This post is in partnership with Cadillac This summer, Cadillac and the Producers Guild of America launched Make Your Mark, a short film competition that challenged producers to create compelling content with limited resources. Contestants made a short film over a single weekend in late June, and you can watch the semi-finalists’ films at the Make Your Mark website. The 30-second Cadillac spot featuring the grand prize winner’s film will air during the 2015 Academy Awards. To mark the occasion, we’ll speak with short filmmaker Josh Soskin about the benefits and challenges of going the festival route, and the best way to take the next step after completing a film. Plus, we’ll have an Interrogation Reviewification of Gone Girl, and we’ll cover our favorites from Fantastic Fest. You should follow the show (@brokenprojector), Geoff (@drgmlatulippe) and Scott (@scottmbeggs) on Twitter for more on a daily basis. Please review us on iTunes Download Episode #72 Directly...
- 10/3/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
This summer the immigration crisis hit a feverish high with tens of thousands of women and children crossing the border illegally in search of a safe haven from dangerous Central American countries like Honduras. The situation was met with both compassion and the red foreheads of those afraid that starving children (yes, children) were here to kill us with leprosy or by depleting our national reserve of Fruit Roll-Ups. Texas Governor Rick Perry even stated that the influx of large number of child immigrants may have been part of a detailed plan crafted by the drug cartels, although he didn’t go into specifics on what the plan was meant to achieve. This short film from Josh Soskin lives next door to the issue. It features a young boy trying to save his mother’s life. Desperate for money, he accepts the worst job possible. With shades of Sin Nombre (which rightly vaulted Cary Fukunaga into prominence...
- 10/3/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Why Watch? High concept stories aren’t usually meant for the realm of drama. They tend to need an action backbone, but there’s a raw sense of urgency to this film from Josh Soskin. In it, a mover picking up the belongings at a nice house comes face to face with a young girl who has twenty minutes to live. With a focus on objects, the film shines with its pristine visuals. There’s a blend of delicacy and naturalism as the plot shifts more toward the suicidal situation, all of which is made forceful through two polarized performances. It’s an unlikely romantic angle folded aggressively into something gorgeous to look at and heart-racingly engaging to experience. More please. What will it cost you? Only 11 minutes. Skip work. Watch more short films.
- 9/27/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Jason Sondhi, along with Short of the Week partner Andrew Allen one of our “25 New Faces” this year, handpicked today’s Valentines Day selection, “Moving Takahashi.” Directed by Josh Soskin and well acted by rising star Boyd Holbrook and newcomer (at least to me) Kristin Malco, the Kickstarter-funded short is part of what Sondhi calls the “bad boy romance” genre. It’s about a young mover (Holbrook) who discovers that the daughter of the family whose house he’s moving has, in a suicide attempt, swallowed pills that will kill her in 20 minutes. What’s the bad-boy element? You’ll have to watch to find out. The short is gorgeously shot by another of our 2011 “25 New Faces,” Rob Hauer.
Here it is on Vimeo.
Moving Takahashi from Josh Soskin on Vimeo.… Read the rest...
Here it is on Vimeo.
Moving Takahashi from Josh Soskin on Vimeo.… Read the rest...
- 2/14/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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