The river is a metaphor for the relentless passage of time in this intimate character study. Four college friends reunite after 10 years time in this film from acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke.
As the SXSW Film Festival gears up this weekend, regular SOTW contributor, Jason B Kohl, sat down with two filmmakers from UCLA's MFA Directing Program en route to Austin. Their shorts couldn't be more different from each other in every aspect from production through post, but the two had many common insights to share.
We published part 1 of this fashion film roundup to honor the end of New York fashion week and since then London and Milan have had their turn. Now we're in the thick of Fashion Week Paris, the final of the 4 consecutive world fashion weeks, and at last here is part 2.
Sundance is here! Yours truly will be attendance for the first time, but, as it's been for the last 6 years, all of you at home can partake in the excitement too through the Sundance Online Short Film Program. After a two year collaboration with YouTube, the festival has moved to giant content portal Yahoo! and their relatively new video platform Yahoo! Screen.
My particular bent is to render an optimistic future because we are rehearsing for our own futurewhy not do it as pleasantly as possible? Syd Mead The next installment in the BMW short documentary series: Activate the Future dropped today with part 2: "The Future Just Isn't What it Used to Be". Much of the same cast of talking heads from part 1 join us again, and this time talk about how the sci-fi has historically gotten major transportation advances wrong; plus why there is such a difficulty in predicting the course of future developments.
BMW is of course no stranger to short film, they set the standard for branded short filmmaking with their amazing The Hire series in 2001 and 2002. They are back this time with Activate the Future, a 4-part documentary series regarding sustainable mobility.
During a stormy night in Camp Heebie Jeebie, the ghost stories shared by a group of Jeebie Scouts become all too real.
Part-time chef Steve Palmer finds himself 3 seconds out of sync with the universe after he attempts to travel through time.
A grandmother loses her five senses, one after the other, until she transforms into a wooden chair.
Kickstarter is launching a new initiative to highlight short film projects for the entire month of March. We chat with the company's Director of Documentary, Liz Cook Mowe to learn more.
