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This category awards one winner and a shortlist of up to 10. Submissions must be between 5 to 20 minutes in length and be narrative-led to convey an original fictional story or event. Dramatized factual subjects should be entered into this category rather than Non-Fiction.
This category awards one winner and a shortlist of up to 10. Submissions must be between 5 to 20 minutes in length and be predominantly factual in content. Archive footage, documentary footage, reenactments and animation are eligible, but dramatized factual subjects will not qualify and should be entered into another category.
The Student category rewards filmmakers studying a film course at a registered institution at a diploma or degree level worldwide. This category awards one winner and a shortlist of up to 5. Institutions that make up the shortlist are selected by continent to ensure a diverse range of global talent. Entries can be of any genre. Submissions must be between 5 to 20 minutes in length.
Bill Block is a filmmaker currently living and working in Los Angeles. He recently returned from Bangkok, Thailand, where he directed second unit on the thriller A Stranger in Paradise starring Stuart Townsend, Catalina Moreno, and Colin Egglesfield. Next he will direct the psychological drama The Wind Effect.
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We kick off 2021 with indigenous filmmaker Erica Tremblay, who represents a new kind of filmmaker for a new kind of world. 2020 broke us down and rose us up. We saw more clearly through an epidemic the injustices in our culture, which brought us closer together as humans.
Shortly after graduating college, I just packed everything that I had in my car and drove to LA. Looking back on it now, I was very naive in thinking $800 was going to be enough to live in LA. But I think if you put your mind to something, you can just work your way through it.
Another thing is to just be collaborative and to be generous. If you see someone who is doing something and you come and hand out water, or volunteer, they are going to show up for your projects. Collaboration is just a huge part of it.
Anderson, a 54-year-old graduate of Houston's St. John's School and the University of Texas at Austin, was awarded his first individual Oscar on Sunday night. He won in the Best Live Action Short Film category for "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar," one of a series of Roald Dahl short-story adaptations that Anderson wrote and directed for Netflix.
"The Royal Tenenbaums" netted Anderson his first Oscar nomination, in the Best Original Screenplay category, while the 2012 film "Moonrise Kingdom" was nominated for the same award. "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "Isle of Dogs," released in 2018, both were nominated for Best Animated Picture.
Anderson did not receive Oscar nominations for one of his first and most well-known films, "Rushmore," the quirky, coming-of-age comedy starring Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman that was filmed in the Houston area and released in 1998. Also going without any nominations was Anderson's most recent feature-length film, "Asteroid City," a 2023 release that is set in a fictional American desert town in the 1950s and features a star-studded cast including Steve Carrell, Bryan Cranston, Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson and Margot Robbie.
"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley, among others, and is about a wealthy man who learns to see without using his eyes and parlays that ability into winning money at casinos that he donates to charity. The other nominees in the Best Live Action Short Film category were "The After," "Knight of Fortune," "Invincible" and "Red, White and Blue."
I have to go into this review acknowledging that I, a white teenage boy whose interest in Taylor as an artist comes mostly from hearing how impactful her music is for many of my close friends, is not the intended audience for this short. However, as a self-proclaimed film critic, I went in giving this my most open-mindedness. I have tried my hardest to be as honest and consistent as I can with my views on this film.
AFF Short Film Programmer, Samuel Garcia, recently sat down with Mirpoorian to discuss his experience and drive behind making the documentary short, his experience with the Austin Film Festival, and his biggest influences and inspirations behind his passion for film.
Samuel: You do a great job throughout the short film. where nothing ever seems too overwhelming while also getting a good sense of all the different angles at which this event happened. That being said, how did you decide what narratives you were going to follow while you were building out Safe Place?
The initiative serves film-makers from the Keys to the Treasure Coast with an audience reach of over 6.3 million. The project is co-directed by three senior South Florida PBS staffers with support from local film organizations.
South Florida PBS is searching for aspiring student filmmakers who have an interesting and thought-provoking story to tell! Five student filmmakers in Broward County will be chosen to participate, with the ultimate goal of bringing their short films to public television and the big screen.
This program is made possible in part by the Community Foundation of Broward and is produced in partnership with the Broward County Film Society. There is no cost to enter or participate in this program. Submit your short film or film concept today! The deadline to apply is December 31, 2022.
It began by co-founding BirdMine, my production company, in 2020. I co-founded it with my friend and fellow journalist, Kody Leibowitz, to focus specifically on documentaries. It felt like a natural extension of what we had been doing as television news reporters.
My mom was a single mother who worked two jobs to make ends meet while caring for me and my older sister Becky, who, as you said, is disabled. Growing up in this environment shaped me into the person I am today. It was often trying and challenging, and I watched my mother advocate for my sister and people with disabilities at every turn. And one of the critical moments that stuck out in my mind since childhood was when my mother decided to have a Bat Mitzvah for Becky.
There were naysayers about the situation, mainly because of how unconventional and untraditional the Bat Mitzvah would be. This was 26 years ago, and at that point, there had never been a Bat Mitzvah like this at our conservative synagogue.
Even so, my mom approached our rabbi, Rabbi Kahn, and he willingly and happily granted her request. He modified and officiated the Bat Mitzvah for my sister, calling it "the holiest Bat Mitzvah he'd ever been a part of."
So now, I tell stories inspired by my life. I do it to help others feel seen because, for so long, I felt invisible. I do it to educate people about my communities, the disabled and Jewish communities, so there is less misunderstanding and more empathy. I do it because it's therapeutic for me.
So while I feel emotional, sometimes sad and scared, every time I write a story inspired or based on a personal life event, I continue to do it because it helps my younger self heal. I also hope it helps others feel acknowledged and represented and gives them solace knowing someone is trying to create a better, more accepting world.
I did. I set out to achieve completely authentic casting. I knew from the beginning I wanted to cast all Jewish people for the Jewish roles and a person with autism/a disability for the character based on my sister.
While writing that column, I was approached by Judith Rubin (an associate producer on our film, too), thanking me for my work. Judith reached out to me because she has a daughter Naomi, an actress on the autism spectrum.
Judith and I stayed in touch, and when I was thinking of casting for the role inspired by my sister, I jumped at the chance to see if Naomi would be interested and available. She is not only on the autism spectrum but also Jewish, and it was the perfect fit!
Was it tough to get your screenwriting legs, or did you, whose husband is Very Famous TV Writer Sean Collins-Smith (sorry, just predicting the future here for a moment), gain that exposure already being in a creative storytelling household, and for that matter being part of a circle of friends largely comprised of film and TV writers?
However, that rhythm took multiple drafts, direction, and coaching. First, before I even began attempting narrative writing, I read a lot of scripts. Second, my Very Famous TV Writer husband (as you put it ?) Sean, helped me understand how to set up a screenplay and take an idea and create a compelling narrative.
We met Erika in 2020 and began our journey filming with her, her crew, family, and friends soon after. We filmed with her for two years before it culminated in our trip to Tanzania and Kilimanjaro in September 2022. We have thousands of hours of footage we are sifting through as we storyboard/script the film.
Meandering Scars is about more than Erika's climb. It is about Erika's journey as a disabled person in America. It is about how inaccessibility, perceived burdensomeness, and financial turmoil due to a faulty system contributed to her deteriorating mental health/suicide ideation. It's about how she overcame/worked through those dark feelings and how she helps other disabled people today. The Kilimanjaro climb is just a part of a bigger narrative. Because at the end of the day, the limited statistics out there show that most people with disabilities aren't struggling because of their disabilities per say, they're struggling because they're living in a world not built for them and with people who refuse to create inclusivity and accessibility (that would benefit everyone).
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