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Emily Goss Break Room 45-second film
August 19, 2025
Emily Goss is a Los Angeles-based actor, producer, writer, and director  dedicated to stories that move the needle forward. Her work as
kamikaze salute your shorts
August 18, 2025
“Like everyone else, I’m overly on the internet,” says writer-director Ray Smiling, whose latest short film, “kamikaze,” just won best
Motos Jesus Beltran
July 29, 2025
Jesus Beltran’s new short film “Motos” follows two immigrant cousins who aren’t perfect — because no one is. Beltran, a
Indy Shorts Eiru
July 26, 2025
The Indy Shorts film festival announced winners including the Oscar qualifying The Singers, The Last Observers and Eiru.
December 18, 2023
Adrian Perez, founder of the Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, is elated to announce the final additions to its 2023
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November 23, 2021
Paul Thomas Anderson gets candid about working in television; Cooper Raiff follows up Shithouse with Cha Cha Real Smooth; Other…
Lena Waithe Indeed Rising Voices
August 2, 2021
Watch our interviews with the finalists and organizers of Rising Voices, a filmmaking fellowship from Lena Waithe's Hillman Grad Productions…
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April 19, 2021
After a decade as an influential free platform, NoBudge moves to a new paid subscription service that will pay filmmakers…
August 6, 2019
MovieMaker surveys 13 directors from the 2019 Palm Springs ShortFest on the most difficult aspects of creating short films.
February 28, 2019
To capture a stable frame and clean audio for "Lifeboat," Skye Fitzgerald constantly altered his approach on a 30-meter vessel…
April 26, 2018
The Jacob Burns Film Center followed its inaugural year of Creative Culture with a group of talented filmmakers poised for…
November 6, 2017
Gregory Kallenberg's Louisiana Film Prize fosters camaraderie and connections between filmmakers, judges, and the public at large.
May 26, 2017
Werner Herzog told moviemaking students at his workshop in Western Cuba there would be no planning allowed, and even forged…
January 30, 2017
Teaneck is a beautiful suburb just west of the New York metropolitan area. Its hometown showcase, the Northeast Film Festival,…
September 13, 2013
DC Shorts Film Festival is celebrating their 10-year anniversary, and we’ve picked them for our Festival Spotlight this week.
August 16, 2013
HollyShorts Film Festival’s co-director Daniel Sol delves into the independent origins of the festival, now in its ninth rendition, yet…
August 2, 2013
No man is an island and no festival is one, either. The Rhode Island International film festival (RIIFF), put on…
September 15, 2011
For those who think making a short film is just an easily-ignored pit stop on the road to feature film…