Rob Silvestri

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: June 2023

    Bean-headed beings, generational curses and ex-lovers all feature in the S/W team's Best of the Month picks for June 2023.

  • Oscar Films

    Oscars Short Films 2025: Predictions

    With the Oscars ceremony taking place this Sunday (March 2nd), the S/W team predict the winners in each of the three short film categories.

  • Festival

    Palm Springs Shortfest Online Film Festival

    Palm Springs! We are very close to the arrival of North America's most important film festival dedicated to shorts. I know not everybody follows the festival scene, and I know it gets confusing because I'm always tweeting that Festival X is the most-_____ festival in all of _____, but for short films, trust me, Palm Springs Shortfest is a pretty big deal.

  • Play
    Dark Comedy Jim Cummings

    The Robbery

    Jim Cummings (Thunder Road) follows up his Sundance winner with a new single-take short about a cash-strapped woman and her misadventures at a local convenience store.

  • Festival

    5 Shorts From SXSW 2020 To Watch Out For

    We close out our SXSW Shorts Week coverage by highlighting 5 of our favorite films from the program that you should keep en eye out for in the coming weeks and months.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: November 2023

    The perfect trio of films - a tense live-action drama, an insightful documentary and an insane animation - make up our Best of the Month picks for November 2023

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: March 2022

    A woman with a black hole for a head, a charity badminton tournament and a world full of happy dildos and flaccid-nosed creatures all feature in one of our weirdest Best of the Month playlists ever.

  • Best of the Month

    Best of the Month: May 2024

    Motherhood, culpability and perception are explored in this trio of short films selected by our team as their favorites from our May coverage.

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