07.20.09 | George D. Allen | Staff NotesPrint this Post

Think making great feature films is difficult? (If you don’t, I daresay you have never spent any time in the trenches—as making even a bad movie requires an enormous investment of time, money, and passion.) Try cramming a compelling, touching, funny, or frightening story into 15 minutes or less!
The Hollywood-based, international competition known as the HollyShorts Short Film Festival is devoted to finding the world’s most promising talents working in a form that often gets—ironically enough—very short shrift in the cinematic marketplace.
Go ahead and check out what ambitious auteurs of the short subject have to offer in this year’s upcoming festival--starting with the trailer for filmmaker Jason Cuadrado’s Monstrous Nature.
