Short films are made for several reasons: to gain experience, demonstrate skills, and pursue a career in filmmaking. They are shown to friends, family, and peers; used as show reels to attract sponsors and funding; and screened at film festivals and on some television channels and in cinemas. Short films help emerging directors and producers gain recognition and build their portfolios, as evidenced by the careers of directors Spike Jonze and Joe Nussbaum, who both began with short films before finding success with feature films.

1. Why do people make short films? Where are they shown? Where has it ever got them?

2. Why make short films? To gain experience Demonstrate Skills Persuinga career To try out a partnership or collaboration To gain recognition for their work Producers have an idea, but their budget won't stretch

3. Where are they shown? To family, friends and peers A show reel presenting your work and skills, to persuade sponsors and funding The Internet gets feedback from an international audience Some television channels show them, particularly with other short films Somecinemas run short film events. Short film festivals, watched by people in the same situation

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7. Kanye West - We Were Once a Fairy TaleLikewise, he's earned respect in the advertising industry for adverts for the likes of Nike, Adidas, Ikea and The Gap. His second feature film, Adaptation, starred Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep, and his third feature film was an adaptation of Maurice Sendak's book for children, Where the Wild Things Are Source: http://www.who2.com/spikejonze.html

8. Joe NussabaumDirector of “George Lucas in Love Directed the short film, George Lucas in Love in 1999, which won the Canal+ Short Film Award at the Deauville Film Festival, the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Florida Film Festival and the Film Discovery Jury Award in the Short Film category at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Because of its title, when he sent copies of the film to studio executives it won a lot of attention, leading to Nussabaum signing a manager and an agent in summer 1999. Within months, he'd signed to do a movie at DreamWorks. The project fell apart due to a shakeup within the studio, but he soon found himself attached to a project at MGM. That also dissolved, and within the next three years he was hired to direct five more movies, all of which fell through at some stage of the pre-production process. Nussbaum kept himself busy directing adverts until MGM sent him a script called Sleepover, and has since directed American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile and Sydney White. Source: http://www.tribute.ca/people/joe-nussbaum/11431/