With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers - Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi - step into the voters' shoes to narrow down the 45-title shortlists to their picks for the 15 short films that deserve to advance to the nominations round.

You’'ve seen the scenario before: some talented, young filmmaker releases his latest short film on Vimeo… and BOOM… practically overnight it goes viral. A few million views and a couple hundred thousand comments later, they garner industry attention, eventually cinching a movie deal with Hollywood.

Our Sundance correspondent reports back on her favorite shorts from the fest and celebrates a banner awards night for S/W alums.

Thunder Road is going to be a strong contender come the end of the year for a spot on our Best of 2016 list. It's also just got a fascinating backstory, so we decided to get in touch with the creator and star of the film, Jim Cummings, and get down with a quick hit Q&A.

How long should I make my short film? We attempt to answer this question by looking at statistics from short film festivals and our own database.

We've been fans of Dave Green since the beginning. His first short film, Meltdown, was a finalist in our Great Film Competition way way back in 2009 and set the tone for his style of dark yet playful humor driven by strong characters.

A collection of ten short films aiming to provide insight and provoke discussion around issues of mental health

We published part 1 of this fashion film roundup to honor the end of New York fashion week and since then London and Milan have had their turn. Now we're in the thick of Fashion Week Paris, the final of the 4 consecutive world fashion weeks, and at last here is part 2.

What are the best horror short films online? We let some of the most exciting genre-bending filmmakers we know pick their favorites in the hope of finding out.