I found an article on Mentalfloss that does a great job of digging up footage you never knew existed and presenting it with a bit of background trivia.
I’m sure all of these things are true, but luckily filmmakers don’t always do what makes sense – and that’s when the fun stuff happens. I’ve often heard people say that “short films are a waste of money” or that I should “put my energy in shooting a webseries” or even “forget about low-budget shorts and do a graphic novel about your project”. I wanted to see how other filmmakers had used the oft-abused short film medium to either experiment, test a story, show a proof-of-concept or simply spark interest around themselves or their projects.
With Whiplash still fresh in my memory, I was wondering what other great movies were developed from – or inspired by – short films.
