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Festival Tribeca / April 18, 2011

It is April 18th, the first day in which you can make reservations via Tribeca’s new online distribution system in order to “virtually attend” the screenings of 9 new…

News / April 13, 2011

Nicolas Lesaffre or “Niko” is a talented freelancer based out of Paris and Hong Kong. A graduate of Supinfocom in 2004, his short film Hernando missed out on the wave…

Online Program / April 4, 2011

Yesterday Sci-Fi London concluded its annual 48-hour filmmaking contest. There are a lot of 48 hour competitions, but Sci-Fi London has created a fairly robust community around theirs, with…

SOTW / April 1, 2011

The competition is now closed. Thanks to all who participated!
 
Short of the Week presents The Great Film Competition!
We are on a quest to find great short…

Festival / March 25, 2011

Its been a couple of days since Andrew’s article detailing the path we took in putting our short film The Thomas Beale Cipher online. Some folks have taken it as…

Crowdfunding / March 24, 2011

Andrew W. Jones is a pretty unique filmmaker, the kind we like to highlight here on SotW. Frank Dancoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer was one our Top Ten short films of…

Article / March 23, 2011

On January 24th, 2011, Jason Sondhi and I released our festival-winning short film, The Thomas Beale Cipher, out onto the great wild web. Like many filmmakers, I wrestled with the…

News / March 11, 2011

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…

Playlist / March 9, 2011

You don’t need me to point out the extreme imbalance when it comes to the number of women in the film industry. Kathryn Bigelow earning the Oscar in 2010 for…

Festival / February 24, 2011

Last week we introduced the GoShort Festival’s online slate of short films, providing quickie reviews of 5 of the 10 selected films. Today we finish up the coverage by…

SOTW / February 22, 2011

Who do you think should win the Oscar for best short films? Vote Now.

Branded Content Online Program / February 22, 2011

The concluding chapter of  BMW’s branded documentary experiment which I’m posting a day late. Apologies, I know you must be simply FURIOUS with me!
No, really, if you’ve been…

Festival / February 20, 2011

The 2011 Movie Extra Tropfest short film festival took place today in Australia, and of the 16 films, Animal Beatbox by Damon Gameau was declared the winner.
The field…

Festival / February 18, 2011

It may not be Sundance or Cannes, but out of Nijmegen, Netherlands, the GoShort International Film Festival—an exciting, young European Short Film Fest—has put together a rather nice online…

SOTW / February 17, 2011

Yay. Our Facebook page hit 500 fans this morning. If you ask me it and Twitter are the best ways to follow Short of the Week, as we often…

Branded Film Online Program / February 15, 2011

3rd of this 4 part BMW series debuts today, titled “Reinventing Mobility”. In this installment our crew of talking heads gets a little more concrete about what we can…

SOTW / February 14, 2011

Oh yeah, it’s that day of the year. It’s a good blogging tip to have appropriately themed content for special occasions and holidays, but I’ve got nothing new. May…

News / February 11, 2011

If you live in the US, UK or Canada, you may be able to see the live-action, animated and documentary Oscar-nominated short film programs in a theater near you starting…

Branded Content Online Program / February 8, 2011

My particular bent is to render an optimistic future because we are rehearsing for our own future—why not do it as pleasantly as possible? —Syd Mead
The next installment…

Interview / February 7, 2011

Part 2 of Everything is a Remix dropped days ago and, based largely on its growing base of supporters, has since found an online audience of hundreds of thousands. We caught up with director, Kirby Ferguson, to find out how he managed to pull it all off.

Interview Sundance / February 4, 2011

Yesterday’s post, Sundance Short Films: Program 5, was the last batch of new 2011 Sundance films to come online, however we rage—rage I say! against the dying of Sundance-related content.…

Festival / February 3, 2011

Sundance is over, and with this, the last batch of 2011 Sundance short films released to the Screening Room, this unique collaboration between the most prestigious North American festival and…

Branded Content Online Program / February 1, 2011

BMW is of course no stranger to short film, they set the standard for branded short filmmaking with their amazing The Hire series in 2001 and 2002. They are…

SOTW / January 28, 2011

In our announcement Tuesday I mentioned my skepticism in finding any of the Short Film Oscar nominees online, but you, our readers, did not share my defeatist attitude and unearthed…

Festival / January 27, 2011

A new Thursday, a new set of Sundance shorts. This is the second of three batches of 2011 in-competition shorts that Sundance is sharing via the YouTube Screening Room, and…