Writer-producer (and voice) on Family Guy and The Cleveland Show, John Viener, enjoys writing and directed short films in his spare time.
Martin Scorsese worked a lifetime before finally winning a Best Director Oscar for "The Departed" in 2006. If only he'd been making 6 second Vines ins...
There is a new film hitting the film festivals with a very heavy subject. French filmmaker Jonathan Bucari has written and directed a short film about mental illness and the effects it has on a family.
It's a coup for any film to get into Sundance, and this year is no exception. One such film is K.I.T., produced by Lauren Schnipper. I spoke with Schnipper about the film and what Sundance can do for emerging filmmakers.
The 26th Annual AFI Film Festival ended in Hollywood on November 9. The winners from the jury and the audience are listed here, but first, I wanted to write a little about a film from each category that didn't win, but I felt should get a special mention.
By Noah J. Nelson Here's something your history teacher never filled you in on. In World War II the United States had a secret weapon. A lone solider...
There are some things that happen here that are just so Miami, whether random gunfire on New Year's Eve, third world architecture, insane church carni...
"I constantly questioned the ownership of sound," artist Christine Sun Kim signs in a short film made by photographer and filmmaker Todd Selby. "Now I...
We'd all like to think that if -- er, when -- the Zombie Apocalypse comes, our faithful canine friends will defend us to the end. But maybe they'd...
The PERIODS. film collective has been specializing in quality, re-interpreted historical comedy films for a few years now, finding viral and critical ...
In ‘Sight,’ a haunting new short by Eran May-Raz and Daniel Lazo, we catch glimpse of a world seemingly not unlike our own. Created as a grad proj...
Bird Box studios, the makers of animated films like "Dinner" and "Singing Christmas Hedgehogs," are back with another adorable short involving frustra...
Wildly hailed as one of Venetian Renaissance master Titian’s greatest works, “Diana and Actaeon,” depicts the moment in which the goddess Diana ...
The 18th annual Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and Film Market, the largest festival of its kind in this country, completed its run and this writer's eyes have started to come back into focus after seeing more than 50 shorts in two days.
Paris and Los Angeles have never felt closer. French fashion label Louis Vuitton has just released a short film that pays homage to the City of Ang...
With the open bar at the filmmaker's lounge closing its taps, and the jury announcing its winners, the Los Angles Film Festival has at last sadly come to a close.
I did the only thing I knew how -- I made a short film with a message. The message was simple: "We are Egyptian. We are human. Let us be human. Let us be free." It wasn't about race, religion, or class.
Unlike last year, this year's set of live action shorts nominees is dominated by comedies, which was good news for me since I am a fan of short comedi...
While everyone raves about The Artist, The Help, and the other feature length nominees, the Oscar shorts offer some of the finest filmmaking, and storytelling, of the year.
Our film The Shore is the story of one small act of reconciliation, yet it mirrors the courageous achievement of the people of Northern Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, who after 800 years of division and bloodshed came together to talk and make their peace with one another.
I enjoyed the documentaries the most. All were quite good, though if you need a tie breaker, Saving Face stood out. It got the best audience reaction and was my favorite, as well.n(And my always-savvy Academy friend voted for it.)
The trip to the "wild" holds a romanticized spot in the minds of families across the world, but just how wild are campsites and national parks with ro...
The first round of winners have been announced in the "Beauty Of A Second" short film contest sponsored by watchmaker Montblanc. The first round compi...
It's been a great year for food films (see Part 1 and Part 2). We've been delighted with the crop so far, and thanks to the upcoming New York Food Fil...
