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.
From the rise of the celebrity exec producer to the dwindling dominance of Animation's big studios, these are the Oscar short films trends you need to know about.
Gints Zilbalodis joins us to discuss how he made award-winning animated feature Away on short film funding
From pitching to production, director Seán Mullan joins us to discuss creating a short for Netflix's inaugural Documentary Talent Fund in the first of a new series of Educational posts here on Short of the Week.
Making a great short film requires a certain kind of alchemy; because there are no hard-set rules in regards to running time, subject matter, or even medium, filmmakers traverse a tricky path on the road to festival -- and online audience -- acceptance. I was lucky enough to sit down at the San Francisco International Film Festival with a few of the shorts filmmakers that were in attendance and get insight into their process, ask what lessons they learned on their latest productions, and find out what they believe makes a good short film.
Short film Oscar-winners share what it means to gain cinema's ultimate prize and the doors it opens once you've won
Director Rob Savage joins us to reveal how he took a 2-min lockdown prank and turned it into Shudder feature 'Host'.
It's award season in the Short Film world...that must mean it's time for our annual Short Awards.
From the perspectives of a dozen diverse viewers, this 12 minute documentary short explores the peculiar ritual of watching film. How is the medium experienced by people with sensory impairments, strong religious beliefs, or lovesickness? A story about moving images and their audience.
