Deadline: Warner Bros is giving a voice to burgeoning underrepresented filmmakers. The studio hosted a short film festival to cap off its Emerging Film Directors Workshop, where each member of the inaugural class showcased their work in front of industry professionals last Thursday on the WB lot in Burbank. The event was the culmination of a nine-month fellowship, in which participants where given a budget of $100K to make a short film through a process that mimics WB’s feature process from script to the final cut.
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I think that it is great that Warner Bros. is trying to do some outreach, and help young directors that may not have the means to produce as high quality work as a production company such as Warner Bros might produce on the budget that they have. I also think that in the coordination of this program, the organizers must have had the conversation of breadth v. depth. Do they support a ton of young directors, and give them all medium-sized budgets, or a few directors, but with a larger budget? I think Warner Bros. definitely could have dedicated more money to this project, being such a big (wealthy) production company, but I also think that they should have tried to include more budding directors and maybe lessened the budget given to each. I do applaud Warner Bros for making an effort to diversify the stories and directors they chose to fund.
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