A Shorts-centric Preview of SXSW 2025
With more than 21 S/W alums featured in the 2025 SXSW lineup, let’s dive into their films and see what they have in store!
With more than 21 S/W alums featured in the 2025 SXSW lineup, let’s dive into their films and see what they have in store!
An apathetic teenager with sex on his brain decides to ditch school. The decisions he makes culminate into something of a waking nightmare, tearing apart any facade he has put on and revealing his true personality.
Director Rob Savage joins us to reveal how he took a 2-min lockdown prank and turned it into Shudder feature 'Host'.
With 41 full-ride Division 1 scholarship offers, Brandon Jones is one of the most heavily recruited high school football players in the country. But beneath the stats, the college offers, and the very real possibility of achieving his dreams of playing in the NFL, he’s just a kid. And he’s facing the biggest decision of his life.
It's 1987. Infatuated with the hottest girl in school, sixth-grader, Cameron, puts everything on the line - including his mullet - to win the girl of his dreams. Starring Hailee Steinfeld.
I watched a ton of skate and surf movie as a kid growing up in the hotbed of alternative sports culture, Southern California. I was an accomplished if not spectacular practitioner of both, and would eat up the opportunity to see new tricks, new athletes, performing at the top of their game, re-watching those VHS tapes to the point of destruction.
It's not just another day for this low-income family who prepare a party to celebrate their moment of fame on a popular game show.
Eleven year-old Emily is caught in-between friends; Brooke and her giggling group, and Rebecca, whose membership to the inner circle hangs by a thin thread.
Parents often push their children to follow in their steps. In this case, a father’s obsession with rally turns the kid into a car tire