Bait Short Film

[Sear Sommerfeldt]

Baitis a 2019 British drama film written and directed by Mark Jenkin. Starring Edward Rowe as a struggling fisherman, the film deals with the tensions that arise between locals and tourists in a Cornish fishing village against a backdrop of second homes, short-term lets, and gentrification.

Martin Ward is a fisherman in a picturesque Cornish village. He struggles to make ends meet fishing without a boat, while his brother Steven uses their late father's vessel to offer cruise trips to visiting tourists.

Meanwhile, tensions arise between Martin and the out-of-town Leigh family, who use the harbour-front 'Skipper's Cottage' they bought from Martin and Steven as a seasonal holiday home and short-term rental business.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 39 reviews, with an average score of 8.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "As visually distinctive as it is narratively satisfying, Bait blends a classic aesthetic with timely themes to produce a thrillingly original and uniquely enriching drama."[3] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 84 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[4]

Writing in The Observer, Mark Kermode gave a glowing review, describing the film as 'a genuine modern masterpiece, which establishes Jenkin as one of the most arresting and intriguing British film-makers of his generation.'[5] He later named Bait his favourite film of both the year and the decade.[6] Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian called the film 'intriguing and unexpectedly watchable', in a four-star review that remarked on the experimental nature of the film.[7]

Bait and Switch aims to take this to the extreme. Through an absurdist lens, the film seeks to shed light on this sort of hilarious phenomenon, and ultimately make an irreverent comment about the disposable nature of modern dating and companionship.

Phil has worked on short and feature-length projects since graduating from the cinema studies program at the University of Toronto and is the co-owner/founder of the largest and fastest growing online comedy platform operating out of Canada, Thunder Dungeon.

Senior vice President of Animation and Family Entertainment Cort Lane said of the series "Telling Marvel stories in the Funko Pop! aesthetic is a special kind of magic unlike anything we've ever done. These shorts are both hilarious and action-packed, and irresistibly adorable too. Really, I think all audiences will love them."

The concept of this short is based on a scene in the Guardians of the Galaxy film. In it, Collector asks if he can have Groot's remains after he dies. While Groot apparently dies, he survives in a smaller form. This short follows if Collector had taken that smaller form as they had discussed earlier.

A dear friend introduced me to The Joy Story: Joy and Heron, a 2018 animated short film by Passion Pictures. I love this film for the many life lessons it contains, lessons useful to us on our life journey. In the film (which can be viewed at =ZQGuVKHtrxc) :

The heron returns a third time but when it snatches a worm, Joy latches on to the other end. A struggle ensures during which the worm is stretched to its limits and snaps. The heron falls into the back of the boat; Joy bounces into his owner. When the owner turns toward Joy, he notices the heron in the boat and chases it off. This time, Joy is rewarded with a pat on the head.

With a change of heart, Joy places a large batch of worms on the edge of the boat. When the heron returns, Joy with a friendly smile on her face and an enthusiastically wagging tail encourages the heron to take the worms. It does and returns to feed the babies.

Thankfully, as awareness of the issue grows, these fish have been getting some good press lately. There is a great short film made by Jesse Nichols, a talented young man from my hometown, that explains the importance of forage fish and some of the action being taken to preserve them in Western Washington. To the north, First Nations groups led by the Heiltsuk in British Columbia are leading protests agains commercial over-fishing and closing their own vital fishery to try to maintain the viability of herring stocks and to raise a greater awareness to the decline of these precious resources. Also, National Geographic recently did two articles about the struggles facing fish like these, which can be found here and here.

During my peak production my goal was to cast sixteen fish twice a day. This yielded around twenty seven good fish, as I would consistently lose several when releasing them from their molds, due to broken fins and sometimes full-on collapsing.

I needed a structure to hang the fish from, one that could carry the significant weight of the number of fish it took to take to create the school. The school is very heavy, as all the fish and sharks are made from the same vitreous china that all ceramic Kohler products are made from (resident artists work within the factory and use all the same production materials). The structure also needed to work with the water/school of fish theme. So I enlisted my public art team of Arron Whelton and Kurt Nordquist to help design the interlocking plywood grid to support the school of fish.

