S/W Awards
The Short Awards 2020
The S/W team honors the most noteworthy short film streaming releases of the past year.
Experimental
Yu Sun
Stay
Using hand embroidery on tracing paper, Stay depicts the relationship between a daughter and her absent father. It's a reminder to spend more time with the people you love, even if you are busy.
Drama
Shea Sizemore
Crab Trap
Crawling back from the edge of society, Thirsty tries to prove he's a "changed man" to his sister in order to gain access to his daughter once again.
Drama
Sunday Emerson Gullifer
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
A working theatre actor questions her calling when she plays Lady Macduff in an increasingly violent production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, with an internationally celebrated auteur director.
Comedy
Daniel Sorochkin
Check Please
In a fancy restaurant, Ben plans to propose to his long time girlfriend, Laura, only to find out that his ring was mistakenly sent to the wrong table.
Experimental
Matthew Rankin
The Tesla World Light
Nikola Tesla's best days are behind him. The inventor remains shut up in his room, alone with his thoughts, strange lights, and the pigeon he's in love with.
Experimental
Soetkin Verstegen
Freeze Frame
Identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice. The repetitive movements reanimate animals captured inside. A stop-motion animation using ice.
Horror
Jess O'Kane
Girl at Party
A mysterious and otherworldly teenage girl confronts the limits of her power when she meets a boy at a house party.
Drama
Khris Cembe
Soy una Tumba (Mum's the Word)
Silence separates father and son – then unites them – in Khris Cembe's richly atmospheric crime drama.
Documentary
Kevin A. Fraser
Twenty Eight Feet
A short documentary about David Welsford, who has given up the luxuries of land in search for happiness and adventure on a 50 year old wooden boat he restored from a scrap heap.
