Latest in Shorts

Taylor Swift delivered surprise guests and a surprise acoustic performance of All Too Well along with a thoughtful half-hour of conversation about filmmaking with writer-director Mike Mills at the Tribeca Festival. After a screening of her short film All Too Well (set to her elongated version of the song of the same…

When Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg asked Simon Racioppa if he was interested in creating a spinoff of The Boys, he jumped at the chance. The timeline was tight, less than a year to create eight episodes, but Racioppa was up for the challenge. The Boys Presents: Diabolical is an Amazon Prime animated anthology series…

The Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic created a segment called “Desi Lydic Foxsplains“ as a way to poke fun at the more “out there” views shown on Fox News. She takes on another persona in front of the camera when she performs for the series, one that she says is not too foreign to her. “That 'woman on the verge'…

UPDATED, 11:37 a.m.: Filmmakers Travon Free and Samir Hernandez of Two Distant Strangers fame have unveiled a new trailer for 38 at the Garden, a documentary project examining the cultural impact of NBA trailblazer Jeremy Lin and the cultural phenomenon known as “Linsanity” that surrounded him during his 2011-12…

Coming off of an Oscar win for his short-animated film The Windshield Wiper, Alberto Mielgo is continuing his exploration of the meaning of love and the many forms it takes in "Jibaro", his latest addition to the Love Death + Robots anthology. Netflix’s Love Death + Robots is a collection of animated shorts that…

Brit monarch Queen Elizabeth II and Paddington Bear have starred in a special short film to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. You can watch the film above. The two and half minute sequence, kept under wraps for months by Buckingham Palace, BBC Studios and Heyday Films/Studiocanal, was shown tonight on BBC as…

Showtime announced the new half-hour anthology series Spotlights: A Showtime Short Film Series premiering Sunday, June 12. All 5 episodes will be available on streaming and on-demand for Showtime subscribers and will also air weekly on Sundays at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT. Watch the trailer above. Produced for Showtime by Jax…

EXCLUSIVE: Dallas Roberts (Big Sky), Arden Myrin (Orange Is the New Black) and Harvey Guillén (Reacher) have signed on to star in the comedy Road Dogs, from Bustled Knuckle Productions and Residue Remains Productions, which goes into production in Minnesota this summer. The film centers around three stand-up comedians…

EXCLUSIVE: The Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and Janet Yang Productions announced the four winners of the inaugural Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge, which awards a $15,000 production grant to four AAPI women or non-binary filmmakers. Selected from a pool of over 400 applicants, four grantees will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Concord Originals has partnered with Outfest Fusion to launch a one-of-a-kind short film financing and IP licensing initiative, in support of up-and-coming LGBTQIA+ filmmakers of color. During Outfest Los Angeles in July, eligible filmmakers will pitch original short films incorporating one of three…

AGBO today announced that its second annual filmmaking competition, No Sleep ’til Film Fest, inviting filmmakers from all over the world to make a short film in just 48 hours, will take place from April 29th to May 1st. The free, virtual festival reflects the independent film and television production company’s…

Women in Film and Google have set Kameishia Wooten and Robin J. Hayes (Choices), Patricia Seely and Alexandra Clayton (Please In Spanish), and Katarina Zhu (Silverlake Cleaners) as the fellows for the inaugural WIF Shorts Lab supported by Google. As part of the program, fellows will benefit not only from WIF’s years…