This year marked an interesting milestone for the Oscar nominated animated short films. For the first time in recent memory, people actually watched them.
As you might have noticed, this year we dispense with what has our been our traditional year-in-review Top Ten list (examples here) in order to highlight even more quality deserving content than that stale format allows. The SotW Awards are the result, and last week, after surveying an incredible year's worth of short film picks, we presented our favorite Animation, Live-Action and New Media pieces of 2011.
In a key step towards our ongoing goal of taking over the internet and ruling with an iron fist, Filmmaker Magazine has honored both Andrew and I as part of their popular annual feature, the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. You can skip straight to Scott Macaulay's great article on us here.
We've seen it time and time again. A film plays for an audience on a big screen in a dark theater and brings the audience to tears or has them buckled over in laughter.
A Shaman travels to the Netherworld in order to battle the soul of a giant battle machine in this ambitious science fiction short from director Marco Kalantari
The true story of Greg Packer, an average joe with an uncanny skill at making media appearances
In our recent reader survey, languishing far behind the other outlets through which we nakedly grasp for readers, was Twitter. A diminutive 4% of survey takers responded that it is their primary method of learning about new SotW content.
With the success a few big names like Louis CK and Aziz Ansari have had selling their work directly to fans, VHX announced it is launching their Artist Program to help other (hopefully, lesser known) artists do the same. It's the dream of content creators everywhere, right? Cutting out the middle man and selling your work directly to fans.
A woman is forced to rediscover her humanity in an increasingly digital world. A brand film for HP, directed by Olivia Wilde and starring Margaret Qualley.
After a bad breakup, Zoe Smallman decides to take down her ex-boyfriend in a wizard rock battle of the bands with help from her best friend, Charlie.
