About a year ago I wrote a post about 5 directors who successfully launched feature films based on their shorts. You can see the films and read the post here: http://jasonbkohl.com/archives/2010/5-shorts-that-launched-features/ I thought that after a year it would be interesting to check in where th[...]
Archive for the ‘Contemporary Short Films’ Category
August 7th, 2011 - 12:41 am § in Contemporary Short Films
5 Shorts That Launched Features: Where Are They Now?
March 6th, 2011 - 10:30 am § in Contemporary Short Films, Filmmaking
UCLA @ SXSW
This year we have two very talented filmmakers from UCLA showing their shorts at SXSW. One is a drama, the other a comedy, one is 10 minutes long, the other is 48 seconds long. It’s a great reminder of the diversity of films that some festivals show. I conducted an interview with the two filmm[...]
Short Film Festival Strategy
I recently attended a seminar held at UCLA on festival strategy and thought I would elaborate on my own. At this point in my career I’m near completion on two short films, gearing up for shooting another, and am searching for financing for my first feature, which I’m developing with a wr[...]
Students and Alums @ Sundance 2011
There were over 6,400 short films submitted this year. This is a new column looking at American film school student and alumni representation at major festivals. Sundance is the first major festival to start the year, so I’m going to take a look at the US Narrative feature and short film categ[...]
September 21st, 2010 - 4:33 pm § in Contemporary Short Films, Film School
Great UCLA Shorts: The Horse by Charles Burnett
The film has a meditative a quality not found as often in short films today. Winner of the grand prize at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival.[...]
Film School Roundup 2010
This is a look at the major accomplishments of American directing students and graduates for the year 2010. I have focused more on development and short films than on feature films. I chose 5 major categories where film students are present: The 25 Faces of Independent Film, The Student Academy Awar[...]
How Not To Make A Short Film by Roberta Munroe
Buy it on Amazon. The Sundance shorts program began as a box of VHS tapes in 1989. In 2010 there were more than 6,000 short films submitted. For her five years as a shorts programmer Roberta Munroe was responsible for wading through them, deciding which ones would make it to Sundance. I recently att[...]
August 25th, 2010 - 2:44 pm § in Contemporary Short Films
5 Shorts that Launched Features
Sikumi Director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean won the 2008 Sundance US Short Film Jury Prize with Sikumi “On The Ice.” He then participated in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Directors Lab to develop his feature of the same name. There’s a great video of him discussing it in this episo[...]
Sundance Shortslab Part 1: Development
On the last weekend in July the Sundance Institute hosted its first annual Shortslab, a day dedicated entirely to short filmmaking. I was lucky enough (for $150) to attend, and it was an amazing experience. This is the first part of a five-part section on the labs. Part 1: Development Miguel Arteta,[...]
August 2nd, 2010 - 10:25 pm § in Contemporary Short Films, Film School
Great UCLA Shorts: Pinkerton by Aleem Hossain
This is probably my favorite UCLA Short, a genre-bending joyride: A violent cop out for revenge meets an unexpected obstacle…[...]