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
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.
On January 24th, 2011, Jason Sondhi and I released our festival-winning short film, The Thomas Beale Cipher, out onto the great wild web. Like many filmmakers, I wrestled with the decisions of when and how to put my film online.
A plastic surgeon creates in real time, the new goddess of beauty.
A promising musical duo tries to avoid a meltdown before the biggest show of their career.
With the latest edition of the BFI London Film Festival set to begin on the 6th October, we take a look at the S/W filmmakers with titles screening at this year's event
Céline gives our annual preview of Sundance's slate with a specific eye to the alums and shorts we're excited for.
Before he was the fastest man alive, Usain Bolt was the boy who learned to fly.
An afternoon rehearsal for a high school girl's choir turns tense in Jennifer Reeder's surreal award-winning reverie on the process of coming of age.
In our announcement Tuesday I mentioned my skepticism in finding any of the Short Film Oscar nominees online, but you, our readers, did not share my defeatist attitude and unearthed a couple! Thanks go out to Hans and Sam, now you can watch one film from each of the 3 short film categories: Documentary Short Subject, Short Film (Live-Action) and Short Film (Animation). Follow Short of the Week on Facebook [caption id="attachment_4586" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Click to Watch"][/caption] Documentary Short SubjectThe Warriors of Quigang: A Chinese Village Fights Back In Quigang, a tiny hamlet of 1,900 people, a nearby chemical plant is polluting the land and water.
