Micro Budget Filmmaking
Steven Spielberg’s Micro-Budget Short Film: Amblin
Steven Spielberg’s Micro-Budget Short Film: Amblin Amblin’ is a short film made in 1968. It is the first completed film shot by Steven Spielberg on 35mm. The film is a short love story set during the hippie era of the late 1960s about a young man and woman who meet in the desert, attempt to…
Read MoreGeorge Lucas’ Micro-Budget Short Film: Freiheit
George Lucas’ Micro-Budget Short Film: Freiheit Freiheit (German for “freedom”) is a 1966 short film by George Lucas, made while he was a student at the University of Southern California’s film school. His third film, it was the first to contain a narrative. The film follows a student’s attempt to escape to freedom. This student…
Read MoreDarren Aronofsky’s Micro-Budget Short Film: Fortune Cookie
Darren Aronofsky’s Micro-Budget Short Film: Fortune Cookie After Aronofsky’s graduation from Harvard in 1991, he moved to Los Angeles to obtain his MFA in directing from the prestigious American Film Institute. The two-year program resulted in the creation of two short films, the first of which is 1991’s FORTUNE COOKIE— an absurdist comedy inspired by…
Read MoreFilmtrepreneur Breakdown: Threesomething – Budget $10K
Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: Threesomething I had the impulse to make a feature-length indie film, Threesomething, after doing a bunch of shorts, but I had no idea what to do or where to start. Here’s my journey… Zoe, Charlie, and Isaac spend a night flirting with the idea of a threesome… until it finally happens and all hell…
Read MoreFilmtrepreneur Breakdown: Killer Christmas – $50k Budget
Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: Killer Christmas Making a film is difficult, but it doesn’t have to be expensive. We are two amateur filmmaking brothers from New Jersey who made an 80-plus minute feature film from scratch in well under a year. It’s called Killer Christmas and is the story of a group of friends who sneak into…
Read MoreDarren Aronofsky’s Micro-Budget Short Film: No Time
Darren Aronofsky’s Micro-Budget Short Film: No Time Aronofsky’s fourth short from this era– 1994’s NO TIME — appears to have been made after his graduation from AFI, and adopts the brazen Generation X attitude that marked pop culture in the 90’s. At first glance, the film appears to be a slacker riff on improv comedy…
Read MoreGeorge Lucas’ Micro-Budget Short Film: Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138
George Lucas’ Micro-Budget Short Film: Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB Electronic Labyrinth: THX-1138 4EB is a 1967 social science-fiction short film written and directed by George Lucas while he attended the University of Southern California’s film school. The short was reworked as the 1971 theatrical feature THX 1138. Lucas had had an idea for a…
Read MoreJohn Wick Director’s iPhone Action Short Film: Snowbrawl
John Wick Director’s iPhone Action Short Film: Snowbrawl David Leitch, the director behind John Wick and Deadpool 2 decided to direct an EPIC short film using just an iPhone. The short film is called Snowbrawl and it is REMARKABLE. I wanted to highlight this because it just goes to show you you do not need…
Read MoreMartin Scorsese’s Micro-Budget Short Film: What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This
Martin Scorsese’s Micro-Budget Short Film: What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? is a 1963 short film that Martin Scorsese created while a student at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. It is a comedic piece…
Read MoreStanley Kubrick’s Micro-Budget 1st Feature Film: Fear and Desire
Stanley Kubrick’s Micro-Budget 1st Feature Film: Fear and Desire We all start somewhere and the 1953 feature film Fear and Desire is where the legendary Stanley Kubrick got his. Fear and Desire is a 60-minute independent film, written, financed, shot, and directed by a 25-year-old Stanley Kubrick, who had just quit his job full-time job…
Read MoreMartin Scorsese’s Micro-Budget Short Film: The Big Shave
Martin Scorsese’s Micro-Budget Short Film: The Big Shave The Big Shave is a 1967 six-minute short film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is also known as Viet ’67. Peter Bernuth stars as the recipient of the title shave, repeatedly shaving away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene. – Wikipedia Download…
Read MoreGuillermo Del Toro’s Micro-Budget Short Film: Geometria
Guillermo Del Toro’s Micro-Budget First Film: Geometria I had the pleasure of meeting Guillermo del Toro on multiple occasions through my journies in Los Angeles. He is by far one of the most down to earth film directors I’ve ever met. He is a certified cinematic genius. From the magical Pan’s Labyrinth to the Oscar-winning Shape of Water…
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