S/W Awards
The Short Awards 2025: Nominees
Award season is here, and so is our annual Short Awards! Explore the 20 nominated films and cast your vote for the Audience Choice award.
Documentary
Elivia Shaw
The Clinic
For a few hours every Saturday, Dr. Marc Lasher and a group of volunteers provide free medical care and clean needles to IV drug users from across Fresno County, California.
Adventure
Jonathan Kim
The Happiest Monster
A lo-fi animation by CalArts student Jonathan Kim that proves a film doesn't need a big budget and production polish to entertain.
Comedy
Nicolas Ménard
Wednesday with Goddard
Winner of Best Animation at SXSW 2017, a personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair.
Festival
Showtime SHORT Stories: Hertzfeldt, Langan, Scher + More
So in my rush to post the new PES film, I failed to realize it was just one in a series of top-notch releases by the premium cable giant, featuring new or web-premiere work by several of the most unique and beloved short-form animators out there. If you love animation you should know these folks and be stoked about this collection Showtime has put together.
Filmmaker Update
Filmmaker Updates: Awards & In Development
Wait! Did S/W alums just clean up at the Oscars? We've got some juicy updates from our previous featured filmmakers.
Horror
Daniel Zimbler
Exit
At a country manor in Edwardian England, a parlor trick becomes a bewitching, as one of the guests gets his dark desire.
Horror
Anna Chazelle
Narrow
In a post-apocalyptic world where survival means never stepping off a thin narrow path, a lone woman must evade a creature who stalks her every move.
Interview
Q&A w/ Sundance filmmaker Emily Carmichael (The Hunter and the Swan...)
We invited the lovely and talented Emily Carmichael to answer a few questions over email regarding her short film, The Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting, which incidentally was, by far, one of our favorite Sundance films of the year.
Fantasy
Mohamad El Masri
Other Other
Myka and Spyro have been dating online for a year when they decide to meet in person for the first time and discover that they live in alternate worlds, preventing them from being together.
