Festival
A Shorts-centric Preview of SXSW 2025
With more than 21 S/W alums featured in the 2025 SXSW lineup, let’s dive into their films and see what they have in store!
Drama
Hans Augustave
I Held Him
While a man falls deeper into the depths of pain and depression, his friend reluctantly chooses an uncomfortable solution to help him heal.
Documentary
Mark Columbus
Battle of the Jazz Guitarist
A deceptively simple film about “the Jimi Hendrix of Fiji,” forced to take a menial job in the United States when his wife became pregnant with the filmmaker.
Dark Comedy
Chester Vincent Toye
Hangtime
An eager young artist receives a disturbing and surreal introduction to the art world during the delivery of a controversial sculpture.
Action
Roy Arwas
Comrade Crunch
A retired Russian assassin attempts to relive happier memories through his favorite childhood cereal.
Interview
Interview: San Francisco Film Festival Shorts Directors
Making a great short film requires a certain kind of alchemy; because there are no hard-set rules in regards to running time, subject matter, or even medium, filmmakers traverse a tricky path on the road to festival -- and online audience -- acceptance. I was lucky enough to sit down at the San Francisco International Film Festival with a few of the shorts filmmakers that were in attendance and get insight into their process, ask what lessons they learned on their latest productions, and find out what they believe makes a good short film.
Filmmaker Update
The Short Film Sequel: Oliver Goodrum to return to 'This is Vanity' story in new film
Oliver Goodrum returns to S/W, seven years after we featured his film 'This is Vanity', to discuss returning to that story in follow-up short 'This is Iniquity'.
Article
Fashion Film Roundup Part 2
We published part 1 of this fashion film roundup to honor the end of New York fashion week and since then London and Milan have had their turn. Now we're in the thick of Fashion Week Paris, the final of the 4 consecutive world fashion weeks, and at last here is part 2.
Documentary
Duncan Cowles
In the Company of Insects
Prompted by the death of his grandfather, a filmmaker comes to terms with his feelings of loss by focussing on something smaller.
