Posted Mar 27, 2013, by Mike Plante, Short Film Programmer

Shorts Break: The Greatest Visionary You've Never Heard Of

This week, we've reached into the Sundance vaults to pull out two weird and wild tales that will challenge and delight.

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Posted Mar 19, 2013, by Mike Plante, Short Film Programmer

Shorts Break: The Scariest Corporate Symbol in History

Leading off this week’s Shorts Break is filmmaker Rodney Ascher’s The S From Hell, a documentary-cum-horror film about the…

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Posted Mar 15, 2013, by Mike Plante, Short Film Programmer

Shorts Break: New Media and Oh My God

Welcome back to Shorts Break Friday. First up this week, we have New Media, an insightful American character study from…

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Posted Mar 8, 2013, by Mike Plante, Short Film Programmer

Shorts Break: '92 Skybox and The Drift

Man about town and sandwich aficionado Todd Sklar shows that you can really do a lot with a little, by using a small amount of…

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Posted Mar 1, 2013, by Mike Plante, Short Film Programmer

Shorts Break: The Meaning of Life and Terminal Bar

Welcome back to Shorts Break Friday. We have two amazing shorts today, freshly released on the YouTube Screening Room, that you…

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Posted Feb 22, 2013, by Mike Plante, Short Film Programmer

Short Order: The Kinda Sutra and The Raftman’s Razor

Discover remarkable films all year long in The Screening Room, a new YouTube Channel curated by Sundance Institute. Two new…

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Posted Feb 20, 2013, by Andrew Ahn, Filmmaker

Andrew Ahn Gleans Insights From Coogler, Tewkesbury at the Screenwriters Intensive

Andrew Ahn is a Los Angeles-based Korean-American filmmaker whose short film Dol (First Birthday) screened at the 2012 Sundance…

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Posted Feb 13, 2013, by Mike Plante, Short Film Programmer

Watch Sundance Short Films on the YouTube Screening Room

Starting in this month, the Sundance Film Festival will be programming short films on YouTube’s Screening Room channel, adding…

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Posted Oct 4, 2012, by Mike Plante, Short Film Programmer

Short Order: High School Daze

As soon as you get over the “back to school” frenzy, it’s October and the costume and candy craze commences. It’s been a couple…

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Posted Sep 14, 2012, by Mike Plante, Short Film Programmer

Short Order: Coal: A Love Story captures a panoramic perspective on an environmental cause celebre

Too often, the political landscape blurs into wide angle and you can’t see the individuals involved anymore. Films can bring…

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