Filmmaker Update
Filmmaker Update: June 2021
Short Film adaptations, Hollywood blockbusters, BBC Dramas & Jim Cummings - the latest news from our previously featured filmmakers.
S/W Awards
The Short Awards 2025: Nominees
Award season is here, and so is our annual Short Awards! Explore the 20 nominated films and cast your vote for the Audience Choice award.
Oscar Films
Oscar Short Films 2022: A Voter's Guide
With nominee voting for the 2022 Academy Awards opening tomorrow (Thu 27th Jan), we highlight the five standout films from each short film category.
Dark Comedy
Andrew Stephen Lee
Manila is Full of Men Named Boy
As Michael Jackson’s televised funeral plays throughout The Philippines despite terrorist attacks in the south, an estranged son purchases a child who can drink and smoke to impress his father.
Dramedy
Tyler Riggs
Blue Boy
Insecure New Jersey bodybuilder, Joey Rossi aka Joey Muscles, starts doing steroids in a last ditch effort to go pro.
Man and Boy
A father takes justice into his own hands when he thinks his son has been sexually assaulted
Fantasy
Eugen Merher
The Boy Who Couldn’t Feel Pain
In Grants, New Mexico there is a small-town legend of Chester, a street fighter who can't feel any pain.
Sci‑Fi
Ash Thorp
& Anthony Scott Burns
Lost Boy
An ambitious sci-fi concept heavily influenced by American action classics and Japanese samurai films, celebrated filmmakers Ash Thorp and Anthony Scott Burns team up with PostPanic (Sundays) for a dazzling new project.
Article
Oscar Short Film Trends
From the rise of the celebrity exec producer to the dwindling dominance of Animation's big studios, these are the Oscar short films trends you need to know about.
