Playlist
The 2016 Short of the Week Awards
Our annual celebration of the short films that delighted us the most from this calendar year.
Dramedy
Domee Shi
Bao
**Currently Offline** - An aging Chinese mom suffering from empty nest syndrome gets another chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings springs to life.
Experimental
Boris Labbé
La Chute (The Fall)
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - The consensus best animation of 2018 in Cartoon Brew's programmer poll, a startling, experimental vision of cosmic degeneration. As celestial beings descend to Earth, the world’s order unbalances. Initiated by these terms, a tragic fall leads to the parturition of crucial opposites: Hell and Heaven’s circles.
Interview
The Future of Animation | SOTW Awards 2013
SOTW Awards 2013 Animation winners discuss the future of the animation industrytheir experiences and their thoughts on how shorts are leading the charge for innovation.
Fantasy
Carlos Andre Stevens
The Alchemist's Letter
An estranged young man receives his late alchemist father’s very unique inheritance.
Comedy
Mark Waites
The 1st
Spend a day behind the scenes of test commercial, where a wall of milk bottles are to be blown up. It doesn’t sound like a tall order, but the clash of hard-working professionals and creative egos can endanger even the most straightforward of shoots.
Comedy
Milen Vitanov
My Happy End
This dog has a new best friend—his own tail! An award winning 2.5D animated short from director Milen Vitanov.
Drama
Tom Noakes
Nursery Rhymes
Why is a Metalhead singing Old MacDonald on the side of a rural highway? A surreal scene turns into an engaging mystery in this celebrated single-take short.
Drama
Ben Steer
Mamoon
When a mysterious force blots out the sun, a woman and her son flee through a world of dizzying towers and strange lights, seeking safety.
Sci‑Fi
Marcus Alqueres
The Flying Man
A mysterious vigilante takes to the skies to rid a city of crime
