In a world where attention spans are fleeting, short films have emerged as powerful storytellers, captivating audiences in unforeseen ways. This exploration delves into the dynamic landscape of short film genres, revealing how innovation and creativity are reshaping cinematic expressions. From experimental narratives to audience-driven experiences, the impact of technology and film festivals creates a[…]
By Aliaksandr Martyniuk One of the key issues in comprehension of cinema is its correlation with reality. We speak of comprehension, implying a possible relativistic and even ethical acceptance of existing concepts and stances. Preliminarily, it should be noted that the ideological field of struggle for the real in film remains as yet unoccupied. Therefore,[…]
By Christine Stoddard * A film festival acceptance is a blessing. But what if you can’t make it to your screening? While a credit is nice, facetime probably counts for more. Some of the main reasons to hit “Submit” include strutting down the red carpet, meeting people, and exchanging contact info. If you miss the[…]
by filmmaker Cameron Kit* * Cameron Kit is an award-winning filmmaker and entrepreneur with over 13 years of experience in film and storytelling. She has directed over 30 films, and has won numerous awards including “Best Editing”, “Best Special Effects” and “Best Cinematography”. Her work has been featured in more than 15 festivals internationally, including the Richmond[…]
We ended our last article on the psychology of conflict with an insightful point about the gap between our intuitive understanding of life and the laws of conflict creation and development set out in Aristotle’s Poetics. Especially when it comes to movie productions of mass culture, where happy-end stories dominate, evil is punished and the[…]
How much it costs for a short film to enter festivals In this article, we decided to leave speculation aside and prepared a calculator to estimate how much it will cost to promote a short film at festivals in 2024. Let’s imagine that we are captured by an ambitious goal and submit a movie with[…]
AVERAGE SHORT FILM BUDGET Very often, the question arises about the average budget for a short film. What is its cost, if we are talking about indie filmmaking? To answer this question, we used about 1.5 thousand short films from all over the world submitted to our festival as the basis for our calculations. These[…]
Between social media and big cinema Despite what is written below, we have some good news At first glance, the field of short films today is not going through the best of times. Of course, the film industry is showing growth and the number of billion in investments, and the revenues are growing into the[…]
Alexander Polybinsky, playwright, psychologist, researcher of the psychology of creativity. Psychology of conflict in film drama Popular film drama manuals are increasingly looking like a mathematics reference book. The main beats are already indicated on the script timeline: call to adventure at 15 minutes, first turning beat at 30, and second one — at half an[…]
By Alexander Polybinsky, playwright, psychologist, creative psychology researcher. There is my favorite passage in the book Catching the Big Fish by the great American director David Lynch: One day I went to a psychotherapist. There were events in my life that for some time began to repeat regularly, and I decided: “That’s it, I need[…]
THE ILLUSION (unfilmed movie that never will be made) The film studies have turned into dream interpretations. Cinema itself has become an electric shadow of the World Illusion building. The unfilmed sci-fi movie “The Illusion” by nonexistent director Alex Munk is set in an endless shopping and leisure center. The consumer, aka user, aka viewer,[…]
The IX Nefiltravanae Kino screenings continue on July 20-22, 2023 in Vilnius (Lithuania) at the Ideas Block and the CreateCulture Space venues. All screenings start at 7pm. Each day is dedicated to a different programme. A Video art programme will open the events at the Ideas Block. The second day’s evening will be devoted to[…]
We are quite far from defending the thesis of the benefits or harms of censorship. It would be an oversimplification to blame or praise it today. The idea of ethical and legal (political) censorship is the first thing people usually think of. Our task is to classify censorship according to its obviousness to the subject,[…]
As it is well known, cinema was invented in the Celestial Empire, and it was only technically upgraded in Paris … BRIEF HISTORY Today, when we talk about national cinema or its national characteristics, we should take into account that Chinese cinema in its history has not been isolated from external cultural influences. Domestic-oriented film[…]
From April 14 to 21 we are resuming screenings! Yes, in Belarus we continue the format of underground events. During this time, we will show all the programs to the Belarusian audience. But most importantly, we will hold a series of screenings abroad. The first screening is scheduled for May 3, 7 pm at CreateCulture Space[…]
This article is for those who are taking their first steps into filmmaking. You may have already debuted your first short film and it has had some success. What’s next and what are the options for the future film career? 1. Why the film industry is worth your time There are numerous reasons why the[…]
We decided to conduct an experiment and have artificial intelligence do a review of film festivals. If neural networks write original scripts and create cartoons, why not let them do the review? By the way, we are in the third year of training artificial intelligence to select films in a special program. This collection is[…]
There are several ways to create subtitles (SubRip) for your movie. You can try to make them automatically using speech recognition in Youtube Creative Studio or other services. But it works well provided the speech is sufficiently articulate and there is no noise or music in the background. In this article we will show you[…]
Recently, we have been hearing more and more often from film makers that thanks to the huge number and variety of festivals, a short film will almost always find its niche. Indeed, thanks to the Filmfreeway platform you can find many suitable festivals. Today, almost any film will meet its festival. In this article, we[…]
Where does the eternal youth of good old cinema come from? Cinema is one of the few arts that can fit into the mall model economy and remain autonomous. Films are becoming obsolete, but cinema manages to remain up-to-date for the time being. Many researchers consider cinema, especially its depiction of the anthropocene, to be[…]