Odds that a Sundance short films program will be a good harvest are in the high percentile -- with over 6000 short film submissions sent in and about less than 100 selected certainly increases those odds. In any given year at the festival, you could easily trace back a filmmaker's presenting his/her feature film to the roots of shorts included in the fest from previous years. Because we're big on auteur theory, this year's coverage will include several short film items. Program IV was the tops of my list because it includes the latest works from two filmmakers I discovered in 2006 with their ward-winning shorts: Carter Smith (Bugcrush) and Daniel Mulloy (Antonio's Breakfast). Carter Smith's Yearbook (see pic above) was a Diy (set in his kitchen actually) is a slideshow talking-heads-esque with distinct flavors a la Smith -- warped comedy elements (perhaps a companion piece to Bugcrush) with sci-fi elements.
- 1/23/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
#45. Una Noche - Lucy Mulloy Her brother and the feature film's producer, Daniel Mulloy paved the way to a Sundance route when he presented his award-winning short film Antonio's Breakfast at the festival back in 06'. My thinking is Lucy Mulloy will be unveiling her debut film Una Noche in the World Dramatic Competition portion of the fest. Well-versed in using Cuba as the backdrop for this turbulent storyline, Mulloy spent a year in Cuba before she was awarded the Dean's Fellowship to study her Mfa at New York University, packed her bags to return to Havana for three years to develop the script, for which she was awarded the Spike Lee Production Grant and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Grant. The film follows 16-year old Raul through a night that will change his life forever. Raul’s mother is very ill and his frustration at his situation comes out...
- 11/6/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Robbie Ryan (Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights, Red Road) decided he wanted to be a cinematographer at the age of 14 when he, his friends and his cousins commandeered one of his father's Kodak Super 8mm camera and started making short films. A college course in cinematography in Dun Laoghaire's Iadt fuelled that passion and he is now established as one of Ireland's most influential filmmaking exports. Iftn caught up with the cameraman to talk about the pitfalls of creative partnerships, cat-like cameras and shooting Dizzee Racal in an old folk's home. Robbie Ryan is quite the trophy collector having shot the Bafta-winning shorts, 'Shadowscan' and 'Antonio's Breakfast'. In 2006, his collaboration with British director Andrea Arnold on 'Red Road' won a Cannes Jury prize and the 2006 short thriller 'Cubs' won a clutch of British film prizes and was been nominated for a BAFTA. And Ryan's cinematography...
- 5/11/2010
- IFTN
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