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Short of the Week is now rockin’ it like 2009! Visit our new Facebook page and click the “like” button to get our curated short film selections right in your…

Word arrived Stateside this morning, not through any official announcement, but through the tweets of his friends and collaborators. Kon Satoshi, one of the leading lights of Anime, director of…

You don’t come across the winners of big, big awards on online sojourns often. DVD compilations and the omnipresent Shorts International seem to suck them up. I consider BAFTA to…

Short of the Week was just hit by the round of malware attacks affecting many innocent WordPress blogs over the last couple weeks. Fortunately, Google caught the infection early and…

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…

Philips and RSA are at it again for the 6th film in their Parallel Lines series. This one is set to be shot and screened in 3D and released this…

Latest work from Tomas Mankovsky who previously directed Sorry I’m Late.

From the video site we believe hosts some of the most impressive short films around, comes a much overdue official festival. And they’re going big. Open to all online videos…

Reign of Death, the subject of our recent feature review, is one of the most confidently stylish shorts we’ve seen in a while. Its director, Matthew Savage, has served as…

Blu is back with another monumental graffiti animation. They seem to grow larger in scale each time (duration too, Big Bang Big Boom is nearly 15 minutes of hand-painted stop motion!).…

Just stumbled upon something really cool by complete accident! Maybe I should be ashamed to call myself an <ahem> “short film expert” and not have heard of this since it’s…

Yesterday Sondhi posted his featured review of The Un-Gone. Earlier this week I got in touch with director Simon Bovey to dive a little deeper into the creative process behind…

MARS! from Joe Bichard and Jack Cunningham on Vimeo.
This stylized, short animation by Joe Bichard and Jack Cunningham tells the painfully familiar tale of one species colonizing another and sucking its…

It’s almost summer, and we’re heading into the thick of the festival season. A pretty big one just wrapped up in Toronto over the weekend, the Worldwide Short Film Festival,…

To keep you abreast of notable developments in the world of short film, I’ll weigh in on what has become a well-reported event on the internets—on Monday IGN released on…

I was catching up on some back catalog in the YouTube Screening Room this week when I stumbled upon this brief under-3 minute gem. The category of this post is ‘Filmmaker…

We’ve been taking it easy the last month, but we’re ready to kick it into high gear again with quality recommends. First though I want to weigh in on a…

I’ll be upfront, this is not a free film. It is available for $1 from Mubi, the new name of the website “The Auteurs”,  a nice service which fills a…

Animator Stephen Irwin, known for creating one of our favorite films of 2009, The Black Dog’s Progress, has just posted a newer piece titled Atomic Hubbub courtesy of Future Shorts.
Stephen…

Continuing what has become a beloved tradition, today kicked off the National Film Board of Canada’s Online Short Film Contest. We let you know about it last year too, but if…

A really exciting independent student animation, creator Christian Schlaeffer managed to find the geek buttons hidden somewhere on my body and hit them so hard that they overrode my brain—which…

I have to imagine you all are getting a bit tired of these overly short films I keep highlighting. Let’s see…1, 2, 3…by my count this is the 7th(!) of…

I show Canada to itself, the sum of ordinary things, ordinary things made miraculous!
Canada’s own Guy Maddin is delightfully weird. He is one of few successful feature filmmakers to…

Going to embark on some overdue maintenance over the next week or two. Mainly we’ll be updating broken links. If you’ve noticed past entries that no longer connect to video,…

Philips’ has been a good friend to online short film. Carousel became a surprise hit last year, and before that they perfected the auteur/commercial crossover along with Wong Kar Wai in…