As the SXSW Film Festival gears up this weekend, regular SOTW contributor, Jason B Kohl, sat down with two filmmakers from UCLA's MFA Directing Program en route to Austin. Their shorts couldn't be more different from each other in every aspect from production through post, but the two had many common insights to share.
This Sundance horror-thriller is the year's scariest short. An illegal migrant worker decides it’s time to move on from picking crops and find a better job. Little does she know, insidious supernatural forces have a different plan for her. Some borders aren't meant to be crossed.
Director Eric Kissack's excellent short, Blessing in Disguise, is the rare romantic comedy film that is truly romantic and funny. The same could be said for his new indie feature film, Love, Sex, & Missed Connections.
A heart-wrenching story about a loving wife, mother and grandmother who succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease
A couple moves in together and discovers something that makes them question their apartment, their relationship and, you know, the universe.
A quiet, young woman moves into a new building and meets a reclusive engineer at the brink of completing a bizarre, extraordinary machine.
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.
Katie just found out that she has genital herpes. Enter the man of her dreams.
Photographer David Field’s eerie world comes alive in this ten minute fable of an elderly woman’s transformation.
