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This short film was made during the Spring of 2009 as an experiment in what can be done on a shoe-string budget while still maintaining a high standard. The short film format is a wonderful tool for expressing ideas in almost any style you like. Short films often focus on difficult topics which longer, more commercial films usually avoid and filmmakers benefit from larger freedoms and can take higher risks.
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The Long Twilight Of Stella Hunt
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Since the 1980s, the term "short subject" has come to be used interchangeably with "short film," an international, academic term used to mean a contemporary non-commercial motion picture that is substantially shorter than the average commercial  feature film. Many professional actors and crews choose to create short films as alternative form of expression and short films are often popular as first steps into the cinematic art among young filmmakers.
Small video cameras which produce broadcast quality high definition pictures are widely available at reasonable cost as is software that is capable of video editing and post-production work. Even special effects which cost millions of dollars in Hollywood are possible. "The Long Twilight Of Stella Hunt", for example, boasts the same "cloak of invisibility" which appears in the "Predator" films, and poor Stella crumbles to dust in much the same way as Count Dracula does.
Of course, special effects are useless without the rest - good writing, acting, directing and so on. What we tried to do with "Stella" was to explore the idea of death giving way to life rather than the reverse. The rose symbolises birth as it's plucked from the bunch, childhood in the arms of it's mother and finally the coming of age and breaking free to go it's own way. The use of black and white was partly for atmosphere and partly to emphasise the isolation the rose symbol evokes. The use of full colour in the final sequence is again symbolic as the new life force engages with the real world and Stella, representing life past, returns to the earth.
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