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 ...

There is no one way to break into the movie business. But one of the most dependable routes for decades has been to make a short film, submit it to festivals, and then hope someone with money or power ...

Little films are a very big deal at this year’s Academy Awards. Topics as heavy as PTSD, ethnic cleansing and the immigration system, and as light as music, kissing and children with a passion to ...

The Movie Academy has named 15 animated and live-action short films complied from 180 submissions to its Oscar shortlists.

If you are aiming to win your Oscar pool you may feel relatively safe right about now predicting, as most are, a sweep by Oppenheimer — especially after its overwhelming showing last week winning ...

In what’s become an awards-season tradition, the compilations of Oscar-nominated short films in live-action, animation and documentary categories are back in theaters ahead of the big night March 2, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The 2025 Oscar nominations are here, revealing the 15 short films competing across three categories ...

The program of 54 short films in the 2026 Sundance Film Festival was curated from 11,480 submissions. Of these submissions, 4,914 were from the U.S. and 6,566 were international. Works from 22 ...

Nominees in 12 categories — including best documentary feature, original song and score and the new best casting category ...

(Arlington, Va.) – The Webby Award-winning PBS Short Film Festival returns this summer - Monday, July 15 – Friday, July 26 - to all PBS and station digital platforms, including PBS.org, YouTube and ...

The beauty of film as art is that it contains a variety of forms. It can be a fictional, narrative story that springs out of the imagination of a writer, or a documentary that details historical ...

"I just went with whatever came up in the moment. It was a crazy, fun acting game, and it happened to be in the final cut," reflected the 'Stranger Things' star Jack Irvin has over five years of ...