Movie : Super Turbo Jet Boats Director: Daniel Stuelpnagel Daniel Stuelpnagel’s Super Turbo Jet Boats is a brief yet remarkably coherent short film that manages to combine quirky humor, subtle visual craftsmanship, and low-budget innovation into a tightly-paced 14-minute runtime. The film follows five film-school slackers in Los Angeles whose failed thesis project nudges them …
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A lot of new filmmakers make the excuse that they don’t have any money to make their first short film, specifically for locations.
Stop.
You have locations.
Here are 15 free places almost anyone can use for their first short film.
And yes… I added some quirky titles to get your brain moving.
Your Living Room
Film Idea:“The Couch That Knew Too Much”
A couple buys a...
A report about 56th IFFI 2025: From a silver bear to a haunted vacuum cleaner: An experienced and knowledgeable film critic’s chronicle of world cinema, chaos and conversations that focused solely on cinema © by film critic Lalit Rao (FIPRESCI) [lalitmax2022@gmail.com]
The 56th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2025 was, for me, an experience of...
Worst Date, Best Date is a very funny, smart, and refreshingly original comedy that takes the blind-date premise and spins it on its head. Written by Cameron Thrower and Heather Turman, the screenplay is witty, silly, and raucous, filled with biting humor and sly observations about the chaos of first dates. What begins as a seemingly disastrous evening between Amy and Charlie - two reluctant...
FICCI FRAMES 2025, 04: Padma Shri Akshay Kumar and Ayushmann Khurrana, BA
FICCI FRAMES the annual Media and Entertainment Convention event, was held over two days, October 07 and 08, at the Fairmont Hotel, near CSMI Airport, Sahar, Mumbai. RISE: Redefining Innovation, Sustainability, and Excellence was the theme for the convention this year. The inauguration of the event, on the...
Jolly LL.B., Overview: Bikaner to Boston, in racing cars, and two advocates riding camels
Land acquisition, for building roads, bridges, residential and commercial buildings, factories and airports, are burning issues that have been making headlines in developing India for several decades now. These acquisitions are either by the government in power, or by companies that are...
Film distributor Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired North American rights to horror film “The Hermit,” starring Lou Ferrigno as a cannibalistic pig farmer in his first role playing a creature since CBS TV series “The Incredible Hulk.” In the horror film, which has an undercurrent of quirky irony, Ferrigno makes and sells jerky made of human […]
NFDC (1975-2025) : Celebration of 50 years of innumerable stories that shaped the destiny of meaningful cinema in India © by film critic Lalit Rao (FIPRESCI)
The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), founded in 1975 by the Government of India, has played a defining role in shaping Indian cinema beyond mainstream conventions. Its mandate was to support quality films that...
Director, producer, writer Talia Shea Levin’s erotic, quirky satire “Make Me A Pizza” (2024) feels like a modern seventies’ mock porn with attitude. A hungry (in more ways than one) woman calls a pizza delivery guy and fantasizes about him delivering more to her than just his cheesy sausage filled pizza, and they embark on a bumpy messy ride together. Inventive, wacky and hilarious, it...
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival: Italy’s premier sci-fi event, celebrates its 25th anniversary from 28 October to 2 November 2025, with a vibrant program of cinema, literature, exhibitions, video games, and emerging technologies—all curated in its hallmark fusion of science and science fiction.
To mark this milestone edition, the Festival has unveiled its official 25th...