2007 dc shorts film festival

The 2007 DC Shorts Film Festival continues and wraps up this week at the Landmark E Street Cinema, downtown in Penn Quarter. The themes for the primetime (7:00 pm) shows include Politics as Usual, Films of OurStage.com, Foreign Beauties, and LunaFest. The 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm, and 10:00 pm shows feature the Best Of DC Shorts, as voted by filmmakers, directors and audience members.

My favorites from the Best Of screening:

• The Wine Bar, Christian Remde
• The Job, Jonathan Browning
• 2 in the AM PM, JG Quintel
• The Little Gorilla, Harry Kellerman
• signage, Rick Hammerly

It was particularly interesting to see the films shot in HD and how different they looked than the ones shot using digital video or film. Showing multiple films in a row really allowed for one to compare films produced in different technical formats. It was also interesting seeing what creative-types notice in a film: one of my friends was really good at noticing issues with sound and color, another was good at paying careful attention to the story development, and I seemed to be looking at the details of the cinematography. Of course, this was all in addition to just enjoying the films themselves :)