Catalogue 2011 - Encounters Film Festival

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encounters-festival.org.uk
Arnolfini, Watershed & Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK
Funded by
WELCOME
It has certainly been a year of transition
as the Industry re-structures around
us with the closure of long time
supporter the UK Film Council and
the BFI taking the lead now in the
Audio Visual sector. Furthermore,
we’ve seen the metamorphosis of the
Regional Screen Agencies into Creative
England and we are looking forward to
working with that new national body.
“focus is now
on compelling
stories told in an
imaginative way”
In preparation for all this change the
Encounters Board started the year with
some organisational development,
where we looked at the sustainability
of the festival, as we move into these
challenging times. We’ve been going
17 years and we’re not going to give
up now. So I would like to say thank
you to the BFI for their Transition
Fund, Bristol City Council, South West
Screen, sponsors and all our supporters.
This year the festival will showcase 184
films in competition from a staggering
1800 submissions and will present 11
awards. The collection of cinematic
delights that have made it into in this
year’s edition represent just the tip of
the iceberg of amazing films that come
through our doors every summer, it is
just a shame we can’t showcase them
all. The quality of all the shorts is clearly
a testament to the growing popularity
and importance of the short form.
“engage, immerse
and enjoy the
atmosphere,
fantastic events”
Accompanying the competition
we present a packed programme of
exciting events for all, including a new
strand of industry symposiums, Brief
Exchange and some fabulous headline
guests including John K (The Ren
& Stimpy Show), Sam Taylor-Wood
(Nowhere Boy) and Bruce Robinson
(The Rum Diary). This year we have
expanded the offer with film and
music fusion events at the Arnolfini
and Cube Cinema and free screenings
at the Pop-up cinema on Park Street
and the Vintage Mobile Cinema on
Museum Square outside M Shed. The
fun continues throughout November
As the technology evolves we are
finding that short-film making is
becoming more sophisticated and
imaginative. The constraints on being
able to record moving images have
disappeared, as we see nightly on TV
news reports using footage shot on
mobile phones. Rightly, the focus is
now on compelling stories told in an
imaginative way and at Encounters
we are seeing some masterpieces
come through. I hope you enjoy what
you see and will come back time and
time again to see where the leading
edge of film-making is leading us.
David Sproxton, Chair of
Encounters Board, Executive
Chairman Aardman Animations
with Fresh Flix, our strand to celebrate
young creativity. Check out the rest
of the catalogue for more details.
The team of programmers, staff,
interns and volunteers has been
working around the clock with such
commitment, enthusiasm and patience
that I will be eternally grateful. We’ve
reflected on the feedback from last year
and hopefully made the navigation
of the festival clearer with daily set
film screening times and a better
website scheduling tool and iPhone
app. I hope you find the new style
useful and please do let us know your
thoughts through the comments area
on the website, Facebook and Twitter
(@EncountersSFF / #ENC2011).
We have some surprises in store for
2012, but in the meantime please
engage, immerse and enjoy the
atmosphere, fantastic events, guests
and selection of talented filmmakers
whose live action and animation
films are showcased this year.
Liz Harkman, Managing Director
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SPONSORS
Festival Information
WELCOME................................................................. 1
SCHEDULE................................................................ 5
FESTIVAL INFORMATION..........................................10
DELEGATE INFORMATION........................................11
FUNDERS
Gala Events
BIG IDEAS, BIG SCREEN: FRANCINE STOCK............14
JJ & THE BIRDMAN..................................................15
DESERT ISLAND FLICKS: JOHN K.............................16
DIRECTORS UK: BRUCE ROBINSON........................17
THE MAGICAL MISERY TOUR...................................18
BAFTA MASTERCLASS: SAM TAYLOR-WOOD............19
ENCOUNTERS AT THE CUBE....................................21
FREE EVENTS..........................................................22
LITTLE WHITE LIES: FILM QUIZ................................23
0117 HOUR FILM CHALLENGE 2011........................23
DREAMS OF A LIFE / EDGE......................................26
JUNKHEARTS...........................................................27
PLAY........................................................................28
THE BRITISH GUIDE TO SHOWING OFF....................28
A PROGRAMMER’S FEAR
OF MISSING THE MASTERPIECE..............................36
AARDMAN, MODEL-MAKING
& RAPID PROTOTYPING...........................................36
CASE STUDY: STUDIO AKA.......................................37
FILMMAKER FOCUS.................................................39
THE WAY TO DOCUMENTARY...................................39
LFA: ACTING FOR DIRECTORS WORKSHOPS............41
CONTENTERTAINMENT............................................41
UKTI: THE BUILDING BLOCKS
OF PRE-SCHOOL ANIMATION...................................43
CASE STUDY: CARTOON SALOON.............................43
3D INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP..............................45
SHOOTING PEOPLE: SPEED NETWORKING...............45
A SHORT LOOK AT SOUTH EAST EUROPE.................57
NORDISK PANORAMA..............................................58
2011 CINEAST SLATE..............................................60
SPOTLIGHT ON IRELAND..........................................62
BRAZILIAN ANIMATION............................................65
CARTOON D’OR.......................................................68
INT 4: EVER AFTER..................................................85
INT 5: BIG PICTURE.................................................87
INT 6: HOME GROUND.............................................89
INT 7: TIME BEING...................................................91
LATE LOUNGE..........................................................93
PICK ‘N’ MIX............................................................97
DEPICT SHOWCASE...............................................101
BRIT 1: OUT OF STEP.............................................106
BRIT 2: SELF HELP................................................108
BRIT 3: NEW LOOK................................................110
BRIT 4: ENGLAND MADE ME..................................113
BEST OF SOUTH WEST...........................................116
NAHEMI STUDENT AWARDS...................................119
ANI 2: ANIMALIS ANIMA.........................................134
ANI 3: THE HUMAN CONDITION.............................138
ANI 4: TRAVELS: NEAR & FAR................................142
ANI 5: DOMESTIC BLISS........................................147
ANI 6: LIGHT & DARK.............................................152
ANI 7: CHILDREN’S JURY.......................................158
SCHOOL SCREENING: ARTHUR CHRISTMAS 3D.....164
TEEN FLICKS.........................................................165
TINY TOTS.............................................................165
SHORT STUFF........................................................165
WHAT’S THE SCORE?.............................................165
BFI FUTURE FILM: THE WINNING PITCH.................165
MINI MASTERPIECES: TELLING STORIES...............165
GENEVA STOP: INTRODUCTION
TO SUPER8 WORKSHOP........................................169
INDEX....................................................................170
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & THANKS.........................172
EVENT PARTNERS & SUPPORTERS........................174
MAP.......................................................................178
Shorts2Features
PARTNERS
INTRODUCTION.......................................................25
WUTHERING HEIGHTS.............................................25
Industry Focus
MAJOR SPONSORS
BRIEF EXCHANGE....................................................30
FUTURE ENCOUNTERS............................................32
NFTS: CINEMATOGRAPHY MASTERCLASS................34
RED CAM WORKSHOP.............................................34
UKTI: CREATIVITY & TECHNIQUE:
BRIDGING THE EUROPEAN GAP...............................35
NISI MASA ESP: LIVE SCRIPT READING...................35
Guest Programmes
SHELLEY’S EYE CANDY...........................................48
NISI MASA ESP: SCREENING...................................51
A MILLION LOVE SONGS..........................................52
Brief Encounters
SPONSORS
INTRODUCTION.......................................................72
JURY........................................................................73
AWARDS..................................................................75
DOCUMENTARY AWARD...........................................76
INT 1: LAST ACT.......................................................78
INT 2: HIGH STAKES.................................................80
INT 3: GOT YOU.......................................................82
Animated Encounters
INTRODUCTION.....................................................125
JURY......................................................................126
AWARDS................................................................127
ANI 1: ANIMATED WORLDS....................................128
Fresh Flix
MEDIA PARTNERS
Aesthetica
SCREEN WRITING BAFTA MASTERCLASS:
TONY MARCHANT..................................................164
AARDMAN: KIDS MODEL
ANIMATION WORKSHOPS.......................................164
Artist Film & Exhibitions
ARNOLFINI: AFTERIMAGE......................................167
SPIKE ISLAND: CEZARY BODZIANOWSKI & SAVAGE.169
GENEVA STOP: TRAVELOGUE.................................169
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During the week
I’m a wage slave.
But when I get on
the 17.54 to Cardiff,
I break free.
TUESDAY 15 & WEDNESDAY 16 NOVEMBER
Tuesday 15 November
18:30
Big Ideas, Big Screen Watershed C1 (P14)
Wednesday 16 November
09:30
10:00
12:00
12:30
14:00
14:30
15:00
16:00
16:30
17:30
18:00
19:00
20:00
20:30
Brief Exchange: Future of Short Film (Ie), Watershed W2 (P30)
BRIT 4: England Made Me (Cs), Watershed C3 (P113)
ANI 1: Animated Worlds (Cs), Arnolfini (P128)
Red Cam Cinematography Workshop (Ws), Yha (P34)
INT 1: Last Act (Cs), Watershed C1 (P78)
Shelley’s Eye Candy (Gs), Arnolfini (P48)
Best of the European Short Pitch (Gs), Watershed C3 (P51)
Creativity & Technique: How to Bridge the European Gap (Pd), Arnolfini (P35)
NFTS presents: A Cinematography Masterclass (Osi), Watershed C3 (P34)
INT 2: High Stakes (Cs), Watershed C1 (P80)
ANI 2: Animalis Anima (Cs), Arnolfini (P134)
Animation Alliance UK (PD), LIGHT STUDIO ARNOLFINI
INT 3: Got You (Cs), Watershed C3 (P82)
Best of South West (Cs), Watershed C1 (P116)
European Short Pitch: Live Script Reading Watershed W3 (P35)
ANI 5: Domestic Bliss (Cs), Arnolfini (P147)
BRIT 1: Out of Step (Cs), Watershed C3 (P106)
NAHEMI Student Awards (Gs), Watershed C1 (P119)
JJ & The Birdman: Night of Music & Experimental Film (Mf), Arnolfini (P15)
Explore South Wales by train.
Be a Great Westerner.
For tickets and times go to www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/explore
KEY EVENT TYPE: (R) REPEAT (CS) COMPETITION SCREENING (GS) GUEST SCREENING (WS) WORKSHOP (PD) PANEL DISCUSSION (OSI) ON-STAGE INTERVIEW (MF) MUSIC & FILM EVENT (IE) INDUSTRY EVENT
VENUE: C1 WATERSHED CINEMA 1 C2 WATERSHED CINEMA 2 C3 WATERSHED CINEMA 3 W2 WATERSHED WATERSIDE 2 W3 WATERSHED WATERSIDE 3 ARNOLFINI AUDITORIUM ARNOLFINI LIGHT STUDIO YHA
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THURSDAY 17 NOVEMBER
09:30
10:00
11:00
12:00
12:30
14:00
14:30
15:00
16:00
16:30
17:30
18:00
18:30
20:00
20:30
21:00
Brief Exchange: Future of Cinema (Ie), Watershed W2 (P30)
INT 7: Time Being (Cs), Watershed C3 (P91)
ANI 3: The Human Condition (Cs), Arnolfini (P138)
Red Cam Cinematography Workshop (Ws), Yha (P34)
Aardman, Model-Making and Rapid Prototyping (Ws), Arnolfini Light Studio (P36)
INT 4: Ever After (Cs) (R), Watershed C1 (P85)
ANI 4: Travels: Near & Far (Cs), Arnofini (P142)
The Way to Documentary (Pd), Watershed C3 (P39)
John K: Cartoons & Signing Session (OSI) ARNOLFINI LIGHT STUDIO (P16)
The Programmer’s Fear of Missing the Masterpiece (Pd), Watershed C3 (P36)
FRIDAY 18 NOVEMBER
09:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
12:00
12:30
13:00
14:00
INT 5: Big Picture (Cs), Watershed C1 (P87)
Case Study: Studio AKA (Osi), Arnolfini (P37)
14:30
Filmmaker Focus: Carol Morley & Cairo Cannon (Osi), Watershed C3 (P39)
15:00
BRIT 2: Self Help (Cs), Watershed C1 (P108)
15:30
A Million Love Songs (Gs), Arnolfini (P52)
16:00
Shorts2Feature: Dreams of a Life Watershed C3 (P26)
16:30
Desert Island Flicks: John K (Osi), Arnolfini (P16)
The Magical Misery Tour Cube Cinema (P18)
17:30
Directors UK: Bruce Robinson (Osi), Watershed C1 (P17)
18:00
INT 6: Home Ground (Cs), Watershed C3 (P89)
18:30
20:00
20:30
21:00
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22:00
Brief Exchange: Future Encounters (Ie), Watershed W2 (P30)
BRIT 1: Out of Step (R) (Cs), Watershed C3 (P106)
ANI 6: Light & Dark (Cs), Arnolfini (P152)
INT 4: Ever After (R) (Cs), Watershed C2 (P85)
LFA presents Acting for Directors Workshops (Ws), Yha (P41)
INT 6: Home Ground (R) (Cs), Watershed C1 (P89)
ANI 5: Domestic Bliss (R) (Cs), Arnolfini (P147)
2011 CINEAST Slate (Gs), Watershed C3 (P60)
Shorts2Feature: Edge Watershed C2 (P26)
The Building Blocks of Pre-School Animation (Pd), Arnolfini (P43)
LFA presents Acting for Directors Workshops (Ws), Yha (P41)
Contentertainment (Pd), Watershed C3 (P41)
INT 3: Got You (R) (Cs), Watershed C1 (P82)
INT 2: High Stakes (R) (Cs), Watershed C2 (P80)
Case Study: Cartoon Saloon (Osi), Arnolfini (P43)
Nordisk Panorama (Gs), Watershed C3 (P58)
Arnolfini: Afterimage ARNOLFINI DS (P169)
BRIT 3: New Look (Cs), Watershed C1 (P110)
Spotlight on Ireland: New Irish Animation (Gs), Arnolfini (P62)
Shorts2Feature: Play WATERSHED C3 (P28)
ANI 1: Animated Worlds (R) (Cs), Arnolfini (P128)
BAFTA Masterclass: Sam Taylor-Wood (Osi), Watershed C1 (P19)
Late Lounge (Cs), Watershed C3 (P93)
Sculpture (MF) CUBE CINEMA (P21)
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SATURDAY 19 NOVEMBER
10:00
10:30
11:00
12:00
12:30
13:00
14:00
14:30
15:00
15:30
16:00
16:30
18:30
19:00
21:30
3D Introductory Workshop (Ws), Yha (P45)
INT 7: Time Being (R) (Cs), Watershed C3 (P91)
Children’s Jury (Cs), Arnolfini (P158)
INT 5: Big Picture (R) (Cs), Watershed C2 (P87)
Introduction to Super8 (WS), GENEVA STOP (P169)
Arnolfini: Afterimage ARNOLFINI DS (P167)
11:00
12:00
13:00
13:30
Speed Networking (Ie), Watershed W3 (P45)
14:00
Best of South West (R) (Cs), Watershed C1 (P116)
ANI 3: The Human Condition (R) (Cs), Arnolfini (P138)
15:30
Pick ‘n’ Mix: Family Friendly Shorts (Cs), Watershed C3 (P97)
16:00
BRIT 2: Self Help (R) (Cs), Watershed C2 (P108)
Kids Model Animation Workshop (Ws) (Als), Arnolfini Light Studio (P164)
20:00
ANI 4: Travels: Near & Far (R) (Cs), Arnolfini (P142)
Meet the South West Filmmakers (Pd), Watershed W3 (P12)
3D Introductory Workshop (Ws), Yha (P45)
A Short Look at South East Europe (Gs), Watershed C3 (P57)
DepicT! Showcase (Cs), Watershed C1 (P101)
INT 1: Last Act (R) (Cs), Watershed C2 (P78)
Kids Model Animation Workshop (Ws) (Als), Arnolfini Light Studio (P164)
Brazilian Animation (Gs), Arnolfini (P65)
BRIT 4: England Made Me (R) (Cs), Watershed C3 (P113)
Film Quiz Watershed W3 (P23)
Awards Ceremony Watershed C1 (P12)
Shorts2Feature: Junkhearts Watershed C3 (P27)
Late Lounge (R) (Cs), Watershed C3 (P93)
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SUNDAY 20 NOVEMBER
20:10
Awards Selection Watershed C3 (P12)
BFI Future Film: The Winning Pitch WATERSHED W3 (P165)
ANI 2: Animalis Anima (R) (Cs), Arnolfini (P134)
Mini Masterpieces: Telling Stories Together WATERSHED W3 (P165)
BRIT 3: New Look (R) (Cs), Watershed C3 (P110)
Cartoon d’Or (Gs), Arnolfini (P68)
Awards Selection Watershed C3 (P12)
ANI 6: Light & Dark (R) (Cs), Arnolfini (P152)
Captain Zip CUBE CINEMA (P21)
British Guide to Showing Off WATERSHED C2 (P28)
ENJOYING ENCOUNTERS
DELEGATE INFo
Ticketing Info
Animated Encounters Box Office
Booking
Information
General Prices (Unless Otherwise Stated)
Arnolfini
Delegate Tickets
Delegate Information & Ticketing Desk
Screenings before 16:00 £5/4 conc
Screenings after 16.00
£7/5.50 conc
Gala Events
£8/6 conc
Masterclasses & Panels
£6/5 conc
Workshops (RED CAM; 3D)
£40 Group Bookings
Discounts are available for group bookings. For details,
please contact the Festival office (see below).
Free Events
Tickets for free events are issued on a first-come,
first-served basis, usually on the day of the event.
Age Restrictions
Unless otherwise stated, film screenings at
Brief Encounters are a suggested 18 certificate,
and Animated Encounters are a suggested 15.
Venues And Access
Animated Encounters activities take place at Arnolfini,
Watershed, and the Cube Cinema. Brief Encounters
activities take place at Watershed and the Cube Cinema.
All venues (except Cube Cinema) are well-equipped
for visitors with disabilities, including wheelchair
access and adapted toilets. For more information
on access, please contact the venue.
Brief Encounters Box Office
Watershed
1 Canons Road, Bristol BS1 5TX
+44 (0) 117 927 5100
info@watershed.co.uk
(Open daily from 09:00, Monday to Friday and
10:00, Saturday & Sunday until last film)
16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
+44 (0) 117 917 2300
boxoffice@arnolfini.org.uk
(Open daily from 09:30, Tuesday to Saturday
and 10:30 on Sunday until last film)
Cube Cinema
4 Princess Row, Bristol BS2 8NQ
+44 (0) 117 907 4190
cubecinema.com
Pop-Up Cinema
The Showroom, 31 College Green,
Bristol BS1 5SP
Vintage Movie Bus
M SHED, MUSEUM SQUARE, WAPPING ROAD,
Princes Wharf, Bristol BS1 4RN
No.1 Harbourside
1 Canon’s Road, Bristol, BS1 5UH
YHA
14 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA
Useful contacts
Festival office
St Bartholomew’s Court, Lewins Mead,
Bristol BS1 5BT
+44 (0) 117 929 9188
During the festival the office will be located at Watershed
Waterside 3 Wed – Fri, and Waterside 2 on Sat.
Please note: delegate numbers are strictly limited,
early booking is advised to avoid disappointment.
