Sundance shorts a click away

"Catnip: Egress to Oblivion" Credit: "Catnip: Egress to Oblivion"
While Sundance movies such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Don Jon's Addiction" and "Mud," starring Matthew McConaughey, have gotten the lion's share of the attention during the festival's first weekend, some of the most interesting filmmaking can be found in its shorts program.
And the best part of all? You don't even need to go to Utah to experience a sizable chunk of it. You can see them on YouTube.
At the same time, Focus Forward, an initiative from General Electric and Cinelan sponsoring short films about innovation will premiere mini Sundance flicks Tuesday on its Vimeo page (vimeo.com/focusforwardfilms).
These are the Sundance shorts on YouTube right now.
Sometimes, it's OK to have bulging pockets full of old receipts, tissues and other random items. Your pocket assortment might even help you find a lady. That's the message of "What Do We Have in Our Pockets?" that is based on a short story by Israeli author Etgar Keret.
In "When the Zombies Come," workers at a hardware story are unhealthily obsessed with the undead.

'If you don't address demand, you don't address the problem' Police are only addressing the supply, but demand is what fuels the illicit sex trade, experts say. Newsday political reporter Bahar Ostadan has the story.

'If you don't address demand, you don't address the problem' Police are only addressing the supply, but demand is what fuels the illicit sex trade, experts say. Newsday political reporter Bahar Ostadan has the story.



