Tag: Short Movie

  • OUR CITY: A Documentary Short Films

    OUR CITY: A Documentary Short Films by Exploredinary


    A documentary following LA photographers as they make photos around the city in preparation for the 2nd-annual Film Photographic show ‘OUR CITY’, which was held 7/29/17 in downtown Los Angeles at Contact Photo Lab.

    @filmphotographic is an Instagram film community gallery and resource page founded by Jason Lee, who produced this film with Daniel Driensky and Sarah Reyes.

    Filmed and Edited by Sarah Reyes and Daniel Driensky

    Produced by: Sarah Reyes, Daniel Driensky, and Jason Lee

    Executive Producers: Letitia Younger and Dustin Beatty

    Original Score: Richard Carpenter and Bobak Lotfipour

    With Support of Our/Los Angeles, Film Photographic, Contact Lab, and Ilford Photo

    Photographers Featured: Ray Molinar, Stefanie Vinsel, Jason Lee, Matt Draper, Eric Bouvet, Ryan Akerberg, Clarke Tolton, Ty Williams, Alex Schmidt, Chris McElrath from Contact Lab, Armand Kohandani, Matt Burt, Greg Hunt, Amber Chavez, Bryce Laurino, Dan Monick, Mikael Kennedy, Cinthya Guillen

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  • Pull: A Short Film (A Story About Lead Climbing)

    Pull: A Short Film (A Story About Lead Climbing)


    Pull follows one of the top lead climbers as he explores the ever-changing world of climbing. This full-length short lead climbing documentary will make you come along for a mind-bending breakthrough journey of epic portions, several decades or more in the making. The makers of Pull have captured a story about the future of our sport and lead climbing. In many ways, this is a look into the most future imaginable.

    “Keep your eyes on the future, because when it’s here you won’t be able to see, it is invisible.” – Lead Climber Jeffrey Paul Snyder

  • Make Them Believe

    Make Them Believe


    A WWE-obsessed Russian college kid lives out his fantasy of becoming a professional wrestling star far from the glamorous spotlight of American pro wrestling as he competes for the coveted belt in Moscow’s underground ring. #Sports #Documentary Short Films #StaffPicks on Vimeo.

    In this unexpectedly relatable film, director Taimi Arvidson tackles the universal struggle of the pursuit of a dream.

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    Directed by: Taimi Arvidson

    Cinematography by: Nick Midwig

    Edited by: Andrew Hassell

    Composer: Brendan Canty

    Featuring: Timofei Maltese, “American Hope” and Ivan Markov, “Locomotive”

    Producers: Taimi Arvidson, Nick Midwig, Zamir Gotta

    Additional Producers: Yuliya Fedyukova, Katya Gotta

    Assistant Camera: Nicholas Huynh

    Sound Recordist: Michael Barkovskiy

    Gaffer: Nikolai Shugurov

    Production Assistant: Anton Ustimov

    Transportation Services: Nikolai Lavut

    Title Design: Kevin Carmack

    Additional Editor: Anya Prokhorkina

    Post Production Services Provided by Outpost Digital, New York

    Colorist: Josh Kanuck

    Assistant Editor: Anna Hulkower

    Post Production Sound Services by Studio Unknown, LLC

    Dialogue Editor: Kevin Hill

    Sound Designer and Foley Artist: Matt Davies, MPSE

    Sound Effects Editors: Rich Bussey, Cazz Cercez

    Foley Recordist: Rich Bussey

    Pre-recording Mixer: Kevin Hill, CAS

    Audio Post Prod. Coordinator: Jaime Horrigan

  • The Aria of Babyface Cauliflower Brown

    The Aria of Babyface Cauliflower Brown


    This film was originally published by The New York Times Op-Docs. The #ShortFilms presented by #NYTimes and also #StaffPicks on #Vimeo. Watch it New #Documentary, #Sports #Drama Short Film on Vimeo and also NYTimes.

    Director: Tim Grant
    Director of Photography: Bernardo Marentes
    Producer: Jon Muedder
    Executive Producer: Kathleen Lingo
    Executive Producer: Lindsay Crouse
    Executive Producer: Andrew Blackwell
    Editor: Tim Grant
    Editor: Bernardo Marentes
    Editor: Emilia Fuentes
    Associate Producer: Caleb Farmer
    Assistant Camera: Josh Swope
    Colorist: Ben Joyner
    Re-recording Mixer: Gary DeLeone
    Mixed at: Westwind Media
    Production Company: Caravan

    I was first exposed to wrestling by my dad, whose favorite wrestler was Dusty Rhodes. When I was growing up, he’d surprise-attack me, hollering, “I’m the American Dream,” then lift my 7-year-old body into the air, slam me on the couch and go for the pin. I’d escape after the second count and triumphantly rebound to victory, leaving my dad defeated on our green living room carpet as I paraded around the house with my hands in the air.

