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<\/a><\/p>\nMr. Dubiecki:<\/span> I have been involved in 20 \u2013 25 short films in the past. Back then I directed a number of them as well. Mainly as producer, the many directors and stories that I came across was very valuable to me. The friendships I made during the times making short films were especially important. For example, I participated in the 2001 Short Shorts in Tokyo and met Horwitz and Gareth Smith there. They designed all the opening titles for \u201dThank You for Smoking\u201d, \u201c Juno\u201d, and \u201cUp In the Air\u201d. Right now Mark Carter, who I met when making \u201dThe Ballad of Little Roger Mead\u201d, and I are going ahead with a feature film production.<\/p>\nMr. Dubiecki <\/span>continues: The most important thing about making a short film is to tell the story clearly. Short films are a different art form from feature films. I\u2019ve made many mistakes and failed many times so short films are a place to practice and polish your art. In features, there are many investors and business takes the forefront but in short films there\u2019s nobody who\u2019s actually looking to make a profit, although that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t make any from them. Also with features, there are people from the studios and critics who have a lot to say about things but not in shorts. You can experience an open and free production environment. Also short films are a great way to present your idea to a major studio. For a young filmmaker with no experience in features, making a short fi lm version, serves as a tool that gives them an understanding of the style and sense of the story.<\/p>\nWhat did you learn from short films?<\/strong><\/p>\nMr. Dubiecki:<\/span> For me personally it was a learning experience back then. How to effectively tell the story to the audience. For that, where is the best place to put the camera, how to best work the actor. I gradually built experience that way. Short films should be made as much as possible. I\u2019m making features now but I intend to continue producing short films.<\/p>\nWhat purpose did the film festival serve?<\/strong><\/p>\nMr. Dubiecki: <\/span>Participating in a film festival as well as thinking about what kind of fi lm festival to take part in is very important. With experience, I learned to choose where to exhibit my films. Film festivals always were a step up in our careers, plus the feeling of watching your own film with an audience is a great feeling. As I mentioned before, you can also meet other talented directors. The director with whom I\u2019m producing a feature right now is someone I met at the Short Shorts in Tokyo. And if your short fi lm is a success, agents will approach you\u201c. In God We Trust\u201d which was selected for Short Shorts was definitely became a step up for the director Jason (Reitman) and myself. In addition to being approached by an agent, the feature we were developing\u201c, Thank You for Smoking\u201d became a reality. By the way, we started working on\u201c Thank You\u2026\u201d while we were making\u201c In God We Trust\u201d and since we completed it in 2004, it took 4 years to make.<\/p>\nHow about the business possibilities of short films?<\/strong><\/p>\nMr. Dubiecki:<\/span> Right now there isn\u2019t a business model for short films. In the future, for short films to be used as content for web channels led by mobile phone sites and YouTube is inevitable. Currently it seems that the with cable TV, the internet, TV, so many media channels vying for attention, it seems like they\u2019re just eating away at each other\u2019s business. At some point in time, it will all come together and the waste will disappear, while at the same time, if the environment can be developed to answer to the different needs of people of all types, then short films as a business can succeed. In Mr. Dubiecki\u2019s experience, short films did not become a connection to doing big business, but did become a place for learning commercial film production, as well as, and more importantly, in the environment of film festivals, the network of friends and colleagues that was made became a very important part of future success.<\/p>\n
\nDaniel Dubiecki<\/strong><\/p>\nProducer of Academy Award\u00ae nominated films.<\/p>\n
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