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.
Desperate for money to buy a motorcycle, Lucas makes a deal with a stranger to let him take some "innocent" pictures in exchange for cash.
In a world where time travel is a simple hospital procedure, a man jumps back in time to force his 10 year old self to learn guitar, so that he can get more action with the ladies in the present day.
In the Florida Everglades rabbit hunting is a rite of passage for young men, practiced since the early 1900s. The Rabbit Hunt follows a family as they hunt in the fields of an industrial sugar farm.
Intimate glimpses of a special day in the lives of high-school seniors from an industrial corner of the Florida Everglades.
You've seen the scenario before: some talented, young filmmaker releases his latest short film on Vimeo and BOOM practically overnight it goes viral. A few million views and a couple hundred thousand comments later, they garner industry attention, eventually cinching a movie deal with Hollywood.
A woman's frustrations boil to the surface while hosting a party for her friends, culminating in a public freakout that turns into collective hysteria.
A taxidermist attempts to profess his love for his neighbor - a nearsighted and forgetful woman who owns a scrawny, half-starved cat.
A day in the life of a Husband and a Wife, living in a world of giant monsters.
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - Adventurous tale of a navigator's journey to save his ailing wife set in a beautiful world of Victorian science-ficiton.
