SHORT ORDER is a cinematic mixtape featuring the best short films from around the world. Programs includes new work from emerging filmmakers plus special bonus treats like restored silent films and early work by acclaimed filmmakers.
Live action, documentary, animated: Short Order serves up all film styles during brunch-friendly showtimes at select locations of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, named by Entertainment Weekly as “the best movie theater in America.”
As a platform dedicated to spotlighting short films in a fun setting with first-rate presentation, Short Order was founded with both film fans and filmmakers equally in mind. Enjoy the show!
Short Order program details, showtimes and tickets.
“Fantastic! Top-to-bottom, one of the best short film programs I’ve ever seen.” – Andrew Blackwell, Supervising Editor, The New York Times Op-Docs
SHORT ORDER is founded and programmed by Andy Brodie in partnership with Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
Brodie is an Iowa native currently living in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Iowa State University and worked as a newspaper journalist for five years before pursuing a growing love for cinema at the University of Iowa, where he studied film and was programming director of the student-run Bijou Theater.
While at Iowa, he was a selected for the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium in 2005 and has returned every year since to work on the “the world’s best film festival staff.” (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times / NPR’s Morning Edition).
In 2011, Brodie co-founded FilmScene, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization and independent cinema in downtown Iowa City, serving as program director through 2017, having relocated with his wife Anna to NYC in 2016.
Brodie’s own short films have played at festivals across the U.S. and abroad. Called “a haunting clown-noir” by author Neil Gaiman, his black and white silent short “End of the Sawdust Trial” premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival and won Best in Show honors at the Des Moines Arts Festival.
In addition to Short Order, Brodie is also working with the Des Moines Film Society, which he co-founded, on historic theater preservation and new film initiatives in Iowa’s capital city.
He is on Twitter @andybrodie.