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 photo opps, step-and-repeat, handshakes, small talk, panel discussions, and toasts, you’ve missed crucial parts of the film fest experience. There is, of course, the artist’s desire to see your work theatrically presented, too. As much as I appreciate convenience and accessibility, a ..read more

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 International Film Fest, Montreal Independent Film Festival, Tokyo International, Big Apple Film Festival and the Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival. In 2023, she started her own documentary filmmaking company, YOYO ..read more

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 do-gooder triumphs. And most importantly, the protagonist of such narratives actively acts, changes himself and changes the world around him. The question is: Are we changing? Still from the movie “The Truman’s Show” Sometimes the authors of such works ope ..read more

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 the hope of entering the film market. To do so, we must submit film to festivals, the selection and winning of which makes a case for distribution. But let’s be realistic. The distribution system is mainly designed for a full-length movie. Accordingly, this will most likely be an intermediate stage in ou ..read more

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 cosmos every year. But the beneficiaries of this don’t seem to be here, in the short film field. Industry workers are slaving for 16 hours and going on strike. Filmmakers are humiliated and insulted. Festivals are bristling with grants and submission fees from filmmakers. The reality with VOD ..read more

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 hour before the end. The final protagonist choice certainly consists of two evils.  And most importantly, your characters should be in constant conflict with each other. The content of the conflict, in such cases, is filled i ..read more

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 psychotherapy.” Entering the office, I asked the doctor: “Do you think this process can harm my creativity?” and he answered me: “Well, David, I’ll be honest with you – maybe.” I shook his hand and left. In another interview, Lynch explained his decision by not w ..read more

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, voter, or author ranks as a deity or a Buddha statue in this temple. The main protagonist of the unfilmed movie, scriptwriter-director Paul, wanders through the countless floors of the temple-mall. The illusory nature of this status is apparent t ..read more

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 the Frontline programme of the festival. This year collection of fiction films will conclude the screenings on Sunday 22d of July at the Ideas Block.   Сообщение SHORT MOVIE CLUB IN VILNIUS появились сначала на Short Movie Club ..read more

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 an easy way to manually subtitle in the Subtitle Edit program. This program can be used to edit automatically generated subtitles. 1. Download free the program and install it on your computer (for Windows and Linux OS only). 2. Open the program and add a video file to ..read more