Minhal Baig joins us to discuss her journey from short film to feature as Hala becomes the first narrative fiction film acquisition for Apple TV+
After a fight with her mother, sixteen-year-old James sneaks her boyfriend Ben into their house once everyone has gone to sleep. When Ben brings a scary movie to watch, James is more horrified than she ever could have imagined.
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.
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.
Part 3 of Kirby Ferguson's brilliant Everything is a Remix series deals with the origins of creativity.
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.
A double-amputee veteran and his wife grapple with his injuries among unexpected events.
Good artists copygreat artists steal. How everything from music to movies is influenced, based on, or derivative of previous genius.
This is the second part of our coverage of the 9 in-competition short films Tribeca (Online) has made available, and the 3rd (and last) post overall in our coverage of Tribeca 2011 Online Films. You can still see part 1 and our post on the 9 retrospective shorts, but you only have a few more days to catch them.
