Justine Hart from The Script Factory with some top tips on how to structure and write a successful short film.

Features might get all the glitzy attention, but short films are the backbone of the cinematic world. From Martin Scorsese (“The Big Shave,” 1967) to Wes Anderson (“Bottle Rocket,” 1994) to ...

The Short Film Program awards announced the winning projects at the midpoint of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, where 97 ...

We sat down with Poynter senior scholar Roy Peter Clark, author of numerous books including “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times,” to talk about what makes good short writing. It’s a topic ...

The beauty of film as art is that it contains a variety of forms. It can be a fictional, narrative story that springs out of the imagination of a writer, or a documentary that details historical ...

Short films are where cinema quietly reinvents itself. It’s where Martin Scorsese, Lynne Ramsay and Paul Thomas Anderson sharpened their instincts long before the spotlight arrived, and for more than ...