"You have to be the biggest champion of your film" - Loran Dunn looks to help producers become less misunderstood in the first of a new monthly series on S/W
Word arrived Stateside this morning, not through any official announcement, but through the tweets of his friends and collaborators. Kon Satoshi, one of the leading lights of Anime, director of the films Perfect Blue and Paprika, has sadly passed away at age 47.
The S/W team has voted. The Short Awards honor the most noteworthy short film streaming releases of the past year.
"The films that end up in the programme selection are the survivors of a very bloody battle" - Manchester Animation Festival's Steve Henderson is the latest interviewee in our Meet the Gatekeepers series.
How long should I make my short film? We attempt to answer this question by looking at statistics from short film festivals and our own database.
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.
An editorial-illustrator turned award-winning documentary filmmaker, Mickey Duzyj parlayed his breakthrough short film into a Netflix series—one that poignantly tells the surprising, and noble stories of some of sports' most infamous figures.
Recent recipient of 'Short of the Year' at the 2019 Short of the Week Awards, Director Oscar Hudson joins us to discuss our favourite short from 2018, his path into filmmaking and what we can expect from future projects
Toronto native Jamie Travis has been making short films for more than a decade. When he finally made the leap to features (his debut For a Good Time, Call premiered at Sundance and will hit cinemas this fall), he gave shorts lovers everywhere a wonderful gift by releasing all his previous work online.
