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Best Films of the Month: December 2017
Serving you up 23-films over the 31-day period of the month, December was somewhat of a quiet month here at Short of the Week – when you compare it to the onslaught of 33-films we published over...
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The Legend Of The Crabe Phare
From Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick to Peter Benchley’s Jaws, tales of mythical sea creatures are ripe in storytelling worldwide. Adding to this narrative tradition are five students from SUPINFOCOM...
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The Collection
Everyone has had the “garage sale” fantasy. You know what I’m talking about: you buy an old old antique at a yard sale and, miraculously, it turns out to be worth a fortune. It’s the type of wishful...
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Women&Wine
Friendship on the whole, is a very underrated human relationship. It is not the subject of nearly as much dramatic art as marriage is, or parent-child relationships. Women who are past the age of...
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Taking Stock
Constructed from clips he filmed with the intention of selling online, Duncan Cowles’ Taking Stock is a tribute to the freelance filmmaker and their eternal struggle to make ends meet. After selling...
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The Perfect Gooseys
With its meticulous production design and over-the-top style (not to mention its upper class prep school setting), The Perfect Gooseys from writer/director Andrew Mudge feels very much like a PG rated...
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Ellen is Leaving
Break-ups suck. Especially when the love and passion haven’t slowly decomposed into dreaded indifference, but instead are just as alive as when the relationship first blossomed. Ellen is Leaving is a...
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Einstein-Rosen
Based on a discussion her two sons (who also star in this film) had about her previous short Restart, Olga Osorio’s Einstein-Rosen is a nostalgic tale of time-travel and sibling rivalry. Told over a...
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Watch These Sundance 2018 Short Films Online Now
It’s that time of year again, the Sundance Film Festival is a week away. We feature a lot of Sundance films on Short of the Week, hence our excitement for the 2018 program. I personally had four on my...
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(rough cut)
Before the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements thankfully blew up, Sidney Leeder and Walter Woodman (Noah) co-wrote (rough cut). An extremely powerful and effective film looking to shed a little light on...
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Carol's Last Chance
Impending fatherhood and the pressure to grow up seem to lead to escape attempts that turn out to be exactly the opposite. When soon-to-be father Carol (Lars Engstrom) goes out for a semi-wild night...
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Soldier Bee
Deciding to create his story after an accident left him questioning whether he was suffering for PTSD, Alex Hardy’s powerful short Soldier Bee tells the story of a soldier and mother struggling to...
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The Short Films of Sundance 2018's Feature Filmmakers
For many filmmakers, getting a spot in the Sundance program feels like getting into Harvard, the festival has an acceptance rate of less than 1% for both features and shorts, and it is a massive...
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Fighter
An intense, immersive watch that really puts you in the headspace of its protagonist, Bugsy Steel’s Film London short Fighter follows a teenage boxer with Down’s Syndrome as he prepares for his first...
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SMILF
People go film festivals to discover the next new “thing”, and that sense of prospecting goes double for shorts screenings. It’s rare, but when the feeling hits, it’s potent. When I first saw SMILF...
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Christopher Walken's Coffee Shop
The problem with improv is that too often…well…it’s just not very good. There’s a lot of lame Second City yucksters out there who’ve watched Who’s Line too many times and have delusions of SNL...
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La Macchia Rossa (The Red Stain)
Created as branded piece for the Francis Ford Coppola Winery, Rodrigo Saavedra’s La Macchia Rossa (The Red Stain) is a charming, stylish short more focused on entertainment and storytelling than...
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Canción del Campo (Field Song)
If you’re married, it’s most likely you have a father-in-law story. And whilst these odd creatures usually inspire fear, for filmmaker Brad Bischoff, his father-in-law inspired his poetic documentary...
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Oscar 2018 Short Film Nominees
Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and we’ve got trailers for the 5 short film nominees in each of the Animation, Live-Action and Documentary categories for you to check out.After you...
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Cautionary Tales
We all grew up hearing horror stories from our parents…”Keep touching it and you’ll go blind” or “if the wind changes your face will stay like that”. Meant as a deterrent, to stop us doing that thing...
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