(It pains me to even type 14 hours of student films.)

Paul over at SRF has another insightful post talking about his experiences as a judge for Temple University’s student film festival. A good writeup, but one thing in particular caught my eye…he makes a great point about learning to be a filmmaker:

“If you’re interested in being a filmmaker, volunteer to be a pre-screener for a film festival.”
“…The students making the selections want to be filmmakers themselves, and I think they probably learned as much about filmmaking from those 14 hours as they did from any single course they’ve taken. Why? Because they saw more bad films than good ones and, seeing them in such close succession, they saw that bad films often have the same, simple problems…”

Excellent commentary as always, and well worth the read.