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
Alexandra Kern
& Lina Abascal
Stud Country
Stud Country, the largest queer country western line dancing event in America, was created to preserve Los Angeles' little known 50+ year queer line dancing tradition. Despite its success and fiercely committed community, the event is set to lose its venue due to gentrification.
Action
Stephen Martin
Dead Hearts
A young mortician will give his heart away to find true love. A whimsical, gothic bedtime story filled with love, loss, taxidermy, Kung fu, and biker werewolves.
News
Hollywood's Embrace of the Short Film Tie-in
Are short film tie-ins the next trend in blockbuster film marketing? There is good reason to think so
Interview
Interview with Lewis Arnold (Charlie Says)
With his latest short Charlie Says having just featured on SotW and its simple yet powerful narrative still resonating through our minds, we spoke to director Lewis Arnold about basing a film on his own childhood experience, shooting on 35mm and releasing a 24-minute short online.
Festival
A Shorts-centric Preview of SXSW 2023
Brimming with exciting filmmaking talent, the SXSW program can be a bit overwhelming. So if you're on the ground in Austin, Texas and looking for films to add to your watchlist, we've got you covered...
News
Oscar Short Film Nominees
Via a live streaming broadcast beginning at 5:30 am where I am, this year's Oscar nominees were announced. I ended up hitting snooze and missed it, but I had an inkling that the information maybejust maybe, would not be that hard to find at a more sane hour of the day.
