Short films used to be warm-ups. Now, they’re auditions for the big leagues. More and more, filmmakers are turning 5- to 15-minute shorts into pitches for full-length features. This trend is not ...

Walt Disney Animation Studios added two new entries to its ongoing Short Circuit short film program on Disney+ this week: Heather M. Roberts Russell’s Maddie and the Test and Larry Wu’s Life Drawings.

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 ...

Here's where to watch the nominees for best animated short film, best live-action short film and best documentary short film. By Rudie Obias, Danielle Directo-Meston If you purchase an independently ...

Splitting up the Short Films and Feature Animation branch into separate branches has been met primarily with enthusiasm. But there are concerns about their futures. The new Academy realignment that ...

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 ...

Cartoon Brew is putting the spotlight on animated short films that have qualified for the 2025 Oscars. In this installment, we’re looking at Nate & John from Nigerian-American director Jumai Yusuf.

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 ...

With the Toronto International Film Festival starting, there’s plenty to look forward to on the feature front. There’s also much room for discovery among Short Cuts, TIFF’s dedicated program of short ...

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 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, ...

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 ...