Short Films: How Can We Keep Making Them?
Presented by Documentary Campus
TIME
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
14:30 – 15:30 (CEST)
LOCATION
Hotel Europe Atrium
More than a filmmaker’s calling card, short films are a format of choice for many audiences online. For the filmmakers, shorts are a way to show artistic choices and skills. They are discovery portals into an artists’ vision while offering the makers a way to network and approach the industry with a less risky option in terms of budget. But they are not getting any easier to finance, and distribution of shorts seems overflooded. Our panelists will share their vision about how to make short films that can stand out. How to finance, craft, and showcase them, and what are the advantages of making shorts in the current landscape.
Speakers
- Holly Fraser - Editor-in-chief, Senior Director of Content, WeTransfer / NL
- Neils Putman - Chief Editor and Co-Founder, Talking Shorts / BE
- Meghan Oretsky - Senior Curator, Vimeo / US
Moderated by
- Paula Vaccaro - Producer and Scriptwriter, Pinball London Ltd / UK
HOLLY FRASER
HOLLY FRASER is editor-in-chief of WePresent, the digital arts arm of WeTransfer, based in London. Through WeTransfer’s support of the creative community, Holly has steered projects spanning film, music, photography and literature, with ground-breaking creatives from artist Marina Abramović, actor and musician Riz Ahmed, artist Solange Knowles to cultural institutions including Royal Academy of Arts and Serpentine Galleries. In 2020, Holly commissioned THE LONG GOODBYE for WePresent, a short film created by artist Riz Ahmed and director Aneil Karia. The film has won a total of 14 awards, including an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short and two Silver Lions at Cannes Lions and Best Short Film at the British Independent Film Awards.
NIELS PUTMAN
Born in 1992, NIELS PUTMAN, is based in Antwerp, Belgium and is the chief editor of the online short film magazines Kortfilm.be and Talking Shorts, the latter which he co-founded. He also works as a film distributor at Avila, which offers a curated collection of contemporary and classic Belgian films. As a freelance programmer and curator he is affiliated with Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Leuven International Short Film Festival, Film Fest Gent, queer film festival PinX, and has moreover contributed as a guest curator to festivals in Quebec City, Dresden and Poznan. He has served on press juries at international film events in the likes of Tampere, Cannes and Festival Regard. Niels is a board member of the Short Film Conference and a member of the Belgian Film Press Union and FIPRESC.
MEGHAN ORETSKY
Before joining Vimeo in 2014, you could find MEGHAN cheering on filmmakers in the comments section of countless videos on their site. Today she serves as a senior curator on Vimeo's curation team, for which she watches and curates thousands of videos per year in consideration for Vimeo Staff Picks.Before joining Vimeo in 2014, you could find MEGHAN cheering on filmmakers in the comments section of countless videos on their site. Today she serves as a senior curator on Vimeo's curation team, for which she watches and curates thousands of videos per year in consideration for Vimeo Staff Picks.
PAULA VACCARO
PAULA VACCARO, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is an award-winning producer, scriptwriter, and journalist, with three decades of experience in film, TV, digital, radio, and printed media. In 2009, she founded Pinball London, a production company based in London, UK, delivering films and TV series created to this date, by established and new filmmakers from over 15 countries. Under her leadership, their films have launched at most A list festivals such as Sundance, Berlinale, Venice, and TIFF, receiving over sixty international awards, including three Lions at Venice Film Festival: the Young Golden Lion for ON THE MILKY ROAD, directed by Emir Kusturica, in 2016, and Lion of the Future and Jury Lion as a writer and producer of LISTEN, the most awarded film at the festival’s 2020 edition. She is a BAFTA and EFA member, as well as a permanent member of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.