Delegate Passes
NETWORK PASS £25
Benefits:
– Access to Festival Delegate Area at Watershed
– Delegate List
– Delegate Bag
– Festival Catalogue
– Access to all Industry Events
– Access to Animated 6 o’clock Gin at Arnolfini
– Access to Digital Viewing Library
Please note that all tickets must be
purchased from the venue Box Office.
DAY PASSES
Network Pass plus tickets to events on specific day(s):
£50 – 1 Day
£70 – 2 Day
£90 – 3 Day
Benefits:
– Network Pass
– Any tickets for the registered day(s) (except
specific workshops & Awards Ceremony)
FULL FESTIVAL PASS £125
Benefits:
– Network Pass
– All tickets (except specific workshops
& Awards Ceremony)
Watershed Waterside 3
Wed 16 – Sat 19 Nov 09:30 – 17:00
Staff at the Festival Information Desk will greet
you on arrival, provide you with your delegate pass
and bag, and answer all your questions. Staff will
be happy to help you throughout the festival.
Digital Viewing Library
Wed 16 – Sun 20 Nov 09:30 – 20:00
An exclusive area where delegates can
view any of the 1,800 films submitted.
Delegates Lounge
Wed 16 – Fri 18 Nov 09:30 – 17:00
Sat 19 Nov 09:30 – 17:00
Sun 20 Nov 10:00 – 14:00
A calm and exclusive environment in which to have
meetings, network and access the Internet.
Filmmaker Q&A
Throughout the festival there will be opportunities to
meet filmmakers and animators from all over the world
in competition. At Brief Encounters, Q&A’s will be
held at the end of the competition screenings if any
filmmakers are present. Meet some of the animators
in competition at Animated Encounters, during the
Animators 6 O’Clock Gin events in the Arnolfini Light
Studio (Thu 17 – Fri 18 17:00). There will also be a
chance to meet the south west filmmakers on Sat 19
Nov 14:00 at Watershed (see p12 for further info).
www.encounters-festival.org.uk
For full programme info, delegate passes and online bookings.
Please note: This programme is correct at the
time of going to press but the festival organisers
reserve the right to make changes.
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Unless otherwise stated, or an individual price is listed,
Delegates can gain access to all events listed in the
catalogue. Once you have picked up your Delegate Pass,
tickets can be collected from either Watershed or Arnolfini
Box Office on the day of the event only upon a presentation
of a pass. Only one ticket can be issued per pass, and please
return any unused tickets prior to the event for re-sale.
Terms and Guidelines
Tickets are available on the day of the event on a
first-come, first-served basis from the venue (either
Watershed or Arnolfini) Box Office. Uncollected Delegate
tickets will go on sale 15 minutes before start time.
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Animators 6 o’clock Gin
ARNOLFINI LIGHT STUDIO
THU 17 – FRI 18 NOV 17:00 – 18:00
As ever, Animated Encounters is ahead of its
time, with 6 O’Clock Gin at 5pm. A great way to
have an encounter with your fellow delegates.
Arnolfini Cafe Bar Delegate Deals
“Great bowls of fire” - warming bowls of soup or stew for
a fiver for all delegates and ticket holders to Encounters
screenings at Arnolfini throughout the festival, available to
eat in or take out. Delegates also get complimentary
filter coffee or tea with any of our fabulous cakes, and
priority booking for lunch and supper. Open from
9.00am for the duration of the Festival, our full Italianinspired menu is available every day from 10.00am.
Follow us on twitter @finicafebar or
check www.arnolfini.org.uk
Meet the South West Filmmakers
WATERSHED WATERSIDE 3
SAT 19 NOV 14:00
Watershed Café Bar –
Delegate Food And Drink Deals
TUES 15 – SAT 19
Early Bird Breakfasts
Available from 09:00 till 11:45
Start the day with a cooked breakfast from £4.95
(includes a cup of tea or filter coffee).
DepicT! Happy Hour
SAT 19 NOV 17:00 WATERSHED LINK
Following the DepicT! Showcase, bring your ticket to the
Link and meet the shortlisted filmmakers, the team behind
DepicT!, this year’s judges and other short film fans in a
more informal setting. Thanks to Bath Ales, you can have
a drink and discuss ultra-short filmmaking in all its glory!
Awards & Closing Night Party
Happy Hour – 17:00 to 19:00
SAT 19 NOV 21:00 WATERSHED CAFÉ BAR
10% off any order over the bar on food and drink.
Please show your delegate pass when you order
Join us and some very special guests for our awards party
celebrating the Brazilian Animation screening earlier in the
day with some South American inspired antics sponsored
by Redland Road Dental practice, and drinks thanks to
Arbor Ales, Estrella Damm and Great Western Wine.
Dishes of the day
Keep a look out on the dishes of the day board for quick
and tasty meals or order from the main printed menu.
Pre order and pay in advance to avoid the queues stating
your telephone number and time you would like to collect.
Awards Selection
SUN 20 NOV 11:00 & 15:30
WATERSHED CINEMA 3
2 HRS
See the stars of tomorrow in this selection of the
2011 winning films, fresh after the awards ceremony
on Saturday night. You may even see next year’s
BAFTA or Oscar® short film winner here first!
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Gala Events
Meet the South West Filmmakers featuring in this year’s Best
of South West programme (p116). This is a great opportunity
to meet some of the West Country’s best emerging talent.
JJ & THE BIRDMAN
Big Ideas, Big Screen: Francine Stock –
a Century of Film and How it has Shaped Us
The Festival of Ideas presents Big Ideas, Big Screen with
Francine Stock, presenter of BBC Radio Four’s The Film
Programme. Francine’s new book, In Glorious Technicolour:
a Century of Film and How it has Shaped Us, explores the
nature of our relationship with film - from the first screenings
of the Lumiere Brothers’ short films to the perceptionaltering 3-D Avatar. It covers, among other topics, the birth
of celebrity in the twenties, the influence of Freud and the
unconscious in film noir, sci-fi and body-snatching horror
in the fifties, the social change of the sixties, seventies’
nightmares and the high-concept blockbusters. Stock
will be interviewed by Festival of Ideas director Andrew
Kelly, accompanied by a selection of film clips. This event
is presented by Festival of Ideas and the Festival.
Big Ideas, Big Screen is a new series run in
partnership with Encounters in which filmmakers
and writers explore ideas about film.
For more information about the Festival of Ideas,
visit www.ideasfestival.co.uk
© Photography Charles Hopkinson
TUE 15 NOV 18:30 WATERSHED CINEMA 1
1 HR 30 MINS
(L) © Photography Adam Johnson
(Top R) © Tony Orrell (Bottom R) © Carl Newland Arnolfini -Angus Fairhurst Exhibition
BIG IDEAS, BIG SCREEN
JJ & The Birdman: An Evening of Music and Experimental Film
Wed 16 Nov 20:30 Arnolfini
1 hr 20 mins
The Birdman of Alkijazz Tony Orrell, and Scissor
Sisters Musical Director and Keyboard player John (JJ)
Garden, return to Arnolfini for an exclusive performance
of a new live accompaniment to experimental
short films, edited together to form a surreal dream
sequence entitled ‘The Perfume of Dreams’.
John (JJ) Garden
John Garden has been a professional musician, musical
director and composer for over 15 years, including seven as
a musical director and keyboard player with Scissor Sisters,
touring internationally and performing for audiences of up
to 90,000. His many other credits include gigs and touring
work as musical director with Alison Moyet and Ke$ha. John
has most recently toured his live electronic score to the 1925
silent movie classic The Lost World featuring pioneering
stop motion animation from Willis O’Brien (best known for
his work on the 1933 King Kong). This year also saw the
enthusiastically-received premiere in San Francisco of John’s
first work for musical theatre - Tales of the City the Musical,
co-written with Scissor Sisters’ front-man Jake Shears and
based on the Tales of the City books by Armistead Maupin.
Tony ORRell (AKA The Birdman of Alkijazz)
Playing in the Charles Hazlewood All Stars, alongside
Andy Sheppard, Adrian Utley and Will Gregory have
brought together the different strands of a playing career
since the late 70s. This includes a musical relationship
with Andy since 1982 in Sphere, ten years with Will in
the Gas Giants (who played many live music/ silent film
events at early Encounters festivals ) and now current
band the Pushy Doctors , again with Andy and Dan
Moore - who should have been there in the 70s!
As the Birdman of Alkijazz, Tony has had the opportunity
to perform live to a wide variety of silent films at Arnolfini
and Watershed - featuring wonderfully varied guest
musicians such as Jerry Dammers, Larry Stabbins,
Bellatrix, Matthew Bourne, Ray Russell, the Blessing,
Adrian, Andy and Will....and of course John ‘JJ’ Garden.
This event will give Tony the chance to add freewheeling
drumming to John’s meditative force-field soundgarden.
Tony Orrell will also be presenting What’s the
Score - Film Scoring Workshop on Sat 12 Nov for
ages 14 - 25 as part of Fresh Flix (see p165).
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DIRECTORS UK
Withnail & I
DESERT ISLAND FLICKS
Desert Island Flicks with John Kricfalusi
Thu 17 Nov 20:00 ARNOLFINI
1 HR 30 MINS
In the 1980’s Kricfalusi worked on such
‘crap’ as he calls it, as The Smurfs,
Laverne and Shirley In The Army and
other Saturday Morning Cartoons
being churned out by the TV animation
factories. During this period he and
other disgruntled cartoonists developed
and pitched his own cartoon creations
which terrified network executives.
THU 17 NOV 20:30 WATERSHED CINEMA 1
1 HR 30 MINS
THU 17 NOV 14:00 ARNOLFINI
John K went onto revolutionise the
style and content of modern cartoons
such as The New Jetsons, High Tech
Wreck, New Adventures Of Mighty
Mouse and created a new production
system that allowed it to happen.
With his landmark 1991 TV series Ren
& Stimpy, featuring the demented,
wildly anti-social and hilariously
inappropriate antics of the two title
characters, Kricfalusi kicked modern
cartooning in its underpants, starting
a myriad of trends: the gross-out
subversive cartoon. Kricfalusi then
popularized internet cartoons in 1997
with The Goddamn George Liquor
Program and developed the techniques
for Flash animation that are used
at practically every studio today.
Nowadays, every major studio
features styles, looks and humour
that are highly influenced by
John’s cartoons and ideas.
This event is supported by
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Directors UK presents: Bruce Robinson
Join Directors UK for an interview
with writer, actor and director Bruce
Robinson as he talks about his career,
experience with “the industry”,
past films and latest release.
In this session you will get the
chance to see the master in action.
John K introduces half an hour of
some of his most influential cartoons
followed by a signing session where
you have the opportunity to buy a
personalised caricature of yourself in
that unmistakable John K style. Some
classic Ren and Stimpy episodes will
be screened whilst John draws.
His semi-autobiographical film Withnail
& I, about the squalid lives of two
unemployed actors has been described
as “one of Britain’s biggest cult films”
and has been elevated to iconic status
by students all over the world.
Personalised drawings will be £12.
Despite this success Robinson
became disillusioned with the
restrictive film-making practices of
Hollywood and turned his back on
directing to concentrate on writing.
© lenwhybrowphotography.com
The festival is delighted to welcome
John Kricfalusi the Canadian
animator and Los Angeles based
Spümcø studio-founder responsible
for, amongst others; Ren and Stimpy
and the internet-only cartoon series
Weekend Pussy Hunt. Widely regarded
as one of the most outstanding and
innovative animators of his time John
K. is a pioneer in the classic US cartoon
tradition with a highly distinctive,
idiosyncratic and very, very funny style.
John K: Cartoons
and Signing Session
As a writer he won a BAFTA and
was Academy Award® and Golden
Globe nominated for his screenplay
for Roland Joffé’s The Killing Fields.
Headstrong and always outspoken he
now makes his return to directing with
the eagerly anticipated feature The
Rum Diary, an adaptation of Hunter
S. Thompson’s novel, starring Johnny
Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Giovanni Ribisi,
Richard Jenkins and Amber Heard.
Directors UK
Directors UK is a member’s
organisation for British directors,
representing almost 4,000 directors
working in all areas from feature films
and drama to documentaries and
entertainment. Among our Board
sit some of the most high profile
directors in the country, including
Paul Greengrass (Bourne Ultimatum,
United 93) as President, and recent
BAFTA winner Charles Sturridge.
Directors UK is now opening up its
membership to students and directors
working in short film, music video,
web media, games and commercials.
Visit www.directors.uk.com to
find out more about the benefits
of becoming a member.
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BAFTA MASTERCLASS
BAFTA Photography Johnnie Shand Kydd
THE MAGICAL MISERY TOUR
The Magical Misery Tour
BAFTA Masterclass: A Brief Encounter with Sam Taylor-Wood, OBE
Thu 17 Nov Doors open 19:30 CUBE CINEMA
£6 advance/ £8 on door
Look Behind You!… She Is Back! Vicki Bennett aka People
Like Us raids the tombs of HORROR films, plundering the
Un-Dead and cutting up scared suburban teenagers amongst
many victims into a delicious perverse A/V set which
premiered at The Sound of Fear at the Southbank Centre
under the working title of Horror Collage.
The source material is 95% from horror movies, with
the content portraying not so much a scary nightmare
but a journey through the underworld of everyday
human experiences. It is not true to say you do not
relate to this kind of horror movie. Truth is stranger
than fiction. Having said this, People Like Us, as ever,
see the positive and sometimes humorous side of the
most ghastly scenarios, and by accompanying the
edited found feature film footage with new sample
collage pop songs, to elevate you from the swamp.
Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been an
influential figure in the field of audio visual collage,
through her innovative sampling, appropriating
and cutting up of found footage and archives.
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FRI 18 NOV 20.30 WATERSHED CINEMA 1
1 HR 30 MINS
The queen of the collage has blood on her hands
now, come and laugh at the horror of it all.
AKI ONDA
Following People Like Us, the Cube presents
Aki Onda and his Cassette Memories.
Aki Onda is an artist whose musical instrument of choice is
the cassette Walkman. He captures field recordings with the
cassettes and then physically manipulates the tape machines
with electronics in his performances to mesmerising effect.
Strikingly poetic with ghosts of the physical, and invisible
captured in his sound world, Onda re-examines moments
of time he has spent wandering and recording. Maximising
the micro-narrative/diary-like elements contained in his
performances Onda fits perfectly into a film festival.
Pre-sale tickets available at Watershed Box Office
until 16:00 on day of event. A limited number
of free tickets are available for Delegates.
BAFTA-nominated Director and award-winning Artist Sam
Taylor-Wood joins Encounters onstage for a very special
masterclass to discuss her craft and her incredible career in
the moving image arts. Charting her transition from Turner
Prize-nominee to BAFTA nominee in 2009, Taylor-Wood
will explore the pressures on any new filmmaker as they
complete their first short film and move towards a feature.
An inspirational figure in British culture, and a member of
the Young British Artists, Taylor-Wood is best known for her
photographic and installation work including her silent film
portrait of David Beckham sleeping and Crying Men, which
features Hollywood’s most famous leading men crying.
In 2008, Taylor-Wood directed the BAFTA-nominated
and critically acclaimed short film Love You More,
written by Patrick Marber and produced by Anthony
Minghella, a coming-of-age story about two
teenagers drawn together by the Buzzcocks’ single
Love You More during the summer of 1978.
Taylor-Wood followed this success with her debut
feature Nowhere Boy, a biopic about the childhood of
The Beatles singer John Lennon. The film screened as
the closing presentation of the 53rd annual London Film
Festival 2009, and earned her a BAFTA nomination
for an Outstanding Debut by a British Director.
Other collaborations include a unique and modern
interpretation of the opera Vesti la Giubba from Pagliacci
for Sky Arts and most recently she directed the music video
Überlin by R.E.M featuring Aaron Johnson. In 2011 TaylorWood was made an Order of The British Empire (OBE).
This event forms part of BAFTA’s UK-wide learning and
events programme, giving audiences across the country
access behind the screens of the film, TV and video games
industries. For more information go to www.bafta.org
Presented by
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ENCOUNTERS AT THE CUBE
The Cube Microplex Cinema is an independent volunteer
co-operative. For the last 12 years The Cube has reinvented
the notion of cinema as a shared social space and striven
to provide a diverse program of alternative cinema in
Bristol. The Cube at Encounters presents a specially
selected program in the spirit of the festival showcasing
cinema in its less conventional forms, providing an
exciting and tempting selection of films and events to
complement to the Encounters festival programme.
Tickets for the events below are not included in
the Delegate Pass and can only be purchased
from The Cube on the night of the event.
The Cube Cinema Microplex, Dove Street South,
Kingsdown, Bristol BS2 8JD
0117 9074190 www.cubecinema.com
microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.html
Sculpture
FRI 18 NOV 21:00 CUBE CINEMA
DJS before/after Sculpture
Sculpture on 22:00
£8 on the door
Music and animation duo, Sculpture present a night of
kaleidoscopic sensory overload, previously described
as ‘an act of vinyl alchemy not easily surpassed.’
The double act explore a idiosyncratic aesthetic
encompassing pop, appropriative collage, cut & spliced
techno, noise, early electronics, the avant-garde and
Looney Tunes, mechanical and digital animation
techniques, tape edits and computer programming.
PLUS surprise DJs and animations in the Bar.
Captain Zip Fetish Night
SUN 20 NOV 20:00 CUBE CINEMA
£6 On the door
Captain Zip’s documentaries about the fetish scene
include public displays of fetishism, a Sex-Workers’
Pride demo, Mistress Alexia teaching correct use
of a whip, and private play in fetish dungeons.
See fetishists under police escort marching to campaign for
better understanding of this taboo subject - featuring human
ponies, rubberists, whips, high heels and plenty of discipline.
It was in 1998 that Kodak last issued striped Super 8 film for
lip-sync sound. Zip used it for ‘Metal Carew’, a documentary
about erotic metalwear maker Lisa Carew and her daring
publicity stunts on Tower Bridge and Brighton Seafront.
Join us for this one-off night of fetish fun.
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FREE EVENTS
Encounters @ No1.Harbourside
MON 14 – SUN 20 NOV
Throughout the festival, No.1 presents a flurry of late night
film inspired antics, with free music, good food and Bristol
Beer. As the Watershed’s neighbour and only a short stroll
from the Arnolfini, No.1 is the perfect home from home during
the festival. Put your feet up and enjoy a good meal and a
local drink after a hard day of watching films, complemented
by new friends and some fantastic acts including:
Film Jazz Jam Improv Sessions
Mon 14 Nov 21:30
Some seasoned and budding local jazz musicians
The Strangest Paradise on Earth
Wed 16 Nov 22:00
Little White Lies
presents: Film Quiz
Encounters Pop-Up Cinema
Mon 14 – Sun 20 Nov 10:00 – 18:00
The Showroom
SAT 19 NOV 16:30 WATERSHED WATERSIDE 3
2 HRS
Fee: £1
Taking short film out of the cinema and onto the high
street, Encounters fashions a boutique, pop-up cinema,
celebrating talent from across the city with a series of
daily short film screenings. Bluescreen, the Cube Cinema’s
no1 showcase of local film talent, presents a retrospective
over the week with daily two hour screenings of shorts
that have graced the screen bleu from 2001 to 2011.
DepicT!, Watershed’s infamous super-short filmmaking
competition presents a screening of The Best Of, and
Encounters screens the final films from the 0117 Hour
Film Challenge completed earlier in the year. Visit The
Showroom for further information and schedules.
