A directorial debut is a filmmaker’s first step. It showcases their unique vision and style. It’s a pivotal moment in their career. Keeping debut films online for free streaming is vital. It provides a platform for emerging talent and diversifies the film industry.
By the time of “Fear and Desire”, Stanley Kubrick had already logged a certain amount of filmmaking practice directing shorts. Still, he could never quite get over his own perception of the movie, which he made at age 24 fresh from his job as a photographer at Look magazine. He considered the film “a bumbling…
The first modern zombie movie Barbra and Johnny drive to rural Pennsylvania to visit their father’s grave… “Night of the Living Dead” is the first modern zombie movie and first horror movie to have a black man as a main character. The film was completed on a $114,000 budget and shot outside Pittsburgh, where it…
Martin Scorsese’s First Film
This psychological short-film has gained cult following, especially given the heights which Nolan’s now climbed since making it. The film concerns a grungy man, in a filthy apartment. He is anxious and paranoid, trying to kill a small bug-like creature that is scurrying on the floor. It is revealed that the bug resembles a miniature…
Rebecca, a young girl, is always picked on by her older brother, David, who has the worst case of bedhead you’ve ever seen. Bedhead is a 1991 short family-comedy-fantasy film directed and co-written by Robert Rodriguez. Made while he was a student at the University of Texas at Austin, Rodriguez shot the film with his…
A woman and an engineered man are sent in a gigantic sentient starship to search space for a place to start a new life cycle. Raj decides to take a look around the ship. He comes across a gigantic robotic cleaner. Combat ensues. This is the first film directed by James Cameron and was financed…
Tim Burton’s First Film! Vincent is a 1982 stop motion short horror film written, designed and directed by Tim Burton, and produced by Rick Heinrichs. It is the second Disney horror film, the first being The Watcher in the Woods. Vincent is the poetry story of a 7-year-old boy, Vincent Malloy, who pretends to be…
Neil Blomkamp’s Short Film Shines a Harsh Light on Human Prejudice and Alien Resilience “Alive in Joburg” is a masterful short film directed by Neil Blomkamp that tells the story of alien immigrants struggling to make a living in the harsh and unforgiving landscape of Johannesburg, South Africa. The film is a gritty and gripping…
