Film Independent

  • S/W Awards

    The Short Awards 2020

    The S/W team honors the most noteworthy short film streaming releases of the past year.

  • 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.

  • Article

    Oscar Short Films 2024: A Voter's Guide

    With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers, Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi, take on the role of voter and whittle the 45-title shortlists down to the 15 short films they think should advance to the nominations round.

  • BFI London Film Festival

    A Shorts-Centric Preview of London Film Festival 2020

    We take a look at the programme for the 64th edition of the BFI London Film Festival and highlight the short films from S/W alums and the features from directors who started in short film.

  • BIPOC

    The Short List: Minhal Baig Interview

    Minhal Baig joins us to discuss her journey from short film to feature as Hala becomes the first narrative fiction film acquisition for Apple TV+

  • Interview

    Interview with Lewis Arnold (Charlie Says)

    With his latest short Charlie Says having just featured on SotW and its simple yet powerful narrative still resonating through our minds, we spoke to director Lewis Arnold about basing a film on his own childhood experience, shooting on 35mm and releasing a 24-minute short online.

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