Cleo Samoles-Little

  • Meet the Gatekeepers

    Meet the Gatekeepers: Jean Anne Lauer (Fantastic Fest)

    Jean Anne Lauer, director of short film programming at Fantastic Fest, joins us to discuss her experiences in the short film arena and what the festival is looking for in a selected film.

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    Action Nida Manzoor

    7.2

    A schoolgirl with amnesia wakes to a deadly ultimatum. Will she make it to the library to avoid disembowelment? Follow Cleo on a bloody journey of self-discovery in Nida Manzoor's action-comedy-teen genre mash-up.

  • 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.

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    Comedy Alison Rich

    The Other Morgan

    Morgan Yardley works as an exterminator and loves her little, unremarkable life, until she discovers there's another Morgan.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: May 2022

    A modern fairytale, a personal documentary about death and an absurd sketch comedy make an unusual trio in this Best of the Month playlist

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    Dramedy Sean Ellis

    Voyage d'affaires

    Jean-Paul Clément checks into a hotel and faces a personal dilemma in this short from Cashback director, Sean Ellis.

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    Dark Comedy Joel Jay Blacker

    Let's Do It

    In an attempt to spice up their relationship, Mark persuades his girlfriend Allie to help him throw an orgy...but things don't go as planned!

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    Documentary Enric Ribes

    5124.GREYKEY

    Memories of a father become faint and almost forgotten, but as a daughter looks through an old photo album, she finally begins to understand the man she knew as "Daddy" - José Carlos (aka Carlos Greykey)

  • The Short List

    The Short List: Elizabeth Lo

    With her debut feature 'Stray' impressing on the festival circuit in 2020, director Elizabeth Lo ('Hotel 22', 'Mother's Day') joins us to discuss her transition from short film to feature.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: December 2021

    A trio of animations make up the S/W team's final Best of the Month playlist from our 2021 coverage.

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