It's fun when mainstream sites do pieces on short film, and in a rare treat, two such articles were published online today. First up is a brief article and slideshow from the online magazine Slate via is DoubleX blog, where contributor Sasha Watson explores the trend of fashion advertising films.
I just wrote up an, unfortunately, negative review of Luke Doolan's Oscar-nominated Miracle Fish, which gave me a chance to remark on the fantastic Blue-Tongue Film collective. NyTimes have gotten in on the act, writing a nice informative piece on Australia's favorite group of indie filmmmakers.
Experience firsthand the battles Iraqi forces endured to retake the city of Falluja from ISIS, in this 360 VR film from the NyTimes' Pulitzer-winning journalist, Ben Solomon
The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was perhaps the most widely documented act of political violence in history. The New York Times obtained, analyzed and mapped out thousands of cellphone videos, police bodycam recordings and internal police audio to provide the most complete picture to date of what happened.
Selected for the NyTimes Op/Docs, "Darlin" follows a Honduran family in the months after their separation under the zero tolerance policy.
First graders at a Tokyo public school are presented with a challenge for their final semester: to form an orchestra and perform at a school ceremony.
Winner of a 2021 Sundance Jury Prize, Topaz Jones's visual album is an autobiographical journey into his formative influences. Told in vignettes, it is modeled off the Black ABC's—an invention from 1970, when Black educators in Chicago developed an alphabet flashcard set to provide Black-centered teaching materials to the vastly white educational landscape.
Short of the Week alums the Moth Studio join five other talented animators in creating short films about Motherhood for the New York Times
From 309 to 45, the shortlists for the 2022 Academy Awards have been announced. We take a look at the lists, provide links for where to view them, and share our favorite film in the Animated Short Film, Documentary Short Subject & Live Action Short Film categories
Fresh off an Oscar win for The Queen of Basketball, Ben Proudfoot is back with his latest NYTimes Op/Doc film, a propulsive profile of the feminist trailblazer Patsy Takemoto Mink and the origin of the landmark legislation synonymous with gender equity in American sport—Title IX.
