The rules of the straight 8 competition are simple; apply to compete, get sent a registered Super 8 cartridge and get three months to make your film. The only editing allowed is what you can do on the camera itself and the suspense of darkroom development is magnified by the competition, as the winners see their films for the very first time when they are being screened to an entire cinema audience.
Feature by Lisa Williams

The short film selection at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival offers unconventional angles on familiar themes.
Preview by Lisa Williams

A look at some early works by the director of Swimming Pool and 8 femmes.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff

Sean Conway could just as well direct the next Harry Potter film or LA alt-porn: the binding factor being his possession of an ‘agitation of the mind’.
Feature by Siouxzi Mernagh

A report on the Femmes Fantastique day at the London Short Film Festival, January 2008.
Feature by Lisa Williams

A riotous collision of the artistic and the vulgar, The Smoking Cabinet’s festival of burlesque cinema offered movies, shorts and panel discussions on a variety of risqué topics.
Review by Philip Ilson

For the fifth year running, the Halloween organisation brings a refreshingly offbeat selection of shorts programmes to the capital.
Feature by Lisa Williams and Virginie Sélavy

In an age where big studios dominate filmmaking, short films have become a means to bring experimental and adventurous work to the movie-goer, and no more so than at events like Rock’n’Roll Cinema. The evening of bands and short films, held at 93 Feet East in Brick Lane, is going into its fourth year – quite a grand old age for a monthly event, many of whose contemporaries have vanished without a trace.
Feature by Lisa Williams

For two years running, the task of choosing the short films that make up the London Film Festival programme has fallen to Simon Young from the distribution company Shorts International and Philip Ilson, founder of Halloween and organiser of the London Short Film Festival. Out of the thousands of films that were submitted they had to select just over 40 shorts, which are organised into six themed programmes.
Feature by Virginie Sélavy

Short films have always formed an important part of the Raindance Film Festival. Programmer Jamie Greco guides us through this year’s treasure trove of short treats.
Feature by Virginie Sélavy