What Makes a Great Short Film: From Concept to Execution
This event will take place over Zoom on November 19th 6pm to 7:30pm (BST)
Welcoming Luigi Sibona!
Luigi brings a distinctive visual style and a passion for subverting storytelling norms. His award-winning short films, including Mantis and In Your Hands, have been featured at BAFTA and Academy Award-qualifying festivals worldwide.
Short films offer filmmakers a unique opportunity to tell powerful, concise stories that resonate with audiences and industry professionals alike.
Understanding how to effectively create a successful short film can be the difference between a project that gains widespread recognition and one that struggles to find an audience.
This workshop is ideal for filmmakers, screenwriters, and creatives looking to explore the intricacies of short filmmaking.
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What to Expect:
🎯 Pinpointing a High-Impact Core Idea
How to identify concepts that resonate in a short format and stand out in festivals.
📝 Condensing Narrative for Maximum Effect
Crafting tight, engaging stories that fit the short film structure and captivate audiences.
🎥 Using Visuals to Drive the Story
Leveraging cinematography and production design to communicate themes and emotions.
🔄 Effective Pacing and Timing
Mastering the rhythm and pacing of a short film to ensure a memorable viewing experience.
This event will take place over Zoom on November 19th 6pm to 7:30pm (BST)
Welcoming Luigi Sibona!
Luigi brings a distinctive visual style and a passion for subverting storytelling norms. His award-winning short films, including Mantis and In Your Hands, have been featured at BAFTA and Academy Award-qualifying festivals worldwide.
Short films offer filmmakers a unique opportunity to tell powerful, concise stories that resonate with audiences and industry professionals alike.
Understanding how to effectively create a successful short film can be the difference between a project that gains widespread recognition and one that struggles to find an audience.
This workshop is ideal for filmmakers, screenwriters, and creatives looking to explore the intricacies of short filmmaking.
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What to Expect:
🎯 Pinpointing a High-Impact Core Idea
How to identify concepts that resonate in a short format and stand out in festivals.
📝 Condensing Narrative for Maximum Effect
Crafting tight, engaging stories that fit the short film structure and captivate audiences.
🎥 Using Visuals to Drive the Story
Leveraging cinematography and production design to communicate themes and emotions.
🔄 Effective Pacing and Timing
Mastering the rhythm and pacing of a short film to ensure a memorable viewing experience.
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Luigi Sibona is a neurodivergent writer and director focusing on genre narrative and complex social themes. Through his creation of unexpected and visceral stories, he aims to subvert the norm - while never forgetting the joy of a ripping yarn.
After years spent directing music videos, he’s developed a distinctive visual style - accompanied by his long-standing DOP Jordan Stephens. Luigi’s BAFTA-qualifying first short film ‘Mantis’ propelled him into multiple BAFTA and Academy Award-qualifying festivals across the UK and abroad, winning numerous awards including Best Horror at The British Short Film Awards.
Luigi’s second BAFTA-qualifying short, ‘In Your Hands’, produced by Award-Winning production company Grey Moth, has been selected to play at the Academy Award-qualifying Tampere Film Festival, BAFTA-qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival and an ever-growing number of festivals worldwide garnering multiple awards including the Audience Award at the BIFA-qualifying North East International Film Festival and Best Short at the British Horror Film Festival.
Luigi is in production on his third short, ‘Far From The Plains’, which he co-wrote with writer Niellah Arboine, working again with Grey Moth as well as Noir Productions. All the while he is writing and developing a number of other projects, including his first feature. -
ATTENDANCE
If you can't attend the event on the day. We’ve got you covered. This workshop will be recorded and available for you always.
CAPACITY
We have a limited number of concession tickets available on a first-come-first-serve basis. If you identify as working class, are currently on benefits, or if you consider yourself to be financially disadvantaged in a way that is hindering your progression in your career, these tickets are available to you.
WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?
Underscore Studios is unfunded and comprised of three volunteers. We believe that upskilling yourself should be affordable, engaging, and transparent. The money towards Workshops such as these means that we can keep them as low as they are, pay our Freelance Workshop leaders, support the organisation to be sustainable, and when we can, make more of our services available for Free._
We are aware that even the cost of a concession ticket may be a key barrier for many people.From time to time we are able to offer Bursary places, please email info@underscorestudios.co.uk for more details.