Gints Zilbalodis now hoping to "find good distributors" after his self-made film wins award in new section at Annecy
One of the standout short films of 2014, over 4 years later Prospect the feature hits nation-wide theaters today. We chat with Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell about the process of bringing their vision to life.
An optician grows tired of seeing the world’s faults too clearly as she encounters a line of customers who find increasingly baffling ways to use her equipment.
The simple line-drawn animation of a Billy Collins poem about the insignificant moment when your life flashes before your eyes.
We like reading up on animation festivals because more often than not you can find several of the winning short films online already. Ottawa International Animation Festival is North America's premier showcase for animation, and having wrapped up at the end of October has proven itself no exception—some of its excellent winners are already up on the web.
Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming in a gut-wrenching and visually brilliant student animation that promises to be a top contender for Oscar.
A young pyromaniac bear misses his mother in this Sundance and Ottawa favorite.
Yesterday afternoon saw the announcement of Sundance's short film lineup for 2014, 66 short films that will play Park City this upcoming January. The competition was fierce, with a revealed total of 8,141 submissions, but, of the myriad things you could do to catch the fleeting but powerful attention of a programmerwrite a great script, discover an amazing subject, or cast a big starkeeping your short film offline, sight unseen, conferred no advantage.
A teenage girl embarks on a pupil-dilating journey through rave culture after meeting a wild new friend on a bridge
In our recent reader survey, languishing far behind the other outlets through which we nakedly grasp for readers, was Twitter. A diminutive 4% of survey takers responded that it is their primary method of learning about new SotW content.
