Short films are rarely sold and almost never turn a profit. With few options for monetizing, short film directors, writers and producers aim to get their work seen at festivals. The hope is that the ...

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 15 films that made the shortlist in the Oscars’ documentary short category are all powerful and thought-provoking, making the competition for an Academy Award nod incredibly stiff this year.

Two decades ago, in 2006, the team at Shorts International transformed one of the key Oscar races, securing the rights to release all five finalists in the Academy Awards’ animated short category on ...

If you want to ace your Oscar pool, you musn’t ignore the three short film categories — animation, live-action and documentary. But what cinephile would, anyway? The 15 nominees here have already won ...

Cinephiles can binge for one whole hour at “viewpoints: The Plattsburgh Film Forum.” Catch the shorts of filmmakers from Plattsburgh State to Mountain Lake PBS Beyond the Peaks high-school directors ...

The animation branch, to which approximately 700 Academy members will belong, will be represented by two governors, and the short films branch, to which some 200 members will belong, will be ...

The definition of a short film is technically anything with a runtime of 40 minutes or less, but it's generally thought that ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — February is Black History Month, and the Black Scranton Project starts the celebration with short films in Lackawanna County. On Sunday, they held a screening of "Taking Up Space Films ...

Columbia College student Carlos Lerma, 21, has been “living and breathing” short films since he was 15, he said, and quickly realized his love for filmmaking while growing up in Monterrey, Mexico. Now ...