Festival
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!
Documentary
James Burns
We Live This
We Live This is the story of four boys from the projects who have come together to pursue their dreams. Most New Yorkers who ride the MTA have opinions about them, but what lies beneath these young performers is more than what meets the eye.
Filmmaker Update
Alex Grigg offers Animation for Anyone with new educational resource
Alex Grigg joins us to explain how he's looking to lower entry barriers with new educational resource Animation for Anyone
Drama
Rory Waudby-Tolley
Tusk
A mammoth is defrosted into an unrecognisable future in Rory Waudby-Tolley's first-year Royal College of Art film.
Experimental
Alex Bernas
White Lilacs
Flowers, family, and friends. A contemplation on the balance between individual impulse and the social pressure to conform.
Interview
SOTW Award Filmmakers on the Future of Online Short Films
Our Award-winners take a seat at our "virtual" roundtable and offer up their thoughts on what it means to be a filmmakers today. Plus, learn about what they're planning next.
Fantasy
Russ Etheridge
Armstrong
As a shy woman secretly watches her crush from across the factory floor, the moon disappears and her world breaks into pieces like a giant jigsaw puzzle.
Comedy
Emily Brundige
Goldie
A giant girl (Charlyne Yi) feels out of scale in her colorful little town, only to realize she takes up just the right amount of space. (Currently Offline)
Experimental
Elizabeth Hobbs
I'm OK
Wounded in war, the painter Oskar Kokoschka reminisces about a turbulent love affair as he leaves the battlefield on a stretcher. Dream and history merge in this dizzying BAFTA-nominated animated short.
Interview
Interview with Jossie Malis (Bendito Machine)
Many filmmakers look at short films as their teenage yearshappy to get past them and on to something bigger. Jossie Malis is one of the few who understood the power he'd created with his minimalist animated short Bendito Machine and has spent the past 6 years building a franchise around it.