    Fast-forward a few years: My cousins persuaded their mom to let us record our wrestling matches with her Sony Handycam. It was the first video camera I ever used. We had entrance music, costumes, and special moves. A few years later, in my early teens, I’d stay up half the night with friends playing WCW vs. nWo: World Tour for Nintendo 64. I always selected my favorite wrestler, Macho Man Randy Savage. By this time I was becoming aware of professional wrestling’s being “fake.” But Macho Man said every word with such conviction, with a thought process that sounded nearly insane. I wondered: So if wrestling is fake, does Macho Man know?

    Things began to change when my family relocated from extremely rural northern Georgia to slightly less rural western North Carolina. My world got bigger. I started listening to more than just Christian music and watching movies outside my family’s approved watch-list and my grandfather’s westerns. I was drifting away from wrestling. Then I saw Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and became an evangelist for the film, offering my critical review to anyone who would listen: “You have to see it. It has everything. Drama. Romance. Revenge. Good versus evil.” The film became my defining interest by my late teens; if you were going to know anything about me, I wanted it to be that I was into films. I had grown out of wrestling, and I was proud of myself for having the maturity to do so. Wrestling was fake and crude, while legitimate cinema was subtle and poetic. I still loved Randy Savage, but in the way, you love a childhood friend you don’t really relate to anymore.

    But in the first few minutes after meeting the wrestler Cauliflower Chase Brown, when we happened to share a table with our significant others at a poorly attended dinner party, I realized how wrong I had been about wrestling. “It’s storytelling,” Chase told me. “There’s more to it than people realize.” He drew comparisons to classical Greek theater, Shakespeare and, most notably, philosophy, his area of study at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. He talked about concepts of truth and the factors that make a character good or evil. The role of catharsis and how to understand a crowd. How wrestling, at its best, is the closest form of theater to jazz. I felt appropriately called out for my judgments of wrestling over the years, understanding that I had reserved the power of story to acclaimed films and other “higher forms” of art as approved by cultural authorities. I had become a snob.

    With this film, “The Aria of Babyface Cauliflower Brown,” I’m attempting to recreate the feeling and conviction I had while listening to Chase describes the art he loves. In doing so, I’m mixing many forms and layers of art, style, and storytelling with wrestling. Chase’s rhetoric is overlaid with an aria, Desdemona’s prayer from Verdi’s “Otello,” an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Othello.” Peter Paul Rubens’s painting “The Fall of Phaeton,” an interpretation of a Greek myth, is a key visual reference for framing and color. Slow motion is used as a way to help see wrestling with different eyes, placing it closer stylistically to “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” than “Monday Night RAW.” All these choices were made to elevate wrestling, not from what it is but to a form that snobs like me can understand…..Read IT! on NYTimes

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  • LAST BASE

    LAST BASE


    Joachim is retiring from base-jumping to become a father for the first time, but first, he will stop at nothing to pull off his very last jump.

    The last Base has screened at over 100 festivals and won more than 20 awards. The #ShortFilms #StaffPicks on #Vimeo, #LastBase short in the base of #Adventure, #Drama, #Narrative, their friendship is put to the test.

    Joachim is retiring from base-jumping to become a father for the first time. But first, he endeavors one last adventure. Together with best friend Oyvind, he sets out to climb Mt. Katthammeren to do his last jump. When a bad storm approaches their friendship is put to the test. Oyvind wants to turn back, but Joachim will apparently stop at nothing to pull off his very last jump.

    Written & Directed by Aslak Danbolt
    Screenplay: Aslak Danbolt
    Story by: Aslak Danbolt
    Producer: Pål Nordås
    Cast: Kenneth Åkerland Berg, Edda Trandum Grjotheim, Petter Width Kristiansen, Tov Sletta, Richard Olsen

    Selected festivals:

    – Tribeca Film Festival 2015
    – Chicago International Film Festival 2015
    – Slamdance Film Festival 2015
    – Leeds International Film Festival 2014
    – Montreal World Film Festival 2015
    – Vancouver International Film Festival 2015
    – Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival 2015 – *Jury Prize*
    – Leuven International Short Film Festival 2014
    – The Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad 2015
    – Trento Film Festival 2016 – *Genziana d`Argento – Best Short Film*

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  • Rebuilding in Miniature

    Rebuilding in Miniature


    When I was growing up outside Chicago, one of my favorite trips was to the Art Institute of Chicago to see the Thorne Miniature Rooms. I spent hours staring into each remarkably detailed room, imagining I had transported myself to the past and had secretly slipped into the grand entrances, libraries, living rooms, and bedrooms of people’s homes. Each visit left me with a sense of wonder and excitement.

    When I came across the beautiful work of Ali Alamedy, the artist featured in this short film, I felt that same sense of awe.

