Award Winners
Marry Me
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008dir: Michelle Lehman, 7min—Every February in Australia one of the more unique short film festivals in the world goes down. TropFest started out modestly in 1993 but has grown into a huge nationwide event since then. Hundreds of entries are submitted each year and out of those 16 finalists are chosen. These films are then […]
Father and Daughter
Sunday, February 10th, 2008dir: Michael Dudok de Wit, 8:00—In 2000, Father and Daughter (watch it here) won the Academy Award for Best Short Film for its Dutch director Michael Dudok de Wit. For such a short (eight minutes) movie it has a remarkable capacity to move an audience. The story of a father who leaves his daughter […]
Mermaid
Monday, January 28th, 2008dir: Aleksandr Petrov, 9:48—Oscar nominations came out earlier this week, so congratulations to all the nominees in live-action and animation. A special Short of the Week kudo goes to Suzie Templeton whose stop-motion film Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf was nominated in the animation category. Her previous short Dog, was one of our Best Of […]