Day 2: Hobos, Jelly Beans, and Sarah Silverman Dominate YouTube Shorts @ NEXT WEEKEND

In the brief lifespan of the Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT section, the popular boundary-breaking category which spawned the NEXT WEEKEND film festival, the program has been strictly limited to feature-length films. Last night, on Day 2 of NEXT WEEKEND at Sundance Cinemas in Los Angeles, short films made the case that they inhabit the same blue collar, daring region of cinema that defines NEXT . In collaboration with YouTube, NEXT WEEKEND presented a shorts program that showcased a robust slat...