You may call your self a professional, but do
you really know your stuff? Watershed front of
house and Little White Lies challenge you to the
ultimate film quiz, for a chance of winning some
fantastic prizes including a year’s subscription to
Little White Lies magazine, and letting everyone
know who is the biggest film buff in town.
For more information on Little White Lies
magazine visit www.littlewhitelies.co.uk
or follow them on Twitter @LWLies
Night of Rum and Latin Jazz
In honour of director Bruce Robinson’s (Withnail & I)
visit to Encounters, No.1 celebrates his recent film; an
adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel The Rum
Diary, with a selection of classic Rums accompanied
by the seductive sounds by Havana Rumbas and
Puerto Rican Montunos from outstanding Latin &
Afro Cuban Jazz act - The Groupo Neptuno
Flat Foot Floogies - 1930s & 1940s
Thurs 17 Nov 22:00
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16 – 20 Nov The link Watershed
& Other Locations
To celebrate the opening of M Shed last June, the new
museum of Bristol, the festival teamed up with the Bristol
Film Office and M Shed, to challenge filmmakers to create
a short film based on Bristol in just 117 hours.
A selection of the films have been made into posters and
located across the city with QR codes directly linked to
the films online.
Get a map of the locations via www.encounters-festival.
org.uk, or see the posters in a exhibit in the Watershed
Link. The films will also be screened at the Pop Up
Cinema at the Showroom during the festival.
Posters Design: Rapolas Jukavicius
QR Developer: Tim Kindberg
Vintage Mobile Cinema
Sat 19 & Sun 20 Nov 10:00 – 18:00
M SHED, MUSEUM SQUARE
As recently seen on BBC2’s ‘Reel History of Britain’ with
Melvyn Bragg the Vintage Mobile Cinema brings a unique
slice of cinema and automotive history to Encounters,
combined together to give the audience an exciting film
viewing experience unavailable anywhere else. This was
one of seven units custom built for the British government
in the late 1960’s, used at the time to promote British
industry. Sadly all other six have disappeared forever,
leaving only one example of a quite stunning piece of
British transport heritage. The 22 seat mobile cinema will
be screening archive shorts all weekend. The bus will be
parked just outside the new M Shed museum on both days.
Get ready for some toe-tappin swing tuneage!
Bristol Encounters:
0117 Hour Film
Challenge 2011
SHORTS2FEATURE
Introduction
The creative challenge for many filmmakers is to make
the move from shorts to feature films. This is by no
means an easy proposition in terms of either artistic
vision or financial reality. The cinema road is littered
with unrealised feature script ideas, which is why we at
Encounters HQ introduced the Shorts2Features strand in
2009 to recognise this very real challenge for filmmakers
Strand supported by
and celebrate those who have successfully made that
leap. Films festivals such as Berlin and Cannes, often
premiere first time feature films from established short
film directors. We’ve invited these filmmakers to the
festival, to impart their knowledge and inspire the next
generation seeking to move from shorts to features.
Mark Cosgrove, Artistic Director
Wuthering Heights (15)
Watershed
Dir: Andrea Arnold
UK 2011
2 hrs 9 mins
£7.20 full / £5.60
Encounters has followed and showcased the work of the
acclaimed British director Andrea Arnold from shorts to
features, including the Oscar® winning short film Wasp, to
the multi award winning feature film Fish Tank. Now Arnold
brings her distinct visual style to Emily Bronte’s classic tale
of youthful passion, stripping it down to its primal roots in
a radical adaptation that is certainly not your typical period
drama. In Arnold’s reinvention Heathcliff is a black runaway
plucked off the streets to live in the Yorkshire moors with
the Earnshaws, where he is not quite a brother or a lover
to the wilful Cathy. There are tragic consequences for
them all, however, when their pleasant days are brought
to an abrupt end. Bleakly and beautifully filmed, with a
heavy symbolism on nature and wilderness (lingering
shots of plants, animals and the landscape abound), Arnold
reinforces the stark power of the original text while making
the material entirely her own. Bold, raw and affecting.
Visit www.watershed.co.uk for screening times.
Tickets not included in Delegate Pass.
£1.00 off for Fresh Flix ticket holders.
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SHORTS2FEATURE
SHORTS2FEATURE
Preview: Dreams of a Life (CTBC)
Dir: Carol Morley
UK 2011
1 HR 30 MINS
The festival is delighted to screen a special preview
of Dreams of a Life by Carol Morley.
Nobody noticed when thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent
died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London
in 2003. When her skeleton was discovered three years later,
her heating and her television were still on. Newspaper
reports offered few details of Joyce’s life- not even a
photograph. Who was Joyce Vincent? And how could this
happen to someone in our day and age- the so-called age
of communication? Dreams of a Life is Carol Morley’s quest
to discover who Joyce was and how she came to be so
forgotten. Her first documentary feature film, the film
recently premiered at the 55th BFI London Film
Festival to critical acclaim.
Please note: This film is recommended certificate 12A.
Edge (18)
FRI 18 NOV 13:00 WATERSHED CINEMA 2
Dir: Carol Morley
UK 2010
1 HR 33 MINS
The film opens on a cold winter’s day on the East Sussex
coast, as a disparate group gravitate to a hotel situated close
to a crumbling cliff. Gradually, the motives and intentions of
each of these lost souls are revealed. The hotel building that’s
seen better days appears to be creeping ever closer to the
treacherous snowy white cliffs… Edge is Director Carol
Morley’s first narrative feature, shot in the snowy months
in Eastbourne, with a micro budget of £100,000 and
premiered in the New British Cinema section of the
54th BFI London Film Festival.
Director Carol Morley will take part in a brief
Q&A after the screening, and will participate
in this year’s Filmmaker Focus with producer
Cairo Cannon (see page 39).
Junkhearts (18)
SAT 19 NOV 19:00 WATERSHED CINEMA 3
Dir: Tinge Krishnan
UK 2011
1 HR 30 MINS
Frank (Eddie Marsan) is sitting alone in his flat. He
starts to hyperventilate, before desperately searching
for a cigarette butt to smoke. He heads to his local
corner shop, where he buys several miniature bottles
of whiskey. Outside, slumped in the street, is Lynette
(Candese Reid), homeless and vulnerable. As Frank looks
on, a drunken banker (Chris Coghill) attempts to sexually
proposition her; when she refuses, he steals from her…
A multi-stranded psychological thriller set in inner
city London, Junkhearts follows the story of Frank
(Eddie Marsan), a vulnerable ex-soldier suffering
from post-traumatic stress disorder who finds himself
manipulated by a young girl and her boyfriend as
they attempt to use his home as a drugs den.
Initially director Tinge Krishnan graduated with a
Bachelor in Medicine and worked as a hospital doctor
until she left to pursue her love of film, graduating from
the NYU postgraduate scheme. After directing a number
of critically acclaimed and award winning short films
such as Shadowscan (which featured at Encounters
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in 2001), First, and the short feature Groove on Stanley
Knife, Junkhearts is to be Krishnan’s first feature film.
Having completed The Circle, a half hour drama for
Channel 4 and IWC’s Coming Up! talent scheme she is
also currently in post-production with Dimensions, a 6
part online drama series shot on location in Malaysia.
Junkhearts will be released this autumn as part of
Soda Pictures’ New British Cinema Quarterly (NBCQ)
platform. NBCQ is an initiative designed by independent
distributor Soda Pictures to nurture and support young
British filmmaking talent, taking independent films
from the major festivals and providing an alternative
distribution platform to reach audiences around the UK.
We are delighted to welcome director Tinge Krishnan
to introduce the screening, followed by a Q&A.
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SHORTS2FEATURE
Play (18)
Dir: Ruben Östlund
SWEDEN 2011
1 HR 59 MINS
The British Guide to
Showing Off (15)
SUN 20 NOV 20:10 WATERSHED CINEMA 2
Dir: Jes Benstock
UK 2011
1 HR 38 MINS
£7.20 / £5.60 conc
This joyous documentary charts the life and times of
eccentric British artist Andrew Logan and The Alternative
Miss World, the outrageous celebration of freedom of
expression he has been hosting since 1972. This anarchic
non-competitive competition of wild costumes has reflected
and shaped art and subculture trends for over forty years,
attracting outsiders, designers, cult figures, artists and
celebrities (David Hockney judged the first event, David
Bowie couldn’t get into the second and Derek Jarman
won the third) to its hoopla of the exotic, the extravagant,
and the different. Combining documentary footage,
exuberant animation and interviews, this is a heartfelt,
hilarious, and utterly fabulous ode to the pure joy of life.
The festival is delighted to welcome Director
Jes Benstock to the Brief Encounters Jury
2011, and he will be speaking on The Way
to Documentary Panel (see p39).
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Industry Focus
Based on actual events that occurred in Gothenburg
several years ago, this is an insightful and troubling look
at how one group of boys preys on another. A group of
African immigrant youths target a trio of younger, pre
sumably wealthier kids, two of them from ‘traditional’
Swedish backgrounds and one whose family emigrated
from Asia. Eventually, they lure them outside the city,
where they construct an elaborate ruse to relieve them
of their belongings. Chilling in its ambiguity, Östlund’s
drama calls upon a non-professional cast and unsettlingly
long takes to delve beneath the unacknowledged codes
of human behaviour. One of Sweden’s most daring young
filmmakers, Östlund’s films include the short film Incident
By a Bank (2009) which won the Golden Berlin Bear at
the Berlinale and screened at Encounters in 2010.
BRIEF EXCHANGE
WED 16 – FRI 18 NOV 9.30 – 17:00 WATERSHED WATERSIDE 2
FREE FOR DELEGATES ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS
NETWORKING BREAKFAST EVERY DAY 9:30 – 10:30
A series of short symposiums held daily between Wed 17 – Fri 19 Nov,
providing delegates with opportunities to discuss the latest industry debates,
exchange ideas and discuss future trends with industry specialists.
Future of Short Film
WED 16 NOV
In the wake of dramatic changes to the UK film industry, we ask, is short
filmmaking still relevant? Will short film funding schemes remain on the
agenda of today’s new leading organisations? What shape is the new short film
market in, and how can we move through it? Discussing the future of short
film will be a group of industry specialists, representing a variety of fields.
Teas & coffees sponsored by
Join The Debate
Get your voice heard, and submit
your questions before the event to
info@encounters-festival.org.uk with
‘Brief Exchange’ in the subject header.
Alternatively join the discussion on
Twitter and submit your question live
@EncountersSFF #BriefExchange
Key note: CHAIRED
BY Briony Hanson,
British Council Film
department, Chair
10.30 – 12:00
Focus session 1: Funding
13:00 – 14:00
Focus session 2: Festivals
14:30 – 15:30
Focus session 3:
Distribution
16:00 – 17:00
Future of Cinema
THU 17 NOV
A cinema revolution is on the horizon. In this digital age where films are
no longer fixed to the screen, and audiences require another dimension of
experiential escapism, we ask how can short film evolve to fully embrace this
new level of cinematic interaction? A group of industry specialists share their
views, experiences and predictions on this new era of innovation, from crossplatform collaborations to digital experimentalism, and how to get involved.
Key note: CHAIRED
BY Paul Appleby,
Director of VID
10.30 – 12:00
Focus session 1:
DIGITAL Commissioning
13:00 – 14:00
Focus session 2:
Case Study: IP Challenges
14:30 – 15:30
Focus session 3:
Cinema Without Walls
16:00 – 17:00
Future Encounters
FRI 18 NOV
What do we do next, and where do we go from here? Exploring the
many different progression routes for new talent and identifying ones to
watch, Peter Carlton Head of Warp Films - Europe, and a group of leading
industry specialists discuss the prospects and opportunities available
for short filmmakers, and how to create your own break. It will also be an
opportunity to discuss The Future Encounters attending the festival.
Key note: CHAIRED
BY Peter Carlton,
Warp Films
10.30 – 12:00
Focus session 1:
The Future Encounters
13:00 – 14:00
Focus session 2:
European Cinema
14:30 – 15:30
Focus session 3:
Cinema in the New Age
16:00 – 17:00
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FUTURE ENCOUNTERS
Future Encounters is a showcase of 10 international film-makers - directors, writers, animators, artists - whose work
demonstrates distinctive vision and flare. Many of these filmmakers’ work crosses disciplines and media; we believe they
are all names to watch. These 10 filmmakers will be profiled online in the run up to the festival and during the festival itself.
Behrouz Bigdeli
Joe Magee
Director, Iranian - To All My Friends
Director, British - Car Park Babylon
Originally from Teheran, at the age two Bigdeli fled with his parents to Denmark. From an early age
Bigdeli had an interest in film, and quickly started to make his own short films and writing scripts.
He received the Nordisk Films talent scholarship at the European college, and after this he worked
on a number of feature films and TV-productions where he gained a lot of experience and got a bigger
understanding of how the Danish film industry works. In the summer of 2007 Behrouz Bigdeli finally
moved to Copenhagen and started the new chapter of his life as a member of Super16 # 05. 2001
An award-winning UK filmmaker and artist, Magee’s practice encompasses a range of
media - experimenting with film, animation, video and interactive art. His work has shown
widely at galleries and film festivals internationally. For several years he has been engaged
in a series of collaborations with celebrated British comedic performer and actor Bill Bailey
including films, large-scale video art and interactive multimedia works. In 2010 they cowrote and directed a 12 minute film, Car Park Babylon (first broadcast Christmas 2010).
Bökur Sigthorsson
Karni and Saul
Writer/Director, Iceland - Come to Harm
Directors, Israel – Turning
Based in London since 2004, Börkur was signed as a director to the renowned UK music video production
company Oil Factory (Factory Films), where he worked for the next 5 years. Among his commissions are
commercials for Nike, Honda, The Guardian and Fortum (Sweden) along with music videos for Richard
Ashcroft (EMI), Supergrass (EMI), and Nine Black Alps (Island). In 2008, Borkur co-wrote and directed his
first short film, Support, which went on to win a number of awards. and is being distributed by London
based Futureshorts. Come to Harm is Börkur’s second short film. He is currently developing his first feature.
Karni Arieli studied photography at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Saul Freed studied
art and music and is a self-taught 3D animator. They relocated from Israel to London in 2002 and
started working as a directing team, making commercials and music videos. In 2006, their animated
short, The Red Suitcase was screened at Encounters, Rushes and Clermont-Ferrand. Their music
video Float won Best Animated Promo, Annecy 2009 and winner of British Animation Awards 2010.
Daniel Seidender & Daniel Pfeiffer
Laura Lomas
Directors, German - Hurdy Gurdy
Screenwriter, British - Rough Skin
Daniel Seidender was born in 1978. He founded the production company dropout-films together with two
fellow design students. He directed numerous short films, and commercials, including: Central Hotel Eden
(2004), Tanguero (2005), Truck Stop Grill (2006) and Rescure Yourself (2011). Daniel Pfeiffer was born in Mainz in
1968. From 1992 to 1996 he trained in stage directing, the dramatic composition of ballet, theatre and film
studies and political science. He then went on to study media design at Mainz University of Applied Sciences,
until 2004. Since then he has been working as a freelance author and director of documentaries for Film and TV.
In 2009 Laura was one of six 6 writers selected for the Paines Plough / Channel 4 Future Perfect scheme.
Her plays include Open Heart Surgery; Some Machine; The Island; Us Like Gods; Gypsy Girl; 10,000
Meters Deep; Traces; Wasteland. Her radio plays include Lucy Island (BBC Radio3, The Wire) and Siren
(BBC Radio3, The Verb). Laura has recently completed an attachment at the National Theatre Studio.
She is currently developing projects for Great Meadow Productions and Bonafide Films. Rough Skin was
commissioned by Channel 4 and Touchpaper Television as part of Coming Up 2011, and is her first film.
Douglas Hart
Matthew Holness
Director, British - Long Distance Information
Actor/Director, British – A Gun for George
Douglas Hart was originally a member of The Jesus and Mary Chain and has directed
many music videos since 1991. His short film Long Distance Information is his first
drama, a dark comedy exploring the relationship between a father and son.
Matthew Holness created the character Garth Marenghi and, with Richard Ayoade, co-wrote the 2001
Perrier Award-winning show Garth Marenghi’s Netherhead, Channel 4’s Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
and Man to Man with Dean Learner. As an actor he has appeared in Russell T. Davies’ Casanova
and Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s The Office, Cemetery Junction and Life’s Too Short.
Jessica Ashman
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There will be a special event on Friday 18 November from 13:00 – 14:00 with Artistic Director Mark
Cosgrove, and Peter Carlton Head of Warp Films - Europe, where they will lead a discussion on the
work of the Future Encounters and where they are going next. This event is part of the Brief Exchange:
Future Encounters symposium focussing on progression routes within the industry (see p30).
NoBrain collective
Writer/Animator, British - Fixing Luka
Directors/Animators, French - The Gloaming
An award-winning filmmaker based in Glasgow. She specialises in stop-motion and 2-D animation.
Fixing Luka is Jessica’s first short animated film and was developed and produced by DigiCult. She
graduated in 2007 from the University of Lincoln, with a B.A (hons) in Animation. In 2008, she gained a
place on the Skillset/Creative Scotland funded training scheme, G.A.S.P (Generating Animation Skills
Programme). During this period, Jessica was also selected to participate in DigiCult’s talent pool on
Scottish Digital Shorts (2010). Through the project’s development process, she wrote Fixing Luka.
Nobrain is a collective of four French directors who have worked together since 2001. The Paris-based
collective, composed of Directors Sebastien Fourcault, Nicolas Pasquet, Charles Keramoal, and Sylvain
Lefebvre, is known for merging high-energy animation with live-action footage for TV, music videos,
and spot work. Their portfolio includes commercials for high-profile clients such as Citroen and Renault;
music videos for French and U.S. artists; and work for major TV Channels, including TF1, the first French
TV channel and MCM, French music TV channel. The Gloaming is their first short film.
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WEDNESDAY
NFTS presents:
Cinematography Masterclass
with Brian Tufano & Stuart Harris
UKTI presents: Creativity and
Technique - How to Bridge
the European Gap
Wed 16 Nov 14:30 Watershed Cinema 3
1 hr 30 mins
WED 16 NOV 14:00 ARNOLFINI
1 HR 30 MINS
Cinematography experts, Stuart Harris D&AD (Golden Bear
winner at Berlin International Film Festival for David Hare’s
Wetherby ) and Brian Tufano BSC (Trainspotting, Adulthood,
Kidulthood), talk about their early years, their different career
paths, their reunion and how, because of the National Film
and Television School, they have both tested and worked
with the most of the Hi-Def and digital cameras available.
The age old question of quality differences between UK
and European academic output has been discussed many
times in the past but what is required is a discussion on
how to exchange knowledge more productively between
the top UK and European schools and how to bridge the gap
between UK creativity and European technical excellence.
Speakers Include:
Stuart Harris ©Barry Lategan
Stuart Harris
Stuart has won awards for his work as cinematographer
on commercials all over the world. He started his film
career at Elstree as a clapper/loader, before becoming
a freelance focus puller and then a DoP in 1979.
Dimitri Granovskyi, L’Ecole Georges Méliès
Eric Riewer, Director of Development,
Gobelins, l’école de l’image
Helen Nabarro, Head of Animation Direction,
National Film and Television School
Brian Tufano BSC, Head of Cinematography
Brian started his career with the BBC TV film Department.
In 2001, he received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding
Contribution to Film and Television, followed in 2002 by
the Special Jury Award for Outstanding Contribution to
Independent Film at the British Independent Film Awards.
