Winners of the SOTW Awards 2013 New Media category sit down to discuss the importance of story and the need for funding in this roundtable discussion about the future of the industry.
You've seen the scenario before: some talented, young filmmaker releases his latest short film on Vimeo and BOOM practically overnight it goes viral. A few million views and a couple hundred thousand comments later, they garner industry attention, eventually cinching a movie deal with Hollywood.
DANIELS are on top of the world. How did they get there? We trace their careers from the beginning through a curated selection of their most important videos in our first-ever creator retrospective.
A promising musical duo tries to avoid a meltdown before the biggest show of their career.
Many filmmakers look at short films as their teenage yearshappy to get past them and on to something bigger. Jossie Malis is one of the few who understood the power he'd created with his minimalist animated short Bendito Machine and has spent the past 6 years building a franchise around it.
Determined to follow the rules in an active shooter drill, an overworked teacher battles the impossible choices a leader must make when the drill becomes a horrifying reality.
How long should I make my short film? We attempt to answer this question by looking at statistics from short film festivals and our own database.
Filmmakers Ross Hogg & Duncan Cowles join us to discuss their award-winning short film collaboration 'Isabella'
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.
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