Movies and TvShows featuring "first-time-filmmaker" theme.
Water Lilies is a 2007 movie that explores the journey of a 15-year-old girl as she navigates through themes of teenage sexuality, loss of virginity, and forbidden love. Set in Paris, France, the story follows the protagonist's encounters with synchronized swimming, shoplifting, and masturbation.
In Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies, a group of pro wrestlers find themselves trapped in an abandoned prison where they must fight for their lives against hordes of zombies. With a combination of wrestling skills and brute strength, the wrestlers battle their way through the undead, all while trying to survive and come up with a plan of escape.
After a bloody exchange with some bounty hunters, Anna, a veteran of the War in Afghanistan, and Gloria, her ill-prepared God-fearing friend, team up with a pair of coyotes to escape into Mexico.
The use of dope is running rampant at a small college. Convinced the college's reputation is at stake, Professor Dr. John takes it upon himself to get the college's biggest user to go straight.
In a near future run by one world government and mass propaganda, children suddenly acquire the ability to connect to the planet Jupiter. While they learn how to master higher human potential, the planet Earth "shifts" into a new awakening.
A couple's relationship falls apart under the pressures of city life and their personal demons. Can they work through their issues, face their fears and realise they are meant to be together?
A depressed man purchases a goblin to heal his trauma and depression, and is forced to face himself.
A life long dream of making a feature film turns into a comedic disaster for a New Jersey filmmaker.
An egotistical failing author must face reality to save himself and those around him.
Meet Mark. A daydreamer who has lived with hearing loss for his whole life. As his condition deteriorates, Mark must listen to his past and face the present, in order to move forward with his life. Sometimes loss doesn't mean lost. At a routine checkup with his lifelong audiologist, Mark is presented with a hearing aid and with a choice. Between the torment from his childhood - and his stigma around wearing the hearing aid - he lashes out. But he remembers his young self, loving and loved; along with the care his late mother showed him. Through courage, he is able to connect with her; as she guides him through this tumultuous time in his life. He realises he can either continue to shut himself off from the world, or open up and begin to accept himself for who he really is.
Mike is a young student of cinema, who receive the task to make a Videodiary for his fiction production class in the fifth semester of his career; with only a cellphone in hand begins to document his life day after day, without imagining that he will capture important and emotional moments that will remember forever.
A granddaughter gives a new meaning to her grandma's death through previously unspoken memories.
Huw Stephens presents an exciting selection of short films from emerging artists and film-makers from across the UK. Topics are fresh, varied and thought-provoking, including a behind-the-scenes look at a zoo closing for the night, an honest account of farming the land, and a powerful love letter from a son to a mother who has cancer. Expect to be moved and challenged by these short dramas, observations and dance, made by a new generation of storytellers. Yew; Echdo; King of the Pit; Two B or Not Two B; Lucky House; Everything Is Fine; The Jacket; Cages; It's Always Been; Mary Lost Her Battle; Between the Dog and the Wolf; From His Perspective
Fully sanctioned by the local township, this tri-powered taskforce of helping hands roams the neighborhood streets policing all relationships and emotions in their district. If you have feelings, and no one else will listen, and if they can find you...maybe you'll encounter F.L.A.R.P.
A young girl must enlist her juvenile father to help save the town from her biting brother. Whilst she's trying to save the town, she must go through school life whilst hiding her brother's true form
Actor, writer and producer Chizzy Akudolu presents a collection of dramatic short films from the best of new British film-makers. Reflecting modern Britain, subjects range from speed dating, the climate emergency and school friendships to spotting UFOs. Aisle 17; Swiped; Muriid; A Conversation with My Enemy; Money Up; Blue Corridor 15; Desert Town Landings; Pub Kid; Cardiff, I Love You; Dinah; This Camera Is Broken
After getting in debt with Russian gangsters, Nick is given one final chance to redeem himself: find a mysterious woman being protected by the Korean mafia. But finding her may cost him more than he ever imagined.
A male artist indulges in his love of the female form. That love is tainted when the female subjects make a choice to admire their own beauty. A short that loudly echoes society's treatment of black beauty. Infatuation is an experimental short film lasting just over four minutes.
Explore exciting, strange and thought-provoking worlds with broadcaster, gamer and animation fan Elle Osili-Wood. Through abstract designs, 2D animation and stop motion techniques, Elle showcases the next generation of makers with this collection of new short films. Stories of wellbeing, grief, lockdown and climate change make us think about today’s society and find shared experiences in unexpected places. Feeding Grief to Animals; Bearly Functional; Birth of the Telephone; Blodeuwedd's Gift; Confessions of an English Ant-Eater; Everyone Has My Jacket; The Flood; Growing Plains; Mental Roots; Misophonia; Sensory Chaos; Silence and Her Roommate; Unbound; Urban Fox; wūûūwūûū; Rawr; Worlds Apart