Jason Baum

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    Dark Comedy Jason LaMotte

    The Terms

    Some family feuds are easily settled—others require extreme terms.

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    How We Launched Our Film Online: The Thomas Beale Cipher

    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.

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    Horror Jason Eisner

    Treevenge

    Maniacal Lumberjacks!!! Shady Tree Dealers!! Corny Dads and Sex-crazed Teens!! It's Christmas and there are some trees that can't take anymore...warning—: hilariously graphic violence ahead.

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    Documentary Andrea Lewis

    Hearing Madge

    Many remember the dead by listening to their recorded voices or favorite music. Jason Leach goes one step further with his unique pressing process for vinyl records.

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    Oscars Short Films 2025: A Voter's Guide

    With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers - Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi - step into the voters' shoes to narrow down the 45-title shortlists to their picks for the 15 short films that deserve to advance to the nominations round.

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    Oscar Short Films 2024: A Voter's Guide

    With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers, Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi, take on the role of voter and whittle the 45-title shortlists down to the 15 short films they think should advance to the nominations round.

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    The ShortList Online Film Festival: Part 2

    No preamble, if you want to learn more about this fantastic online competition, check out the first half of our coverage from yesterday. Again, due to embedding restrictions, please visit the festival website to view the films.

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    Oscars Short Films 2025: Predictions

    With the Oscars ceremony taking place this Sunday (March 2nd), the S/W team predict the winners in each of the three short film categories.

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    Best of the Month: August 2021

    A compassionate indie drama, a game-changing CG animation and a hi-concept body-swap comedy with heart make up the trio of films selected by the S/W team as our 'Best of the Month' for August 2021.

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    We all have our tastes when it comes to short films. We writers thought we'd make it easy for you to find your taste by allowing you to follow our individual RSS feeds.

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