What are the ingredients that make a really good short film?
The first ingredient is the emotional experience you create for the audience. It’s the emotional experience that people walk away remembering. And over the course of the six short films that I’ve made, that is what I learned each time. The compelling emotional experience is what you need to focus on. Then the question becomes: how are you going to do that? Secondly, you need a very interesting character to guide the story along in a way that allows the audience to follow. And thirdly, find a way to bend the form, to reshape the form, because you do not have to follow any rules with a short. What advice would you give to someone who is about to make their first short film? First and foremost, I would say: go out and do it. Whatever you are feeling or thinking right now, get it on paper. Even if you don’t want to write it down, think about it and then go out there and simply do it. And know that there are no rules, no limitations. The last film I made was on a cell phone in Poland. It en
