What if the world could see your vision, narrative, and unique lens into the unexplored realm? Film festivals are your golden ticket to the platform where your cinematic dreams can become reality. They offer an opportunity to showcase your talent and creativity, network with industry professionals, gain recognition, and take the first step towards a… Continue reading How to Submit Your Short Film to Film Festivals: A Step-By-Step Guide for Students
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How to Write an Essay on a Film: A Step-by-Step Guide to Analytical Writing
Have you ever wondered what lies beyond the magic of the movies? How do you tailor your film experience into a thought-provoking piece of writing that outlines the core aspects of the genre? Whether you’re an eager student getting started with analytical writing or a film enthusiast itching to pen your thoughts, understanding how to… Continue reading How to Write an Essay on a Film: A Step-by-Step Guide to Analytical Writing
Backwards: A Wholesome Comedy and its Psychoanalytic Base
Sarah Klearman’s Backwards is an eccentric comedy with just a dash of romance, the narrative moving forward with the latter as its destination. Centred around a man who has a history with kites (strong enough that it is perhaps the reason why he can only walk backwards), the film goes for the cute/strange spectacle in… Continue reading Backwards: A Wholesome Comedy and its Psychoanalytic Base
Interstate: Time Floating Out of Joint on the Edge of Nowhere
Samuel McIntosh’s Interstate is a case of creative use of constraints. Made on a low budget, the visual style of the film is left of conventional that, combined with its sound, evokes a dreamlike state. As its protagonist contemplates the nature of life vis-à-vis work, the plot progresses with a comedic slant as if to… Continue reading Interstate: Time Floating Out of Joint on the Edge of Nowhere
Reel Education: How Film Festivals Shape Minds and Empower Media Literacy
In today’s digital age, media literacy has become essential for individuals to navigate the vast ocean of information and media content available at their fingertips. As technology advances, it’s crucial to understand how various forms of media influence our perceptions, beliefs, and behaviors. Film festivals have emerged as a powerful platform for promoting media literacy… Continue reading Reel Education: How Film Festivals Shape Minds and Empower Media Literacy
What We Did Yesterday: Replacing Vacuous Broad Strokes with Intricate Groundwork
Matt René’s What We Did Yesterday splits the narrative into three parts, each led by one of its three characters. The film uses visual cues and continuous movement than dialogue to develop individual narratives as the truth of the previous night waits to be seen. Opening on a coffee table cluttered with the remnants of… Continue reading What We Did Yesterday: Replacing Vacuous Broad Strokes with Intricate Groundwork
Trinou: A Quest for Life’s Vibrancy
Nejib Kthiri’s Trinou explores the inner life of a withdrawn, wheelchair-bound teenager in the Tunisian countryside, limited first by his body and then by his tense home life. With all walls closing in on him, dreams seem to be the breadth of possibilities for the boy. Over the course of the 15-minute film, Omar makes… Continue reading Trinou: A Quest for Life’s Vibrancy
Dictionary: Graphing Love in Seven Stages
Elena Viklova’s Dictionary is a brief, diagrammatic account of a relationship viewed as a progression through the seven stages of love, a Sufi concept. The protagonist, an unnamed everywoman, narrates her journey with a partner from attraction, attachment, love, reverence, worship, madness and finally, death. The partner in question is never shown on screen, the… Continue reading Dictionary: Graphing Love in Seven Stages
Chipper: A Chipper Protagonist Chips Away at Rotten Men
The protagonist of Chipper, Caroline,is Elle Woods meets Margot Robbie’s Barbie. Directed by MK Kopp, it is a proof-of-concept horror-comedy that comes at an opportune moment, for obvious reasons. A sorority queen with all her possessions pink, bedazzled, and labelled, Caroline has taken on a new challenge: to study murder methods and find the most… Continue reading Chipper: A Chipper Protagonist Chips Away at Rotten Men
Lambing: Parents, and the Baby They Must Choose
When going into Katie McNeice’s Lambing one does not (but perhaps should) expect to be momentarily devastated by the fate of a lamb. An 18-minute drama about the birth of an intersex child to parents expecting a boy (the first such film in Ireland), Lambing explores the agony that parents are unnecessarily put through and… Continue reading Lambing: Parents, and the Baby They Must Choose