Festival
Sundance Film Festival 2025: A Short-Centric Guide
Céline gives our annual preview of Sundance's slate with a specific eye to the alums and shorts we're excited for.
Sci‑Fi
Joe Sill
The Cloud Racer
Set in the near future, a young man and his blue-collar mechanic father compete in a qualifier for an advanced racecraft competition, through a treacherous course against elite racers that runs through the now "Ghost City" of Los Angeles.
News
Shakeups at Vimeo
In the wake of high-profile depatures at video sharing service Vimeo, an article in Indiewire questions how close the company is to achieving its goal of creating a marketplace for content creators and their audiences.
SOTW
Celebrating Philip Seymour Hoffman Through Shorts
Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the great actors of our time has sadly and prematurely died today. We don't have any special remembrances to share, and we'll abstain from any testaments to his character, leaving that to those who knew him.
The Last Leatherman of the Vale of Cashmere
An aging Leatherman makes a weekly pilgrimage to the cruising destination of his youth.
Interview
The Future of Animation | SOTW Awards 2013
SOTW Awards 2013 Animation winners discuss the future of the animation industrytheir experiences and their thoughts on how shorts are leading the charge for innovation.
Born Again
When five amateur Satanists have their dark ceremony go horribly wrong, they call forth the holy shit moment of the millennium.
Sci‑Fi
Yves Paradis
M52
In one week increments, Yves Paradis worked on an unscripted, improvised animation, starting only with the concept of a character pushing a big cube in the desert. The result is an unexpected science fiction adventure into a distant future of mankind.
Festival
Palm Springs Shortfest Online Film Festival
Palm Springs! We are very close to the arrival of North America's most important film festival dedicated to shorts. I know not everybody follows the festival scene, and I know it gets confusing because I'm always tweeting that Festival X is the most-_____ festival in all of _____, but for short films, trust me, Palm Springs Shortfest is a pretty big deal.
