General Stories

  • Interview

    The Future of Animation | SOTW Awards 2013

    SOTW Awards 2013 Animation winners discuss the future of the animation industry—their experiences and their thoughts on how shorts are leading the charge for innovation.

  • Netflix Streaming

    The Ten Best Short Films on Netflix

    Like short films? Have access to a Netflix account? Here are the 10 films worth your time [Updated March. 2025]

  • News

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    'Fast & Furious' director Justin Lin helms Google Spotlight Stories' first live-action 360 project which sees downtown Los Angeles under alien attack after a meteor shower. Best viewed on YouTube App (Android) or Google Spotlight Stories app (iOS)

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    Comedy Sara Gunnarsdóttir / created+written by Pamela Ribon

    My Year of Dicks

    An imaginative 15-year-old is stubbornly determined to lose her virginity despite the pathetic pickings in the outskirts of Houston in the early 90’s.

  • Filmmaker's Guide

    How I Made a Short Film with Netflix

    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.

  • SOTW

    Top Ten Shorts 2017 - Georg Csarmann

    Georg Csarmann / Vienna Contributor / @georgcsarmann Recently I had the opportunity to give a guest lecture at my alma mater to talk about S/W, online curation and short films in general. It was the perfect occasion to think about how the state of short-filmmaking and online distribution has changed in the past 7 years since I came on-board of S/W.

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    Documentary Adam Loften & Mary Fowles

    Welcome to Canada

    Mohammed Alsaleh is a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada after fleeing torture and imprisonment by the Assad regime. While rebuilding his life in Vancouver, he assists newly-arrived Syrian refugee families to resettle, finding new homes and new beginnings.

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    Romance Abijeet Achar

    Mysore Magic

    During a 1982 university disco competition in Mysore, India, a young man from a high-caste family and a young woman from a small island in Africa embark on an unlikely romantic adventure.

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