This is darling and deliciously dark: Alma, written and directed by Rodrigo Blaas. (via Garrett Murray)
Red Rabbit was written, directed, modeled and almost entirely animated by Egmont Mayer, using Softimage XSI. Fabulous.
The 9:16 Film Festival
A short film festival inspired by the aspect ratio of video files shot on Apple’s new iPhone 3GS. Submissions should be in by September 1st and can be either a single shot (less than three minutes) or an edited short (less than five minutes). (via Making Of)
48Hours is a New Zealand-wide contest to write, shoot and edit a short film in a single weekend. Technical Difficulties from Team Zombies Rule — one of my favourites from the Auckland regional final — narrowly missed making it into this year’s national final. Each team draws a random genre and is assigned elements to include in the short: a character, object and line of dialogue. These guys drew “real time” as the genre and staged their zombie attack as a cleverly cut live news report. And yes, that is Sunday Breakfast’s hilarious José Barbosa as news anchor Rex.
Wellington writer/directors Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland have been awarded a special distinction in the short film category at the Cannes Film Festival for The Six Dollar Fifty Man. The pair received the same award two years ago for Run. OnFilm has more.
A short film written and directed by Shawn Morrison, produced by and starring Garrett Murray. Watch in HD.
Job Interview, directed by and starring Ben Schwartz. I’m a sucker for Robocop and The Terminator references. A couple of his other shorts feature the acting talents of Sarah Burns, of Flight of the Conchords fame. (via Blake Whitman)
“Ark” by Grzegorz Jonkajtys and Marcin Kobylecki. Wow.
Presto, the Pixar short that accompanies Wall·E. I particularly like the closing credits. (via Brock Oliver)
The ground was just thick with folk in hipster glasses and ‘interesting’ jackets. If a bomb had gone off in that room, video rental stores all across Auckland would have been scrabbling to find new staff.
— Morgan Nichol recounts his short filmmaking weekend.
