The goal of the UNLV Short Film Archive is to establish a comprehensive collection of significant short films from all over the world from the beginning of filmmaking to the present. The cornerstone of the archive will be the Archive 100, the one-hundred most significant shorts, culturally, historically or aesthetically, selected by an international panel of film historians, recognized film festival programmers, film producers, directors, distributors and recognized short film scholars.

The UNLV Short Film Archive will acquire, preserve, restore and archive these most important shorts and subsequently make them available to an international constituency of academic faculty, scholars, students and professionals. It is anticipated that the archive will grow in reputation and size, from year to year, until UNLV becomes THE place to go when it comes to the study of the short film.

David Schmoeller, director
UNLV Short Film Archive