Joan Ashworth, Professor and Head of
Programme Animation, Royal College of Art
Shelley Page, Head of International
Outreach, DreamWorks Animation
Chris Williams, Festival Director, Animex
Red Cam Workshop
European Short Pitch:
Live Script Reading
WED 16 NOV & THURS 17 NOV 10:00 YHA
7 HRS
£40 (Not included in Delegate pass)
WED 16 NOV 17:30 WATERSHED WATERSIDE 3
1 HR 30 MINS
The European Short Pitch is an initiative aimed at promoting
the European coproduction of short films. To celebrate the
festival unification with NISI MASA, Encounters hosts a special
script reading of three scripts from last years shortlist, read by
emerging actors from the Bristol Old Vic Young Company.
These workshops offer an easy approach to Digital
Cinematography through the Red One Camera and will
reveal how an image is produced from data capture
using light meter, what the production chain is and
how to grade the image for different displays, from
plasma to projector, on readily available equipment.
Dzoni
Over the next 5 years Digital Cinematography will change
image production at every level. You may have experienced
the beginnings of Digital Cinematography with DSLR’s but
you’ve hit the problems of the limitations of that medium.
Including:
The Garment by Martin Guido, read by Gabrielle Sheppard.
After booking you will be required to fill in a 5 minute
evaluation before and after the course - this is a
mandatory condition of the low cost of the course. Online
forms are at www.flaxton.btinternet.co.uk/KT5.htm
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The Treatment by Fabrizio Parisi and Francesca Petrucci,
read by James Hogarth, Jesse Jones and narrated by
Gabrielle Sheppard.
The Treatment
Course Tutor: Terry Flaxton, DP, Senior Research Fellow,
University of Bristol.
Bristol Old Vic Young Company nurtures the instinct and
ambition of 350 young people aged 7 – 25 by encouraging
them to use their energy and imagination to discover, play
and take risks. www.bristololdvic.org.uk/bovyc
Dzsoni by David Csicskar, read by James Hogarth,
Jesse Jones and Gabrielle Sheppard.
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THURSDAY
The Programmer’s Fear
of Missing the Masterpiece
Thu 17 Nov 14:30 Watershed Cinema 3
1 hr 30 mins
It has been my privilege to put together the Encounters
competitive programmes for the past twelve years. This
involves selecting from the 1800 odd submissions which is
done with the help of a committed team at the festival. We
get this down to a first short list of 400 from which I shape
the programme you see before me. At this stage I usually
lock myself away to watch and re-watch until I feel I have
the best selection of films I can make. However in the long
dark nights (or short, given that this process happens in
August) I always think about the guy who famously didn’t
sign The Beatles. He sits heavy on my shoulder as I go
from film to film discarding some, putting forward others,
swapping it all around. In the final, final stages this can
become a heightened state of anxiety, the bead of sweat
forming as I possibly consign John, Paul, George and Ringo
to the “not selected”. So as a parting shot I am screening
two films which were in the programme up until the 11th
hour. You can make your mind up and I will be discussing
with the filmmakers – who have kindly agreed to take
part – their experience of filmmaking and festivals.
Aardman, Model-Making
and Rapid Prototyping
THU 17 NOV, 11:00 ARNOLFINI LIGHT STUDIO
2 HRS
£10
Join Amanda Darby, one of Aardman’s model-making
experts for an in-depth look at the processes and
techniques involved in the production of their models.
This session, aimed at students and professional stopframe model animators, will focus on model production
techniques including the contribution of Rapid Prototyping
(RP) technology in some of Aardman’s latest productions.
A limited number of tickets are available for delegates.
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Case Study: Studio AKA
1 HR 30 MINS
Studio AKA is known for its idiosyncratic and innovative work
across an eclectic range of TV commercials and Short films;
including the BAFTA and Cartoon d’Or-winning Jojo in the
Stars, the hit series Lovesport and the BAFTA winning Lost
and Found. This 60 minute talk will outline some of AKA’s key
projects & the process that the studio’s directors undergo,
covering the broad arc of how the industry has shaped
both their interests and abilities, with a special emphasis
on how the best work is always the simplest to explain.
AKA are also pleased to be screening their most recent
short: A Morning Stroll from Director Grant Orchard - Based
loosely on a real life event recounted in Paul Auster’s book
True Tales of American Life - which recounts a New Yorker’s
encounter with a chicken, played out over 100 years.
This is a rare chance to see Creative Director
Philip Hunt present an insight into the
prestigious work from Studio AKA.
THURSDAY
Filmmaker Focus:
Carol Morley & Cairo Cannon
1 HR 30 MINS
Artistic Director Mark Cosgrove will be on stage with
Director Carol Morley and Producer Cairo Cannon to discuss
their long partnership as CAMP (Cannon and Morley
Productions), previous productions (The Alcohol Years, Edge)
and their up and coming FilmFour feature Dreams of a Life.
Morley and Cannon’s films have been shown internationally
in galleries, cinemas, festivals and on television. Since
graduating from Central St Martins in 1993 with a first
class honours degree in fine art film and video, Morley
has received the Best Documentary Award at Melbourne
International Film Festival, been nominated for a BAFTA and
received a special Grierson Award. In 2003 she was awarded
an Arts Foundation Fellowship for Documentary Filmmaking.
There will be a screening of Carol Morley &
Cairo Cannon’s feature film Edge at 18:30 Thu
17 Nov as part of Shorts2Features (see p26).
The Way to Documentary
1 hr 30 mins
You’ve made a short documentary film, but where do you go
from here? Exploring the diverse progression routes and
opportunities for short documentary filmmakers, this panel
of industry specialists discuss how to make the next move
towards long form documentary making, television
production, the festival circuit, theatrical release,
and your next commission. Speakers include Jes Benstock,
Director (The British Guide to Showing Off) and Charlie
Phillips, Marketplace Director, Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Chair: Harry Marshall, Creative Director ICON
Harry Marshall is the Creative Director of Icon Films. Over
the past twenty-one years Harry has won numerous national
and international awards (Emmy/ Grierson/ Telluride/Jackson
Hole/ Missoula/ Wildscreen) and nominations for his work
as director, writer and executive producer.
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FRIDAY
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London Film Academy presents:
Acting for Directors Workshops
FRI 18 NOV 11:00 & 14:00 YHA
2 hrs EACH
£10
This practical workshop is an introduction to
acting for directors and directors-in-training.
It will cover the understanding and vocabulary you
need to get the performances you are looking for and
how to communicate effectively with actors in their
own language. It will give you a chance to experience
the demands placed on actors and appreciate what a
trained actor can contribute to the shaping of a role.
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London Film Academy (LFA) offers hands on film
training that enables filmmakers to find their voices in a
collaborative, nurturing environment. LFA’s courses are
delivered by practising industry professionals. Our multidisciplinary approach, in which students learn about
all the different aspects of filmmaking, not only
engenders an appreciation of the peers’ roles
but allows students to become informed
and responsible filmmakers.
www.londonfilmacademy.com
Limited tickets available for Delegates.
Contentertainment
1 HR 30 MINS
Celebrating entertaining content and exploring the latest
ways digital technology is being used in creative contexts.
This year Contentertainment will look at Dual-screen
experiences and how people are creating new layers of
interactivity and engagement using multiple devices
simultaneously. Influential content creators will share their
secrets, preview their upcoming work and discuss how they
incorporate multiple devices into their creative projects.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Alex Farber (Chair), Senior Reporter, Broadcast Magazine
Mark Eaves, Co-Founder, Gravity Road
Andy Corp, Production Executive /
Innovation Executive, BBC Bristol
Hilary Perkins, Multiplatform Commissioning
Editor, Drama at Channel 4
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UKTI presents: The Building
Blocks of Pre-School Animation
FRI 18 NOV 14:00 ARNOLFINI
1 HR 30 MINS
The UK is often seen as an international standard bearer
for quality pre-school television shows such as Charlie &
Lola, Peppa Pig and Timmy Time, to name but a few.
How can UK animators and companies build upon this
success? What are the common constraints and how are
they best avoided or dealt with? This panel made up of
some of the most successful producers and creatives in
the UK discuss the pitfalls and opportunities of making
world-class animation for children.
Speakers Include:
An Vrombaut, Author, Illustrator (64 Zoo Lane)
Dave Ingham, Writer (Charlie & Lola,
Shaun the Sheep, Little Princess and many others)
David Hodgson, Owner of Pesky
Greg Boardman, Producer, Three Stones Media
Marion Edwards, VP of Current
Programming, HIT Entertainment
Case Study: Cartoon Saloon
1 HR 30 MINS
Tomm Moore, Creative Director of Cartoon Saloon,
presents an insight into the award winning studio,
one of Ireland’s leading animation companies.
Cartoon Saloon began as an informal partnership
between a group of animators brought together
by Paul Young and Tomm Moore in 1999.
Cartoon Saloon currently develops and produces
feature film and TV series projects while also
producing award winning short films, television
commercials, graphic novels and children’s books.
In addition to developing and producing Tomm Moore’s
The Secret of Kells, (Best Animated Feature Nominee: 2010
Academy Awards®) the Saloon also successfully developed
and produced its first TV series, the IFTA award winning
Skunk Fu! that has been sold to broadcasters in over 120
countries worldwide, including the BBC, Cartoon Network,
Canal J, France 5, Super RTL Disney and ABC Australia.
The Saloon is in development of a number of new
projects, such as Animated feature films; Song of
the Sea, Skunk Fu! The Movie and Bluebeard. Other
projects in development include Children’s animated
TV series; Galaxy Boyz, Pirate Zoe and Puffins Rock.
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SATURDay
3D Introductory Workshop
SAT 19 NOV 10:00 & 14:00 YHA
3 hrs each
£40 (NOT INCLUDED IN DELEGATE PASS)
Presented by the Digital Film Company, each three
hour workshop will cover the basics of stereo vision,
3D terminology, and the do’s and don’ts of 3D filmmaking.
The workshops will include an insight into the technology
of 3D cameras and rigs, types of 3D displays, glasses
vrs glasses free 3D viewing and will consider the
future on 3D. Watching short 3D films on a 3D display,
there will then be an opportunity to use the Panasonic
3DA1, and create some mini 3D masterpieces, which
will be reviewed at the end of the workshop.
For further information contact Neil Richards
at The Digital Film Company:
neil@digitalfilmcompany.com
Shooting People presents:
Speed Networking
SAT 19 NOV 11:00 WATERSHED WATERSIDE 3
1 HR 30 MINS
International networking organisation Shooting People,
would like to invite all short filmmakers attending the festival,
for an excellent opportunity to network and socialise with
industry professionals, buyers and fellow filmmakers.
This event is limited to capacity, with entry based
on a first-come, first served basis. Please ask the
Delegate information desk for further information.
There will be networking coffee available from 10:00.
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Guest Programmes
SHELLEY’S EYE CANDY
1 HR 30 MINS
A personal selection of some the very best new international short animation films.
Shelley Page sits on many international festival and graduation awards
juries every year and she collects her personal favourities into a special
screening - which represents some of the brightest young talents
emerging on the international animation scene as well as award-winning
work from renowned independent studios around the world.
Presented in Shelley’s current ‘Eye Candy’ selection is the award-winning
short film Luminaris (Argentina) as well as some exceptional recent
graduation films from France and the UK. The highlight of Shelley’s selection
at Animated Encounters 2011 is the UK premiere of the delightful The Last
Norwegian Troll (Norway) by award-winning director Pjotr Sapegin.
Shelley Page
Head of International Outreach
at DreamWorks Animation
Shelley Page has been working in the field
of feature animation since 1986. Her credits,
include Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Shrek
1-4, Shark Tale, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda,
and How to Train Your Dragon. Her present
responsibilities at DreamWorks Animation
include building relationships with schools
and events worldwide and sourcing new talent
for future projects. In the UK she is a Visiting
Professor at Central St Martins, University
of the Arts and Teesside University.
Tuurngait
Dir: Paul-Emile Boucher,
Remy Dupont,
Benjamin Flouw,
Mickael Riciotti,
Alexandre Toufaili
France
6 mins 20 secs
School: Supinfocom Arles
The Night We
Were Kings
Dir: Lea Justum,
Anthony Lejeune,
Chloe Nicolay,
Gaspard Sumeire,
Manddy Wyckens
France
4 mins
School: Gobelins
Prod: Pierre Gilles Stehr/Cube Creative
Music: Quentin Szuwarski
A Fox Tale
Dir: Chao Ma, Thomas Bozovic,
Julien Legay, Alexandre Cazals
France
6 mins 45 secs
Luminaris
The Eagleman Stag
Dir: Juan Pablo Zaramella
Argentina
6 mins 20 secs
Dir: Mikey Please
UK
9 mins
Company: JPZtudio
Prod: Sol Rulloni, Mario Rulloni
Writer: Juan Pablo Zaramella,
Gustavo Cornillón
Awards: Annecy 2011 Audience Award, best short film
School: RCA
Writer: Mikey Please
Sound: Benedict Please
Cast: David Cann, Tony Guilfoyle
Awards: Best short animation
nomination BAFTA 2011
Crossroad
Dir: Scott Bono,
Charles Emmanuel Farkas,
Olivier Gros, Benoit Rimet
France
6 mins 45 secs
School: ESMA
Les Chiens Isoles
Dir: Remi Bastie, Nicolas
Deghani, Jonathan DjobNkondo, Paul Lacolley,
Nicolas Pegon, Jeremy Pires,
Kevin Manach
France
6 mins 32 secs
School: Gobelins
Electroshock
Dir: Pascal Chandelier,
Hugo Jackson, Elliot Maren,
Valentin Michel,
Bastien Mortelecque
France
7 mins 40 secs
La Taxidermiste
Dir: Antoine Robert,
Paulin Cointot,
Dorianne Fibleuil,
Maud Sertour
France
6 mins 50 secs
The Last
Norwegian Troll
Dir: Pjotr Sapegin
Norway
13 mins
Company: Pravda As
Prod: Gry Nostdahl
Writer: Pjotr Sapegin
Cast: Max Von Sydow
Awards: Fantastic Festival, Las
Vegas - best short animation
Swing of Change
Dir: Harmony Bouchard,
Raphael Cenzi, Andy Le Cocq,
Joakim Riedinger
France
6 mins 32 secs
School: ESMA
School: ESMA
Stills (L to R): Tuurngait, A Fox Tale, Luminaris, Swiing of Change, La Taxidermiste, The Last Norwegian Troll
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Nisi Masa European Short Pitch Screening
WED 16 NOV 12:30 WATERSHED CINEMA 3
1 HR 30 MINS
Presented by NISI MASA, this
screening highlights films from
the European Short Pitch.
The European Short Pitch (ESP) is
an initiative aimed at promoting the
European coproduction of short films.
It combines a scriptwriting workshop
in residency, an on-line session
and a coproduction forum bringing
together scriptwriters and industry
professionals from all over Europe.
NISI MASA is a European network
of associations, currently present
in 26 countries. These associations
consist of young professionals,
students and enthusiasts with a
common cause - European cinema.
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Stanka Se Pribira Vkashti
(Stanka Goes Home)
Dir: Maya Vitkova
Bulgaria 2007 15 mins
When 80-year-old Stanka Atanasova
enters her block of flats, she discovers
that the elevator is out of order.
Stanka must use the stairs to get
to the 9th floor…
Drama
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Rita
Captivi De Craciun
(Stuck on Christmas)
Dir: Fabio Grassadonia
& Antonio Piazza
Italy 2009 19 mins
Dir: Iulia Rugina
Romania 2009 39 mins
Rita, a blind child, shelters a boy on the
run suddenly breaking into her home,
an enigmatic meeting letting Rita
experience a moment of freedom.
In a small mountain train station, four
strangers are waiting for a train that is
stuck in snow many kilometers away.
It’s Christmas Eve.
Drama
Fiction/Comedy
Contact :
cristaldipictures@itaca.com
Contact:
iulia.rugina@gmail.com
A minuit, ici tout s’arrête
(Everything stops
here at midnight)
Älä Kuiskaa Ystävän
Suuhun (Whispering in
a Friend’s Mouth)
Dir: Just Philippot
France 2008 11 mins
Dir: Hannaleena Hauru
Finland 2009 10 mins
After a hard working day, two travelling
business men who randomly bumped
into each other are waiting for a bus
along a deserted local road.
Two friends, who are painting graffiti
onto a shop window in their home village
in central Finland, have ended up kissing.
Contact: Vladimir Feral:
vladimir.feral@asm-prod.com
Contact: AV-arkki
distribution@av-arkki.fi
Drama/ Experimental
NB: This film is not included in this
programme, and will be screened at
17:30 Wed 16 Nov in Watershed W3.
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A MILLION LOVE SONGS
1 HR 30 MINS
From Edith Piaf to Elvis Presley passing by Nina Simone and Barry
White, enjoy this ideal playlist of animated love songs…
Contrary to live action films and musical comedies, love songs are very rare
in animated shorts, and are therefore usually represented in music videos
and commercials, some of which are featured in this programme.
This selection is compiled by Laurent Million, Head of the Film Department
and Thematic Programmer at the International Animation Film Festival
of Annecy, one of Europe’s most prestigious animation festivals.
Laurent Million
Head of FILM DEPARTMENT AND THEMATIC
PROGRAMMER, INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION
FILM FESTIVAL OF ANNECY
Laurent Million spent two years with the Annecy
Festival team as a conscientious objector (to avoid
one year of military service), there, he caught
the animation virus and joined the staff at the
Centre International du Cinéma d’Animation
to look after the entries and film traffic.
Love Song (La
Chanson D’amour)
Dir: Bruce Currie
Australia 1998
5 mins 20 secs
A small rat tries his luck in
the great game of love.
Prod: Bruce Currie
Production: Trilobite Productions
Falling in Love Again
Dir: Munro Ferguson
Canada 2003
3 mins 23 secs
This is a playful take on cultural
myths and clichés about love that
at the same time celebrates the
delicious vertigo of the experience.
Prod: Marcy Page
Production: ONF – Office
National du Film du Canada
Your Face
(Ton Visage)
Dir: Bill Plympton
United States 1986
3 mins 4 secs
As the sleazy, second rate singer
croons to his beloved, his face
undergoes the most bizarre and
beautiful transformations.
Hilton ‘Sunrise’
Dir: Raimund Krumme
United States 2006
30 secs
A couple watches the sunrise
while on vacation.
Prod: Ron Diamond
Production: Acme Filmworks Inc.
Production: Plymptoons Studio
From 1989 to 1995, Million assisted the Managing
Director, Jean Luc Xiberras, in the organisation
of the events which became annual in 1997.
In collaboration with the present Festival
artistic director, Serge Bromberg, he actively
participates in making up numerous tributes,
retrospectives and thematic programmes which
are presented alongside the competition. At
the same time, he coordinates the technical
needs and staff for the screenings.
He is also responsible for archiving all the
different film-related material collected from
each Festival. Since 1998, he has been using
these resources to collaborate with other events
wishing to develop the knowledge and the
influence of animated films all over the world.
Dji Vou Veu Volti
Dir: Benoit Feroumont
Belgium 2007
12 mins 48 secs
An animated light opera…
A ‘troubadour’ will sing his song
for his beloved princess.
Prod: Anton Roebben
Production: Walking the Dog
À Quoi Ça
Sert L’amour?
