W. Ian Ross

  • SOTW

    Welcome El Vez

    El Vez—a guest writer on past film picks—is joining the Short of the Week staff as a regular writer. So if you've enjoyed To Build A Home, Jojo In The Stars, Red Rabbit, there's more to come.

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    Drama Minka Farthing-Kohl

    Stray Dogs

    The sun beats down. Frank waits for the bus. His ice cream melts. A stranger asks to borrow his phone. Stray dogs roam the streets.

  • News

    Oscar 2010 Short Film Winners Announced

    This was a strong year for short films. I can tell by the divided results from our Oscar poll that had close battles in both the animated and live action categories.

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    Documentary Grant Slater

    Mammoth

    In the remote Russian Arctic, an aging scientist and his son are trying to recreate the Ice Age. They call their experiment Pleistocene Park—a home for woolly mammoths resurrected by modern genetics that could help defuse a carbon time bomb and slow down global warming.

  • Article

    Oscars 2021: The Short Films battling for an Academy Award

    With Oscar voting starting tomorrow, the S/W team explores the shortlists for the 2021 Academy Awards and highlights our favorite film in the Animated Short Film, Documentary Short Subject & Live Action Short Film categories

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    Thriller Simon Dymond

    Wash Club

    When an aspiring journalist hears rumours of a tumble-drier cult on campus, he launches an investigation that quickly snowballs into a social phenomenon.

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    Documentary Anders Hammer

    Do Not Split

    Experience a ground-level view of the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in this Oscar-nominated short from Field of Vision. Visceral and pulse-pounding, Anders Hammer provides unprecedented access to the participants as they fight against the mainland Chinese government—actions spurred by the passage of a new Beijing-backed national security law.

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    Documentary Drew Christie

    The Emperor of Time

    The strange and sordid tale of Eadweard Muybridge, the man who accidentally invented motion pictures.

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