When an annoying new stepfather moves in with his bratty kids, Penelope escapes to a treehouse above the clouds. All is well until she realizes she has no way back down.
After his mother's passing, a boy turns to a girl who claims her spaceship can take him to a planet for departed souls.
A $156 million winning lotto ticket turns a convenience store upside-down.
Prole 514 dreams about winning the Great Lottery. The lottery winner is transformed and allowed admission into the elite White society, where everyone is beautiful, young and happy. A vicious dystopian vision from Poland.
When a new bridge is built connecting his island to the mainland, a boy has to come to grips with the change and opportunities that come along with it.
Minhal Baig joins us to discuss her journey from short film to feature as Hala becomes the first narrative fiction film acquisition for Apple TV+
Told via time-lapse watercolor paintings, a tale of separated brothers, chance meetings and identity.
His life changed the day he released his dreamy short, The Ghosts, online and sent him down a new path to his debut feature, a Black List-honored script, and a pilot deal with Hulu for a new series.
Making a great short film requires a certain kind of alchemy; because there are no hard-set rules in regards to running time, subject matter, or even medium, filmmakers traverse a tricky path on the road to festival -- and online audience -- acceptance. I was lucky enough to sit down at the San Francisco International Film Festival with a few of the shorts filmmakers that were in attendance and get insight into their process, ask what lessons they learned on their latest productions, and find out what they believe makes a good short film.
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.
