Best of the Month
Best of the Month: March 2021
An Oscar hopeful, a playful metanarrative and a haunting animation make up the S/W team's highlights from our March coverage.
Adventure
Jade Baillargeault
& 6 Others
Mice, a small story
The "Lord of the Rings" in 4 min. In a dark subway tunnel, a group of mice find a gold ring-pull that seems to have a mysterious effect on one of them. Not so far from them, an owl and his enslaved rats are watching. The owl sends his rats to get hold of this strange object.
Dark Comedy
Andrew Theodore Balasia
On God
When Kream wakes up from a gunshot induced coma, he vows to change his violent ways. But when he returns home to his old neighborhood, his friends try to convince him to get revenge on his attacker, Big Mike, who has terrorized them and their families for their entire lives.
News
ScreenCraft Launches $20K Grant for Filmmakers
Money can be hard to come by for short filmmakers, but ScreenCraft is looking to change that.They’re announcing a short film production grant that is now taking short film screenplay submissions.
Documentary
Drew Christie
The Emperor of Time
The strange and sordid tale of Eadweard Muybridge, the man who accidentally invented motion pictures.
Romance
Josh Soskin
Moving Takahashi
An ambitious mover is blindsided when he discovers that one of the pieces of furniture left behind for him is a suicidal daughter with 20 minutes left to live.
Action
Colin Levy
& Hjalti Hjalmarsson
Agent 327
The latest from the innovative Blender Institute, the open-source software community tackles the spy genre in its first explicit pitch for a feature film
Festival
Winners, Alums, & Personal Faves: Céline Highlights the Best Shorts from TIFF 2018
Our Toronto bureau-chief shares her picks for the most interesting shorts coming out of TIFF.
Festival
An S/W-Centric Guide to SXSW 2021
With so much to watch at the 2021 SXSW festival, let S/W guide you through the program with our short film / feature highlights from our previously featured filmmakers.
See You Soon
A young man travels across the country to spend the weekend with someone he's been talking to for months on a dating app, hoping to find the kind of romance he thought he'd never get to experience.
