“Shorts Program” is a semi-regular column highlighting a short film that is well worth your time. If you have a short film you would like to share, drop us a line at marina@rowthree.com.
Last year, Film Independent announced a partnership with Banana Republic and Vanity Fair called “Project:Involve.” The idea behind the project is to provide filmmakers from culturally diverse backgrounds with funding and mentorship to create a short film. The theme of the competition was “City Stories” and there wer two major limitation: tell your story in under three minutes and the film has to be shot in the French New Wave style. One of the film makers selected for last year’s competition was Jarrett Lee Conaway.
Conaway recently shared his short, a romance titled Foolishly Seeking True Love, with the world at large and boy, am I happy he did. It’s a sweet, charming and beautiful looking story that left me smiling. Take a 3 minute break from the Oscar chat to check out this great up-and-comer.
Film is tucked under the seat!
Nice.
The production company I work for make shorts, I should put some up, but I’d feel a bit cheeky. Also, there are issues with putting any of our big budget shorts online because it prevents entry to a lot of major fests. When I feel up to it and we’ve got one I can show I’ll pop it up here. We do loads of short films with schools and youth groups too, they’re obviously very low budget and rough around the edges, but one or two are actually pretty good considering.
Anyway, sales pitch over
Thanks for posting this! Here is the 3 minute version: http://www.vfagenda.com/BananaRepublic/foolishly.asp
The version on vimeo is longer and is my favorite.
What a great little film! Thanks for sharing!
Side note: a girl who has seen Jules and Jim over a hundred times…on her film projector?! Please, may there be someone like this actually out there…