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.

The indie-distributor will showcase Peter Huang's TIFF and Sundance hit "5 Films About Technology" in front of screenings of "Colossal" this weekend.

Adam Banks / Cincinnati Contributor / @akbanx With each passing year, life seems to get busier and busier, and with this escalation of busy-ness comes an annoying choice: you can either sacrifice something you love doing because the other thing takes up too much time, or you can say “fuck it” and double down on both. For me, Thing 1 was screening and writing about films for Short of the Week (my favorite sidegig ever), and Thing 2 was working as a crew member on feature films (a massive timesuck that I very much love being a part of).

We kick-off our SXSW Shorts Week coverage with this playlist of 8 short films for the 2020 program that are online and ready to viewed right now. #SXSWshorts

Short of the Week is kicking off a week-long celebration of short films that were set to play at the SXSW 2020 Film Festival. #SXSWshorts

"You have to be the biggest champion of your film" - Loran Dunn looks to help producers become less misunderstood in the first of a new monthly series on S/W

Horror shorts can be a lot of things: campy, funny, gory, spooky, even sweet. For this playlist we don't want any of that—these are shorts to inspire fear.

Strap-ons, discrimination, Sigmund Freud and pool parties all feature in this quartet of female-fronted shorts that make up Short of the Week's 'Best of the Month' selection for May 2021.

Our Toronto bureau-chief shares her picks for the most interesting shorts coming out of TIFF.