Dir: Louis Clichy
France 2003
3 mins
Encounter, argument, separation:
reunion of a Parisian couple to a
song by Piaf.
Prod: Lionel Fages
Production: Cube Creative Productions
Love Story
Dir: Guto Carvalho,
Laurent Cardon
Brazil 2000
30 secs
Set to the music ‘Love Me Tender’, the
optical fibre shows a man and a woman
running towards each other. When
they get near the fibre, they meet, to
demonstrate that it wouldn’t happen
with the Embratel company.
Fishes
Dir: Nisenbaum Mirek
United States 2003
1 mins 55 secs
Exclusive look on the love life of fish
in these difficult times.
Production: Studio Mobile
Prod: Trattoria Filmes
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J’ai Encore Rêvé
D’elle (French Song)
Emilie Simon
‘Flowers’
Dir: Geoffroy Barbet Massin
France 2009
3 mins 30 secs
Dir: Collectif
France 2003
3 mins
A man sings about a lost love, even
though his wife is sleeping by his side.
Émilie, a small doll in a computer
generated Paris, puts flowers on the
grave of the one she loves.
Production: Mikros Image
Aides
‘Sugar Baby Love’
Never in your
Wildest Dreams
Dir: Bill Mather
United Kingdom 1996
3 mins 57 secs
Commercial for AIDES.
A stop motion pop promo for Tina
Turner and Barry White singing ‘Never
in your Wildest Dreams’ featuring
clay models of Barry, Tina, Wallace &
Gromit and Antonio Banderas.
Prod: Susie Mercer
Production: Aardman Animations Ltd.
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Hello
Dir: Ivana Sebestova
Slovakia 2002
1 mins 45 secs
Dir: Jonathan Nix
Australia 2003
6 mins 30 secs
Animated love song.
In a digital world, can an analogue find
true love? It is the wise old gramaphone
that has the answer for a lovesick loner.
Production: Vysokej školy múzických
umení (The Academy of Music and
Dramatic Arts), Bratislava.
Prod: Julien Rigoulot
Production: COSA
Dir: Wilfrid Brimo
France 2006
3 mins
Prod: Claude Fayolle
Production: Wanda Productions
Lásko Má (My Love)
Prod: Jonathan Nix
Production: Studionix
Hasta Los Huesos
(Down to the Bone)
Dir: René Castillo
Mexico 2001
11 mins 26 secs
This is a story of a man and his arrival
in the world of the dead. He quickly
discovers that being dead might not
be so much of a bad thing after all.
Prod: René Castillo Rivera
Production: Calavera Films
Nina Simone
‘My Baby just
Cares for Me’
Dir: Peter Lord
United Kingdom 1987
3 mins 50 secs
An animated and feline version
of Nina Simone’s classic song.
One Eskimo ‘Kandi’
Dir: Linda Kalcov & Mia Nilsson
United Kingdom 2009
5 mins 30 secs
Finding love, losing love and
overcoming the obstacles life throws at
us with a little help from our friends.
Producer: Nathan ERASMUS
Production: Gravy Media Ltd
Production: Aardman Animations Ltd.
Distribution: Warner Bros.
Home Entertainment Group
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A SHORT LOOK AT SOUTH EAST EUROPE
SAT 19 NOV 14.30 WATERSHED CINEMA 3
1 HR 12 MINS
Edina
Dir: Nóra Lakos
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Hungary 2011
18 mins
Edina, is a playful story on a one night
stand of a writer and his own creature.
Due to their adventures the writer losses
his superpower being able to change the
character and the story and can’t get
away from his perfect woman
character any more.
UK premiere, Comedy
Writer: Nóra Lakos
Production: Obala Art Centar
May 29th – June 4th 2012
28th haMburg InternatIOnaL
Short FILM FEStIVAL
14th Mo & FrIESE ChILdren’s shOrt FILM FestIvaL
Entry DEADLInE FEbruAry 15th
thrEE-MInutE-QuIckIE coMpEtItIon topIc rEMAkE
SubMISSIonS AccEptED noVEMbEr 15th – AprIL 1St
OrganIzer
www.shortfilm.com
Nóra Lakos: Nóra finished her
studies as a film director in Budapest
at the Hungarian Film Academy in
2009. She makes short fictions and
documentaries and music videos. Her
most recent short films Edina (2011),
At home (2009), were shown in several
international film festivals. She won
the British Council Short Film Award
for Hungarian-BiH coproduction Edina
at Sarajevo Film Festival in 2011.
Bernelov Kyanqs
(Loading My Life)
Dir: Haroutyun Shatyan
Armenia 2011
37 mins
The film is about a student, a young
family man, about a deadlock for a
sick man, who tries to find some
bright sides in his life.
UK premiere, Experimental
Prod: Grigor Hayrapetyan
Music: Davo & DerHova
Cast: Harut (HasH) Shatyan,
David Shatyan
Haroutyun Shatyan: After carrying
his military service he entered the
Yerevan State Institute of Theatre
and Cinema, Feature filmmaking
department, in 2006. During his
education he made several shorts
as yearly projects. Loading My
Life is his graduation work.
Posthumno
(Posthumous)
Dir: Cenk Erturk
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Turkey 2011
17 mins
Mirsad’s father’s village is evacuated
due to dam construction. The village
will soon be under water. Mirsad
arrives from the city intending to
move his father’s remains from the
old village cemetery to a grave in
the new village’s graveyard.
UK premiere, Drama
Writer: Cenk Erturk
Production: Obala Art Centar
Cenk Erturk: He started to live as a
film begins, he will die as a film ends
and he is waiting for his CATHARSIS
as a film waits for its own.
Contact: ivana.pekusic@sff.ba
Contact: grighayrapetyan@gmail.com
Contact: ivana.pekusic@sff.ba
The British Council is proud to present a showcase of three award-winning
international short films from Armenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina that won
prizes at this year’s Golden Apricot and Sarajevo Film Festival. The British
Council promotes UK excellence in filmmaking around the world, but our brief
is not limited to this - we also want to bring some of the best international
talent to the UK to present their work here, and give UK audiences a chance
to sample some of the thematic, visual and technical diversity flourishing
beyond these shores. Enjoy!
Read more about the British Council’s work in film at
www.film.britishcouncil.org/home-page
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NORDISK PANORAMA
1 HR 14 MINS
In this special Nordic focus, the festival
screens a series of short films
showcasing some of the best talent
from Denmark, Finland, Iceland,
Norway and Sweden. Presented in
partnership with Filmkontakt Nord.
As the Managing Director of
Filmkontakt Nord, I’m delighted to
present some of the latest and
greatest short films from the five
Nordic countries.
In this context, Filmkontakt Nord is a
promotional organisation, which was
established 20 years ago by visionary
Nordic filmmakers, who wanted to
further the conditions for independent
short and documentary film. Since
then, Filmkontakt Nord has been
dedicated to promoting Nordic shorts
and docs internationally and to
advance Nordic-international
professional networks.
The Nordic short film scene is vibrant,
alive and kicking. In recent years, we
have seen an explosion of Nordic films
at international festivals and markets.
Time and again, Nordic short films have
proven their excellence by winning
prestigious prizes all over the world. In
the Nordic countries, we are truly
proud to have such a strong presence.
Filmkontakt Nord’s main event is
Nordisk Panorama, the annual business
platform and showcase for shorts and
docs in the Nordic region presenting
some 70-80 new Nordic films in
competition and approximately
250 recent productions in the
market section.
The films are available to international
TV-buyers, distributors, sales agents
and festival programmers at
Filmkontakt Nord’s digital platform
Nordisk Panorama Market Online.
Currently more than 1100 films are
available around the clock just a
click away.
The films in this focus have all been
screened in competition at Nordisk
Panorama and represent some of the
finest Nordic talent out there. Get
ready for an intellectual and emotional
rollercoaster ride, also leaving room
for a good laugh. Enjoy!
Katrine Kiilgaard, Managing
Director of Filmkontakt Nord
Benigni
Dir: Elli Vuorinen,
Jasmiini Ottelin &
Pinja Partanen
Finland 2009
8 mins
A lonely xylophone player discovers
a fiercely malignant tumor under
his arm. In his attempts to get rid
of the tumor he discovers that it has
unconventional qualities.
Animation
Sales: Turku Arts Academy
ammattikorkeakoulu@turkuamk.fi
www.taideakatemia.turkuamk.fi
Häandelse Vid Bank
(Incident at a Bank)
Dir: Ruben Östlund
Sweden 2010
12 mins
A humorous take on a failed bank
robbery: in a single camera scene,
over 96 people perform a meticulous
choreography to recreate an actual
event that took place in Stockholm
in June 2006.
Experimental
Sales: New Europe Film Sales
jnaszewski@gmail.com
www.neweuropefilmsales.com
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Smáfuglar (2Birds)
Dir: Rúnar Rúnarsson
Iceland 2008
15 mins
One bright summer night a group of
young teenagers move from innocence
to adulthood. The main character is a
timid boy with a crush on a girl who
happens to be a friend of his mate.
Drama
Sales: Zik Zak Filmworks
zikzak@zikzak.is
www.zikzak.is
Sirkus (Circus)
Dir: Guro Bruusgaard
Norway 2010
19 mins
One evening, 28-year-old Ida goes to
a bar alone. There she meets Beli, an
older man from the Balkans. She takes
him home for more drinks. The night
becomes a subtle game of sex, ethnicity
and class - where Ida feels in control.
Sagan Om Den Lille
Dockpojken (The Tale
of Little Puppetboy)
Dir: Johannes Nyholm
Sweden 2008
15 mins
Puppetboy is sweating floods of clay,
preparing for a lady’s visit. He gets even
more nervous when she arrives.
Drama
Animation
Sales: Toril Simonsen,
Norwegian Film Institute
ts@nfi.no
www.nfi.no
Sales: Joclo
mail@johannesnyholm.se
www.johannesnyholm.se
Hvordan De Danser
(How they Dance)
Dir: Jesper Ravn
Denmark 2008
5 mins
A documentary about ordinary people
who love to dance. A funny and
unconventional portrait.
Documentary
Sales: BeoFilm
interfere@beofilm.dk
www.beofilm.dk
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BBC Writersroom & B3 Media 2011 CINEAST Slate
1 HR 30 mins
Cineast is a pilot digital short film
programme produced by BBC
Writersroom in partnership with B3
Media, which supports, develops and
produces short films from the next
wave of emerging writing, directing
and acting talent from the UK’s East
and Southeast Asian diaspora. B3 is
a media arts agency which nurtures
emerging multi-cultural, creative talent
and connects them to the industry.
B3 launched a nation wide search
for talent, and invited submissions
of scripts, outlines and ideas,
culminating in finalists being invited
to script development workshops at
the B3 Studios in spring 2011. Four
digital shorts were commissioned,
developed and produced this year
by BBC Writersroom and B3, and
introduce an exciting new group
of filmmakers to the industry.
Post screening Q&A with
attending filmmakers.
THE SECRET OF KELLS
Cartoon Saloon
3 Mile Radius
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE NOMINEE
ACADEMY AWARDS® 2010
PAPERMAN
Director Richard Kelly
BEST ANIMATION CANADA
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Mercutio’s Dreaming
Dir: Lab Ky Mo
UK 2011 15 mins 25 secs
Dir: Daniel York & Jennifer Lim
Jack, a seasoned alcoholic, is dying.
He returns to his estranged wife to
ask permission to see his son for the
last time. When she refuses, Jack
resorts to desperate measures.
A tragi-comic satire, telling the
tale of Lawrence Yang, an aspiring
Shakespearean actor, and his travails
within an industry that sees him
only as “Oriental”.
Drama
Drama
Prod: Stephen Cheers
Writer: Lab Ky Mo
Prod: Emily Mayson
Writer: Daniel York
THE LAST TRAIN
Giant Creative
Directors Alex Sherwood, Ben Harper, Sean Mullen
WORLD
PREMIERE
BLINKY
Director Ruairi Robinson
Follow B3’s website, Facebook and
Twitter for more on the slate, which
we’ll be revealing in the coming weeks.
www.b3media.net
Contact for sales:
projects@b3media.net or 0207 274 2121
THE MONK & THE FLY
Director Matthew Darragh
Full
Dir: Mustapha Kseibati
Sugar addict Kelly is awkward, angry
and directionless. She can’t stop
thinking about a man who works at the
fairground, and sets out to seduce him.
Street-smart Dominic’s armed robbery
of a convenience store goes wrong when
he crosses paths with hard-working Jay,
a taxi driver with nothing left to lose.
Mutual contempt soon turns into a
kind of understanding, but not without
some pain along the way.
Prod: Sophie Neave
Writer: In-Sook Chappell
DISCOVER NEW IRISH
ANIMATION AT THE
ANIMATION NOMINEE IRISH
FILM AND TELEVISION AWARDS
ENCOUNTERS INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
Drama
Prod: Michael Berliner
Writer: Selina Lim
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HEADSPACE
Director Patrick Semple
Painkiller
Dir: In-Sook Chappell
Drama
OFFICIAL SELECTION
SAO PAULO FILM FESTIVAL
Discover more about new Irish animation
thisisirishﬁlm.ie
SPOTLIGHT ON IRELAND – NEW IRISH ANIMATION
1 HR 30 MINS
Irish animation continues to leave
its mark on the international stage in
2011 with award wins and a strong
presence at major events and festivals.
The Irish had a very strong presence
at the Annecy Film Festival, with
Cartoon Saloon’s Santa’s Apprentice
picking up the UNICEF Award while
Boulder Media’s The Amazing World
of Gumball - The Quest won Best TV
Production in TV and Commissioned
Films. The Irish Film Board and
Enterprise Ireland hosted a special
Irish networking reception in MIFA
and launched a new exciting Irish
animation promo showcasing work
from right across the Irish sector.
At Cartoon Movie, Santa’s Apprentice
was one of many Irish films to take
part in the co-production forum along
with Barley Films’ Little Caribou,
Brown Bag’s Nightglider and Magma
Films’ Legends of Valhallah, Thor and
Niko 2. While at Cartoon Forum Irish
company Monster Animation beat
off stiff competition to be announced
as European Producer of the Year. It
was the third time an Irish animation
company has picked up this prize
with Brown Bag winning it in 2009
and Cartoon Saloon in 2008.
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Even the White House in Washington
DC wanted to mark the phenomenal
worldwide success of the Irish
animation industry by inviting Oscar®
nominees Tomm Moore (Cartoon
Saloon’s The Secret of Kells) and Nicky
Phelan (Brown Bag’s Granny O’Grimms
Sleeping Beauty) to celebrate the St.
Patricks Day activities with them.
If this illustrates the breadth of
animation work coming out of
Ireland at the moment and the strong
international reputation the Irish
animation industry has developed,
we are delighted that the Bristol
Encounters Film Festival will host a
special focus on Ireland highlighting
new Irish animation talent.
As part of the focus on Irish animation,
audiences at the Encounters
International Film Festival will have the
chance to discover new short films from
emerging and talented new filmmakers.
There will also be a focus on two hot
new companies Giant Creative and
Lovely Productions who will have their
work included in the Irish programme,
alongside a number of shorts including
Paperman which has screened at
numerous international film festivals
winning the Best Animation prize
at the Canadian International Film
Festival as well as prizes at the Novora
Cine and Irishfilmfesta film festivals
in Italy. The Encounters programmers
have also selected Headspace
directed by Patrick Semple which
was nominated for an Irish Film and
Television Award and was shortlisted
for the Human Rights Film Awards
and Matthew Darragh’s The Monk &
The Fly which has recently won the
Best Animation prize at the Novora
Cine Festival in Italy. Produced for
the Virtual Cinema scheme which is
aimed at an online audience The Monk
& The Fly has become a YouTube hit
having over 110,000 views to date. If Giant Creative and Lovely
Productions present the new kids on
the block, Cartoon Saloon is one of
Ireland’s most established companies
and will also receive special attention
at Encounters. The company picked
up an Oscar nomination for The Secret
of Kells and we eagerly await their
latest project Song of the Sea which
is just about to begin production.
There is a great selection of Irish
animations to see showcasing
different styles and genres and no
doubt you will be hearing more
about the Irish film industry as it
goes from strength to strength over
the coming years. Enjoy the films!
Louise Ryan, Marketing and
Communications Executive,
Irish Film Board
www.irishfilmboard.ie
Blinky
Headspace
Signs
Dir: Ruari Robinson
Ireland 2011 12 mins
Dir: Patrick Semple
Ireland 2010 2 mins 30 secs
Dir: Vincent Gallagher
Ireland 2010 3 mins
Meet Blinky all he wants is a friend.
The only problem is, he’s not very good
at making friends.
A boy distances himself from reality in
an effort to cope with a cycle of abuse.
There is magic in what we see
everyday. Sometimes we just
have to look hard enough.
Animation
Drama
Prod: Nick Ryan
Production: Image Now Films
DOP: MacGregor
Daylight Saving Time
Dir: Jason Butler,
Brendan Butler
Ireland 2010 5 mins
Mark’s wife was killed due to corporate
negligance. On the night the clocks go
back, he takes his revenge.
Animation
Prod: Barry O’Donoghue, Barley Films
Animators: Tom Caulfield,
Eimhin McNamara,
Eamonn O’Neill, Patrick Semple
Paperman
Dir: Richard Kelly
Ireland 2010 6 mins
A lone man’s quest to find his true
love in a busy paper metropolis.
Will he find the Papergirl he hopes for?
Animation
Drama
Prod: Jason Butler, Brothers
Gonna Work It Out
Writer: Jason Butler, Brendan Butler
DOP: Steve Russell
Prod: Jessica Kelly, Prickley
Pear Productions
Writer: Richard Kelly & Sean Ryan
Animators: Richard Kelly
& Steven Magann
Prod: Vincent Gallagher
Writer: Vincent Gallagher
DOP: Stevie Russell
The Monk
and the Fly
Dir: Matthew Darragh
IRELAND 2010 3 mins 30 secs
A contented Monk relaxes under
a shady Banyan tree on a peaceful
summer’s day. What could possibly
go wrong?
Animation
Prod: Sean Smith, Souljacker
Writer: Matthew Darragh
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BRAZILIAN ANIMATION
SAT 19 NOV 16:00 ARNOLFINI
1 HR 30 MINS
The instinct to survive is a natural one
that has been very present on all levels
of our society, easily affecting innocent
emotions from a first love to a desire
for power, conquest and development.
Survival is the link for this show,
as it is one of the most common
themes in Brazilian animated films.
The Meaning
of Eggistence
DIR: BRUCE RYDER
IRELAND 2010 8 MINS
A man is attacked by a swan and
subsequently gives birth to an egg.
He grows to love the egg and looks
after it until the day it hatches.
The External World
Dir: David O’Reilly
Ireland 2010 17 mins
A boy learns to play the piano.
Animation
Prod: David O’Reilly
Writer: David O’Reilly
Animation
Prod: Stephen Rennicks,
Freerange Productions
The Last Train
Dir: Giant Creative Alex Sherwood,
Ben Harper, Sean Mullen
Ireland 2010 1 mins
‘The Last Train’ is a 3d short film about a
man being chased by an unrelenting force.
Prod: Carol O’Sullivan,
Gareth Lee, Shane Whelan
Animators: Mark Fisher, Owen Maloney
DOP: Amy Davidson and Kenneth Ryall
Brazil has been going through many
changes to achieve the status of a
developed country among the world.
The contrasts among Brazilian society
have truly emerged in many levels.
