Outside of the occasional festival screening, Oscar season is often the only time many filmgoers engage with short film, so the nominees better make it count. An Oscar nomination means greater ...

(Photo: NFB) Every year, the Short Film categories at the Academy Awards highlight projects that often receive far less mainstream attention than feature-length nominees. This is especially true for ...

Hello, and welcome to Sketch to Screen, a newsletter looking at the world of animation from yours truly, IndieWire Curation Editor Wilson Chapman. This is a space to celebrate all of animation, from ...

Sometimes simple is better. You don't even need any dialogue to tell a story! This amusing new short film is once again an example of the great power of visual storytelling. Snif & Snüf is a 5-minute ...

This year’s Oscar-nominated animated shorts tell compact tales about first kisses, sweets and an old-fashioned children’s TV show, along with more adult topics such as PTSD and hair transplants.

This project started with a simple question: What are the most-viewed independently produced animated shorts on Youtube? As I soon discovered though, no online resource tracks that info. So I decided ...

The 3 Sisters,” “Forever Green,” “The Girl Who Cried Pearls,” “Butterfly” and “Retirement Plan.” My personal favorite was “Forever Green.” It had a very simple plot, but I thought the style and ...

Rebecca is a freelance writer from NSW, Australia. She is a film and television list writer for Collider. Rebecca also has an interest in music, and hopes to one day begin the Church of Michael ...