Hossein Darabi: Making a short film is the way to a long film

Fars News Agency-Cinema Group: Hossein Darabi is one of the directors who participated in the 100th Film Festival and in the 11th edition, he won the award for the best film of the festival with the film “Ceshm Berah”. This director said about making a 100-second short film: It is very difficult to make a film in 100 seconds. Being able to fit and narrate a subject in a short time, both in directing and in the text, is not an easy task. For this reason, the 100 film festival can be a trend-setter, provided that it can continue to think about the distribution of films, just as it had efforts in this field in previous years.

The director of the movie “Hanas” said about his experience of making a 100-second short film: I had made many films until I got to the film that was chosen as the winner in the 100-second film festival. This is a skill in itself and takes practice. I made many films to understand how to tell a story in a hundred seconds.

He added: My suggestion to people who want to work is to watch a lot of 100-second movies to get to know its format, then try to bring the subjects they have in 100 seconds. Finally, the production and editing of such films is very important. In my opinion, how to edit so that it doesn’t become too slow and doesn’t increase the time, requires practice and work so that the filmmaker can understand how to tell his story in 100 seconds.

Hossein Darabi continued Babian that unlike some people, I believe that whoever can make a good 100-second film can also make a good feature film. Some people say that teasers and short films have nothing to do with feature films. I think the opposite; In my opinion, anyone who can tell a correct and good narrative in 100 seconds and arouse the emotions of the audience can definitely succeed in his feature film. These are very related.

The director of the movie “Maslehat” emphasized: I agree that short and long films are very different, but the essence of all this is narrating and telling stories, and if you can narrate a short film in a small space, that seems to be much more difficult than a long film. In the bigger asheles, your hand is much more open and you can continue and expand the same.

Darabi mentioned the establishment of communication and the recognition of young talents as one of the characteristics of prestigious festivals, including the 100 festival, and said: “Definitely, when you enter a prestigious festival, the film you made will be seen, people will see and recognize you.” The producer and their agencies and managers will also find you and this is very helpful and you can find relationships to start the film making feature film.

In the end, he noted: I gave the first film I made to the Emar Festival, and it won an award there, and there I met Mr. Shafah, who supported me for my feature films. So the festival is very important both for filmmakers to find each other and for talents to be recognized.

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