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).

With Sundance 2023 finally back in-person (after the last two editions happened digitally only), here are our recommendations of what to watch at this year's festival

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.

From the tired, disorientating daze of those early years to the 'what next' period when the children leave home - these seven shorts films look to encapsulate the rollercoaster ride of motherhood.

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

What are the best horror short films online? We let some of the most exciting genre-bending filmmakers we know pick their favorites in the hope of finding out.

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

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