With UK's leading short film festival forced online, we dive into the Encounters 2020 programme and take a look at what the festival has to offer this year - including some new films from some old S/W favourites
A girl comes back home to an oppressive living room and throws up acrobats in front of her family.
Two runaway teens steal a car with dreams of driving down to Florida, but things take a turn after a dangerous game.
An unexpected discovery forces Britannia, a queer Libyan teenager, to question whether to stay or flee his beloved homeland.
Winners of the SOTW Awards 2013 New Media category sit down to discuss the importance of story and the need for funding in this roundtable discussion about the future of the industry.
After a visit from the ghost of her grandmother, a woman discovers a mysterious pepper plant which causes her to question whether she will follow in her mother’s footsteps or take a different path.
Leaving you with more questions than answers, it would have felt wrong to let the recently featured short film 'BAG MAN' pass-by without talking a bit more about the filmmaking and storytelling involved. Having tried to leave the article on the film as vague as possible to avoid spoiling the impact of the movie, we took the chance to speak to directorial duo Jonathan & Josh Baker about their head-turner of a short.
A bottom-dollar racer makes a sinister bargain with a mysterious benefactor who holds a grisly interest in the sport’s potential for carnage.
Recent featured filmmaker Courtney Hoffman lands a directing gig at Spielberg’s Amblin Partners off the strength of our recently featured film “Good Time Girls”
Created by S/W alum MacGregor and including films from previously featured directors Ruairi Robinson and Tim Hyten, 'A Thousand Suns' is a new Short Film anthology "serving up a “hallucinogenic cocktail of sci-fi dreams and nightmares".
