Best of the Month
Best of the Month: April 2021
A trio of haunting films make up the S/W team's Best of the Month picks for April
Fantasy
Maegan Houang
In Full Bloom
The story of Cecile, an older Vietnamese-American hoarder, whose life is upended when worms open a black hole in her house and threaten to take all her stuff.
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SotW + PBS Show: Kinetic Editing The Films of Max Joseph
We totally adore this edition of our YouTube show! It's our shortest playlist yet, but perhaps the most intriguing. Our indomitable host, Ivan Kander, puts his critic hat firmly on to praise the innovative editing work of rising short form star Max Joseph.
Drama
Sofia Coppola
Lick the Star
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - A cruel clique of high school girls obsessed with social life wreak havoc on their classmates with their psychological torment in this early film by Sofia Coppola.
Comedy
Conor Byrne
Foureyes
A 10-year-old boy is thrust into the tumultuous world of puberty when he gets a new pair of eyeglasses.
Best of the Month
Best of the Month: November 2021
With scary season ending in October, November was the month we saw a number of Oscar contenders released online - many of which feature in our 'Best of the Month' selection.
Best of the Month
Best of the Month: July 2022
An evocative summer hangout, a delicately-handled school shooter narrative and a freak out in the woods make up our Best of the month picks for July.
Filmmaker Update
Filmmaker Updates: March 2021
With the 2021 festival season now underway and annual awards starting to be handed out, we take a look at what some of our previously featured filmmakers have been up to over the last couple of months.
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Top Ten Shorts of 2017 - Jason Sondhi
Jason Sondhi / NYC Co-Founder & Managing Editor / @jasondhiIn 2017 I fell back in love with shorts. I'd spent 2016 in a bit of burnout—after close to 5 years on Vimeo's Staff Picks team, the daily grind of watching had started to take its toll.
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S/W 2018 Year In Review
A reflection on a great 2018 in short film curating, a peek ahead to 2019, and a playlist of shorts that were especially beloved by our curators.
