Ivan Li

  • SOTW

    The SotW + PBS Show: Short Films From Young Hollywood

    This time out Ivan takes us through a tour of recent short films that from young Hollywood actors. With the cost of production dropping and distribution easier than ever before, several young talents are quickly jumping behind the camera.

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    SotW + PBS Show: Fan Films

    One of the most popular genres of short film online capitalizes on the popularity of existing properties—we're talking fan films! And like fanfic, fan films can be really, really cool. We haven't had a Fifty Shades of Gray moment for fan films yet, but looking at this playlist our own Ivan Kander has compiled for you, it's only a matter of time.

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    The SotW + PBS Show: Top Five No Budget Shorts

    Ivan Kander hosts a new episode of our officially "long-running" series of YouTube-hosted short film episodes. This time out, he seeks to prove that "you don't need a huge budget to make an awesome short.

  • SOTW

    Announcing the SOTW + PBS YouTube Show!

    We're excited to announce a partnership with PBS Digital Studios (home of Off Book, the Idea Channel, Inventors, and other edutainment shows) to bring you a new show of curated short films on YouTube. Each episode will feature 3-5 curated shorts around a theme or trend in the world of innovative stories.

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    Sci‑Fi K-Michel Parandi

    XYZ, From Fire and Dust

    *Currently Unavailable* XYZ, From Fire and Dust is an Ensemble Science Fiction series that takes you on a journey through the technological and political landscape of a future America. We follow the Noo, a trio of artificially printed angels as they unleash mayhem. In XYZ: mind is data, body is hardware.

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    Documentary Maxim Arbugaev & Evgenia Arbugaeva

    Haulout

    A lone man waits in a hut in the desolate expanse of the Russian Arctic, he is holding out in order to observe a natural event that occurs here every year, but ocean warming is taking its toll.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: October 2022

    A tense morality tale, one of the best horror shorts to ever feature on our pages and an inspirational documentary released for Indigenous Peoples' Day make up our Best of the Month picks for October.

  • News

    Oscar Short Film Nominees

    Via a live streaming broadcast beginning at 5:30 am where I am, this year's Oscar nominees were announced. I ended up hitting snooze and missed it, but I had an inkling that the information maybe—just maybe, would not be that hard to find at a more sane hour of the day.

  • SOTW

    Short Films in 2013——A Year in Review

    It's been an eventful and film-packed year for Short of the Week. Let's take a moment to look back at the biggest and most important events in the world of short films from this past year.

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    Documentary Nickolas Duarte

    Jay

    A glimpse into the extraordinary and complex life of Jay Kyle Peterson, an abstract artist with an even more abstract past.

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