delighted us the most from this calendar year.
Our annual celebration of the short films that delighted us the most from this calendar year.
The Short of the Week team predict the winners of the three Oscar short film categories, ahead of the awards on Sunday 10th March.
A man attempts to leave an underground car park. Something doesn’t want him to.
Working underground in the year before the legalization of cinema in Saudi Arabia, a team of mostly women shoots its first feature-length movie amid societal pushback.
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.
Céline Roustan / Toronto ContributorAs 2017 comes to an end, I wrap my first year at Short of the Week. What a year since Jason welcomed me to the team — first as an intern, then a few months later as a full person.
Loading Docs release their fourth season of documentary short films as part of their ongoing initiative to develop and promote New Zealand’s filmmaking talent
Adam Banks / Cincinnati Contributor / @akbanx With each passing year, life seems to get busier and busier, and with this escalation of busy-ness comes an annoying choice: you can either sacrifice something you love doing because the other thing takes up too much time, or you can say “fuck it” and double down on both. For me, Thing 1 was screening and writing about films for Short of the Week (my favorite sidegig ever), and Thing 2 was working as a crew member on feature films (a massive timesuck that I very much love being a part of).
With fictional podcasts identified as a potential career path for directors, Stefanie Abel Horowitz (sometimes, I think about dying) joins us to discuss what it was like to work with Rami Malek and Cole Sprouse and the difference between directing podcasts and short films.
Happy Father's Day! Building on a playlist we did a few years back, the new episode of the Short of the Week YouTube shows features films for fathers. If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe to our channel to make sure you get each custom themed playlist as soon as it hits the web.