Festival
A Shorts-centric Preview of SXSW 2025
With more than 21 S/W alums featured in the 2025 SXSW lineup, let’s dive into their films and see what they have in store!
Festival
Sundance Film Festival 2023: A Short-Centric Guide
With Sundance 2023 finally back in-person (after the last two editions happened digitally only), here are our recommendations of what to watch at this year's festival
Festival
A S/W-Centric look at TIFF 2022
Programmer Céline Roustan highlights the must-watch films, from S/W alums, at TIFF 2022
Horror
Nuhash Humayun
Moshari
Two sisters are forced inside a mosquito net (moshari) to survive — but can they survive each other?
Article
The Curation Problem & How to do Submissions Right
Curation is Broken. We need to start by getting one thing straight—most of the curation we talk about today in our everyday digital lives isn’t true curation at all.
News
SXSW Filmmakers Q&A
As the SXSW Film Festival gears up this weekend, regular SOTW contributor, Jason B Kohl, sat down with two filmmakers from UCLA's MFA Directing Program en route to Austin. Their shorts couldn't be more different from each other in every aspect from production through post, but the two had many common insights to share.
Adventure
Andrew S Allen
The Thomas Beale Cipher
Professor White is close to cracking the notorious, unsolved Thomas Beale Cipher, purported to hide the location of a fortune in gold in this animation by site founder Andrew S Allen.
News
CalArts Character Animation Program 2013
Year end projects have been delivered by BFA students of the CalArts Character Animation Program. The best of the best, 23 films, will screen tonight in the famous "Producer's Show", a faculty-juried showcase that is a popular event for industry to attend and see what the next generation of animation talent has to offer.
Article
2023: A Year in Review
A look back at the year that was 2023 and all we achieved on Short of the Week & Shortverse.