As technology becomes a valuable
and necessary asset for the entire
world, some sacrifices are put onto our
society and concerns for the natural
resources are overlooked. These
films portray the struggle for survival
with the unique humor, sarcasm,
drama, romance, sensuality, anarchy,
inventiveness and energy that are
distinctive to the Brazilian culture.
Time For Love
Dir: Carlos Saldanha
Brazil 1994
4 mins 15 secs
A tale about love won, love lost and love
again. The story takes place in a clock
shop and all the characters live
in cuckoo clocks.
Prod: Carlos Saldanha
Os Irmãos Williams
(The Williams
Brothers)
Dir: Ricardo Dantas
Brazil 2000
12 mins
The birth, the life and death of a groovy
samba band that lives on the outskirts
of the city of São Paulo.
Prod: Ricardo Dantas.
Lea Zagury,
Festival Director ANIMA MUNDI
New Irish Talent Focus
Cathy Davey
‘Little Red’
Orba Squara
‘Gravel’
Fluffy McCloud
Dir: Lorcan Finnegan
ireland 2010 3 mins
Dir: Lorcan Finnegan
Ireland 2008 3 mins
Music video
Music video
Prod: Lovely Productions
Dir: Conor Finnegan
Ireland 2010 3 mins
Drama
Pajerama
Dir: Leonardo Cadaval
Brazil 2008
9 mins
An indigenous man is flooded with
weird experiences, revealing mysteries
regarding time and space.
Prod: Glaz Entretenimento
O Povo Atrás Do
Muro (The People
Behind The Wall)
Dir: Marconi Loures
de Oliveira
Brazil 2007
8 mins 6 secs
A group of people finds out that
they are not the only inhabitants
of a small planet.
Prod: Escola de Belas Artes da UFMG.
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Passo (Birth)
Dir: Alê Abreu
Brazil 2007
4 mins
A bird and its cage.
Prod: Estúdio Elétrico
Vida Maria
(Maria Life)
Dir: Marcio Ramos
Brazil 2006
8 mins 34 secs
Maria José has to interrupt her
studies and start working at age 5.
As she works, she grows, gets married,
has children and ages. Her daughter
will follow the some cycle.
Prod: Marcio Ramos
Qualquer Nota
(Not Noteworthy)
Linhas E Espirais
(Lines and Spirals)
Dir: Marcelo Ribeiro Mourão
Brazil 2005
1 mins
Dir: Diego Akel
Brazil 2009
2 mins 16 secs
A strange musical.
Feelings and expressions mix in
conflicting harmony, in the form
of an animated painting.
Prod: Subterrânea Produções
Prod: Diego Akel
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O Céu No Andar
De Baixo
(The Sky Downstairs)
Dir: Leonardo Cata Preta
Brazil 2010
15 mins
Since age 12, Francisco has been
photographing the sky. One day
something different shows up in one of
his pictures, changing his daily routine.
Prod: Leonardo Cata Preta
Ziriguidum
Sinal Vermelho
(Red Light)
Pode Acreditar
(You Can Believe It)
Dir: Rafael de Paula Rodrigues
and Meton Joffily
Brazil 2004
4 mins 50 secs
Dir: Luciana Eguti,
Paulo Muppet, Johnny Araújo
Brazil 2009
4 mins 13 secs
A beautiful young woman inspires
the dream of a street kid who juggles
at the stop light.
Things begin to go strange when
Marcelo D2 and Seu Jorge get to
a party. Music Video.
Prod: Jequitibá Filmes /
Verdesign Comunicação Ltda
Prod: Luciana Eguti e Paulo Muppet
L.E.R. (R.S.I.)
Dir: Gabriel Prezoto
Brazil 2005
2 mins 30 secs
Dir: João Angelini
Brazil 2007
3 mins 22 secs
In the midst of a shoot out between
two shantytowns, a woman starts to
dance samba. She doesn’t realize how
lucky she is until she sees her shack
completely destroyed.
An R.S.I. is an injury caused by
repetitive strain, also known as CTDCumulative Trauma Disorder, which
is caused by work or certain sports that
involve repetitive exercise.
Prod: Melies Escola de
Cinema e Animação 3d
Prod: João Angelini
Furico & Fiofó
(Flea & Fly)
Dir: Fernando Miller
Brazil 2011
8 mins
Two kids in the city.
Prod: Fernando Miller
Caixa (Box)
Dir: Luciana Eguti
& Paulo Muppet
Brazil 2010
1 min 10 secs
Five characters that live in
compartments inside a box discover
that they are not as isolated from one
another as they previously thought.
Prod: Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet
Tyger
Dir: Guilherme Marcondes
Brazil 2006
4 mins 30 secs
An enormous Tiger mysteriously
appears in a big city. It will reveal the
hidden reality on a night that could
have been like any other.
Prod: Trattoria Digital.
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CARTOON D’OR 2011
SUN 20 NOV 14:00 ARNOLFINI
1 HR 12 MINS
The Cartoon d’Or is the pan-European
award for the best animated short film
of the year. Granted by CARTOON
- the European Association of
Animation Film with the support of
the MEDIA Programme, it rewards
the best of the best since only
prize-winning films from the major
European festivals can compete.
Amongst this short list, a jury of
international experts selects five
finalists and a winner. The Cartoon
d’Or is annually awarded in September
during the Cartoon Forum, the forum
for the co-production, financing and
distribution of European animation
for TV and new media. The purpose
of the Cartoon d’Or is to act as a
pipeline between short film makers
and the industry, and to help talented
directors start a new project.
Launched in 1991, the first Cartoon
d’Or went to British director Nick
Park, still unknown at the time,
for his film Creatures Comforts.
Other great names have followed,
such as Sylvain Chomet, JacquesRémy Girerd, Mark Baker, Michael
Dudok De Wit and Joanna Quinn.
www.cartoon-media.eu
Mobile
Pivot
The Gruffalo
Dir: Verena Fels
Germany 2010 6 mins 25 secs
Dir: André Bergs
Netherlands 2009 5 mins
Dir: Jakob Schuh & Max Lang
UK 2009 27 mins
At the edge of society, a cow tips
the balance of destiny with quite
some impact…
When a man is witness to a murder
and takes pictures of the killer, he has
to run for his life. During the chase he
is able to turn the tables and the prey
becomes the hunter. All resulting in
an unfortunate ending.
Based on Julia Donaldson and Axel
Scheffler’s best-selling children’s book
of the same name, “The Gruffalo”
tells the magical tale of a mouse
who takes a walk through the
woods in search of a nut…
Animation
Animation
Production: il Luster Productions
Production: Magic Light Pictures
(in association with Studio Soi)
Animation
Production: Filmakademie
Baden-Württemberg
Cartoon Mov¡e
The Co-Production Forum for European Animation Films
7-9 March
2012 / Lyon
Rhône-Alpes
France
www.cartoon-media.eu
Deadline for project submission:
23 November 2011
Paths of Hate
The External World
Dir: Damian Nenow
Poland 2010 10 mins
Ireland/Germany 2010 17 mins
A short tale about the demons that
slumber deep in the human soul and
have the power to push people into the
abyss of blind hate, fury and rage.
Animation
Production: David OReilly Animation
The Little Boy and
the Beast (Der Kleine
und das Biest)
Dir: Johannes Weiland
& Uwe Heidschötter
Germany 2009 6 mins 30 secs
Animation
When your mother has turned into
a beast, a lot of things change…
Production: Platige Image
Animation
Production: Studio Soi
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THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE
ARTS AND SCIENCES
17TH ENCOUNTERS
BRISTOL INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
WHOSE WINNING FILMS MAY QUALIFY
FOR THE SHORT FILMS OSCAR®
READ THE ACADEMY’S SHORT FILMS RULES AT
WWW.OSCARS.ORG/RULES
PLEASE NOTE: PREVIOUS TELEVISION OR
INTERNET BROADCAST WILL DISQUALIFY A FILM
FROM CONSIDERATION.
www.oscars.org
Brief Encounters
CONGRATULATES THE
INTRODUCTION
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS JURY
It might just be me but I think there
is something of a renaissance going
on in the world of filmmaking. It’s
not only that I’ve watched some of
the most amazing short films from
the UK and around the world for this
festival but that I have also seen a
consistently strong selection of feature
films from around the world at all three
of the major European Film Festivals
this year. It feels to me that despite
recession, austerity and depression
taking up the slack there is a sense
of confidence and urgency within
the global filmmaking community
to communicate their visions.
“it never ceases to
amaze me that each
year such brilliant
new filmmaking
talent appear”
This year’s Brief Encounters
programme is again packed with
vitality, creativity and energy which
never fails to impress. In one breath
you can move from a single take
where the past taunts the present to
a rich complex film where the past
haunts the present or from a lyrical
dream to harsh reality and from a
harsh dream to lyrical reality.
Whilst we rightly celebrate these films
and their makers I can never escape
the twinge of guilt about the ones
that got away. For my parting shot as
programmer for the festival I have put
together a special programme of films
which almost got into the programme
but slipped away at the last moment.
An insight into the film programmers
mind or the film programmers fear
of missing the masterpiece!
For me programming Encounters has
been a great source of inspiration and
perspiration: Inspiration because it
never ceases to amaze me that each
year such brilliant new filmmaking
talent appear, perspiration because I
never want to say no to a film. From
next year I will be relinquishing the
perspiration but will be soaking up
the inspiration as I work to develop
the scope of the festival in my new
capacity as Artistic Director. Many
thanks to all those who have submitted
their films and those who have preselected over the years may your
dreams be forever short film infused!
Eileen Arandiga
Festival Director, Worldwide
Short Film Festival
Eileen has previously worked for the
Toronto International Film Festival –
Industry Programming and Services,
and various arts organisations in
Australia. She has also run film and
video workshops for young women
in Toronto, has sat on many festival
juries, and been a guest speaker at
festivals in Canada and the US. Eileen
has programmed shorts for the WSFF’s
World of Shorts monthly screening
series, Signals Festival in the UK, the
Australian Canadian Film Festival
in Sydney, Australia and more.
Susanne Folkesson
Acquisition Executive,
UR - Swedish Educational
Broadcasting Company
Having studied Social Science,
Journalism and Education in TV
production, Susanne has been working
for UR since 1997 mostly with TVproduction and during recent years
with acquisition. She is currently head
of acquiring short films aimed for the
Youth Department and documentaries
for the Knowledge Channel.
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Jes Benstock
Paul Negoescu
Director
DIRECTOR / WRITER
Jes Benstock has directed
internationally recognised
documentaries, short fiction and
music promos. Award winning short
films include The Box (with Tilda
Swinton), Orders of Love, Holocaust
Tourist and Poof. His first feature length
film is The British Guide to Showing
Off (see page 28). The film takes
you into the world of artist Andrew
Logan’s ‘Alternative Miss World
Show’ and is a blend of observational
documentary and animation.
Born in 1984, in Bucharest. He
graduated in film directing at the
National Film School (UNATC). He
directed several shorts selected and
awarded in many international film
festivals. He was twice nominated at
the European Film Academy Awards.
He is also a film producer, a teacher
assistant at the National Film School
and the artistic director of the Timishort
Film Festival. Currently he is preparing
his first feature film, expected to be
shot at the end of this year. He is also
the winner of the Brief Encounters
Grand Prix Award 2010 for Derby.
Matthieu Darras
Director, NISI MASA
Founder and director of NISI MASA,
the European network of young
cinema, Matthieu has initiated dozens
of film events since 2001 and produced
several award-winning short films. He
has been writing for the French film
magazine Positif since 1999, and was
member of the selection committee of
the Cannes Critics’ Week from 2005
-2011. Matthieu was artistic co-director
of Alba Film Festival, Italy in 2008 and
2009, and artistic director of the IFF
Bratislava, Slovakia in 2009 and 2010.
He selects film projects for the Torino
Film Lab and the Jerusalem Film Lab.
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DEPICT! JURY
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS AWARDS
Brief Encounters
Grand Prix
Christine Bardsley
FILM ADVISER, BRITISH COUNCIL
Christine became a Film Adviser
at the British Council in 2001,
working to promote new British
work to international audiences.
She curates programmes and
advises on selection for screenings
of British short and feature films at
international festivals and events.
David Sproxton
Gina Fucci
CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE
CHAIRMAN, AARDMAN ANIMATIONS
Managing Director,
Films at 59
David is the co-founder and Executive
Chairman of Aardman. Together
with co-founder Peter Lord, he has
overseen the development of the
company from a two-man partnership
to one of the pre-eminent animation
houses in the industry. David has
served as a producer, director or
cinematographer on a number of
animated projects at Aardman.
Four-times nominated for Broadcast
Award’s Best UK Post Production
House, Films at 59 is one of the
South West’s leading post-production
companies specialising in supplying
technology to video and film-makers
throughout the world. Gina joined
Films at 59 in 1989 and, in 1994
her considerable experience and
knowledge of the media industry,
on both sides of the Atlantic, made
her a natural choice to join Jeanne
Thomson as a company director.
Encounters takes pride in the
exemplary selection of the latest and
greatest short films from around the
world on show this year. The winner
of the Grand Prix is the cream of this
crop, the best that the short film world
has to offer and certainly a name to
look out for. All films in the International
(INT), British (BRIT), Best of South
West and Late Lounge programmes
are eligible for the cash prize of £2,000
and will receive a Bristol Blue Glass
Award. The winning film will also
receive a digital print for distribution in
Digital Cinemas courtesy of our prize
partner Arts Alliance Media, and is
eligible for an Academy Live Action
Award® Nomination. This award is
selected by the Brief Encounters Jury.
All films are eligible and are therefore
not highlighted in the catalogue.
Best of British Award
Nik Powell
FILM PRODUCER, DIRECTOR,
NATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION
SCHOOL AND DEPUTY CHAIR,
BAFTA FILM COMMITTEE
One of the UK’s leading film producers,
Nik Powell set up Virgin Records with
Richard Branson, and founded Palace
Pictures and Scala Productions with
Stephen Woolley, which produced
a slate of award-winning features,
including Company of Wolves, Mona
Lisa and The Crying Game. His more
recent films include Little Voice,
Calendar Girls and most recently Ladies
in Lavender. Nik became Director
of the NFTS in September 2003.
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Patrick Collerton
Director
Patrick Collerton is an Emmy, BAFTA
and RTS award winning documentary
director who has now moved into
drama and film. His feature length
ITV drama, Joe Maddison’s War, was
a critical and ratings success last
year and his debut feature written by
Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier
Spy) is moving into pre-production.
Sarah Cooper
REPORTER,
SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
Sarah Cooper trained as a lawyer before
realising that life was too short to spend
it reading contracts and left to pursue
a career which made her poor but
happy. She joined Screen International
as a reporter in 2008 where she
specialises in the UK production
sector and is a regular attendee at
film festivals around the world.
The award is offered to the film judged
to be the best in all areas of production,
direction and story. Films in the British
programmes (BRIT), Best of the South
West and Late Lounge programmes
are eligible for the award with a value
of £1,000, towards the directors’
next project supported by Directors
UK. The winner will also receive a
short film course from the National
Film and Television School and the
film will be selected into the British
Council Film Catalogue. This award is
selected by the Brief Encounters Jury.
Brief Encounters
European New
Talent Award
New for 2011, Encounters introduces
the European New Talent Award,
celebrating European short film talent
produced by graduating students or
first time directors. With a prize of
€1,000 supported by the University
of West of England, selected by the
Brief Encounters Jury. Eligible films
are highlighted in the catalogue.
DepicT! Awards
The 2011 DepicT! films will be in the
running for the DepicT! ‘11 Award, a
cash prize of £1500, and the DepicT!
Shooting People Audience Award. The
DepicT! British Special Mention Award
- a package of career development
opportunities from NFTS, BAFTA,
British Council and Shooting People
will also be awarded to a UK-based
filmmaker. All three winning films
will also be digitised by Arts Alliance
Media and made available for theatrical
screenings at cinemas across the UK.
Supported & Managed
by
South West
Jury Award
In the South West the talent base
has strength in depth as well as in
numbers. The South West Award
recognises the maturity of the
creative industries in the region
and is an investment in talented
individuals to ensure continued
growth. The winner, selected by
the jury, will receive a prize of £500
supported by South West Screen.
Sponsored by:
With support from:
Audience Award
This award celebrates the film voted
best of the festival by the audience
with a chance to win a cash prize
of £500. Vote for your favourite
films at the end of the screening.
Nahemi Prize for
Creative Filmmaking/
Cinematography
Award
EFA Nomination
The National Association for Higher
Education and the Moving Image
(NAHEMI), supported by Avid
presents two awards in recognition
of exceptional work produced by
undergraduate and postgraduate
students from film schools around
the UK and Ireland. Generously
sponsored by Avid, the prizes will
be presented by Nik Powell, Director
of the NFTS. www.nahemi.org.
This year the festival has joined
the European Film Academy Short
Film Initiative. The Brief Encounters
Jury will select the Bristol Short
Film Nominee for the European
Film Awards 2012 from all European
films featured in Brief Encounters
competition. Nominated films are
highlighted in the catalogue.
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SHORT DOCUMENTARY AWARD
Documentary Award
Encounters would like to highlight and
celebrate international talent in short
film documentary. All documentaries
in all programmes across Brief and
Animated Encounters will be eligible
for a £1,000 cash prize. This award is
selected by the Brief Encounters jury,
and is supported by ICON Films.
Eligible Films:
Abuelas
Dir: Afarin Eghbal
UK 2011, 9 mins 14 secs
ANI 5: DOMESTIC BLISS
WED 16 NOV. 18:00
ARNOLFINI (see page 121)
Aisha’s Song
Dir: Orlando von Einsiedel
UK 2011, 9 mins
BRIT 3: NEW LOOK
FRI 18 NOV, 17:30
WATERSHED (see page 111)
Crowded
Dir: Luke Sault
ANI 1: ANIMATED WORLDS
WED 16 NOV, 10:00
Deklaracja Niesmiertelnosci
(Declaration of Immortality)
Miten Marjoja Poimitaan
(How to Pick Berries)
Radiostan
Until my Hearts,
like, Finished
Dir: Marcin Koszaéka
Poland 2010, 30 mins
Dir: Elina Talvensaari
Finland 2010, 19 mins
Dir: Tomás Sheridan
Russian Federation 2010
9 mins 30 secs
Dir: Pete Snelling
INT 6: HOME GROUND
THU 17 NOV, 21:00
INT 6: HOME GROUND
THU 17 NOV, 21:00
INT 6: HOME GROUND
THU 17 NOV, 21:00
BEST OF SOUTH WEST
WED 16 NOV, 17:30
Grace
Night Shift
Stick Climbing
When the Dust Settles
Dir: Meagan Kelly
Canada 2010, 22 mins 49 secs
Dir: Ruth Reid
Dir: Daniel Zimmermann
Australia 2010, 14 mins
Dir: Spencer Cross
INT 4: EVER AFTER
THU 17 NOV, 12:00
BRIT 1: OUT OF STEP
WED 16 NOV, 19:00
INT 5: BIG PICTURE
THU 17 NOV, 15:00
WED 16 NOV, 10:00
In Stereo – Tony Blackwood
On Tender Hooks
Dir: Keston Neunie
Dir: Kate Shenton
ANI 6: LIGHT & DARK
FRI 18 NOV, 10:00
LATE LOUNGE
FRI 18 NOW, 21:00
La Calma (The Calm)
The Day we Danced
on the Moon
Dir: Tristan Daws
Germany 2011, 11 mins
INT 2: HIGH STAKES
WED 16 NOV, 15:00
Radio Amina
Dir: Fernando Vílchez
Peru 2010, 20 mins
UK 2011, 9 mins
INT 1: LAST ACT
WED 16 NOV, 12:00
BRIT 3: NEW LOOK
FRI 18 NOV, 17:30
Stills (L to R): Aisha’s Song, Crowded, Grace, On Tender Hooks, Stick Climbing, The Day We Danced on the Moon
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INT 1: LAST ACT
2 HRS
Der Letzte Gast
(The Last Guest)
Dir: Markus Engel
Austria 2011
15 mins 56 secs
While a barman is having a final
drink with his best friend, the mundane
conversation turns into a situation
of life and death.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Sandra Schuppach
Writer: Michaela Schwarz
DOP: Thomas Kiennast
Editor: Patrick Wilfert, Markus Engel
Sound: Peter V. Meiselmann,
Torsten Heinemann
Music: Wolfgang Schlögl
Cast: Simon Schwarz, Werner Brix
Distributor: Sandra Schuppach
Markus Engel: originally from Vienna,
Austria, has studied film and theatre
directing at the California Institute
of the Arts in Los Angeles (Master
of Fine Arts). He lives and works in
Berlin directing for the stage and film.