I designed the lower surface of the support structure with a sculptural ripple effect that is similar to my last couple of public art projects. Visually, it serves to places the fish underwater as well as relate it to my greater body of work. The structure was hung from a steel beam used in the studios for operating chain hoists for lifting heavy objects.

As the fish were cast and cleaned up on a daily basis, one batch was run through the drier while another batch was run through the kiln. I assembled the school slowly, adding a few fish at a time every couple of days, as they were ready.

It took three months and 468 fish to complete the Ghost School. None of this would have been possible without the support of my amazing wife Joanne, who continues to support my crazy ideas all these years, and who took care of everything at home while I was away, most importantly our three beautiful busy daughters.

The associates at the factory, whom I count as good friends, were a huge help and pleasure to work with. Also thanks to the people at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, especially Kristin Plucar. Shari McWilliams, the program tech, was indispensable. The piece will remain in Wisconsin as part of the Kohler Company collection and displayed in one of their hospitality properties for public viewing. I would like to thank Laura and David Kohler and Kohler Company for making this possible.

Finally, none of the Arts/Industry residencies would be possible without the kindness, generosity, and great vision of Ruth Kohler, who started the residency program over 40 years ago and has brought new and greater possibilities to artists like me ever since.

This short starts out as a ridiculous comedy which makes the horrific events at the end hit harder. The comedic tone lures the audience into a false sense of comfort, and allows them to let their guard down by the end when the story takes a particularly cruel turn.

A quarterfinalist in the first Killer Shorts competition. Jay Slater has had an interest in film from a young age, and a lifelong interest in horror. He's based in Los Angeles, and is currently aspiring to have a career in the industry, preferably as a screenwriter.

Filmed on a budget of a few hundred euros, director Lars-Erik Lie initiated Dead Bait as a summer project to avoid spending the long Norwegian summer days on the sofa. A microbudget sleazy rape-revenge exploitation short with elements of dark comedy and zombie mythology took shape, and with a small cast and crew, the shooting was completed in just one day, as planned. The film is a Violence Productions / 3F co-production.

Dead Bait, which originally was titled Mors (latin for for dead or diseased) will probably clock in at 10-15 minutes, and was shot in the forests of Trysil in Eastern Norway. It will be launched online in the autumn and possibly on disc.

Stephen Dalton in The Hollywood Reporter wrote "a stylish experimental drama from England's rugged Wild West...Bait was one of the most original and stylistically bold films to world premiere in Berlin last week."

Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian agreed giving the film four stars and calling it "one of the most arrestingly strange movies in Berlin this year...The weirdness of Bait can't be overestimated, like FW Murnau directing an episode of EastEnders."

BAIT was produced by Bristol-based producers Early Day Films who worked closely with Mark and our School of Film & Television to help get the project made. Falmouth provided film stock and location equipment for the shoot with students working on the crew. The final version of the film was then post produced in 4k at the School's state-of-the-art grading and dubbing facility.

Over the last decade the School of Film & Television has established a unique reputation for micro-budget film production, which is helping to fuel the future of the British film and television industry.

Chris Morris, Director of the School of Film & Television explains: "By making micro-budget feature films, investing in low budget UK shorts and features, and by providing production resources for other independent filmmakers, the School offers unbeatable industry experience to our students and graduates who work on these real-life productions.

"We have invested in a wide range of productions - some entirely funded by our School and crewed entirely by our students. We've invested in short films directed and produced by our graduates, and we've attracted independent professional productions to Cornwall giving our students invaluable on-set experiences.

"We're about to embark on our next full-scale, in-house, micro-budget feature film. Students will be working for two weeks on location, shooting the feature written and directed by filmmaker-in-residence Brett Harvey. All the post-production will then be brought into the School and the film will be edited, graded and dubbed hand in hand with our students."

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