Little films are a very big deal at this year’s Academy Awards. Topics as heavy as PTSD, ethnic cleansing and the immigration system, and as light as music, kissing and children with a passion to ...

Independent movies become successful or die out long before their actual release date. They will have a poster, a festival ...

In what’s become an awards-season tradition, the compilations of Oscar-nominated short films in live-action, animation and documentary categories are back in theaters ahead of the big night March 2, ...

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’re reviewing every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Follow here this week. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: Four ...

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired and will globally release the Oscar-shortlisted film The Singers from director Sam Davis. One of 15 current semifinalists for the Academy Award for Live Action Short ...

Quinta’s Ghost, Retirement Plan, Ado and A Friend of Dorothy Illusorium Films/John Kelly/Screen Ireland/Filthy Gorgeous Productions The 2026 Oscars shortlists were revealed Tuesday, and the Live ...

Two themes emerge among the five doc short finalists, as voters decide between hard-hitting issue docs and a pair of lighter portraits about the unifying power of music. The program then takes a ...

The 2026 Oscar nominations for live action short films unveil a world where social tension, period parodies, and dystopian laws collide in under forty minutes. This collection of global stories ...

Salute Your Shorts artistic director Erin Brown Thomas told IndieWire what she learned programming her annual shorts event in Los Angeles — and submitting to fests more than 900 times herself. “A ...

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 ...

In a bold move to invest in new voices in cinema, TDE Films has announced its first-ever Short Film Fund, awarding five emerging filmmakers full production support to bring their narrative short films ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...