Short Films
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Micro-Budget Short Film: Cigarettes & Coffee
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Micro-Budget Short Film: Cigarettes & Coffee Cigarettes & Coffee is a 1993 short film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Philip Baker Hall. It tells the story of five people connected through a twenty-dollar bill. The film helped launch the career of Anderson and was used as a basis for…
Read MoreJames Cameron’s Micro-Budget Short Film: Xenogenesis
James Cameron’s Micro-Budget Short Film: Xenogenesis Before James Cameron was breaking every box office record he was a struggling indie filmmaker. We all started somewhere and before The Terminator, Aliens or hell even Pirana II: The Spawning, James Cameron had been inspired by George Lucas‘, Star Wars. Enough so that, in 1978, James Cameron raised the budget from a group of local…
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