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“I think short form is having a real hay-day right now. The challenge of this, because they’re all shorts, is that some are one minute, some are fifteen minutes, but they’re all shorts and they’re all so different; and even the connective tissue in between them are really short films,” Kahane Cooperman told Hollywood on the Potomac at the DC premiere of The New Yorker Presents.
“I look at them all as shorts,” she noted. “I think it’s about how you package them. This is one way of packaging them, but it’s not the only way. The really great thing about shorts is that I think they used to be made as a calling card, so that you could have the opportunity to do something … like a teaser or a trailer … like this is what I can do, and I want to do something longer. What’s really amazing now with short films is that they’re not just a calling card, they actually can be what you need to establish yourself, with your vision and everything else.”
“The New Yorker Presents” is a joint production of Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, Conde Nast Entertainment and Amazon Prime Video.
The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart moderated a lively panel discussion at the Landmark Theatres Atlantic Pluming Cinema on V Street:
