Playlist
From Short Film to Series: Shorts That Evolved into TV Shows
A playlist exploring the short film-to-series pipeline - those shorts that evolve into episodic content
SOTW
Tweet Picks of the Week
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.
News
YouTube Goes ProPuts $100M in Original Channels
Since its launch in 2005, YouTube has clung tightly to its lead as the number one global site for video. But over the last few years, the amateur viral videos that made it famous have become more novelty and the former king of community-driven content has spent the last couple years trying different programs to up its quality.
Best of the Month
Best of the Month: January 2020
In this first Best of the Month playlist of the new decade, we take a look back our favourite content from the first 31-days of 2020
Article
Overwatch Short Films: As Story Fades From Gaming, Short Film Picks Up the Slack
The release of a new blockbuster game franchise "Overwatch" was notable for the way it was supported by 4 impressively animated short films. As gaming matures, short films are poised to pick up the narrative slack in developing game franchises into true, cross-platform IP
Drama
DANIELS
Possibilia
*Scroll down to view the film* Written and directed by DANIELS (Swiss Army Man), POSSIBILIA is an interactive love story set in the multiverse. Alex Karpovsky and Zoe Jarman star as a young couple contemplating breaking up. You witness the events from any of 16 different perspectives.
Adapted to Feature
From Record-Setting Kickstarter, to Short Film, to Netflix Original - The Long Journey of Ryan Koo and 'Amateur'
We catch up with the No Film School founder, and S/W alum, to discuss the process of making his new Netflix Original feature.
Article
Know Your Medium: Why Some Great Festival Films Fail Online
We've seen it time and time again. A film plays for an audience on a big screen in a dark theater and brings the audience to tears or has them buckled over in laughter.
VR & Interactive Series
Fractured Lands: The Fight For Falluja
Experience firsthand the battles Iraqi forces endured to retake the city of Falluja from ISIS, in this 360 VR film from the NyTimes' Pulitzer-winning journalist, Ben Solomon
Documentary
Faye Tsakas
Christmas, Every Day
From their rural Alabama home, two preteen girls market fashion and beauty products to thousands of online fans.
