Lights Film School Blog

Best YouTube Short Film

Over the last couple of months I have been scouring YouTube to find the best short films. Many of their most popular short films I’m not very fond of. I have spent countless hours wasting my time watching poorly produced and visually just not all that pleasing films. However, I did come across this one European short film which is absolutely breathtaking. It’s a YouTube favorite but I think you’ll really enjoy this film. Keep in mind that with the exception of the beginning and ending (when t...

Documentary & Film Promotion Ideas

If you’re working on an independent film or documentary and you’d like to have it featured on our blog you can do so by writing us and telling us about your film project. We will dedicate an entire section of our blog to good independent films. We will feature short films, documentaries and feature length films on our blog. This is a great opportunity for you to get your film exposure. We will embed any video files you have on our site and provide a small profile summary of you and your film....

A Little More About Lights Film School

Lights Film School is an online film school dedicated to helping independent filmmakers greatly expand their technical and creative knowledge-base. We focus on an outcomes based approach to learning, meaning we focus on our students needs and help shape our curriculum around each students specific desires. For example, some of our students are training to be documentary filmmakers. Other students want to be feature film directors. Others want to run their own independent film studios focusing m...