The audience of Amsterdam Shorts was given the possibility to vote after every block of films. It was a fairly tight race, but  Operator came out on top. See the full version here..

Today, Dutch Filmmaker Hanro Smitsman confirmed his membership of the jury for the international competition.

Yes, we will screen some Pixar Shorts at the festival: For Kids, you know? Here's one of their newest.

As an artist you can't always create art for art's sake (or in this case art for weirdness' sake), sometimes the work is about earning cold hard cash.

Lisette is Björk's biggest fan. She asked me several times to post a video.  

Last Week, I tried to write Amsterdam Shorts! on a Etc A Sketch.

Last weekend, I saw Brokeback Mountain for the first time. I was wondering why the soundtack did become so famous, maybe this is why..

When I finished my studies, my friends gave me a guitar. But I failed to learn playing the thing.

Next to producing eleven shorts, Michel Gondry has only tallied up four feature films. The guy has made about a hundred commercials and videoclips though!

We took a little break from selecting short films last weekend. I visited various nice gigs.

This morning, Dutch most famous soap actor Bartho Braat was sipping a capuccino in De Balie.

This one was submitted by Niels/Gustav Büller. Thank you Niels/Gustav.

A short film by the director of Juno: Jason Reitman.

Smoking is hazardous. In various ways.

Lisette confessed to us today that she cannot view any films next week.

Yesterday I watched "No country for old men". Chigurh is quite a figure, flipping his coins.

André Bazin wrote books full with theories about the montage in one shot.

Yesterday The Darjeeling Express premiered in Holland. This new Wes Anderson flick has been distributed across the globe with the short prequel Hotel Chevalier to start it off.

Last Night, I showed this film to a couple of friends.

Today we offer you seven films for the price of only one. Please take a look at Filmbank TV.

Dutch Members of Parliament are quarreling over a broadcast of Deep Throat. We think sexual education of any kind is very important.

I couldn't decide wether to allude to The Deer Hunter or make reference to Norman Cook's Weapon of Choice.

We spend all day playing with Lego..

Last weekend we screened our first teaser, a compilation of films to get you excited about the festival, in De Balie.

Dirk, one of our festival directors, will give a speech on science fiction tonight. Here's the first science-fiction short ever made.

Sure it's all dandy working nine to fives and beyond to get the greatest film festival since the dawn of mankind on the tracks, but the holy weekend's for relaxing.

Last week a cctv camera was placed in the foyer of Kriterion. Famous dutch crime-journalist Peter de Vries was investigating the friendliness of Kriterion's employees.