Why do you want to do this?

Why NOT to embark on this course of study

• You want to become a news anchor

• You think that because watching films is fun, making them will be

• You want to make the next Marvel movie

• You think this class will be an easy “A”

What do film festivals want?

• Authenticity• Short films • Unique approaches • A filmmaker who

has something interesting to say

A Million Miles Away / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Jennifer Reeder) — Melancholy as survival strategy: A woman on the edge of failing and a pack of teenage girls simultaneously experience a supernatural coming-of-age. The transformation unravels to the infectious beat of a heavy metal anthem rearranged as a lamentation.

DIG 2013

• http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2011/07/22/aquadettes/

• http://americannobodies.com/