Six years before he changed cinema with the release of his animated feature Toy Story, John Lasseter made Knick-Knack, which is not explicitly a Christmas short film, but feels like one because it centres on a snowman stuck in a snow globe. Desparate to join the other toys on the fun end of the shelf, our hero employs all manner of tactics to escape his glass surroundings but to little avail. Can he escape his prison?
Treevenge is a Christmas comedy horror co-written by Jason Eisener and Rob Cotterill, who had recently made the fake trailer for Hobo With A Shotgun as part of Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse experiment. They went on to actually make a feature film called Hobo With A Shotgun, which says something about something. Treevenge is a Triffids-inspired short movie where the ill-treated Christmas trees take their bloody revenge...
Not Real is a comedy about the disabusement of a child regarding Santa Claus, and his subsequent disallusionment with his parents and the world in general. Having been told that Father Christmas may not have been solely responsible for delivering his presents on Christmas Eve by his well-meaning but rather blunt father, the young boy feels compelled to reveal the heartbreaking truth to his younger sister.