No gratuitous violence, no blatant sex, minimal profanity. Must be a very short film festival. Passing the big-screen screening process at The Phoenix Jewish Film Festival is no simple task. Shel ...

From grandmotherly advice to activism and a panic attack on a plane, the spark for a short film can illuminate at any time. Speaking with Variety over Zoom, 11 directors and creators dive deep into ...

Features might get all the glitzy attention, but short films are the backbone of the cinematic world. From Martin Scorsese (“The Big Shave,” 1967) to Wes Anderson (“Bottle Rocket,” 1994) to ...

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 ...

Sometimes it becomes difficult to think of a story idea even more than the script. And you wait until you are inspired, and nothing hits you. It is where a short film prompt comes in, one line can ...

A group of University of Colorado Boulder alumni has earned a spot at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles, where they will premiere their first horror short film, “The Ant,” this fall.

While discussing their Oscar-eligible short films, four directors from around the world recognized a common thread between their vastly different projects: they’re all political. These filmmakers ...

After experiencing a tremendous loss, some try to stay grounded in their community, while others turn to the stars for answers about life’s grand design. In Walt Disney Animation Studios’ artistic ...

Content creator Ahsan Vazir plays Sehar, a struggling musician who is handed a pill that improves his focus. But, of course, ...