Contact: Sandra Schuppach
schuppach.film@gmail.com
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Awakening
(The River of
Forgetfulness)
Dir: Kitty Lin
Taiwan 2010
7 mins 30 secs
La Calma (The Calm)
Dir: Fernando Vilchez Rodriguez
Peru 2010
20 mins
Dir: Ashlee Page
Australia 2010
15 mins 40 secs
An earthquake destroyed a village. In
the village, there´s a man trying to rest.
Fuelled by cheap alcohol and teenage
hormones two teenage girls make their
way to an isolated fire-water tank, lured
by the promise of cool water.
A woman travels back to her youth
after she dies and unveils a secret that
has hindered her from moving onto
the next life…
Documentary
Experimental
Assistant Director: Robinson Diaz
Prod: Fernando Vilchez Rodriguez
Writer: Fernando Vilchez Rodriguez
DOP: Gisella Barthe
Editor: Fernando Vilchez Rodriguez
Sound: Paula Chavez
Music: Rauf Neme
Prod: Jumping Chiang
Writer: Kay Chen
DOP: Yi-Ching Hung
Editor: Kitty Lin
Music: Q Department
Cast: Kanako Murakami
Distributor: Shorts International
Kitty Lin: born in Taiwan she moved
to California when she was 13. Her
3D animated film, The Sky Bar,
was recognized by major festivals
all over the world, and Awakening
is her first live-action film.
Contact: Kitty Lin
thegiantinfant@gmail.com
The Kiss
Eligible Awards:
Documentary Award
Fernando Vílchez Rodriguez:
(Perú, 1980) studied four years of
philosophy and worked two years
as a chef’s assistant. He survived
by watching films after midnight.
In 2009 he started to make short films.
Contact: Fernando Vilchez Rodriguez
fernandoarturov@hotmail.com
Drama
Prod: Sonya Humphrey
Writer: Ashlee Page
DOP: Nick Matthews
Editor: Denise Haratzis
Sound: Tom Heuenroeder
Music: Quentin Eyers
Cast: Nicole Gulasekharam,
Briony Kent
Distributor: Premium Films
Ashlee Page: since taking root in
the Adelaide Hills, Ashlee has been
working consistently on building
her film-making skills. She has a
BA majoring in Screen Studies,
runs a DVD authoring business,
and works as a Film Lecturer.
Contact: Premium Films
olivier.heitz@premium-films.com
Til Alle Mine Venner
(To All My Friends)
Dir: Behrouz Bigdeli
Denmark 2010
29 mins
Mark and Sonny are best friends who
have always stuck together. The self
destructive Sonny doesn’t mind their
pointless life, but Mark wants more.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent, EFA Nomination
Prod: Joanna Zofia Bard Mikolajczyk
Writer: Behrouz Bigdeli, Tommy Oksen
DOP: Balthazar Hertel
Editor: Christian Einshøj
Sound: Jonas Andreas Jensen
Music: Nils Lassen
Cast: Nikolaj Dencker Schmidt,
Morten Holst, Adam Ild Rohweder,
Aske Bang, Molly Blixt Egelind, Elliott
Crosset Hove, Dan Boie Kratfeldt
Behrouz Bigdeli: born in Iran, has
lived in Denmark since the age of 2. He
has always been interested in film and
music and in 2010 he graduated from
the alternative film school Super16, and
has since developed new projects.
Contact: Joanna Zofia
Bard Mikolajczyk
joanna.zofia@gmail.com
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INT 2: HIGH STAKES
2 HRS
Apele Tac
(Silent River)
Ce N’est Rien
(It is Nothing)
The Day we Danced
on the Moon
Dir: Anca Miruna Lazarescu
Germany 2011
30 mins
Dir: Nicolas Roy
Canada 2011
14 mins 30 secs
Dir: Tristan Daws
Germany 2011
11 mins
Romania, 1986: Gregor and Vali
want to get away. Both need each
other, yet there is mutual distrust.
In the end only hope is left.
Michel lives alone with his daughter
Marie. Today, their monotonous life
turns to drama.
We might all have our day on the
moon, but sooner or later we will all
come crashing down to earth…
Drama, UK Premiere
Documentary
Prod: Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette,
Menaïc Raoul
Writer: Nicolas Roy
DOP: Mathieu Laverdière
Editor: Nicolas Roy
Sound: Dominique Chartrand,
Olivier Clavert
Music: Thomas Augustin
Cast: Martin Dubreuil,
Eloise Bisson, Danielle Fichaud
et Jean-Jospeh Tremblay
Distributor: Catherine Thériault
Eligible Awards:
Documentary Award, European
New Talent, EFA Nomination
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Prod: David Lindner,
Daniel Schmidt, Catalin Mitulescu
Writer: Anca Miruna Lazarescu
DOP: Christian Stangassinger
Editor: Dan Olteanu
Sound: Thorsten Bolze,
Alexandru Dragomir
Cast: Cuzin Toma,
Andi Vasluianu, Patricia Moga
Distributer: Some Like It Short, S.L.
Anca Miruna Lazarescu: began
her studies in 2000 at the German
Academy for Film and Television
in Munich. She directed several
documentary and short films which
attracted international interest. Silent
River is her final film from the academy.
Contact: Juan Escudero
jescurado@somelikeitshort.com
Prod: Vanessa Temps, Stefan Kloos
DOP: Anne Misselwitz
Editor: Alice Powell
Animator: Billie Loebner
Sound: Peter Carstens, Niklas
Kammertoens
Music: Dominik Sprungala
Cast: The Channel One Band
Distributor: Rise and Shine World Sales
Nicolas Roy: studied cinema at three
different universities in Québec and
directed a few experimental short films.
His work of fiction exploring themes
such as family, desolate country and
death, have been screened in several
festivals in Québec and abroad.
Tristan Daws: trained as a theatre
director at London’s Drama Centre and
worked in the theatre in London and
Vienna. His passion for film drew him
to the National Film and Television
School, where he trained as a director.
Contact: Nicolas Roy
info@travellingdistribution.com
Contact: Tristan Daws
tristandaws@gmail.com
Protect the Nation
Dir: C. R. Reisser
South Africa 2010
16 mins 4 secs
When faced with the unexpected
kindness of a stranger, a young boy
begins to question himself. Does he
have the courage to do what’s right?
Drama
Prod: Marcus Machura, Stephan Barth,
Grieg Buckle, Thomas Reisser
Writer: C. R. Reisser
DOP: Matthias Reisser
Editor: C. R. Reisser, Olivia Retzer
Sound: Manuel Laval
Music: C. R. Reisser, MGO,
Andre Kramil
Cast: Thabo Mbatha, Jerry
Mofokeng, Wright Nbubeni
C.R. Reisser: an NYU film and drama
BFA graduate who has completed two
feature screenplay adaptations before
writing and directing her first short film.
Contact: C. R. Reisser
candice@reisser.cc
Vejado En El Tiempo
(We, Time Machines)
Dir: Raúl Navarro
Spain 2010
7 mins 37 secs
Carlos is a time traveller, and he
takes advantage of women with his
skill. Until the day he meets Laura,
a girl who can also time travel. This
is the story of a love relationship
beyond the space-time continuum.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Raúl Navarro
Writer: Raúl Navarro
DOP: Raúl Navarro
Editor: Raúl Navarro
Sound: Raúl Navarro
Music: Blue Dots
Cast: Juanra Bonet,
Natalia Moreno, Laura Salido
Distributor: Josep Prim Marvin&Wayne Short Film Distribution
15 Summers Later
Dir: Pedro Collantes
Norway 2011
5 mins
Everyone needs time to heal and regain
balance - some longer than others.
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Pedro Collantes
Writer: Pedro Collantes
DOP: Cato Lauvli
Editor: Pedro Collantes
Sound: Jan Kristian Hagen
Cast: Tor Ivar Hagen, Bard Ivar
Engelsas, Kathrine Strugstad
Distributor: Mailuki Films
Pedro Collantes: born in Madrid.
He has worked as an editor in Spain
and Norway. In 2010 he started
making short films with support
from Midtnorsk Filmsenter.
Contact: Pedro Collantes
escribanosolera@mac.com
Raúl Navarro: has been directing
short films since year 2000, including
Grey, If There’s a Will, There’s a Way;
The Blind Spot (selected in more
than 100 festivals); The Constant
(selected in Slamdance 2009). He also
works as co-creator, writer and actor
in the webseries Perestroika (www.
perestroikalaserie.com). He is currently
working as a screenwriter for the
Spanish TV program El Intermedio.
Contact: Raúl Navarro
raulnavarro@gmail.com
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INT 3: GOT YOU
2 HRS
Marichen
Dir: Katja Sambeth
Germany 2010
8 mins
A woman is looking for her lost child.
She talks to strange kids, to convince
herself that she is their mother.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Katharina Ingwersen
Writer: Katharina Ingwersen
DOP: Yoliswa Gärtig
Editor: Vincent Assmann
Sound: Immo Trümpelmann,
Christian Schossig
Music: Leonard Petersen
Cast: Katharina Ingwersen,
Elvira Leininger, Antje Schmidt,
Jürgen Elbers, Sascha Helen
Lehmann, Mascha Lange,
Noah Kohn, Paavo Eichstädt
Katja Sambeth: after school,
journeyed to America on a sailboat
and bought a horse in Oklahoma.
Spent three years in Paris. Studied
directing at film school DFFB in
Berlin. Is now working as an
assistant director and on
independent projects.
Contact: Katharina Ingwersen
mail@katharina-ingwersen.de
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Destiny Lives
Down The Road
Dir: Patrick & Daneeta
Loretta Jackson
United States 2011
20 mins 50 secs
After a five year hiatus from dance,
Destiny joins a new school. When she
discovers she’s just not good enough,
hard choices must be made.
Drama
Prod: Patrick & Daneeta
Loretta Jackson
Loretta Jackson
Writer: Daneeta Loretta Jackson
DOP: Patrick Jackson
Editor: Patrick Jackson
Sound: Ludovic Morin
Music: Franz Kirmann
Distributor: Patrick & Daneeta
The Elektrik Zoo: creative partnership
of Swede/Brit Patrick Jackson and
American Daneeta Loretta Jackson.
Working together in Asia, Africa,
Europe and the States for ten years,
their work has shown in cinemas
and arts venues all over the world.
Contact: Patrick &
Daneeta Loretta Jackson
info@elektrikzoo.com
Needle Exchange
El Grifo (The Faucet)
The Elaborate End
of Robert Ebb
Dir: Colm Quin
Ireland 2010
9 mins 40 secs
Dir: Denis Rovira van Boekholt
Spain 2010
15 mins 48 secs
Two recovering drug addicts practice
tattooing on each other and find out
over time they mark each other in
more ways than merely the physical.
Winter 2010. An Old Man who
is temporarily staying at his daughter
and son-in-law’s house thinks
he’s a nuisance.
Drama, UK Premiere
Drama, UK Premiere
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
Documentary Award, EFA Nomination
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Editor: Maeve O’Boyle, Colm Quin
Prod: Beatriz Acinas, Pancho Casal
Writer: Diego Soto
DOP: Juan Carlos Gomez
Editor: Guillermo Represa
Sound: Eduardo Esquide
Music: Xavier Capellas
Cast: Celso Bugallo, Ana Fernandez,
Daniel Freire, Carlos Sampedro,
Carmen Sánchez
Prod: Dora Benousilio,
Charlotte Bavasso, Chris O’Reilly
DOP: Sebastien Gonon
Cast: Paul Hassal, Heather Saunders,
Frank Scantori, Matt Downton,
Marjorie Bleriot
Colm Quinn: (BA. Media Arts,
DIT 2005) is a director for film
and television in both drama
and documentary genres.
Contact: Network Ireland
info@network-irl-tv.com
Denis Rovira van Boekholt:
(1976) is writer / director. Member
of the Catalan Film Academy.
Represented in film by ICM
(International Creative Management)
and has studied in Spain and the
United States (UCLA Film School).
Contact: Elisabeth Ferber
internacional@agenciafreak.com
Dir: Fx Goby, Matthieu Landour,
Clement Bolla
France 2011
12 mins 37 secs
A man, a girl, a monster costume,
gun toting villagers, a tragic end.
Den Første Anders
(The First Anders)
Dir: Kristian Ussing Andersen
Denmark 2010
9 mins
A well-meaning father tries to teach
his young son a valuable lesson. Telling
a story that spans over one thousand
years of Danish history.
Drama, European Premiere
Fx Goby & Matthieu Landour:
a directing duo from France. Their
directing debut was a 3D animated
short film titled En Tus Brazos,
which won many awards. This is
their first live action short film.
Contact: Fernanda Garcia Lopez
fernanda@nexusproductions.com
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Tyler Levine
Writer: Kristian Ussing Andersen,
Tyler Levine
Editor: Kristian Ussing Andersen
Sound: Ossian Ryner
Music: Dave Sorbara, Gavin Wheleham
Cast: Villads Milthers Fritsche,
Henning Valin, Anna Lindgrens,
Ida Elise Jacobsen, Signe Ussing
Andersen, Jonas Bech, Lasse Lehwald,
Emil Haugaard, Sebastian R. Nielsen
Kristian Ussing Andersen:
started by skiing in and filming
action sport Freestyle ski films. He
then directed and edited a couple
of tv series, comercials and music
videos. The First Anders is his first
solo fiction directing project.
Contact: Kristian Ussing Andersen
kristian@diktatorfilms.com
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INT 4: EVER AFTER
2 HRS
¿Bailas?
(Shall We Dance?)
Dir: Daniel Azancot
Spain 2010
16 mins
Emma and Carlos are unable to
get over their misunderstanding
relationship, but even then, they
meet to fix it.
Drama, World Premiere
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Daniel Azancot
Writer: Daniel Azancot
DOP: Juanmi Azpiroz
Editor: Fernando Guariniello
Sound: Gabriel Gutiérrez
Music: Tito Carles
Cast: Gustavo Salmerón, Marta Nieto
Daniel Azancot: started as a
commercial director ten years ago in
Alamo Films and during his career
he has received different national
and International awards. He has
also made videoart, the documentary
“Turkish dictionary” and a few
works in the short film world.
Grace
The Father
13
Dir: Meagan Kelly
Canada 2010
22 mins 49 secs
Dir: David Easteal
Australia 2011
16 mins 15 secs
Dir: Malou Reymann
Denmark 2010
8 mins
Grace is an intimate look at life for
a young girl on a garbage dump in
the Philippines and her struggle to
go to school.
Haunted by his past, a man searches
for forgiveness. Getting it however,
may come at a cost.
On her 13th birthday, Emma visits
her father. He’s not at home, but his
new boyfriend, Casper, is.
Drama
Drama, UK Premiere
Prod: Polly Staniford, Frank Bruzzese
Writer: David Easteal
DOP: Ari Wegner
Editor: Peter Sciberras
Sound: Nick Batterham
Cast: John Brumpton, Richard
Davis, Finn Woodlock
Eligible Awards:
Documentary
Eligible Awards:
Documentary Award
Prod: Dekeyser & Friends Foundation
Editor: Meagan Kelly
Meagan Kelly: a journalist and
filmmaker with a mission to
cultivate compassion. She has
worked internationally as a journalist
and videographer in almost a dozen
countries. In 2010, Kelly was selected
for a prestigious Media Fellowship
with the Dekeyser Friends Foundation.
Contact: Meagan Kelly
meagan.kelly76@gmail.com
David Easteal: a Melbourne based
writer/director. He obtained a
Bachelor of Laws from the University
of Melbourne, also studying Arts,
majoring in literature. His films
have screened at various Australian
and international film festivals
and he has been nominated for an
Australian Director’s Guild award.
Prod: Ea Svenning, Line Sander Egede
Writer: Malou Reymann
DOP: Jasper Spanning
Editor: Dorrit Andersen
Sound: Morten Pilegaard, Oskar Skriver
Malou Reymann: born in Denmark
in 1988. Debut directing film was with
Maskebal. She is still photographer
on several projects, and studies
literature at Copenhagen University.
Contact: Nine Wass
festivalkd@dfi.dk
Contact: David Easteal
david@easteal.com
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INT 5: BIG PICTURE
2 HRS
Connection
Camas (Beds)
Come to Harm
Shoot the Moon
Dir: Jennifer Leacey
Australia 2011
12 mins
Dir: Manuela Moreno
Spain 2010
10 mins
Dir: Borkur Sigthorsson
Iceland 2011
18 mins
Dir: Alexander Gaeta
United States 2011
25 mins
After Dan and Natalie meet on a
dating website, they decide to go a
step further with a video date, but
things go horribly wrong.
Sometimes things can change
so much in a while…
This contemporary thriller tells the
story of Stefan. When he senses an
intruder in his home, panic quickly
turns to grim determination.
Faced with a possible home foreclosure,
Marcy Meyers puts her faith into a
national game show that promises a
once-in-a-lifetime chance to win it all.
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Missy Laney
Writer: Alexander Gaeta
DOP: Trevor Wineman
Editor: Jeremy Marrow
Sound: Chia Jui-Mo
Cast: Pamela Bowen, Rachel Grate,
Barry Alan Levine
Writer: Jennifer Leacey
DOP: Thomas Waugh
Editor: Alan Harca
Sound: Rachel Smith
Music: Damien Dunstan
Cast: James Mackay,
Kate Mulvany, Dan Krige
Distributor: Ruth Saunders, AFTRS
Jennifer Leacey: while an assistant
director, decided to take time to study
storytelling and filmmaking, graduating
from Australian Film Television and
Radio School in 2010. Her interests
lie in telling stories of truth, families,
connections and the human condition.
Contact: Ruth Saunders
ruths@aftrs.edu.au
Drama, UK Premiere
Prod: Joaquin Zamora
Writer: Manuela Moreno
DOP: Jon Corcuera
Editor: Alberto del Campo
Sound: Pecera Estudio
Cast: Raúl Arévalo, Manuela Burló,
Rafa Ordorkia, Belén Cuesta,
Raquel Guerrero, Teresa Soria Ruano,
Benito Sagredo, Luis Escuerdo
Manuela Moreno: has a BA in
Drama by the School of Dramatic Art
Murcia (ESAD) alongside her studies
at the School of Film and Audiovisual
Comunidad de Madrid (ECAM).
