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When our children wanted to fly… We did our best… And gave them a movie lab
In the summer of 2018, the wonderful young participants of the HTA acting school came to us with the desire to try their hand at creating short films, and who are we to discourage the enthusiasm and creative spirit of the Happy ThinGS people, especially when we have ideal script templates for short films?
Namely, Crocon had regularly published satirical texts years before the Film Lab in which the author Linda Poščić Borovac mercilessly and wittily dissected the phenomena of business life (and life in general). Most of the texts on which the films of the HTA Film Laboratory would be based first saw the light of day as part of Crocon’s desk calendar for 2015. In them, we “slapped” and grounded behaviors and a (non)value system that completely contradicted our basic and most important principles: SIMPLICITY, POSITIVITY, PROACTIVITY and COMMUNICATION.
Four short films were created in support of the stated values, based on the satirical texts of the same name:
- MIRACULOUS SPORT (in support of positivity)
- THAT NAUSEATING SIMPLICITY (in support of simplicity)
- WHAT SHOULD YOU REALLY EAT AND WHY? (in support of good communication)
- POLI & TICS (bonus satire about the most infamous couple, Poli and Tics)
We shot the films in a completely volunteer and enthusiastic arrangement, from scripts, locations, hairstyles, microphones to clothes and shoes from our own closets 🙂
The films brought our HTA world fame by winning several international awards for short and satirical films:
- SHORT TO THE POINT 2019 – Best Children Short for “Miraculous Sport”
- TOP SHORTS 2019 – Best parody
- INDIESHORTFEST 2019, LOS ANGELES – Finalist
- ONIROS
