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.
A father and mother are faced with the painful task of washing and shrouding their deceased transgender daughter. When no one agrees to wash her, how far is the father willing to go to make sure his child is washed?
When a reporter uncovers a file that reveals a shocking series of child-abuse allegations in Idaho's Boy Scouts, the investigation rattles a tight-knit community and implicates the Mormon Church.
It's that time of year again, summer is drawing to a close and that can only mean one thing..
We catch-up with S/W alums Mikey Please & Renee Zhan at Sundance Film Festival ’19: London
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.
Prepare to be tense, teased and touched as the Short of the Week team pick their latest Best of the Month films from our April coverage.
From the creative duo behind "Greener Grass", a new short. A little boy feels betrayed when his mother has another son and decides to give her a taste of her own medicine—by summoning another mother.
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.
