Now is the best time to make a short movie because of the following reasons.

With the advent of cheap digital cameras movie making has become affordable to everyone. All that you need is a good script and the talent to direct it. A DV camera can be rented for below 1000 Rs for a day.

With the advanced editing softwares, you need not pay too much attention to the lighting and audio part of the movie, since you can edit it at any time you want.

Now that the cost factor has come down you can do more experiments and let your creativity unleash. Money is not stoppingyou from making your dream movie.

Internet and video sharing sites has become so popular that you need not spend any money to reach your audience. Upload your movie on to youtube or google videos and send the link to your friends. If your movie is good, it will spread virally.

Above all you always can find someone to sponsor your short film. Putting your movie online will get you a lot of viewers and many advertisers will be interested to tap into that audience. Local language films have a huge advantage in this regard because the audience is pretty much targetted.