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Dead," a five-second film where a man refuses to hold a door for a woman. Firenzi showed various other students his films, and several other creators joined him. The website, with its promise for a film every week day, was launched on October 31, 2008. More actors, writers and directors assembled in one house in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.
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5SF was founded in 2005 by Brian Firenzi while he attended USC. The idea originally came from a contest organized by the Cadillac Motor Company, where five second commercials were allowed to be submitted for cars. Firenzi and friends never entered the contest. It inspired them to create "Chivalry is
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into a feature-length film. By July of that year, the Kickstarter raised over $ 240,000. Producer Keith Calder of Snoot Entertainment matched the Kickstarter money, putting the budget for the film close to $ 500,000. Production began in January 2014 in Los Angeles and Big Bear, CA, and included
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in the spring of 2005 by Brian Firenzi. The website went live in October 2008. Up until December 2013, they featured a new film every weekday, with the only rules being two seconds of opening titles, five seconds of film consisting of a quick set-up and punchline, and one second of end titles.
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is an American film group and website that develops and produces an online comedy web series of five-second long short films, as well as a series of long films that have been viewed over 500 million times on
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put 5-Second Films on its list of the top 50 websites of 2013, calling it "addicting" and writing, "You'll probably never find a better way to waste a few seconds of your life."
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5-Second Films is made up of a group of writers, directors, filmmakers, actors, and actresses, most of whom lived in the same house where they plan and film the shorts.
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Michael Rousselet and Michael Peter, two actors of 5SF, at
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In February 2013, the core 5SF crew collaborated with
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