One of the most satisfying things you can see at Sundance Film Festival is a writer-director making their way through he short-film-to-feature pipeline. This phenomenon can be seen all the time, ...

The Short Film Program awards announced the winning projects at the midpoint of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, where 97 feature-length and episodic works and 54 short films — curated from 11,480 ...

Short films are a unique outlet for filmmakers to unleash their wildest ideas and full creativity. Not bogged down by the typical limitations and rules of a feature, a director can make a short film ...

With the Toronto International Film Festival starting, there’s plenty to look forward to on the feature front. There’s also much room for discovery among Short Cuts, TIFF’s dedicated program of short ...

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Ira Sachs, Ilana Glazer, and Uma Thurman were among the 2024 jury members. The New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) has officially selected its 2024 winners. The jury, which ...

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Given 16 minutes of your life to spend watching a short film, would you click on one described on YouTube as “a homeless 7-year-old who lives on the beach makes and sells ‘stick people’ to get by”?

This year's short film program showcases the work of fiction, nonfiction, and animation filmmakers hailing from 22 countries and territories. After announcing the feature and episodic program last ...

OpenAI has given a number of directors, production companies, and creative agencies early access to its Sora text-to-video generator — and the results range from astonishing to downright terrifying.

Have a lot of auditions coming up but not a lot of time to watch three-hour-plus epics for inspiration? Thankfully, many short films are not only helmed by Academy Award–friendly moviemakers but also ...