The prevailing wisdom is this: don’t do it. “It’s insane,” they’ll say. “A waste of money and time and resources,” they’ll whisper. Don’t make that short film. Don’t go to film festivals. Don’t pour ...

Erin Brown Thomas submitted to film festivals more than 900 times before she made it into the Harvard of indie cinema, AKA Sundance. Ask the multi-hyphenate "Chasers" filmmaker and artistic director ...

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 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 ...

It's a 16-minute-long horror film about a house with a dark history, a man with links to its past and a documentary crew doggedly pursuing the sinister story. When a young family living in the house ...

In 2025, lead organizer Brown Thomas, executive director Elle Shaw, and programming director Lauren Reid Brown (Brown Thomas’ mother) received just over 1,300 submissions for Salute. The staff, which ...