Road to Cannes – Short Film Corner
Received an email from Chris Jones, author of the Guerilla Filmmakers Handbook, with a link to his guide to the Cannes Film Festival. (If you’ve not seen this, check it out here). After seeing it, I realised that I needed to go this year. Just one problem – to get festival accreditation (in order to see movies, attend events etc) at a reasonable price, I would need to enter a short film into the Cannes Short Film Corner.
Over the past year, I’ve been pretty busy working on LOL. Six weekend shoots, producing 20 x 4 minute episodes. Unfortunately as a webseries, it doesn’t really qualify (maximum duration of 35 mins for Short Film Corner entires). What about my short In The Name of Security? Also not valid, as the short has to made in I think the last 18 months.
The deadline for entries is Friday April 16th. It’s the first week of March now. Time to get writing a script.
Cannes Short Film Corner 2010
Back in March I decided that I'd check out the Cannes Film Festival this year, so I pretty rapidly, wrote, cast, shot, edited and submitted a short film. It got into the Short Film Corner, so Kaitlyn and I headed out there in May to see what all the fuss was about.
We Need to Talk is going to Cannes!
So after a very busy couple of weeks editing, We Need to Talk has been completed and uploaded to the Cannes Short Film Corner - with 24 hours to go. Just found out that it has been accepted so we will be heading out there in May!
We Need To Talk shoot
After a busy month of prep, I've just finished shooting 'We Need To Talk'. This film did not