For the 4th consecutive year the editorial team at Short of the Week is pleased to highlight (what we think are) the very best short films released online. Culling from the over 150 short films featured on the site in 2014, the SOTW Awards honor the current breadth of excellence in the short form.
In the Florida Everglades rabbit hunting is a rite of passage for young men, practiced since the early 1900s. The Rabbit Hunt follows a family as they hunt in the fields of an industrial sugar farm.
An egg and an apple build competing broadcast towers that vie for the attention of a transistor radio. With its complex characterization and narrative of animal evolution, competition and reproduction, SEED is a beautiful and sinister stop-motion story about the struggle to survive.
Desperate for work, an idealistic college student agrees to a one day trial as a door to door meat salesman.
An editorial-illustrator turned award-winning documentary filmmaker, Mickey Duzyj parlayed his breakthrough short film into a Netflix series—one that poignantly tells the surprising, and noble stories of some of sports' most infamous figures.
A second-generation Mexican migrant recalls how he worked the tomato fields to escape poverty and put himself through Law School in this poetic short doc
The viral success over the last 36 hours of the dark fan film POWER/RANGERS highlights the tremendous appeal of the genre. The fact that its creators are in potential legal jeopardy, illustrate the drawbacks.
On this Labor Day I hope your holiday goes better than Señor Olivares'. While trying to relax on the beach, Sea Monsters come to slaughter everyone.
With her debut feature 'Stray' impressing on the festival circuit in 2020, director Elizabeth Lo ('Hotel 22', 'Mother's Day') joins us to discuss her transition from short film to feature.
