**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - The 1994 short film classic remade into the Oscar-winning feature Slingblade.
A woman contemplates whether or not to keep her baby, while waiting for her lover to arrive in a small cafe.
A young labourer backs into a parked car. Two international students watch a group of kids make a small bomb. And a man attempts to dump a load of rubbish on the side of the road.
During 1979 at the height of the Iran Hostage crisis, Babak goes on a trip to meet his fiancé’s parents and ends up confronting the realities of what it means to be an Iranian immigrant in a patriotic post-Vietnam America.
Making a great short film requires a certain kind of alchemy; because there are no hard-set rules in regards to running time, subject matter, or even medium, filmmakers traverse a tricky path on the road to festival -- and online audience -- acceptance. I was lucky enough to sit down at the San Francisco International Film Festival with a few of the shorts filmmakers that were in attendance and get insight into their process, ask what lessons they learned on their latest productions, and find out what they believe makes a good short film.
Here are the most common mistakes filmmakers make with their short films that stick out like a sore thumb to programmers and curators. Find out how to avoid them.
No preamble, if you want to learn more about this fantastic online competition, check out the first half of our coverage from yesterday. Again, due to embedding restrictions, please visit the festival website to view the films.
A short film about memory, emigration, longing, Jesus kitsch, cocktail sausages and children’s television
Paul is the custodian of a nuclear missile silo, living alone in the vast underground structure. More interested in his passion - painting and sculpting the missile - than his duties, he gets a lousy performance review that threatens his job.
