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Vimeo Takes Staff Picks to a Whole New Level
Vimeo Staff Pick Premieres is a year-long online film festival expanding upon the company's venerable Staff Picks Channel. Vimeo Staff Picks is the linchpin of the online short film community. If your...
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The Most Terrifying Horror Shorts You Can Watch Online Right Now
Don't watch these alone. From Fantastic Fest to Fantasia International Film Festival, horror shorts can have a good life on the festival circuit. But it's in the afterlife—going viral online—where...
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Watch: 'Moonlight' Director Barry Jenkins' Student Short Shows an Emerging...
Barry Jenkins foreshadows Moonlight with his student thesis film. Prior to its release early this fall, Barry Jenkins admitted that making Moonlight nearly killed him. Thanks to a persistent producer...
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This Video Uses Thousands of NASA Photos to Bring the Apollo Moon Landing to...
530 million people watched the the first humans walk on the surface of the moon, but no one has seen the moon landing quite like this before. NASA's 1969 moon landing was an epic event all on its own,...
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'Expect Everything Will Go Wrong': How to Ensure Your First Short Film is the...
Just because everything is bound to go wrong, doesn't mean you can't plan for when it does. Making a short should be an easy enough thing, right? That’s what I thought when I decided this would be the...
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Make a Short About Tokyo, Win $10,000
The Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and you're invited to the party. It has now been twenty years since Japanese actor Tetsuya Bessho founded the Short...
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6 Post-Production Practices for Your First Short Film
Making your first film and wish to improve the post-production workflow? A recent panel hosted by SAG-AFTRA aims to help. With an endless amount of scheduling, budgeting, and constant decisionmaking,...
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Watch: 8 Refreshingly Uncommercial Films To Get You Through Valentines Day
Whatever your plans this holiday, skip the corporate schlock and instead be humored, enticed, and inspired by these original shorts. Tired of watching commercials from diamond stores telling you what...
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Get Up to $30,000 for Your Next Narrative Short with SHIFT's New Grant Program
Grants this generous for narrative shorts are few and far between. If you've got a narrative short in pre-production and are stressing out how to find the funds to make it, then, believe me, you're...
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2019 Sundance Film Festival Announces Shorts, Episodic, and Special Event...
It's beginning to feel a lot like January. The news keep rolling in: last week, we announced the feature-film slate for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, taking place in Park City, Utah from January...
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What are the 50+ Best Short Films of All Time on YouTube?
The best short films of all time were hard to find in days past. But now, with YouTube, they're only just a click away! Making a short film can be your ticket into creating a name for yourself in...
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How Morgan Cooper and Adorama Told the Filmmaker's Story
"Bel-Air" director Morgan Cooper offers some inspirational words for new filmmakers in this BTS video for his newest film "U Shoot Videos?" Morgan Cooper is a name everybody should know. After his...
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Don't Watch These Short Horror Movies Alone
Here are 2019's must-see horror shorts, which are pure nightmare fuel. In 2016, I started an annual roundup of the best horror shorts I'd seen that year. The original article, The Most Terrifying...
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How to Direct Action Set Pieces in the Australian Outback… with Camels
Judas Collar is a story that made me quit my job as a television documentary director and decide to take the plunge into the world of writing and directing drama. When I discovered that lone camels,...
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Watch David Lynch Interrogate a Monkey in Surprise Netflix Short
David Lynch turns 74 today. He spent the afternoon interrogating a monkey. Find out why. In a birthday gift only David Lynch could ask for, the director found himself across the table from a monkey...
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Watch 75 SXSW Short Films Online Right Now for Free
Thanks to Oscilloscope and Mailchimp Presents, these SXSW 2020 official short film selections have been given new life. The indie film community suffered a major blow after the cancelation of SXSW...
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Why You Should Make a Proof of Concept Short Film
Seth Worley is a director who supports his dream by proof of concept films. Find out why. Sometimes it's hard to communicate your imagination to investors and buyers. The best way to do that sometimes...
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Aching to Make a Short? Follow Ben Strang’s Lead and Make It a Pilot
"Beast is an ellipsis and not a period." A short is disposable, right? You make it, and that’s it. Even if it gets turned into a feature, almost always, you recast, reshoot, re-everything. But a...
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Watch David Lynch's Brand New Short 'Pozar' Online Right Now
The long-awaited short film from David Lynch has everything you've come to know and love about the director's brand of surrealist filmmaking. Back in 2015, David Lynch attended an event at University...
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Adorama Captures the Rhythm of NYC Creatives in New Award-Winning Short
In New York City, filmmakers and photographers march to the beat of their own drummer. Typically, Adorama is known as a trusted retailer that gives photographers and filmmakers access to the important...
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