We take a look at the 2021 Encounters Film Festival programme and pick out our highlights from this year's extensive selection of short films.
Motherhood, culpability and perception are explored in this trio of short films selected by our team as their favorites from our May coverage.
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.
Short of the Week is about more than just highlighting the best in bite-sized narrativesits also about fostering a dialogue amongst the innovative creators telling earth-shattering stories in new and interesting ways. And, what better time to do that than the week of the 2013 Short of Week Awards? All week, we'll be having roundtable interviews with the award winners to learn more about their creative process as well as the broader storytelling landscape where short films are proving to be the leaders in the industry.
A quick preview of the upcoming event, North America's largest short film specific festival, with shorts to check out, new work from alums, and a selection of shorts in the official program we've covered on this site.
We close out our SXSW Shorts Week coverage by highlighting 5 of our favorite films from the program that you should keep en eye out for in the coming weeks and months.
This year has been a big year for Short of the Week. Let's take a moment to look back on where we've been and look ahead to where we're going.
For the trio of films picked by our team as Best of the Month we've got stories of rule-breakers, magical portals and police camps.
Short of the Week alums the Moth Studio join five other talented animators in creating short films about Motherhood for the New York Times
In advance of Kickstarter's "homage to short-form filmmaking" we look back at some highlights that have emerged from the crowd-funding platform, as well as tip you to some short films to look forward to.
