Like many great films, Tom F. Pardo’s “Submerged” reveals the beauty below the ocean’s surface. But Pardo’s movie also explores the significance of silence and isolation in the modern world. Shot on an iPhone 8, “Submerged” won the Grand Jury Prize and Public’s Choice Award at the Plug Film Festival. A citizen of the world, the director is…
read more →Make that a very, very dark comedy. In fact, Joel Perlgut’s “Sad Sachs”—which took the top prize at the Smartfone Flick Fest 2019—is about as dark as a comedy can get…while still being hilarious. The director even gets laughs out of a neo-Nazi sequence that Lenny Bruce probably would have loved. At SF3, the nine-minute…
read more →The main message of “Snowbrawl” is obvious: the iPhone 11 Pro features a terrific movie camera. No surprise given that Apple paid for the 94-second action movie (aka commercial), which has attracted plenty of attention: 21,743,028 views as of December 2. But there’s a subtler lesson here, namely that finding stories doesn’t require exotic locations or…
read more →When we see a movie that we love, many of us find that a “making of” video enhances our appreciation of the work. The same phenomenon applies with oil painting, as we see in SJ van Breda’s “Jane Digby,” a short documentary about a noted South African artist. This beautiful behind the scenes video reveals…
read more →How much complexity can you build into a four minute movie? Plenty, as we see in “Connection” directed by Russian filmmaker Pavel Goncharov. A finalist in the 2019 FiLMiC Pro Fest, this comedic tear-jerker includes a painful romantic break-up, infidelity, new love, and loneliness. The plot rests on coincidence, a phenomenon that most people experience…
read more →Public service announcements (PSAs) typically feature one or two people making the presentation. But breaking the dialogue into bits delivered by many presenters can have a big impact. Matteo Tibiletti’s “Wake Up!” is a good example of the group pitch, in this case a please for climate awareness. The group pitch is also a…
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