Why Short Films Are Worth Your While

We’re very interested in telling good stories that focus on everyday worlds. As shifts in technology enable more filmmakers to make films and larger and more diverse audiences to watch those films, we want to work in genres that are both familiar and strange to these new audiences. The scale of small films and non-traditional distribution demands that these stories offer a kind of unique honesty to their viewers; honesty that builds on popular film, but moves in a more subtle direction. Like the Duplass brothers, Andrew Bujalski and many of Richard Linklater’s films we want to create cinema that surprises the viewer, but not in a way that makes them obscure or difficult to penetrate.

While the film industries, internet experts and distribution specialists struggle to find viable distribution and production models for short and alternative films, we want to keep making the films. We believe that the art should not just follow the technology, but that technologies should also be responsive to emerging story-telling.

In order to make these films in the meantime, though, we need the support of volunteers, communities and groups. We’re investing our own time, equipment and capital in this project, but shooting a film is dependent upon the partnership of community institutions, too.