by zilbersteve
+I won second place two separate years and have won the audience award and hounrable mention another year at the EstDocs Short Film Festival.
+I DP'd on a documentary for McDonalds surrounding a 24 hour, 24 country event at their headquarters.
+I was the DP on a docu-series following Stone Temple Pilots' search for a new lead singer.
+I created a documentary surrounding my trip to Israel which the organizing party wants to use as marketing for the country.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, about 17,000 Estonians arrived in Canada. Currently, there are up to 50,000 people of Estonian descent living in "The Great White North". 25-year-old Kaja Wichman from Toronto is one of them. Her interest in the Estonian singing culture is not an exception - rather it is a characteristic example of how the Estonian language and culture is preserved and kept alive everywhere around the world, even by those who were born abroad and grew up in a culturally different environment. Ukrainian American filmmaker Steve Zilberman made this short film, titled "Motherland", about Kaja's journey to the Estonian Song Festival in summer 2014. "Motherland" was submitted to the Toronto-based Estonian documentary film festival EstDocs and won the Audience Favourite Award in the short film category.
Mockumentary style behind the scenes of Oliver Tree making his ‘Hurt’ music video. All done on the iPhone, I shot and edited this so the viewer can’t tell fake from real.
Fully shot on an iPhone. Mockumentary following Oliver Tree’s Skizzy Mars tour; Created so the viewer questions what is real and what’s staged.
Short documentary of my Israel Free Spirit Birthright trip.
Seedrioru is a well executed film, which provides a '"slice of life" view of some of the activities that "väliseestlased" (the Estonian community living outside of Estonia) has created in order to preserve their language and culture. The film surrounds the Estonian summer camp grounds named Seedrioru and the 60th anniversary of their yearly summer festival named Suvihari. It has fast tempo, quick editing and carries a valuable message of preserving the heritage for the Estonian community. Narrated by one of the camp board members and produced by Steve Zilberman. This film won second place at the EstDocs 2015 Short Film Festival.