Making short films has created a new opportunity to film-making aspirants to pursue their passion. This did not only drastically spread out in the continental US but also in other countries like Brazil. In the 80s decade, the Brazilian short film became so popular that various emerging filmmakers started making short films in audio and visual medium. Cinema has made short film as its pioneering format. cinema. However, it’s popularity still gained little to no attention in the world of film-making because of the tough competition it has against mainstream films. On the bright side, short films appeared to be more polished and developed in the middle 80s and this paved the way for many small-time filmmakers’ success.
In the year 1986, a Festival of Gramado became a notable date for short filmmakers. Several short films bagged awards in the category of best film. Here are the new generation films that marked the short filming industry’s history: Ma Chê Bambina by A S Cecílio Neto, O Dia em que Dorival Encarou a Guarda – The Day when Dorival Confronted the Guard, by José Pedro Goulart and Jorge Furtado, and A Espera – the Wait, by Maurício Farias and Luis F. Carvalho. These films just showed how a short, low-budget creation of motion picture can defeat the norm brought by mainstream films.
Brazilian short films are not typical where at the start of the story, you can already predict the film’s ending. Short films here are cinema-loving, decorated by the life’s reality and diversified by regional flavors. These films do not follow the normals scope of a typical movie but rather takes you to the real scenario of life. The following decade gave this field of art another development as various short filmmakers bagged international awards.
Short film-making do not only create a new genre in the world of motion picture but it also gives everybody, whether a film professional or just an ordinary person, an opportunity to go beyond the limits. You will be able to experiment beyond film aesthetic limits, apply your own film ideas and be as passionate as you can be in creating motion picture without having to follow restriction and movie regulatory systems.
One of the first tremendous successes with the viewers for the Brazilian cinema of the 90s is the Carlota Joaquina, by Carla Camurati. If you will delve more about revisiting Brazilian history and proposing new images for Brazil, Carla Camurati, an original a maker of short films have achieved fame and blazed trails. She is the first exponent of a new generation of short filmmakers which, coming into the market at the end of the 80s, met with a confused situation. Some problems held her back from achieving success eventually reached her peak of success. Brazilian cinema gained maturity through the experience of creating short films. The new filmmakers tried innovative and state-of-the-art proposals in the format of film feature. Long and short of it, short films gave Brazilians freedom in this field of art while developing motion picture creativity shared by various film-makers.
