WOW!!!! ok so I just got back from Salt Lake City, Utah yesterday! My film, Twitter, played the Utah Arts Festival! It was AMAZING to see my film playing alongside films that are fantastic…that have REAL crews and actors and budgets and that have played Sundance!!!
I got my first interview as a film maker and about my film Twitter.
Here is the article:
Written by, Les Roka
Charis Tobias – Twitter – Fear No Film
At 17, Charis Tobias from California is the youngest filmmaker being represented in the 54 offerings of Fear No Film. “Twitter,” her six-minute short is the fresh digital version of the old “six degrees of separation” game as Tobias smartly weaves a web of at least two dozen tweets taken directly from the popular microblogging service that, in some way, ultimately link the characters involved in those 140-character messages.
The film is being shown in the When category presentation of the Fear No Film portion of the festival today at 2 p.m. and Sunday, June 28, at 1 p.m. Utah is the first festival stop for this intriguing short.
Tobias epitomizes the digital-savvy early adopter in several ways. She’s already finished her junior college degree with “Twitter” as a college course project. In fact, the Violet Productions film – produced with the help of Marylew, her mother, on a shoestring budget that amounted to buying food for the young cast and crew – was completed well before the big publicity buzz earlier this year that saw Twitter’s popularity mushroom by 15 times in the last year.
The film succeeds because Tobias manages quite surprisingly to get audiences to care about the characters in such a short span of time. In a peculiar way, she capitalizes on that curiosity about whether it is at all possible to communicate meaningfully in a 140-character environment. Indeed, if it is achievable, the opportunity best rests in the hands of a young multitasker like Tobias who has spent all of her years in an exclusively digital environment even without the benefit of a TV set.
Just last Sunday, she participated in an unusual project directed by Frank Kelly, an Irish documentary producer, in which 140 filmmakers in 140 locations around the world were cued via Twitter to film 140 seconds of footage at the same moment. In Tobias’ case, that was mercifully at noon and not in the middle of the night as was the case for some participants.
The rules were simple: no editing, just raw footage, and it could be anything connected to their home location. Tobias chose Yosemite. (Incidentally, two Utahns also participated: Ryan Little and Adam Abel.) Kelly plans to release the documentary later this year.
Tobias counts among her cinematic influences Kenneth Anger and David Lynch, strong representatives of experimental art and postmodern films. Her next project is an art film titled “Oh, Violet.”
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