July 2014 Audience Award Winner

Thanks to everyone who attended last night. Our Audience Award this time was extremely close, and in fact it’s the first time we’ve had a TIE! I am very happy to see that the local films topped the vote! The Runner – 7 votes Mean Teddies – 7 votes Never Stop Cycling – 6 votes […]

Full Program for July 17 Screening

It’s summertime and there are lots of great things going on in our city, which is why we’ve assembled another killer lineup of short films to tempt you inside. It doesn’t hurt that the Carlton Cinemas are both air-conditioned and fully licensed. Please join us! Thursday July 17 at 7:00pm Carlton Cinemas 20 Carlton Street […]

April 2014 Audience Award Winner

Thanks to everyone who attended our last screening. Our Audience Award this time was a bit of a landslide, proving that romance will always have a strong appeal, not to mention very innovative filmmaking techniques! Congratulations to Erik Schmitt and his team. Hopefully by the time the Canadian dollar is exchanged for Euros, you can […]

Full Program for April 17th Screening

We’re pretty excited to present the lineup for our next screening, our tenth quarterly presentation of the best in Canadian and international short film. For the first time, we’ll have a Q&A between a director and the actor in his films (who also happens to be a Shorts That Are Not Pants subscriber!). We also […]

Closeup: The Missing Scarf

The Missing Scarf is part of our April 17th lineup. Get your advance tickets now and we’ll see you there! It seems only right that on this St. Patrick’s Day we should feature Irish filmmaker Eoin Duffy‘s work. I became familiar with him about a year ago when I saw his beautifully haunting short On […]

January 2014 Audience Award Winner

First of all, a big thanks to the 60+ who joined us at last night’s screening. What a great way to kick off our third season! And though it was a squeaker, how fitting that the film that took our Audience Award was the one whose director drove all the way from Montreal to take […]

Full Program for January 16th Screening

Well here we are and it’s 2014 and we’re about to kick off our THIRD season of short films. It’s hard to believe, but it’s also incredibly exciting. 2014 is going to be a great year at Shorts That Are Not Pants. We’ve got a lot in store for you and we can’t wait to […]

NY EXPORT: OPUS JAZZ DVDs for Sale!

I’m happy to let you know that I have a limited number of these discs from Factory 25 available for sale. I can only ship these within Canada, too. For full details on the DVD, check out the page on the Factory 25 site. And watch this space for another screening of this captivating film […]

October 2013 Audience Award Winner

Though our numbers were down significantly tonight, I’m glad to announce our third Audience Award winner. Nacho Vigalondo’s Oscar-nominated short film from 2004, 7:35 de la mañana swept the award with 7 of 23 votes cast. Of the 14 films in the lineup, it was a clear favourite. Here are the full results: 7:35 de […]

Full Program for October 24 Screening

It’s my great pleasure to reveal the full program for our screening on Thursday October 24, 2013. I’m still working on the running order so these are not in final sequence yet, but you get the idea. This is our first themed program and it’s taken almost a year to put together. I’m confident you’re […]