Short Film Archives - Hammer to Nail

A Conversation with Nathan Silver (CAROL & JOY)

Jack Schenker — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:15:01 +0000

Nathan Silver’s Carol & Joy is a 38-minute documentary portrait of Academy Award-nominated actress Carol Kane and her 98-year-old mother Joy, a music teacher who still gives lessons and plays piano in their Upper West Side apartment. Shot on 16mm by cinematographers […]

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Watch Jim Cummings’ Hilarious New Short Film IS NOW A GOOD TIME?

M.J. O'Toole — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:46:22 +0000

Never count out Jim Cummings. The multi-hyphenate talent who broke out in 2016 with his SXSW winner Thunder Road knows how to make a film hilarious, gripping, and emotional in so many unexpected ways. After following up his feature debut […]

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JACKALS & FIREFLIES: Watch Charlie Kaufman’s Harmonious New Short Film

M.J. O'Toole — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:38:48 +0000

Look no further if you’re waiting for the next Charlie Kaufman project. The Oscar-winning filmmaker has just released a short film he directed, a love poem of sorts to New York City. Jackals & Fireflies was shot on the Samsung […]

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10 SHORTS AT SXSW ’22

Melanie Addington — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:33:29 +0000

(The runs March 11-20 in glorious Austin, Texas. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review’s of ten shorts films at South by Southwest. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) While features tend to be what is looked at by […]

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Short Film Contest Winner/Runner-Up: Winter ’19

Don R. Lewis — Mon, 20 May 2019 18:33:03 +0000

Yeah, it’s spring. Like, pretty deep into spring and yet, here we are with the announcement of the winners for our WINTER contest. Alas, the contest launched in the winter and we’re still trying to figure out a sweet spot […]

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Short Film Contest Winner/Runner-Up: Fall ’18

Don R. Lewis — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 23:03:01 +0000

Yes, we here at Hammer to Nail realize it’s winter and 2019. BUT, the HtN Fall Short Film Contest started in the fall. And what a contest it was! Entries started slowly but really picked up by the time the […]

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2018 MEMPHIS FILM PRIZE REPORT

Nelson Kim — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:11:51 +0000

Earlier this month, I fled muggy Brooklyn for even muggier Memphis to serve as a judge for the Memphis Film Prize, an annual short-film competition. The Memphis Film Prize is an offshoot of the Louisiana Film Prize, which was started […]

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Short Film Contest Winner/Runner-Up: Spring ’18

Don R. Lewis — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:43:49 +0000

This one, was a battle. Well, not really. But, sort of. I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned the “Behind the Scenes” machinations on how our short film contest works but, it typically goes like… I choose 2 jurors and try […]

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PROSPECT

Jessica Baxter — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 18:53:23 +0000

The alien world they’ve miraculously created on a shoestring budget is rife with implications of an expansive human-populated universe that is inaccessible to their financially-strapped protagonist.

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THUNDER ROAD

Christopher Reed — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:29:22 +0000

It's achingly sad and brutally funny, both, the long take adding to our discomfort as we watch things go from bad to worse.

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