Who Wants To Be An Amerikan
Accolades
- Selection, 2008 Short Shorts International Film Festival in Tokyo
- Selection, 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner
- Screened on Air Canada flights as part of the 2007 enRoute Student Film Festival and won the Director’s Guild of Canada Achievement in Direction award
- Selection, 2007 Young Cuts Film Festival in Montreal
Behind the Scenes
Writer/Director Aaron Beckum is also a songwriter and musician who regularly plays in and around Vancouver. He wrote and performed the closing song in Who Wants to Be an Amerikan: “topsekretkillerdestroyers”, which originally appeared on his 2004 album A Real Resistance.
Film Production at Vancouver Film School
Students in the one-year Film Production program at VFS, mentored by respected film professionals, learn filmmaking from top to bottom while they direct, produce, write, shoot, design, and edit short dramas and documentaries that become their calling cards in the industry.
Student films made at VFS have premiered at major festivals around the world, including Cannes, Tribeca, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Vancouver, and graduates have been honored at the Emmys and Independent Spirit Awards.
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