“Jesus Fish”
It’s a sad truth, but few forms of art are as sorely under-appreciated as the short film. They have a hard time booking theater runs, and rarely get the publicity or attention that features do. For all the creativity and promise they offer, they’re more often than not very hard to hear about for those not actively seeking them out.
One place where shorts do get prime billing though is film festivals, where they can be packaged with others into feature-length bunches. The Independent Film Festival Boston is no exception, as many short film directors here hope to share their work and gain an audience for themselves and their features.
Of the many shorts featured at IFFBoston, I was able to speak with the directors of Better People, Jesus Fish, and Black Metal, three very interesting and very different short films (all of which coincidentally ran...
It’s a sad truth, but few forms of art are as sorely under-appreciated as the short film. They have a hard time booking theater runs, and rarely get the publicity or attention that features do. For all the creativity and promise they offer, they’re more often than not very hard to hear about for those not actively seeking them out.
One place where shorts do get prime billing though is film festivals, where they can be packaged with others into feature-length bunches. The Independent Film Festival Boston is no exception, as many short film directors here hope to share their work and gain an audience for themselves and their features.
Of the many shorts featured at IFFBoston, I was able to speak with the directors of Better People, Jesus Fish, and Black Metal, three very interesting and very different short films (all of which coincidentally ran...
- 5/3/2013
- by David Braga
- Obsessed with Film
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