Extremely short shorts are all the rage at Park City this year. Perhaps this is a byproduct of Sundance’s embrace of online–originated material, or the result of a crop of filmmakers used to making thirty-second commercials for a living. The end result is a surprising number of shorts clocking in around the two-minute mark. Other trends among the 66 official short film selections: Sundance alumni are responsible for crafting some of the most accomplished dramatic pieces the festival has to offer, the handful of shorts with well-known faces either in front of or behind the camera are among the most interesting, and Canada is on a hot streak with the largest representation in recent memory. Here, in alphabetical order, are five shorts that epitomize the best of what’s trending at Sundance this year. “The Bravest, the Boldest” Having been to Sundance twice before with his films “Pop Foul...
- 1/15/2014
- by Kim Adelman
- Indiewire
A Tribeca Film Institute Panel at the New School this week mulled over just this topic. From the program:
You’ve completed your school work and made a few films in school, and now you need to figure out your next steps. What career options exist for filmmakers? How can you develop and raise money for a film project and still cover your living expenses? This panel addresses these questions and provides examples and answers relevant to all makers of film and other media.
The panelists:
Sharon Badal (Moderator) is head short film programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival.
Sandi DuBowski is the Director/Producer of Trembling Before G-d, Producer of A Jihad for Love, and Co-Producer of Budrus.
Macky Alston is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, an educator on issues of media and religion, an organizer within the worlds of philanthropy and media-making, and a regular writer and reviewer on film and religion
Moon Molson?...
You’ve completed your school work and made a few films in school, and now you need to figure out your next steps. What career options exist for filmmakers? How can you develop and raise money for a film project and still cover your living expenses? This panel addresses these questions and provides examples and answers relevant to all makers of film and other media.
The panelists:
Sharon Badal (Moderator) is head short film programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival.
Sandi DuBowski is the Director/Producer of Trembling Before G-d, Producer of A Jihad for Love, and Co-Producer of Budrus.
Macky Alston is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, an educator on issues of media and religion, an organizer within the worlds of philanthropy and media-making, and a regular writer and reviewer on film and religion
Moon Molson?...
- 3/8/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Institute announced that 12 short films from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, as well as eight classic short films from Institute alumni and earlier Festivals will be available in the You Tube Screening Room. The first launch date is January 6, 2011 and will continue to release through February 3, 2011.
Each YouTube Screening Room series is scheduled to run for a span of six weeks.
”We are thrilled to be able to share a selection of short films free online on the YouTube Screening Room with the broader public,” said Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “The Screening Room will offer just a sample of the diversity and originality of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program, as well as a taste of Institute history.”
The YouTube Screening room (www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom) is a curated wing of YouTube that focuses on independent films.
Short Films from Directors with Feature...
Sundance Institute announced that 12 short films from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, as well as eight classic short films from Institute alumni and earlier Festivals will be available in the You Tube Screening Room. The first launch date is January 6, 2011 and will continue to release through February 3, 2011.
Each YouTube Screening Room series is scheduled to run for a span of six weeks.
”We are thrilled to be able to share a selection of short films free online on the YouTube Screening Room with the broader public,” said Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “The Screening Room will offer just a sample of the diversity and originality of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program, as well as a taste of Institute history.”
The YouTube Screening room (www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom) is a curated wing of YouTube that focuses on independent films.
Short Films from Directors with Feature...
- 1/6/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
One of my favorite short films of the last few years is Moon Molson’s Pop Foul. I loved it so much I put Moon in our “25 New Faces” list of 2007. Wrote Brandon Harris, “Short films are rarely as devastating as Pop Foul, the lyrically mounted, subtly acted debut of Columbia University’s Moon Molson. The film tells the tale of a confused young boy who struggles with his reaction to a beating his father endures at the hands of a local thug following a Little League baseball game. Pop Foul stingingly depicts the emotional violence that follows the physical as the young father enlists the boy to deceive his mother about the incident in order to retain the remaining fragments of his shattered masculinity.” If you...
- 8/4/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
From my inbox… let’s help this brotha out, shall we!!
First watch 10 minutes of his award-winning short film Pop Foul immediately below (which helped garner him a spot on Filmmaker magazine’s 2007 list of new filmmakers to watch; and then read the message he sent me underneath, and act accordingly. I already voted!!
And now here’s the email he sent me:
Hey Tambay…
I was referred to you by filmmaker Barry Jenkins. He told me that you might consider helping me rally votes for my entry into Filmmaker Alliance’s Ultimate Filmmaker Competition.
My 2008 Sundance Lab feature film project Meadowlandz is a semifinalist in the competition and is up to win a $500,000 production grant! The next step is to beat out 24 other filmmakers for one of the next 5 finalists spots.
The feature script for this project was sent out by my manager and agent to over 30 Hollywood producers...
First watch 10 minutes of his award-winning short film Pop Foul immediately below (which helped garner him a spot on Filmmaker magazine’s 2007 list of new filmmakers to watch; and then read the message he sent me underneath, and act accordingly. I already voted!!
And now here’s the email he sent me:
Hey Tambay…
I was referred to you by filmmaker Barry Jenkins. He told me that you might consider helping me rally votes for my entry into Filmmaker Alliance’s Ultimate Filmmaker Competition.
My 2008 Sundance Lab feature film project Meadowlandz is a semifinalist in the competition and is up to win a $500,000 production grant! The next step is to beat out 24 other filmmakers for one of the next 5 finalists spots.
The feature script for this project was sent out by my manager and agent to over 30 Hollywood producers...
- 1/8/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
- Seven lucky receipients working on six projects are the 2008's Annenberg Film Fellows grants winners...or in other words, these folks got cash to keep the dream alive. Filmmakers Fellipe Barbosa, Frank Budgen, Daniel Casey, John Magary, Moon Molson, and Lara Foot Newton and Gerard Marx whom all were breathing fresh air and workshopping their projects in June at the Sundance Institute's Directors Lab will now plan the next steps in prepping for production. Here are the projects to keep an eye out for in 2010 and beyond...: Blood Abundance, Or The Half-life Of Antoinette/John Magary (writer/director): Set amidst poverty, with moments of both joy and upheaval, Blood Abundance, Or The Half-life Ofantoinette is a retelling of the chaotic life of Antoinette Dawson as she raises seven children in New Orleans. John Magary has written and directed several short films, including Site In Fishkill Creek, We Are All Guerrillas,
- 7/29/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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