Let me be blunt. Most days working on a short film in last years feels like Blade Runner 2049. You are programmed. You chase views. You start wondering if your own ideas are even yours or just someone else’s data stuck in your head. I am Marek, Marek Broda. I grew up in a small town[…]
We all love movies. But have you ever noticed something? Some films you can watch again and again, year after year, and they still feel great. Others, even big hits from a few years ago, feel… old. Why does this happen? It’s not about special effects or big stars. The secret lies in what the[…]
Are the stories, the short videos that are gaining millions of views, a new form of cinema? Or is it not cinema at all? Can we say that cinema is a thing of the past? Will cinema soon take the place of a subculture somewhere alongside anime? What place do short films have in this[…]
Updated lists of film grants, free courses, streams, and major festivals … April COVID news Well, they say it’s a tough time for the film industry. We have updated the list of film grants for 2020. We also want to present you a mini-guide to the most prestigious film festivals. Look details here Did you know that Toronto[…]
We filmed the outside scenes downtown Great Falls around 12-1 pm. A lot of workers have their lunch at that time which was funny, us being outside w/ a gimbal operator on a wheelchair going backwards to film our talent walking w/ a big boom mic and great falls being on their lunch to watch[…]
We start a new rubric dedicated to research in film theory. Every month we will publish the most interesting scholarly articles, which were presented at the film studies conference in Minsk on March 13, 2020, with the support of the Short Movie Club. This time you will find a paper devoted to psychological issues in movies. This[…]
Making A Case for the Short The article “Making A Case for the Short” was submitted on behalf of the Lake Travis Film Festival. The Lake Travis Film Festival (LTFF) is a new festival with an eye to showcasing filmmakers and screenwriters from around the globe with authenticity, vision, and purpose. The festival aims to connect[…]
HOW I GOT INTO MAKING FILMS by Moira Rowan The Short Movie Club launches a column that dedicates filmmaking contexts. We will share the filmmaker’s stories about how they got into making films or about the challenges they were faced with. We hope that this article would be interesting not for filmmakers only but for all[…]
12 Tips for your Film Festival Submission By Steffanie Finn, Executive Director, Winter Film Awards International Film Festival Film Festivals are an awesome way to spread the word about your film, network with filmmakers and producers, and possibly rack up some awards. But, Festivals with live screenings cannot select every film submitted, and legitimate festivals[…]
Cinemania Stages The text was provided by Kinaklub.org. Kinaklub.org is a community of cinema enthusiasts, that is based on P2P principles. The article is an attempt to describe the evolutional way from a pop-corn amateur to a cinema-freak. Suggested six cinemania stages describe behavioral changes of a cinema lover. This classification is based on fiction, and[…]
SHORT MOVIE CLUB IS LOOKING FOR NEW CINEMATOGRAPHY PROJECTS AND IDEAS The Short Movie Club is a platform for projects in the field of cinematography. Our team is open to new ideas and projects. We are looking for cinema project ideas that are full of horizontal communication and P2P cooperation. It can be a film[…]
Short Movie Club in Top 40 Independent Film Blogs 2019 Short Movie Club was selected by Feedspot as one of the Top 40 Independent Film Blogs on the web. The Best Independent Film Blogs from thousands of Independent Film blogs on the web using search and social metrics. Feedspot suggests the subscribing to these websites because they are actively[…]