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.

It's time for a change.

This year marks the 15th edition of the Short Awards - with 2022's 'Short of the Year' soon to be announced, we take a look back at our previous winners and ask...Are these the best films we've ever featured on the site?

A meditative doc, a twisted FX piece and a layered coming-of-age tale make up our Best of the Month picks for December 2023

Concussed football players, an inventive docu-drama and virtual ragdoll puppets featuring in this eclectic trio of films chosen by our team as Best of the Month for June 2024