short films Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/short-films/ What to Watch Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:36:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png short films Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/short-films/ 32 32 A Conversation with Alex Mallis & Travis Wood (THE TRAVEL COMPANION) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/mallis-wood/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:36:21 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=53331

We’ve all seen a bad Q and A after a film screening. They’re awkward, often they overstay their welcome, and inevitably someone has to ask, “what camera did you use?” If you go to a lot of film screenings they […]

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]]> 2025 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORTS https://www.hammertonail.com/features/2025-oscar-nominated-shorts/ https://www.hammertonail.com/features/2025-oscar-nominated-shorts/#comments Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:22:38 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52650

The 2025 Academy Awards take place on Sunday, March 2, and as always, 15 short films compete across 3 categories—animation, documentary, and live action—for the golden statuette in their respective areas. Every year, I watch all of them and then […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/features/2025-oscar-nominated-shorts/feed/ 2 New Directors/New Films Announce 2023 Lineup https://www.hammertonail.com/features/nd-nf-2023-lineup/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:13:59 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38970

The lineup for the 52nd annual New Directors/New Films has just been announced, which will take place between March 29 and April 9 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center. It will screen 27 features […]

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]]> Tribeca Film Festival 2022 Lineup: World Premieres & Festival Faves https://www.hammertonail.com/features/tribeca-film-festival-2022-lineup/ Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:17:34 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=36892

The Tribeca Film Festival just announced its lineup of narrative, documentary, & animated features/shorts for the 2022 edition. This year’s festival will run from June 8-19, and will open with the Jennifer Lopez Netflix documentary, Halftime. About 110 feature films […]

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]]> 10 SHORTS AT SXSW ’22 https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/shorts-at-sxsw-22/ Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:33:29 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=36651

(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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]]> SPOTLIGHT ON SUNDANCE SHORT FILMS 2021 https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/short-film/sundance-shorts-2021/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:51:23 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=34135

(Editors note: you can check out the 2021 Sundance Shorts Programs online until Tuesday, February 2…) I love weird. Quite a few shorts blocks at Sundance obliged my devotion, with over 50 shorts ranging from documentary, narrative, experimental, and animation. […]

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]]> 2018 MEMPHIS FILM PRIZE REPORT https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2018-memphis-film-prize-report/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:11:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29988 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 ’15 https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/short-film-contest-winnerrunner-up-spring-15/ Fri, 01 May 2015 16:18:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24487 Being the new guy around here, I wasn’t too sure what all the hullabaloo with these short film contests was all about. Do people really enter? Are the entries any good? Do I have to watch them all?!? I mean, […]

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]]> A Conversation With Tze Chun (CHILDREN OF INVENTION) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-tze-chun-children-of-invention/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-tze-chun-children-of-invention/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:01:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=148 Tze Chun doesn’t just write and direct his own films. He’s also an accomplished visual artist, editor, cinematographer, as well as a screenwriter-for-hire. After his 2007 short film Windowbreaker made it into the Sundance Film Festival, Chun set his sights […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-tze-chun-children-of-invention/feed/ 2 The Year in Film: 2008 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/the-year-in-film-2008/ Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:41:52 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1000 I wrote a few different multi-paragraph introductions for my own personal wrap-up this year but have decided that the post is long enough as is. I want you to stick around, not go stampeding for the exit right away. Suffice […]

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