Short Film, just for the Web

Youtube has hosted several different production contests with big prizes backed by oddly art-interested corporations like Hewlett Packard. The newest short film project pre-Sundance recently provoked some compelling creations made just for web (see Project Direct Press). Viewers voted on the winner and picked the 6 minute piece called Lacos (Ties) by Clarice and Adriana Falcão and Flavia Lacerda. Ties is a simple and oft told heart twister of a story trope with charming writing and performance, and lovely music written by the 16 year old Clarice. Clarice was the main motivator behind the project though her mum, a well-known film-writer in Brazil, embraced the idea of making short film for web, pulled a team together and took home the big prize trip to Sundance. Check out the winning piece:.

NPR’s Sundance Feed is here, if you want to follow along they have some ok coverage. Stories of note so far: locals call the Sundance crowd “People in Black,” distributors compete hard for indie films, and films made in 3 days with 500 dollars explore the ties that twist and bind us to each other with a winning simplicity that should make big budgets blush, but probably won’t.