S/W Awards
The Short Awards 2020
The S/W team honors the most noteworthy short film streaming releases of the past year.
Interview
The Importance of Sound with David Kamp
"My goal is always to provide each film with a unique sound world and sonic style" - Sound Designer, Composer and Sound Artist David Kamp joins us to discuss the role sound plays in a successful short film
Interview
SOTW Award Filmmakers on the Future of Online Short Films
Our Award-winners take a seat at our "virtual" roundtable and offer up their thoughts on what it means to be a filmmakers today. Plus, learn about what they're planning next.
Article
Fashion Film Roundup Part 2
We published part 1 of this fashion film roundup to honor the end of New York fashion week and since then London and Milan have had their turn. Now we're in the thick of Fashion Week Paris, the final of the 4 consecutive world fashion weeks, and at last here is part 2.
Article
An Examination of Gender Representation in Short Film
We take a look a our submissions & selections data and ask whether short film is doing enough to help find a gender balance in the film industry?
BIPOC
The Short List: Minhal Baig Interview
Minhal Baig joins us to discuss her journey from short film to feature as Hala becomes the first narrative fiction film acquisition for Apple TV+
Festival
Online Now: The 9th Annual "My French Film Festival"
((The Festival is now over, and the links to the films have expired) We preview and link to the 10 short films you can watch for free in this year's "My French Film Festival"—Unifrance's innovative online celebration of contemporary French cinema.
Interview
Interview: San Francisco Film Festival Shorts Directors
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.
Article
How We Launched Our Film Online: The Thomas Beale Cipher
On January 24th, 2011, Jason Sondhi and I released our festival-winning short film, The Thomas Beale Cipher, out onto the great wild web. Like many filmmakers, I wrestled with the decisions of when and how to put my film online.
Adapted to Feature
"Prospect" filmmakers Zeek Earl & Chris Caldwell on adapting their short film into a cinematic Sci-Fi Feature with an Indie Budget
One of the standout short films of 2014, over 4 years later Prospect the feature hits nation-wide theaters today. We chat with Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell about the process of bringing their vision to life.
