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.
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.
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.
A depressed man purchases a goblin to heal his trauma and depression, and is forced to face himself.
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.
A life long dream of making a feature film turns into a comedic disaster for a New Jersey filmmaker.
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.
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.
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.
Facing the risk of deportation from Germany, Altay learns that he must present a valid reason to the immigration office to stay. On his way home, he encounters a man wearing a Spider-Man mask and, curious about his valid reason, conducts a brief interview. During their conversation, Altay realizes that a series of encounters has been helping him make sense of his recent anxieties. Inspired by this, he begins recording conversations with people who share a similar sense of delusion and brings strangers into organic dialogues. Through a blend of fiction, documentary, and animation, the film explores ...
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
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?
First short film made by Marcus van Aefst & Luka Welling.
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.
"Untitled Sequence", is an artist film that explores the material processes of filmmaking such as visual narration, cinematography, soundtrack creation and film editing from the perspective of a young female artist – a perspective that is still under-represented in conventional filmmaking. The film engages with contemporary issues of identity and allegories of artistic practice, and is influenced by Jean Cocteau and Maya Deren’s films (particularly their creation of visual ‘dreamscapes’), Nobuhiko Ôbayashi (especially his editing processes) and Lee Miller’s embodiment of both the artist and the artist’s muse in her work both in front of and behind the camera.
Amateur documentary film about the process of moving. A boy, Jakub, decides to make a documentary himself after a tour of one of the apartments. The documentary shows the whole story of how he, his parents and younger brother move to a bigger apartment. The result is an emotional rollercoaster that deals not only with the move, but also with the family itself.
Two adult siblings, confined to their childhood home, live under the lingering presence of their parents, whose memory is mirrored in a portrait on the wall. They strive to preserve their existence through a “sacred ceremony” of nourishment and cleansing. Trapped in the family’s gilded cage, they become both inmates and bathers, with heightened senses that console and are consoled, faithful to rituals that have vanished from modern times, where everyone is violated by the rush of time. In a classic urban house, marked by decay, they tend to each other like young mammals in the wild— with love, with exposure, with violence, frustration, and shame.
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.
An egotistical failing author must face reality to save himself and those around him.