Best of the Month
Best of the Month: May 2020
Dystopian worlds, unexpected Horror and Milk & Cookies - join us for our 'Best of the month' round-up.
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.
Suicide by Sunlight
Valentina, a day-walking Black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, is forced to suppress her bloodlust to regain custody of her estranged daughters.
Drama
Gabriel Bisset Smith
Thrush
A heart-breaking tale of love and loss told through a sequence of snapshots.
Dramedy
Ivan Kander
Minyan Duty
Hoping to say Kaddish after their mother’s death, Leah and Ariel find themselves one person short of making a Minyan—the quorum of ten Jewish adults required for evening prayer service.
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
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.
Sci‑Fi
Nisha Ganatra
Beholder
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - When every parent is selecting for desirable traits, one expecting mother "rolls the dice" and tests the morality of the system.
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.
