Festival
A Shorts-centric Preview of SXSW 2025
With more than 21 S/W alums featured in the 2025 SXSW lineup, let’s dive into their films and see what they have in store!
Best of the Month
Best of the Month: August 2021
A compassionate indie drama, a game-changing CG animation and a hi-concept body-swap comedy with heart make up the trio of films selected by the S/W team as our 'Best of the Month' for August 2021.
Festival
A Shorts-centric Preview of SXSW 2023
Brimming with exciting filmmaking talent, the SXSW program can be a bit overwhelming. So if you're on the ground in Austin, Texas and looking for films to add to your watchlist, we've got you covered...
Comedy
Noël Loozen
SPOETNIK
Sam starts working at Spoetnik, a clandestine chips stand named after its specialty. Right across the street is a brothel with an alluring girl who evidently needs Sam’s help.
News
Oscar Short Film Nominees 2013
The nominations are in! There are a number of great films this year, and once again, some very notable absences (The Eagleman Stag). Who deserves to win? Click the images to view the film or trailer (if available) then vote below.
Dramedy
Ingrid Haas
Still Wylde
Gertie and her sometimes boyfriend, Sam, are faced with a major life decision only to realize that even when they know what they want, life has other plans.
Satire
Sam Roden
& Nick Hartanto
The Dishwasher
A chef at a fine dining restaurant in New York City asks a Mexican dishwasher to find good tortillas.
Sci‑Fi
Peter Collins Campbell
Variations on a Theme
A couple has mysteriously begun to split into many copies of themselves, and as they try to get a handle on the situation and their own relationship, a new mutation destabilizes their world even further.
Twentysomething
Sam has dropped out of college for reasons she can’t explain. On her 22nd birthday, she has one wish: to see a comet that comes once every 150 years. But her day spirals out of control when she faces questions about her future that she's not prepared to answer.
