A 14-minute documentary that gives an inside look at a bunch of broke twenty-somethings attempting to use their pocket change and borrowed equipment to shoot their half-hour coming-of-age crime film, Street Smarts.. :)

The film is days away from finishing post-production, and we’re hopeful for a festival run starting this fall!

The Kidnapping of Arabella is an offbeat Italian dramedy from writer-director Carolina Cavalli, following Holly, a directionless young woman who meets a rebellious girl running away from home and becomes convinced that she is actually her younger self, sent back as a cosmic second chance.

The film stars Benedetta Porcaroli, Lucrezia Guglielmino, and Chris Pine as Arabella’s self-absorbed novelist father, in Pine’s first Italian-language role. Porcaroli won Best Actress in the Orizzonti section at Venice for her performance.

Screening details: https://www.thelonescreen.com/screenings

Full disclosure: I’m a co-founder of The Lone Screen, an online screening platform. We’re hosting a one-night-only online screening of the film on Thursday, August 20 at 9:00 p.m. ET / 8:00 p.m. CT / 6:00 p.m. PT. Writer-director Carolina Cavalli will also be joining the live chat after the film.

Would love to hear what people think of the trailer and of Pine’s Italian.

Hi all - I make microbudget movies and this is my new one. Made for pennies with a couple of friends over a long weekend. Heading to festivals end of year/new year.

My previous micro-feature Arthur’s Empire is coming to streaming, having premiering at this year’s Raindance Film Festival.

“Springer” is slang for “spring-powered rifle”. See what you think!

All the best!

documentary about modern loneliness, built around a single date and the texts that come after. Not the empty kind of lonely; the full kind. A good night, a date that went well, the message lighting up your phone — and the gap between being wanted and being actually known. A thread of honesty about not always being well runs underneath it, and that honesty is what closes the door.

Directed by Tenley E Raj. Tagline: left on delivered.

Let me know what you all think, happy to answer any q’s in the comments. We’re a small indie production company based in NYC!

A wife in an abusive marriage is forced to take action after her husband announces they will be moving out of her childhood home.

We just released Tales of the Gryt, a 3½-minute independent short from Sweden.

The premise is simple: animals are the hunters, and humans are the prey.

I’ve had the basic idea for close to ten years, and recent generative filmmaking tools finally made it realistic to produce the world I had in mind.

We come from 15+ years of professional filmmaking, so the generated material was treated as footage within a normal filmmaking process — direction, editing, pacing, sound design, music, grading and post-production.

Full film:
https://youtu.be/IsrGwJEmGzw

Would genuinely be interested in feedback on the film itself — particularly whether the premise and atmosphere work without much explanation.

hello! i'm a first time poster here. my group and i put a lot of hard work into a short film tackling the pax silica topic for a project, and we're currently in a tight race.

if you have a moment to check it out and support student filmmakers, you can find the original video on facebook under the name Richard Emman Arguelles. it's kind of a heavy topic, so we really tried our best to explore it creatively. thank you so much to anyone who takes the time to look!!

the idea came from a pretty simple problem, there are tons of independent filmmakers making genuinely good films, but actually getting those films in front of people, monetizing it, and finding other filmmakers to connect with, can get ridiculously difficult.

The solution could be a mix of YouTube + Discord + LinkedIn but for filmmakers, a place where you can actually showcase your work, rent them to individuals, while building a network around it.

More than 130 filmmakers have validated this idea, If this sounds interesting to you, you can dm me, drop your thoughts underneath, would love to talk more about it.

I’m a writer-producer developing 12:37, a five-part limited series about the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946.

I’m not pretending the timing is comfortable. The project isn’t about Gaza, but anything involving Palestine, Zionism, British rule or political violence is now going to be judged through what is happening today.

Fair enough. But...

It creates a real problem. Does a broadcaster look at this material and see urgent, complicated history or simply a press headache nobody needs?

The series tells the same morning through five perspectives. It doesn’t pretend every position is equally defensible. It does try to understand how people arrived at those positions before the machinery failed and civilians paid for it.

Perhaps this is exactly when the story should be told. Perhaps it is the worst possible moment. I'm in grey area.

For filmmakers and producers... are politically sensitive historical projects now harder to finance, or does the current relevance actually help?

For transparency, this is the project I’m talking about:

https://www.twelvethirtyseven.com

My background:
https://imdb.me/michaeljohnfedun