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We are obviously big fans of Nicholas Payne Santos‘ work having featured his films Kiddo, Ice Cream & Things We Remember (All highly recommended). The more films of his we watch, the more we realize the reasons why we love them. The most evident is that Nicholas is a master at capturing in...

Lured by lust and rhythm, The Second Circle will entrap you until you become a victim. Beautiful, sensual and unexpected in the expected. http://filmshortage.com/shorts/the-second-circle/

Not everyone gets a chance to receive a Skype call from Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti. But this is exactly what happened to Hanneke Schutte a few months ago after winning the South Africa Jameson First Shot competition. Hanneke received a call from Kevin & Dana and they told her she will be...

Expo is a highly emotional short film that brings the human touch into the Sci-fi world, director Joe Sill has always wanted to make a film merging science fiction and human emotions, and wanted to showcase a good story where the visual effects are not the center of attention, but rather a...

Moments is an absolutely beautiful moving film that brings us along Oliver’s mysterious Moments. After getting a simple assignment to draw something important from his life, it quickly turns into a complicated one. The events take a turn when Oliver meets a mysterious guy who breaks his camera...

‘In Film and in Life, the story is the King‘. This is what the team of 4 students from the Faculty of Creative Multimedia (FCM), Multimedia University, in Malaysia, had as a premise for a final year project that took over 8 months to create. The Silent Note will silently capture your heart with...

We were all stunned to here about the E5 tornado that struck through the city of Moore, Oklahoma on May 20th, 2013. 23 people lost their lives and 377 others were injured while an estimated 1,150 homes were destroyed. But as the news cameras left as days went by, the town remained completely...

Simply dazzling and captivating story! This short by Martin Rosete will indulge you deeper and deeper as you watch and listen, and then suddenly just spits you out, just to suck you right back in! One of the best endings I've ever seen in a short film. http://filmshortage.com/shorts/voice-over/

http://filmshortage.com/shorts/we-refuse-to-be-cold/ A poetic and lyrical portrait of a young couple spending a Montreal winter together. Shot without a script, the story meshes wonderfully together with the strong and original premise of working the film around a promise in a style that we...

Making a film is all fun and games until you realize you still need to work after your film is completely done. The online world is changing quickly, and compared to just half a decade ago, putting a film on YouTube or Vimeo won’t guarantee you views. Being prepared should be your plan of...

Starting with on-screen text that states “This film is a pack of lies”, Director Jeremiah Quinn brings into relief that it is anything but. By drawing a line between cinema and reality, he assures the viewer that despite the use of actors and other devices used in this portrayal, “I will tell...

First of a series of eight, this short explores and explains illusions created by the mind and surrounding spaces. We really do enjoy a good optical mind trick, and the filming is also exquisite might I say. http://filmshortage.com/shorts/illusions-part-one/

“Dubstep Trooper” is an untold but key side story to the Star Wars saga. A secret, kept for decades, is revealed as an epic clash unfolds between a rebellious young stormtrooper and Darth Vader. http://filmshortage.com/trailers/dubstep-trooper/

This particular short, shot in summer 2010 by Eddie O’Keefe and his crew captures the essence of the teenage years, featuring a girl numbed out by the monotony of her teenage life that discovers love after a gang of greasers arrive in town from the past, disturbing the small-town suburban...

We rely heavily on the technology and conveniences in our 1st world lives and this story taps into the fear of having to do without. How would we protect those we love against the elements, against hunger and against desperate and dangerous strangers? How would we stay human? On the other hand...

Films are all about executions of ideas. All ideas might sound great in a writer’s head, but if the director has difficulties executing it to the screen, the idea loses all it’s motive. For X Y Z, directors Carles Chiner & Antoni Sendra thought large with a small idea, but created a wonderful...

I agree, it needs to be short and sweet. Usually a little opening scene even before the title can let the viewer settle in. However 1-2 seconds is not enough, rule of thumb is to be able to read anything on screen slowly twice, so minimum 4-5 seconds per small group of words

With the release of the robots' new album tomorrow, I thought I'd bring back up their 2006 film Electroma. Curious to know what you people think of it. http://filmshortage.com/daft-punks-electroma/

Produced with private and crowd-sourced funding on Indiegogo, the film has won 2 awards; Best Drama at the Magnolia Film Festival in the US, and the Audience Award at the Bermuda International Film Festival. It has also been selected at 6 international film festivals. Beginning with a shock...

Most films online will lose their viewers within the first 15 seconds, making the first impression ever so crucial. So how do you keep people hooked when the first 15 seconds is usually a title screen? Blow them away with an awesome opening title! A nice attractive font can make an entire...