Is the short film a stepping stone to feature films, a calling card to showcase one’s potential in the hope of moving up the so-called ladder to more serious filmmaking? Is it the poor cousin, condescendingly accommodated but not taken too seriously, of the glamorous family of full-length motion pictures? Or, is the short film, like the short story, a genre of its own, one that requires specific skills, discipline and craft?
Filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni has long-championed the short film as an important cinematic form in its own right. He leads a conversation on these and related questions with a panel of short filmmakers Samiksha Mathur (Hello Guyzz!), Aarun Fulara (Shera), Rahul Roye (A Lullaby for the Yellow Roses), Chaman Kishan (A Flight of the Lost Dreamy Bird), Manoj Kumar Pant (The Poplar Trees), and Subarna Das (This is TMI).
