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Edmond
Following a hugely successful festival tour, which saw it win the ‘Short Film Jury Award: Animation’ at Sundance and the BAFTA for best ‘British Short Animation’, Nina Gantz’s National Film and...
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Daddy's Girl
As a long-time fan of Horror, I’ve never been one for easy shock tactics. Those overfamiliar jumps that the genre has become synonymous with just don’t do it for me. Here one moment and gone the next,...
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You Are Whole
Laura Spini’s graduate film and directorial debut You Are Whole is a dark comedy about a spiritualist missionary who is mistaken for a serial killer in a small British town by the sea. The film stars...
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MANOMAN
Featuring one of the best soundtracks you’re likely to hear in short film and more puppet privates than you ever imagined (or wished) you’d experience, Simon Cartwright’s BAFTA-nominated, Sundance...
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Best Films of the Month: May
Even with our carefully considered curation here at Short of the Week serving up the best of short film on an almost daily platter, keeping up with the glut of short films released online can be a...
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Let's Not Panic
If there is a niche genre that is seriously overplayed in the short format, it’s definitely the “post apocalyptic”, end-of-the-world scenario. It seems like every young filmmaker with a DSLR saw the...
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Emotional Fusebox
Those who follow the world of short film would have noticed the recent trend for the science-fiction teaser – a bite-sized introduction to a narrative universe the director is looking to expand into a...
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Rubicon
Based around a river-crossing riddle that has been traced back to a medieval manuscript, Gil Alkabetz’s playful animation from 1997 brings a personal solution to a classical puzzle involving a wolf, a...
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The Arrival
Caffeine or decaf? A non-consequential question for most people, but not ones who are carrying a child. Thus begins filmmaker Daniel Montanarini’s The Arrival, a film that captures the pivotal moment...
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The Switch
Nike is well known for it’s star-laden football “event” films, and in advance of EURO 2016, agency Weiden Kennedy tapped Ringling Stick and UK advertising legend, Ringan Ledwidge, to make the longest,...
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SLAP
Nick Rowland’s BAFTA nominated coming-of-age short film SLAP is about a teenage male boxer who finds that expressing himself with makeup and female attire gives him a sense of freedom. SLAP...
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Sequin Raze
An unexpected treat has just come the internet’s way, and I’m pleased to be able to share! Today’s film was one of my absolute favorite shorts from 2013, and after writing off the chances that it...
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RPG
Considering how the internet has normalized geekdom (i.e “nerd is the new cool”), it’s surprising that cinema hasn’t really caught up. On screen, geeks are stereotypes—jocks still push bespectacled...
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The Heart Followers
I think every person—at some time or another—has dreamed of escaping the banal routine of daily life. It’s rooted in a desire to disconnect: the 9 to 5 grind of congested city-life replaced with a...
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The Secret World of Foley
These days, most people are relatively familiar with the basic process of filmmaking. Writing, casting, shooting, editing and post-production are fairly well known, if not well understood...
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Shakeups at Vimeo
Despite occasional confusion from fans labeling us as “Vimeo’s Short of the Week”, this site is unaffiliated with Vimeo proper. Yet, one could forgive the confusion when looking at our picks, the vast...
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Sweep
Racism is such a tremendously complex issue that when most films attempt to tackle it, they tend to overreach—their handling of the subject becomes so broad that it either feels detached or—in the...
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Premier VR Content Companies Get Large Investments
Industry leaders Felix & Paul Studios and VRSE have secured multi-million Series A funding this week. From the LA Times yesterday:Vrse, the VR firm launched by video and commercial director Chris...
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We Keep On Dancing
Winner of the ‘Best Live Action Narrative Under 15 Minutes’ award at Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Festival and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize of ‘Best Narrative Short’ at Slamdance,...
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Home
Released in conjunction with World Refugee Day, Daniel Mulloy’s Home is a 20-min short focused on themes of war and migration, that looks to bring the refugee crisis one-step closer to your doorstep....
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