Tag: short films
An Ode to the short film: Five classic shorts you should see
In honor of the Oscar Nominated short films, about to be playing in an arthouse near you (provided you live in a major American city), I thought I’d write a little something about the short. The very first movies were shorts – one spool of film, which depending on the hand cranked speed of the…
A Tip for Film Writers: Always Be Writing
Many times I hear writers say they are stuck or are in a writer’s slump because no ideas are coming, or because they don’t know what to write. They want an original idea for a film that nobody has ever seen before. They want the next great original idea that rocks the film world. Some…
4 Tips on Making A Short Film
Making a short film, or any film for that matter, can be a lot of fun. But most of the time, filmmaking is very stressful and filled with problems. I recently made directed a new short called HUNGRY…a wicked, humorous, little piece about the greed that is rampant at Christmas. I was able to shoot…
‘Kung Fury’, ‘Predator: Dark Ages’ and the Democratisation of Spectacle
As a member of a short film selection panel for a major film festival in 2013 and 2014, I was quite surprised by the increasing number of submissions that sought to replicate big-budget Hollywood genre cinema. I suppose I had, quite ignorantly, entered with a preconception that short films were the reserve of art cinema.…
The Fabulous Forties: 5 Short Films That Can’t Be Missed
Who decreed that feature films run two hours? Though there may be some organic rationale based on how two hours fits into an evening’s entertainment, there’s no rule that I know of that requires 120 minutes. The very first movies ran about 60 seconds, depending on how fast the camera was cranked, because that’s how…