    Mr. Alamedy was born in Karbala, Iraq, in 1982, during the Iraq-Iran war. At the time, his father was imprisoned under Saddam Hussein for political reasons, and Mr. Alamedy wasn’t able to meet him until he was 9 years old. His mother taught him to read at a young age and reading quickly became his favorite hobby, as well as a way to escape to calmer and more secure places. Mr. Alamedy credits the novels he read as a primary reason he started building miniatures, “to recreate some of those scenes just as I had imagined them to be in my childhood.”

    Eight years ago, Mr. Alamedy built his first miniature — a wooden cottage, inspired by a similar piece he saw at his uncle’s home as a child. He made the cottage from basic materials and weathered it using coffee.

    At first, he had no idea what to call the kind of art he was making. In Arabic “miniature” translates to “Muna mn Amat,” a small painting on paper. He searched the Internet for the words “miniature” and “diorama” in English and was surprised to find a substantial community of miniature artists around the world. He began posting his work online and soon had thousands of friends and followers.

    As he admits in the film, meticulously making each of the objects in his scenes to be exact reproductions of real objects, at a tiny scale, is tedious. Yet the act of creating is also meditative, a kind of quiet rebellion against the chaos of the world and the uncertainty in his own life.

    I hope viewers will be transported into the world that Mr. Alamedy so lovingly and painstakingly creates, and find beauty and solace there.

    Originally published in the #NewYorkTimesOp-Docs series.

    Ali Alamedy, an Iraqi artist living in Turkey after being forced out of his country, makes incredibly detailed dioramas of places he has read about but has never been.

    Director/Producer/Editor: Veena Rao
    Featuring: Ali Alamedy
    Executive Producer: Kathleen Lingo
    Coordinating Producer: Lindsday Crouse
    Supervising Editor: Andrew Blackwell
    Camera: Veena Rao
    Composer: Eliot Krimsky
    Colorist: Begonia Colomar
    Sound Mix: Pete Karam
    Archival Stills: Ali Alamedy
    Translation: Isra Abdulhadi

  • Breathe (2015)

    Breathe (2015)


    #WatchNewShortFilms #Breathe directed by James Doherty and Present by FILM London, a #Drama Short Film also won few awards for best film and nominated many official awards for. The Short film also picks in #StaffPick on #Vimeo. 

    Director: James Doherty

    Screenplay: Theo James Krekis

    Producer: Peter Brennan

    Cast: John Connors, Lynn Rafferty, Lee O’Donoghue

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  • Rani (2017) Tamil Short Films

    Rani (2017) Tamil Short Films


    A Short, about father how to work to do for daughter well education and living. And Also daughter Doing well as father want, Emotional tale between a father and daughter.

    The Short films, Behind Every Great Daughter!!! There is a Truly Amazing Father Also Too!!

    Written and Directed by IRFAN

    Music by Jeffrey Jonathan

    Editing by Richard, Poovai Suresh, Deepak, Saindhavi, Karthick

  • “KARTA TU DHARTA TU” A Tribute Short Films

    “KARTA TU DHARTA TU” An Indian Short Film


    #WatchNewShortFilm “KARTA TU DHARTA TU” A Tribute to #MumbaiPolice, why carries the essence of a city that lives? The city that’s home to 20 million dreams.

    Production – Wild Buffaloes Entertainment
    Written, directed & produced by – Divyansh Pandit
    Cinematographer – Sarfraz Ali Hasan Khan
    Editor/Chief Asst. Director – Shubhankar Jadhav
    Creative Producer – Upanshu Singh
    Sound Design – Shankar Singh
    VFX – Harsh Mishra
    Background Score – Semal Nikhil
    Song – Semal Nikhil
    Singer – Sukhwinder Singh
    Lyrics – Abhishek Singh
    Cinematographer (Song) – Salman Salar
    Assistant Directors – Snehal Garg, Bhushan Shetty & Gaurav Bhan
    Assistant Editor – Shivangi Bhatt
    Associate DOP – Arvind Chandra
    Assistant DOP – Sartaj Khan
    Focus Puller – Khwaja Ahmad & Firoz Shah Shaikh
    Poetry – Upanshu Singh
    Production Manager – Mehmood Majid Khan (Nawaz Khan)
    DI – Uday Javkar
    Sound Mixing – Kailash Singh
    Dubbing Engineer – Saroj Sharma
    Pre-mix & mix – Kanishkaa Sound Post

    CAST:
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    Old Man – Aanjjan Srivastav
    Sr. Inspector – Abhay Bhargava
    Sub. Inspector – Dinesh Kunder
    Constable – Rakesh Shukla
    Driver – Satyam Gilotra

  • Hissa (A Part) Indian Short Films

    Hissa (A Part) Indian Short Films


    Director: Tamjeed Elahi Khan

    Music and Sound: Siddhesh Patole

    Editor: Siddhesh Patole

    Cinematographer: Ratnesh Kumar

    Actors: Baby Sanavi Paranjape, Vrushali Marathe, Trupti Saraf, Asif Ghodeswar, Aisha Shilledar