Edited by Mustafa Amani
Music by @UMNIA
Colorist: @UMNIA
Before you make a film, watch films like a maker. Umnia talks through five films — The Big Short, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mulholland Drive, and Ella Enchanted — as proof that there are many ways to make an argument, stage a performance, break a rule, or smuggle serious ideas into accessible forms.
Films discussed: The Big Short; Bodies Bodies Bodies; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Mulholland Drive; Ella Enchanted.
Prompt: Choose one story idea you have and imagine five different containers for it: comedy, horror, theatre-like chamber piece, dream logic, and children’s/fairytale form. What changes when the form changes?