Best Documentary[php]playlist(7788);[/php] With technology giving a platform to hordes of tenacious, DSLR-wielding documentarians, the short doc has never been more popular, or so mind-numbingly repetitive. But, just when you think that every ornery old lady, sensitive "artist" or performer of a single human-pet-trick has had their life digitally preserved in a gauze of shallow depth of field, Sean Dunne comes around to show you how marvelously strange our human species is.

We're in the midst of a creative revolution with technology reshaping every aspect of filmmaking as we know it. These are the stories from a new generation of filmmakers blazing new trails.

We share some of the cool stuff Short of the Week featured filmmakers have been up to this past month.

Each member of the S/W programming team selects one short film deserving of a little extra love at the end of 2022

We recognize seven S/W alums with features at SXSW 2018, and look back on their previous shorts

Shakespeare adaptations, Steven Soderbergh collaborations and a bunch of new animated series' set for our screens. A round-up of all the projects in development from our Short of the Week alums

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