Sharon (Sharon Badal is a Short Film Programmer of the Tribeca Film Festival, screening 1500 submissions annually, and is on the faculty of New York University’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts.) Badal: Swimming Upstream: A Lifesaving Guide to Short
Short films have come into their own, not least in part due to the incredible new ways to distribute them, including the Web, cell phones, new festivals devoted to shorts–even television and theatre …