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LIVE OR DIE! | Michael McCallum
TAKE A PENNY came about from a few tough years that I faced. I lost three close friends one after the other. Two to cancer and one to a...
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Jun 8, 20151 min read


BEING A KID AGAIN | Gabe Rodriguez
The story behind SF OLYMPICS probably says more about me than the filming process. For years now, I’ve been an indie filmmaker in NYC,...
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Jun 7, 20154 min read


THE DELICIOUS AGONY OF WRITING | Mark Renshaw
What if you were talking to a charming stranger, while the rest of your family were being murdered close by? What if you were so wrapped...
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Jun 4, 20152 min read


BOMBS IN BOURNEMOUTH | Toryn Westcott
In 2012 I was working in Philadelphia, and one evening I was lying in my hotel bed trying to get to sleep. I was drifting off nicely,...
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Jun 1, 20154 min read


TIMEZONE TBD | Gabriel Galand
A filmmaking story - On shooting at night and working with different timezones. Hi! I'm Gabriel, I'm a 23 years old director from France...
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May 21, 20153 min read


GOING THE EXTRA MILE WITH YOUR FILM | Ruben Navarro
When I decided to make a short film, I had some ideas to take into consideration. The tricky part was to find the right story, something...
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Apr 26, 20153 min read


THE ETERNAL DANCE OF FILM | Emmet O'Brien
Animation has always been a huge passion of mine. Ever since I was a child I thrilled to the world of ink and motion and have wanted to...
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Apr 11, 20152 min read


RAMBLINGS ON WRITING FROM A RANDOM DUDE | Rob Carpenter
So it's 2015. I seem to find myself awe struck at those numbers. Of course, It's really about the amount of time that has passed since I...
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Mar 23, 20154 min read


YOUR CREW COULD MAKE OR BREAK YOUR FILM | James Peaty
There’s an old saying that goes: you’re only ever as good as the people you work with. That’s certainly true, but in my experience those...
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Mar 8, 20154 min read


WHY I’M ADDICTED TO FILMMAKING | Daniel Webb
I often believe that filmmaking is an addiction. Most people that you talk to, after they have poured their heart and soul into a single...
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Mar 5, 20156 min read


MAKING A FILM WITH FEMALE CHARACTERS ONLY | Karlos Alastruey
Along my filmography I have been finding certain details that define a way of understanding film creation on my own terms. One of them...
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Feb 23, 20152 min read


THE FLAME BURNS BRIGHTLY | Mike Messier
It was an easy shoot. We captured a feeling, an transcendent nature of time and space, in a relatively short period of time. I was a...
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Feb 22, 20152 min read


WE LOVE FILMS. WHO DOESN'T? | Roy Zafrani, Top Shorts' Director and Founder
Introducing Top Shorts Online Film Festival When I was younger, starting my career in the film industry, I found out that there were so...
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Feb 21, 20152 min read


ART THERAPY | Zhi-Min Hu
An open letter to an Abusive Father Sophie’s Letter was born as art therapy for both Anik St-Louis and myself. The first time I met Anik,...
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Feb 18, 20154 min read


THE TROUBLE WITH INDIE | Ross Carey
I came to make this movie as passionately as I have taken to anything in my life. From the beginning, The Trouble with Aoibhe was driven...
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Feb 14, 20153 min read


OVERCOMING LIMITED MEANS | Ryan Larkin
Allegro tells the story of Samuel Reid, a pianist who trades his ethics for success via mysterious pills and later comes to regret it....
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Feb 12, 20153 min read


GIVING BIRTH TO A DREAM | Melody Herr
Giving birth to a production is much like giving birth to a baby (Guys, bare with me for a moment...). Once it's finished and in your...
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Feb 12, 20155 min read
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