» Posts Tagged ‘shorts’
Sundance has announced this year’s Jury-prize winning shorts, and one of the winners is already available to watch online free. In total there are ten shorts online, and you don’t have to be in Park City to see them. Here’s one short that’s embeddable — note that it is not for the faint of heart (bad pun intended… there is a fair amount of surgery shown): More »
A 30 minute short film sponsored by Canon and shot on the Canon C300 and 5D Mark II, When You Find Me premiered on YouTube this week and will reportedly go offline tomorrow morning. So I figured I’d share it while it lasts — if the full film has been taken down, the trailer is below. Executive produced by Ron Howard and directed by his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, here it is in full here is the trailer (the full film was taken down according to schedule): More »
I get a fair number of emails from other filmmakers who have made a short, posted it to Vimeo, and are wondering what to do next. Finding an audience and gaining exposure is a definite challenge, and due to time constraints lately I haven’t posted as many shorts or exposure opportunities as I’d like. So here’s one opportunity: the 180 Second Microcinema Film Festival is calling for submissions of, as you can guess from the title, 3 minute shorts. Got a film of this length, or an idea for one? The deadline is December 15th. More details: More »
In my last roundup of DSLR-shot videos, I focused on the stunning cinematography that large-chip DSLRs enabled. One year later, no one’s doubting the visual capabilities of these cameras. But the DSLR revolution isn’t just about pretty pictures; it’s about who can make those pictures. Indeed, the widespread availability and low price point of the cameras has been democratizing. So for this roundup I tried to find ten examples of the other “C”: creativity. Without DSLRs, most of these productions wouldn’t have happened, or they would’ve been very different: More »
Every year I make it a point to watch all of the Webby Award film/video winners (self promotion alert: since winning one myself, that is… ), as it’s a good way to catch up on the online video projects that you might’ve missed over the past year. The “Oscars of the Internet” were announced the other day, so if you’re looking for the best projects that premiered online recently, check ‘em out: More »
Few have given the photographer-filmmaker label as much meaning as Tim Hetherington, whose directorial debut Restrepo won the Grand Jury Prize at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. I had a chance to see Hetherington in person a few months after the film’s Sundance bow, at the Full Frame Film Festival, and I’m sure everyone in the room shared my belief that his filmmaking career would be a long and storied one (as a photographer, he’d already won numerous awards). However, news of the worst kind made its way to us via Libya today, where Hetherington was shot and killed in a firefight. Hetherington’s abstract short, “Diary,” premiered at this year’s Full Frame festival just a week ago; here it is. More »
Yesterday I checked out the YouTube Play exhibit at the Guggenheim here in New York, which is showing for three days (simultaneously with the Bilbao, Berlin, and Venice Guggenheim museums) “the ultimate YouTube playlist: a selection of the most unique, innovative, groundbreaking video work being created and distributed online during the past two years.” In the spirit of YouTube, however, these videos are not restricted to expensive museum installations; anyone can watch them online, for free. More »
The Vimeo Festival + Awards this past weekend in NYC were a great time, with all sorts of panels, networking, and partying going on (I assume much of this will make it online at some point — it is Vimeo we’re talking about, after all). I met a lot of fellow filmmakers (and gave away some free passes too) and expect that the festival will be a staple of the NYC filmmaking community for years to come. As part of the festival, the Vimeo Awards were announced, and the winner of the first annual $25,000 Vimeo Grant is Last Minutes with ODEN, an emotional short about a dog’s battle with cancer, directed by Phos Pictures and shot on a Canon 7D: More »
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