10 Under 10 Film Festival
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The 10 Under 10 Film Festival was created by independent documentary
filmmaker and University of Texas at Austin
Associate Professor, Ellen Spiro
. The intention of the film festival is to encourage raw creativity among new filmmakers without relying on huge budgets.
Since 2002 the film festival
has showcased short, high-quality, low-budget documentaries "founded on the notion that great ideas can happen on no budget and in little time. As a film professor, Spiro says she’s watched too many students get caught in the romance of film school debt and challenges filmmakers to make films with "little money but lots of substance and inventiveness".
The name expresses the informal desire to show ten films, each less than ten minutes long, costing less than $10 to make.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
filmmaker and University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
Associate Professor, Ellen Spiro
Ellen Spiro
Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmaker. Spiro is known for making humorous social issue films for national and international television broadcasts and theatrical release....
. The intention of the film festival is to encourage raw creativity among new filmmakers without relying on huge budgets.
Since 2002 the film festival
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
has showcased short, high-quality, low-budget documentaries "founded on the notion that great ideas can happen on no budget and in little time. As a film professor, Spiro says she’s watched too many students get caught in the romance of film school debt and challenges filmmakers to make films with "little money but lots of substance and inventiveness".
The name expresses the informal desire to show ten films, each less than ten minutes long, costing less than $10 to make.
External links
- 10 Under 10 Film Festival Official Website
- Ellen Spiro at the Internet Movie Database
Further reading
- "Shorts on a Shoestring: The Texas Documentary Tour Presents 10 Under 10." The Austin Chronicle. 2005-5-6. Retrieved on 2007-7-11.
- "Capturing K-Town" The Texas Observer. 2005-7-8. Retrieved on 2007-7-11.
- "Ten Little Indies: UT and AFS Team up for a Doc Tour Deviation: 10 films Under 10 Minutes Long Made for Less Than $10." The Austin Chronicle. 2004-5-7. Retrieved on 2007-7-11.
- "Through a Student's Lens, Quirkily Texas Documentary Tour presents '10 under 10'". The Austin Chronicle. 2003-5-9. Retrieved on 2007-7-11.