Shorts
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SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts Lineups
Coming off the heels of last week’s announcement, SXSW rounds out their lineup with the Midnighters and Shorts sections. As was the case with the bulk of the festival’s Features, there’s not a huge carry over from Sundance, beyond Adam Wingard’s The Guest and Jonathan’s Chest, Person to Person, Notes on Blindness, Funnel, Dig, Verbatim and Marilyn Myller in the Shorts section. Also of note are 25 New Faces Mohammad Gorjestani and ornana’s Danny Madden, who will screen Refuge and Confusion Through Sand, respectively. Check out the full list of Midnighters; Narrative, Documentary, Animated, Midnight, Texas and Texas High School Shorts; and Music Videos below. MIDNIGHTERS Scary, funny, sexy, controversial – […]
by Sarah Salovaara on Feb 5, 2014 -
BRENT HOFF EXPLORES THE SCIENCE OF LOVE
Screenwriter and director Brent Hoff, who we selected for this year’s 25 New Faces list, has a short out today that’s perfectly timed for Valentines Day. Called The Love Competition, it’s included as part of the next issue of Wholphin, will play at SXSW, but is now online courtesy of Wired and Wholphin. The Love Competition looks at the neurochemistry of romance, pitting a group of contestants against each other as their brains are scanned while they are thinking of their lovers, their ex-lovers, or perhaps just the concept of love itself. Hoff, who won a Tribeca Sloan Prize for […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 14, 2012 -
JAMIE STUART DISCUSSES VIRAL SNOW SHORT ON TODAY SHOW ONLINE
Here’s Jamie Stuart discussing his Idiot with a Tripod on the Today Show online. Before watching, check out the short film itself here. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 30, 2010 -
OPENFILM COMPETITION DEADLINE — DECEMBER 31
The deadline for the second “Get it Made” contest from Openfilm, the online film community, is rapidly approaching. Filmmakers have until December 31 to submit a short film under 40 minutes in length that “could be produced into a compelling feature film.” The winner, who will be selected by Openfilm’s Advisory Board, will received $50,000 in cash and a financing contract of $450,000 to go towards the feature production. Read more about the contest here.
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 29, 2010 -
Idiot With a Tripod
Jamie Stuart has struck a popular chord with this lovely short shot during the December, 2010 East Coast blizzard. It’s got gorgeous visuals, humor, a slyly organic narrative, and, plus, it’s a tribute to Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera. We at Filmmaker have touted Stuart’s talents for some time, but now Roger Ebert has weighed in, arguing that this new short should win the Best Short Film Oscar. It’s also been picked up Gothamist, New York Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, among many others. It’s shaping up to be Stuart’s viral hit. I blogged it when it […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 29, 2010 -
JAMIE STUART ON THE EAST COAST BLIZZARD
A lovely short directed, shot and edited by Jamie Stuart on his Canon 7D during the blizzard that covered New York and much of the East Coast. Updated: Roger Ebert fell in love with the short and writes: “This film deserves to win the Academy Award for best live-action short subject. (1) Because of its wonderful quality. (2) Because of its role as homage. It is directly inspired by Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent classic “Man With a Movie Camera.” (3) Because it represents an almost unbelievable technical proficiency. He conducts an email interview with Jamie, in which Stuart says: Technically, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 27, 2010 -
F*CK THE FESTIVALS
The filmmakers behind a short entitled Sex, Love and Z Parts have started a blog in which they’re showing the world that festival acceptance isn’t everything. They’re gearing up for a showcase screening at an L.A. theater where they’ll prove the naysayers wrong. Here’s from their inaugural post: Ok let’s get something straight; I have no regrets. Sundance doesn’t want me, boo -fuckin’ hoo. Slamdance don’t wanna dance, well call me Gloria ’cause I will survive bitch. I shot this movie and it’s the tits! ok…that’s better. So let me fill you in on a few things. I shot a […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 14, 2006 -
STOCK FOOTAGE
Getty Images held a short film competition in which 50% of the material of each submitted film has to be material from the Getty archive. The 28 finalists are online, and viewers get to vote for the winner, who receives a $10,000 cash prize. (Annoyingly, you have to register with their site to stream the films, but registration is free.) Via Shortsville, which is picking up steam as a place to find cool short film and advertising links.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 8, 2006 -
SNEAKER ENVY
Coolhunting reports that Adidas has hired seven directors to make short films for each of their new “adicolor” hues. The first is by the animation and design house Tronic. On their website, the outfit states, “The strength of Tronic lies in our ability to leverage our various backgrounds as architects, designers, art directors and directors to establish a collective fusing of ideas, images, movement and experience. By actively shaping all projects through a rigorous conceptual process, we transcend preconceived notions of how to arrive at a particular creative solution within any of the media that we work.” Their film for […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 29, 2006
