Crafting Your Short Film (Apr. 2020)
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About this Course
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Learn the steps for creating your short film from defining your creative vision and refining your script through assembling your cast and crew, production planning, and post-production. A Sundance award-winning filmmaker will guide this eight-week fundamentals course which is ideal for writer/directors looking to make their first short fiction film. You should come with a completed draft of a short film script (up to 15 pages) that you want to make. Sessions include presentations, interactive exercises, a guest session with a short film programmer from the Sundance Film Festival, and a one-on-one mentoring session focused on your project.
The course will be held live in our virtual classroom. All sessions are recorded for registered participants who are unable to attend live.
- DURATION: Eight weeks, April 13 - June 14
- SCHEDULE: Mondays, 10am - 12pm PT
- Extended first class session: Monday, April 13, 10am - 1pm PT
- No Class Monday, May 25 (Memorial Day)
- One-on-one mentoring sessions are held between June 8 - 14
- APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, March 30 at 2pm PT
CourseTeam
Andrew MacLean
Instructor
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean is an Iñupiaq filmmaker originally from Alaska, living now in Brooklyn, NY. Previous credits include the short films NATCHILIAGNIAQTUGUK AAPAGALU: SEAL HUNTING WITH DAD, which played at the Sundance film Festival, SIKUMI, which won the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at Sundance, and the feature film ON THE ICE, which won a Crystal Bear and the Best First Feature Prize at the Berlinale. In his hometown of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow, Alaska), Andrew co-founded the Iñupiat Theater, which was dedicated to performing shown entirely in the Iñupiaq language. He currently teaches directing in New York University’s Graduate Film Program, of which he is also an alumnus. Andrew is currently developing his second feature film, QIMMIT.
Asher Jelinsky
Advisor
Asher Jelinsky is a Los Angeles-based writer and director originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. They tell character-driven stories that question gender norms and explore the search for connection amid personal and societal pressures.
Asher’s short film Miller & Son was shortlisted for the Academy Awards-Oscars® and won the gold medal Student Academy Award, the BAFTA Student Film Award, and the gold Cannes Lions Young Director Award. Overall, Asher’s short films have garnered awards and nominations at over 70 film festivals around the world, including Clermont-Ferrand, BFI London, Ashland, and Seattle.
Currently, Asher is developing multiple feature films, including Julian, with support from the SFFILM Rainin Screenwriting Grant, the Cine Qua Non Script Revision Lab, and the California Arts Council Fellowship. They also have an upcoming short film, Pink Noise, which is supported by Breaking Through The Lens, filming later this year.
Asher earned an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute Conservatory and won the Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award for Directing, presented by AFI Fest. They also hold a BA with honors in Media Studies and Public Health from Pitzer College. Along with their professional practice, Asher teaches filmmaking at Sundance Collab and Temple University and is an active BAFTA member.
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