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 come from a high school that boasted its film classes, I had friends who were prodigies in filmmaking. This opportunity is unique in the sense that it has a budget. My friends and myself in high school were able to create some great looking films with an extremely minimal budget, I can only imagine what they would have been able to create with $100K. Filmmaking has evolved throughout the last couple of years and is still ever-growing and immersive, and for young people to have the scale and resources to create something of that scale is incredible. Hollywood is currently full of the same old white men running the game and its time that the greater entertainment industry start recognizing the minds and talent of young people. I'm looking forward to seeing more films and programs like these coming out and seeing the work and ideas that is cultivated.
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