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With Backrooms—the eerie new horror that Kane Parsons adapted from his own YouTube videos—now haunting cinemas, this week’s Showdown turns the camera on the short-to-feature pipeline. To participate, draft up a list of ten feature-length movies that first entered the world as lower-budget (and thus, easier to produce) shorts, before finding their footing (and funding) to stretch to 60 minutes or longer. In short (hehe), this strategy can make the overwhelming task of filmmaking feel less daunting.

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