How to Write and Make Award-Winning Short Films

Short films are the calling cards of the film industry. You can make them for as little or as much as your budget can allow – but first you need a great concept, a tight story, a character or two the audience wants to follow (note: we didn’t say “like”).

If you get it right, a short film can propel you into a feature, a TV show or a great partnership with a producer. You can travel to Toronto, Sundance, and Cannes with priority access passes. You can get meetings and be known as the next hot talent. That’s IF you get it right. We WANT YOU TO GET IT RIGHT! Peter Russell, a long-time judge at the HollyShorts Film Festival, is taking HMW’s expertise as sought-after story developers and script doctors and applying our wisdom to the short film.