In a key step towards our ongoing goal of taking over the internet and ruling with an iron fist, Filmmaker Magazine has honored both Andrew and I as part…
Our little digest rolls along. Sooner or later I’ll get creative with the formatting, until then here are the tweets!
Huff Post contributor lists his faves from Palm Springs Shortsfest…
6 new animated shorts have come online to the Gobelins YouTube channel, representing the graduation work of its 3rd year students at the Paris campus. The name “Gobelins” may…
Told you we’d make this a weekly thing. A great week in quickie Twitter-recommends, exemplified by a killer lineup of student animations.
The Archiver: Pretty rad CG short animation from…
Sunday night at the Edinburgh Film Festival, the much-promoted Nokia Shorts Competition drew to a close with the debut screening of the 8 finalist films. Shot entirely on Nokia…
In our recent reader survey, languishing far behind the other outlets through which we nakedly grasp for readers, was Twitter. A diminutive 4% of survey takers responded that it is their primary…
Popular sports writer Bill Simmons came up with this idea once in one of his podcasts, I can’t remember which one, but he claimed that at any given moment in…
Indeed. Congrats to the fathers out there, and to all of us who have, or have had fathers (everyone I guess). I decided to post a few recommendations from our…
A week ago we asked you to participate in our reader poll. And you did. I’ve since compiled and analyzed the results. What did we find? Check out the overview of…
Palm Springs! We are very close to the arrival of North America’s most important film festival dedicated to shorts. I know not everybody follows the festival scene, and I…
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Joseph Pierce tells us about his animation process and the importance of staying true to your own ideas.
There goes your weekend. Cinephile streaming website MUBI is partnering with La Semaine de la Critique (Critics’ Week) in Cannes to celebrate 50 years of its programming by showing a…
Shahir Daud, director of Double Happy, shares why he made the film, what it’s like shooting with a RED camera, and how to shoot cinéma vérité.
Short of the Week editors, Jason and Andrew, will be attending Seattle Int’l Film Festival’s Shortsfest Weekend this Friday through Sunday attempting to watch as many short films as possible.…
The winner of our Great Film Competition will make its online debut tomorrow! No reservations needed—just pop back here tomorrow to catch it.
We saw more submissions than we…
Yeesh, I’m sure some of you are getting dispirited with the sheer number of short films to watch lately, but there is no let up. It’s the summer festival…
The Tribeca Film Fest is over, and the majority of the shorts we featured last week are no longer available. As a parting gift however, the festival has made…
THE FINAL DAY! for those filmmakers who wish to enter their film in The Great Film Competition. We’re accepting films that haven’t yet been available to the online public. So…
This is the second part of our coverage of the 9 in-competition short films Tribeca (Online) has made available, and the 3rd (and last) post overall in our coverage…
Just one more week for those filmmakers who wish to enter their film in The Great Film Competition. We’re accepting films that haven’t yet been available to the online public.…
Friday I reviewed the 9 retrospective short films available to watch for free in the Tribeca Streaming Room. They underwhelmed me, which I found odd—shouldn’t the program have been…
Tribeca’s (Online) Film Festival this year is quite extensive: 6 feature films, 9 in-competition shorts and these—9 “retro” shorts from the festival’s past, all available for free! We’ll cover…
Howdy everyone, Jason here. So you’ve been thinking about putting your short film online. Maybe it seems like the logical next step after a successful festival tour. Then again, maybe…
