Favorite Shorts: The Man Who Never Cried. Dir. Bradley Jackson
Showing this one today in Screenwriting 2. I find it to be well crafted and acted. Particularly good use of sequences that get us through large chunks of narrative time.
Most students, particularly when they are starting, try to be so ambitious in their storytelling. They want to write feature stories in 15 pages and are typically surprised when it doesn’t work out so well. The best shorts are simple… simple concepts, actions, and through lines. This is one of those.
Sometimes a Good Notion 