David Christensen

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    Documentary Ben Proudfoot & Kris Bowers

    A Concerto is a Conversation

    Nominated for an Academy Award®, a virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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    Oscars Short Films 2025: A Voter's Guide

    With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers - Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi - step into the voters' shoes to narrow down the 45-title shortlists to their picks for the 15 short films that deserve to advance to the nominations round.

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    Horror Henry Kaplan
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    We Together

    Director Henry Kaplan breathes life into the undead with this energetic tale of a zombie awakened.

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    Horror Rob Savage

    Salt

    A demonic presence closes in on a mother and her sick daughter. Their only protection - a ring of Salt.

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    Lessons From a Decade of Short Film (2010-2019)

    The 2010s was the decade that streaming video exploded into the mainstream, read how Short film drove improvements in streaming quality, shaped how films are made, defined new genres, and changed how we think about film releases.

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    Sci‑Fi Sophia Banks

    Proxy

    "Proxies" can be rented to anyone. They can be anyone. It's the ideal service for someone who wants to live their fantasy and an ideal job for someone who wants to escape their reality.

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    Fantasy Jonatan Schwenk

    ZOON

    In the dark swamps of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming axolotls are in heat, nuzzling and nibbling one another’s limbs. Soon a much larger, two-legged forest-dweller encounters the lustful group and reaches down to gobble one of the small shimmering creatures. While dawn is slowly breaking, a cheerful feast begins.

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    Oscars Short Films 2022: The Films Battling for an Academy Award

    From 309 to 45, the shortlists for the 2022 Academy Awards have been announced. We take a look at the lists, provide links for where to view them, and share our favorite film in the Animated Short Film, Documentary Short Subject & Live Action Short Film categories

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    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.

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    Experimental Eddie Alcazar & Flying Lotus
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    FUCKKKYOUU

    A humanoid creature struggles with its identity and gender when faced with rejection in this time-traveling science fiction horror.

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