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  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: November 2023

    The perfect trio of films - a tense live-action drama, an insightful documentary and an insane animation - make up our Best of the Month picks for November 2023

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    Horror Felipe Vargas

    Milk Teeth

    In this horror-fantasy fairy tale, an orphanage spirals into mayhem when a boy discovers a shadowy creature who comes to collect more than just the children's teeth…

  • Festival

    Portable Film Festival 2010

    The Portable Film Festival, an online festival with a number of categories from short films to music videos to art films, has just wrapped up and announced this year's winners. Previous SOTW's, Apricot and Sign Language (which also took the Virgin Media Shorts competition) earned praise this year, but the top prize went to the Spanish music video, Hamor.

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    Dark Comedy Don Hertzfeldt

    Ah l'Amour

    **CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - The genesis of the Don Hertzfeld cult is this beloved stick-figure animation of an earnest guy who is consistently struck down by unsympathetic women.

  • Article

    How We Launched Our Film Online: The Thomas Beale Cipher

    On January 24th, 2011, Jason Sondhi and I released our festival-winning short film, The Thomas Beale Cipher, out onto the great wild web. Like many filmmakers, I wrestled with the decisions of when and how to put my film online.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: October 2021

    Skateboarding, awkward encounters and a horrifying musical make up our Best of the Month picks from October 2021.

  • Filmmaker Update

    Filmmaker Update: Nov 2017

    Catch up on the achievements of Short of the Week featured filmmakers in the month of November

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    Documentary Matt Houghton

    Landline

    In 2010, a chaplain from Cheshire set up a helpline for gay farmers. 'Landline' journeys into the world of the people who called.

  • SOTW

    Student Film Series

    View the Films » Throughout the month of August, Short of the Week will be bringing you the best student films the online world has to offer. Student filmmakers have proven to surprise the established film world time and time again.

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