BPS 327: Can Short Films Make Any Money? with Kim Adelman

Kim Adelman began her producing career with the indie feature, Just
Friends. She then launched the Fox Movie Channel's short film
program, where the 19 shorts she produced won 30+ awards and played
over 150 film festivals worldwide, including the Sundance Film
Festival four years in a row.Kim Adelman currently teaches Low
Budget Filmmaking at UCLA Extension and Cinema Production II at
Mount Saint Mary University. In 2014, she was named UCLA
Extension's Entertainment Studies Instructor of the Year. In 2016,
she won its Distinguished Instructor Award.In addition to guest
lecturing at UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton, and Cal State Los
Angeles, she has also taught filmmaking workshops across the US,
Canada, and New Zealand. Most recently she led creative writing
workshops for kids at UCLA’s Hammer Museum via 826LA and filmmaking
for teens at Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum.

Over the past two decades, Ms. Adelman has also reported
extensively on festivals and short films for Indiewire,
co-programmed the American Cinematheque's annual Focus on Female
Directors short film screening series for fifteen years, and
co-founded FFC: the Female Filmmaking Collective. She has also been
a jury member and/or a panel moderator at numerous international
film festivals, including Sundance Next and the Los Angeles Film
Festival during its final year.Her short film book, Making it Big
in Shorts, is on its third edition and has been published
internationally in Spanish and Mandarin. The three pop culture
books she wrote for Penguin Random House are The Girls Guide to
Elvis, The Girls Guide to Country, and The Ultimate Guide to Chick
Flicks. which was also published in Japanese.She has recorded a
five-part educational podcast on independent filmmaking for UCLA
Extension and co-hosted the 15-episode movie adaptation podcast
Book to Screen, available on iTunes. She has also appeared as
cinema expert in the ARTE documentary From Weepies to Chick Flicks,
E!'s Hollywood & Sex special, and the DVD extras for Love Me
Tender and Ghost. She was profiled for Women Transforming Media and
appeared onKim Adelman was also Director of On Air Creative
Production for Style Network until that network shut down. She has
worked at multiple cable networks including FX/FXM, E!, G4, PopTV,
the Game Show Network, and Cinevault.

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