As someone who programs short films for various festivals, let me give this word of advice to prospective film makers. Don’t make a forty minute film. At forty minutes, your film will be about twenty minutes too short to be considered a feature by festival standards and yet so long that it will take up nearly half of a conventional short film program. A forty minute short doesn’t have to be better than just one film to be programmed, it has to be better than about five other shorts combined because that’s how much space it’s going to take up. Make a forty minute short and you’ve virtually guaranteed that nobody is going to see it, ever.
And so, with that basic reality in mind, when I see a forty minute short that’s actually out there on the festival circuit, not just getting programmed...
And so, with that basic reality in mind, when I see a forty minute short that’s actually out there on the festival circuit, not just getting programmed...
- 8/10/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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