Life's a breeze when your mom is an airplane! Yulya Aronova's Annie-nominated short film is child-like innocence and wonder epitomized.
For the 4th consecutive year the editorial team at Short of the Week is pleased to highlight (what we think are) the very best short films released online. Culling from the over 150 short films featured on the site in 2014, the SOTW Awards honor the current breadth of excellence in the short form.
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.
This is a film about stuttering. Oh, and also about apple trees, catcallers, Goethe's Faust, pigeons, forests and girls on horses.
After two tours in Fallujah during the Iraq War, US Marine Roman Baca came home a different person. To deal with his depression, anxiety, and anger, Roman turned to an unlikely place — ballet.
Sporting some of the best VFX worldbuilding we've ever seen, this ambitious 26min proof-of-concept centers on a famed cryptozoologist and his turn of the century hunt for the mythical Japanese mermaid, The Ningyo
What if fantasy characters from World of Warcraft existed in our world? That's what this documentary from Dublin explores, and I in turn explore how the film is perfect representative of short film today.
Short of the Week is about more than just highlighting the best in bite-sized narrativesits also about fostering a dialogue amongst the innovative creators telling earth-shattering stories in new and interesting ways. And, what better time to do that than the week of the 2013 Short of Week Awards? All week, we'll be having roundtable interviews with the award winners to learn more about their creative process as well as the broader storytelling landscape where short films are proving to be the leaders in the industry.
