Enjoy the Thanksgiving Holiday

The Kill Film Students staff will be taking a break until next Monday. We wish all our readers and fellow film lovers a happy Thanksgiving.
Over the holiday, be sure to check out the latest Coen brothers flick, No Country For Old Men, which moves from limited to nationwide release today. Those of you living in [...]

The Just Because Series: Film Story

by Tyler Budde
Ah! My first entry for Golden Hour! Stare at that clean, stain-free slate!
Before I begin I’d like to talk a little bit about myself. I am a theater and film double major and I hope to write for stage and screen when I grow up. As for my [...]

From The Vault: The Ado Redo

By Stephen Tringali
I don’t really see myself as a documentary filmmaker, but I’ve always held the secret ambition of becoming a music documentary filmmaker. Films like Sam Jones’ I Am Trying To Break Your Heart and Martin Scorsese’s Last Waltz capture my imagination and enliven my love of music in ways that simple [...]

From The Vault: ‘Defend Your Rights’

by Jonathan Arturo
About a month ago, Steve and I developed and shot a short public service announcement for an ACLU contest entitled Stand Up For Freedom. The theme focused on free speech and privacy rights, so we decided to address the topic of wire tapping. At first, we weren’t so enthusiastic about it because—let’s be [...]

Much Ado About Nothing, Part I

by Lindsay Zoladz
“Hi, I’m Gus Van Sant.

Every once in a while I do a big budget studio film only so I can make money to finance some hyper self-conscious ‘art films’ that I really want to make. Also, I am the guy responsible for Sean Connery saying, ‘You the man now, dawg!’, so you’re [...]

‘Gentlemen Prefer Balds’

by Stephen Tringali
This is it, the short film production that started Golden Hour Pictures. Granted, the film is still in its YouTube-friendly format, compressed from a little more than ten minutes to the Project: Direct length of less than seven minutes.
Still, there’s a lot here that we’re proud of. The story, for instance, is a [...]

Welcome to Kill Film Students

Golden Hour Pictures welcomes you to our new blog, “Kill Film Students.”
American University film students started Golden Hour Pictures to create entertaining movies and develop production techniques [...]