Prod: Saemundur Nordfjord,
Jessica Petelle
Writer: Borkur Sigthorsson
DOP: G Magni Agustsson
Sound: Gunnar Oskarsson
Music: Daniel Bjarnason
Börkur Sigthorsson: a London based
filmmaker and photographer. Director of
music videos and commercials for the
likes of Richard Ashcroft, Supergrass,
Nike and Honda. Come to Harm is
Börkur’s second short film and he is
currently developing his first feature.
Alexander Gaeta: moved from
the comforts of the Colorado Rocky
Mountains to pursue his dreams
as a filmmaker. Studying film
direction at Chapman University,
Alexander had the opportunity to
write and direct several shorts as
well as develop his budding passion
for documentary filmmaking.
Contact: Jessica Petelle
jessicapetelle@gmail.com
Contact: Alexander Gaeta
alexander.gaeta@gmail.com
All that Way
for Love
Dir: Henry Mason
2011
20 mins 12 secs
A young idealistic Irishman travelling
across Africa to reach his girlfriend;
hitches a ride with a warring European
couple. The crossfire could be deadly.
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Henry R Swindell,
Oliver Royds, Giles Skillicorn
Writer: Thomas Martin
DOP: Milan Chadima
Editor: Dan Sherwen
Sound: Ben G
Music: Benjamin Wallfisch
Cast: Derek de Lint, Andrew Simpson,
Belinda Stewart-Wilson
Stroppy Boy: the production company
founded by Henry Mason, a director
originally from the South West,
predominately of commercials as well
as TV drama, Oliver Royds, an Olivier
Award winning West End theatre
producer and Henry R Swindell,
an experienced TV producer.
Stick Climbing
Dir: Daniel Zimmermann
Australia 2010
14 mins
A contemplative walk leads to a
bizarre climbing tour.
Documentary
Eligible Awards:
Documentary Award
Prod: Daniel Zimmermann
Writer: Daniel Zimmermann
DOP: Andreas Hasenöhrl,
Anderes Kreimeier, Raoul Schmitz,
Bernhard Braunstein, Harald Höllwöger
Editor: Bernhard Braunstein
Sound: Bernhard Braunstein,
Daniel Fritz
Daniel Zimmermann: born
in Switzerland. He is a visual
artist, originally trained as
wood sculpturer and works in
film, stereoscopic photography,
installation and performance.
Contact: Dietmar Schwaerzler
dietmar@sixpackfilm.com
Contact: Henry Richard Swindell
henryRswindell@gmail.com
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INT 6: HOME GROUND
2 HRS
Nun Sehen
Sie Folgendes
(Now Follows)
Dir: Erik Schmitt
& Stephan Müller
Germany 2010
4 mins 48 secs
In this film you will see the following:
black screen and close-ups; a young nice
guy, an older man with a mustache…
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Daniel Thomaser
Writer: Erik Schmitt, Stephan Müller
DOP: Erik Schmitt
Editor: Steffen Hand
Music: Extreme Music
Cast: Antonia Golz, Folke Renken,
Stephan Müller, Erna Schiller
Distributor: Alexandra Heneka
– KurzFilmAgentur
Erik Schmitt & Stephan Müller:
together are Kamerapferd.
Contact: Alexandra Heneka
sales@shortfilm.com
Screenshot
Dir: Cathal Burke
Ireland 2011
6 mins 1 secs
An Online Tale of Love and Betrayal,
told entirely through Facebook.
Dinero Facil
(Easy Money)
Dir: Carlos Montero Castiñeira
Spain 2010
15 mins
Experimental, UK Premiere
Jaime, a male prostitute for men,
young and sexy, comes to the room
of a hotel for a sexual service.
Eligible Awards:
Drama, UK Premiere
Prod: Gary White
Writer: Cathal Burke
DOP: Luke Kelly
Editor: Luke Kelly
Animator: Gary White
Music: Jonathan Casey
Cathal Burke: a Student of the Huston
School of Film and Digital Media in
Galway, Ireland. Screenshot is his first
film acting as a writer and director.
Contact: Gary White
screenshotfilm@gmail.com
Eligible Awards:
Deklaracja
Niesmiertelnosci
(Declaration of
Immortality)
Dir: Marcin KoszaŁka
Poland 2010
30 mins
A moving story about a mountain
climber and his inability to come
to terms with old age and a
desire for immortality.
Documentary, UK Premiere
Prod: Carlos Montero
Writer: Carlos Montero
Dop: Iván Martín Ruedas
Editor: A.Jonas Ojeda
Sound: David Almeida-Ribeiro
Music: Joaquin Peña
Carlos Montero Castiñeira:
a well known scriptwriter of the
Spanish TV series Genesis, Al salir
de Clase and El comisario. He is
also the creator of the TV series
phenomenon Físicao Química.
Easy Money is his first short film.
Eligible Awards:
Writer: Marcin Koszałka
DOP: Marcin Koszałka
Editor: Anna Wagner
Music: Andrzej Smolik
Distributer: Krakow Film Foundation
Sales: TVP S.A.
Marcin Koszałka: a cinematographer
and the director of documentary
films. He collaborates with american
television HBO. A graduate
of film school in Katowice, he
is currently its lecturer.
Choke
Radiostan
Dir: Michelle Latimer
Canada 2010
5 mins 31 secs
Dir: Tomás Sheridan
9 mins 30 secs
When Jimmy leaves his First Nation’s
reservation for the lure of city life,
he finds himself confronted by an
unimaginable world.
Roaming across the frequencies of
Central Asia from Bishkek to Moscow
we’re presented with a unique portrait
of the people who inhabit these lands.
Documentary
Prod: Michelle Latimer, David Miller
DOP: Michelle Latimer
Eligible Awards:
Documentary Award
Michelle Latimer: a filmmaker,
actor and festival programmer.
Most recently produced the
animated short film Choke.
Prod: Tanya Petrik and
Guillaume Protsenko
DOP: Joona Pettersson
Sound: Elena Petrosyan
Contact: Ouat Media
info@ouatmedia.com
Tomás Sheridan: an award winning
director who focuses on documentary
as a tool to explore human relationships
and social change. As well as winning
recognition at festivals across four
continents he recently made his
first sail to Canal+ (France).
Contact: Tomás Sheridan
tommy@polifilm.co.uk
Contact: Katarzyna Wilk
katarzyna@kff.com.pl
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INT 7: TIME BEING
2 HRS
Miten Marjoja
Poimitaan (How
to Pick Berries)
Dir: Elina Talvensaari
Finland 2010
19 mins
Opfer (Submerged)
Dir: Johannes Leistner
Germany 2011
21 mins 15 secs
Zakira Kassira
(Short Memory)
Kinderspiel
(Child’s Play)
Dir: Marwan Khneisser
Lebanon 2010
8 mins 44 secs
Dir: Lars Kornhoff
Germany 2010
18 mins
Beirut, 7th August 2006. Children
are playing inside a building in the
neighborhood of Chiyah without
worrying about the war that
surrounds them…
Leon (16) breaks into a mansion.
He sneaks into the nursery where he
takes a sleeping child from it’s crib,
leaving only a note behind…
Economy is stranger than fiction.
Thomas has a new house, a girlfriend
and a baby. He’s hosting a party for
some friends. But then his daughter
brings her boyfriend home.
Documentary
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
Drama, UK Premiere
Prod: Elina Talvensaari
Distributor: Saara Toivanen Aalto University School of Art and
Design ELO Helsinki Film School
Writer: Elina Talvensaari,
Mauro Fariñas
DOP: Joonas Pulkkanen
Editor: Markus Leppälä
Sound: Pinja Mäki
Music: Pinja Mäki
Prod: Constance Nünke
DOP: Johannes Praus
Sound: Kay Riedel
Music: Kriton Klingler, Fabrizio Tentoni
Cast: Andreas Nickl, Merlin Rose,
Beata Lehmann, Lotti Zipse,
Stella Stocker, Gábor Biedermann
Prod: Marwan Khneisser
Writer: Marwan Khneisser
DOP: Marwan Khneisser
Editor: Marwan Khneisser
Sound: Karim Khneisser
Music: Karim Khneisser
Cast: Sean Aoun, Karine
Aoun, Wissam Bechara
Elina Talvensaari: Studies at Aalto
University, School of Art and Design,
ELO Helsinki Film School, majoring
in documentary directing. How to
Pick Berries is her film for
Bachelor’s Degree.
Contact: Saara Toivanen
saara.toivanen@aalto.fi
Johannes Leistner: born in 1981 in
Berlin. Studied Philosophy, Politics
and Economics at Balliol College,
University of Oxford. Studied
Theatre Directing at the Ernst Busch
in Berlin. Currently studying film
directing at HFF Konrad Wolf.
Contact: Cristina Marx
distribution@hff-potsdam.de
Marwan Khneisser: born in 1981
in Lebanon, Khneisser directed his
first short film Short Memory in 2010.
Short Memory was bought by three
TV channels and selected in numerous
Film Festivals. Marwan is currently
developing his first feature film.
Contact: Marwan Khneisser
marwan.khneisser@gmail.com
Cross-Country
Dir: Maryna Vroda
France 2011
15 mins
First a boy is forced to run.
Then he runs on his own. Then
he watches another one run.
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Les 3 Lignes
Prod: Black Rabbit Pictures Yella Yarí Fenner, Nominal Film Maximilian Plettau
Writer: Lars Kornhoff
DOP: Christian Stangassinger
Editor: Laura Heine
Sound: Rainer Petershagen,
Marcel Spisak
Music: Christian Heyne
Cast: Neil Belakhdar,
Chiara von Galli, Philipp Moog,
Susanne Michel, Lucas Reiber
Distributor: Black Rabbit
Pictures - Yella Yarí Fenner
Maryna Vroda: born in Kiev
(Ukraine) in 1982. She graduated in
2007 at the University of National
Theatre, Cinematography and
Television Karpenko-Kary, in Kiev.
Her school films have been presented
in several international festivals.
Contact: Florence Keller
f.keller@agentcecm.com
Lars Kornhoff: born 1979 in
Paderborn, Germany. Having
absolved several film-related
internships and directed first short
films, he enrolled as a film student at
MHMK in Munich, from where he
graduated in 2010 with Kinderspiel.
Contact: Yella Yarí Fenner
yella.fenner@black-rabbit.de
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LATE LOUNGE
FRI 18 21:00 WATERSHED CINEMA 3
SAT 19 21:30 WATERSHED CINEMA 3
2 HRS
Ghost
Dir: Tobias Gundorff Boesen
Denmark 2011
7 mins 46 secs
An expressionistic short film that
explores atmosphere and the
subconscious, as we follow a ghost on
her way back home to her parents.
Unter Null
(Below Zero)
Dir: Ulrike Vahl
Germany 2011
28 mins
Axel, a lively road marking worker
has had depressive episodes for many
years without obvious reasons.
Hurdy Gurdy
Dir: Daniel Seideneder,
Daniel Pfeiffer
Germany 2010
3 mins 30 secs
An enclosed cosmos - just like a
hurdy gurdy, that starts over to
play its song anew.
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Tobias Gundorff Boesen,
Andreas Berg
Writer: Tobias Gundorff Boesen
DOP: Andreas Berg
Editor: Sara Bøgh
Sound: Thomas Arent
Cast: Alberthe Skovborg Hansem,
Frederik Knuth-Winterfeldt,
Julie Skibelund Schou
Distributor: The Animation Workshop
Prod: Marion Kruse, Zora A. Wolter
Writer: Ulrike Vahl
DOP: Till Girke
Editor: Benjamin Laser
Sound: Philipp Witt
Music: Paul Eisenach
Cast: Anna Stieblich,
Henrike von Kuick, Jörg Schüttauf
Distributor: Hochschule für Film
und Fernsehen (HFF) Konrad Wolf
Tobias Gundorff Boesen: a young
award winning animator, artist and
director from Denmark. He received
his Bachelor Of Arts in Character
Animation in 2010, from The
Animation Workshop in Viborg.
Ulrike Vahl: studied Art and
psychology. After working as
an assistant director, she began
studying directing in 2007 HFF
Konrad Wolf in Potsdam.
Daniel Seideneder: born in 1978.
He founded the production company
dropout-films together with two
fellow design students. He directed
numerous short films, and commercials,
including: Central Hotel Eden (2004),
Tanguero (2005), Truck Stop Grill
(2006) and Rescue Yourself (2011).
Contact: Daniel Seideneder
info@dropout-films.de
Contact: Tobias Gundorff Boesen
owfestival@animwork.dk
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Eligible Awards:
Prod: Susanne May
Writer: Daniel Seideneder
DOP: Daniel Seideneder,
Daniel Pfeiffer, Uwe Winter
Editor: Fred Schuler
Sound: Bernd Thurig
Music: Aphex Twin
Distributor: dropout-films
Augenblicke
(Blink of an Eye)
Dir: Martin Bargiel
Germany 2011
19 mins 22 secs
In the middle of the night a fight
between Schenker’s neighbours won’t
let him rest. Half asleep his mind is
playing tricks on him.
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Martin Bargiel
Writer: Martin Bargiel
Editor: Martin Bargiel
Sound: Felix Ludewig &
Georgi Feldmann
Cast: Christian Preuss, Barbara Bernt,
Weiyi Chang, Ye Zhou
Distributor: Martin Bargiel
Martin Bargiel: born in Poland, but
grew up in Germany. He graduated
film school with a diploma as a
screenwriter and film director. He has
won numerous awards and is currently
working on his first feature film.
Contact: Martin Bargiel
presse@into-focus.de
1000 Gramms
On Tender Hooks
Dir: Tom Bewilogua
Germany 2011
15 mins
Dir: Kate Shenton
UK 2011
10 mins 38 secs
1000 Grams: Is the average quantity
of fat that gets lipoed to contour the
abdominals of a normal weight person.
On Tender Hooks is a short
documentary about freak show
magician Damien Lloyd-Davies
who is about to do his first
human suspension.
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Kinematograph 24/7, Bildfenster
Writer: Tom Bewilogua
DOP: Alex Beier
Editor: Tom Bewilogua
Sound: David Brych
Music: Johannes Koeniger
Cast: Catrin Striebeck, Guntbert Warns,
Milos Kostic, Tamara Simunovic,
Mirjana Karanovic, Saralisa Volm
Tom Bewilogua: studied directing
at the Medienakademie and received
his Bachelor of Arts degree in 2008.
He continued studying with the subject
‘Visual Communication and Film’ in
the main category at the University
of fine Arts (HfbK) in Hamburg.
Documentary
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Kate Shenton
DOP: Kate Shenton
Kate Shenton: a London based
director. Her film Bon Appetit has
been screened at Fright Fest, London
Short Film Festival and Birds Eye
View Film Festival. On Tender
Hooks is her first documentary.
Contact: Kate Shenton
kate.a.shenton@googlemail.com
Contact: Tom Bewilogua
we@k-247.de
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Chroniques de la
Poisse (Sticky Ends)
Dir: Osman Cerfon
France 2010
6 mins 17 secs
Jinx is a man with the head of a
fish. Misfortune bubbles escape from
his mouth and follow people who
become dogged by bad luck.
Las Palmas
IRELAND/Germany 2010
17 mins
Dir: Jonathan Caouette
Canada 2010
14 mins
A middle-aged lady on a holiday in
the sun tries to make new friends and
have a good time. The role is played by
a one year old girl, the rest of the cast
are marionette puppets.
The director of Tarnation takes us on
a guided tour through the shattered
remains of memory and identity.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Franck Ekinci
Writer: Osman Cerfon
Editor: Osman Cerfon, Franck Ekinci
Animator: Osman Cerfon,
Grégory Duroy, Ulrich Totier
Sound: Denis Vautrin
Music: Denis Vautrin
Prod: Johannes Nyholm
Writer: Johannes Nyholm
DOP: Johannes Nyholm
Cast: Helmi Hellrand Nyholm
Production: Joclo
Contact: Osman Cerfon
osmancerfon@yahoo.fr
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All Flowers in Time
Dir: Johannes Nyholm
Sweden 2011
13 mins
Drama
Osman Cerfon: first studied graphic
design, then Fine Arts, and finally
animation in “La Poudrière” school
in Valence, where he graduated in
2007. Since then, he has worked on
various projects as a scriptwriter
or as an animation technician.
The External World
Johannes Nyholm: Johannes Nyholm,
born in 1974, is an artist and film
director based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
With his shorts Johannes has been
awarded with innumerable prizes at
film festivals around the world. He runs
his own production company, Joclo.
Contact: Andreas Fock
andreas.fock@sfi.se
Drama
Prod: David O’Reilly, Henning Kamm
DOP: David O’Reilly
Editor: David O’Reilly
Sound: Bram Meindersma
Music: Bram Meindersma
David O’Reilly: began working at
15 as an assistant at local animation
studios, teaching himself 3D software
in his spare time. Noted for his
disregard of conventions, his work is
regarded as a groundbreaking force
in contemporary 3D animation.
Contact: Henning Kamm
info@detailfilm.de
Experimental
Prod: Phoebe Greenberg,
Penny Mancuso
Writer: Jonathan Caouette
DOP: Sean Kirby
Editor: Jessica Brunetto
Music: Warren Slim Williams
Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Chandler Frantz
Distributor: Phi Group (Danny Lennon)
Jonathan Caouette: credits include
Tarnation (2004), All Tomorrow’s
Parties (2009), All Flowers in Time
(2010), Walk Away Renee (2011)
Contact: Danny Lennon
dboylennon@gmail.com
Die Intrige und die
Archenmuscheln
(Intrigue and
The Ronches)
Dir: Kurdwin Ayub
Austria 2011
3 mins
A penis performs a cult hit by the
Sonics, swings its hips and gathers
a group of vaginas around it.
Animation, European Premiere
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Akademie der Bildenden
Künste Wien
Animator: Kurdwin Ayub
Music: The Sonics
Kurdwin Ayub: born 1990 in Iraq.
Since 2008 he has studied at University
of Applied Arts Vienna (Painture
and experimental Animation, Judith
Eisler). Since 2011 he has studied
at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
(Performance Art Carola Dertnig).
Satanv
Dir: Richard Elson
UK 2011
5 mins
A loved-up couple head off to
the countryside for a weekend of
passion but their Satnav has other
plans for them.
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Richard Elson
Writer: Richard Elson & John Foxen
DOP: Richard Elson & Eddie Arnold
Editor: Richard Elson
Music: Blackshield
Cast: Jodie Hannah
Fenwick, Eddie Arnold
Richard Elson: an experienced
director and editor for film and TV,
Richard has been directing short films
for over 15 years and still continues
to experiment in this medium.
Contact: Richard Elson
richard@elsonmedia.com
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PICK ‘N’ MIX: FAMILY FRieNDLY SHORTS
1 HR 30 MINS
Suitable for ages 12+
Score
Graffitiger
Training Day
Tooth Fairy Affair
Dir: Matt Mullins
UK 2011
9 mins 25 secs
Dir: Libor Pixa
Czech Republic 2010
10 mins 15 secs
Dir: Sam Hoare
UK 2011
8 mins
Dir: Izabela Melamed
Bulgaria 2011
6 mins 19 secs
A pair of strung-out addicts pay a
last visit to their seedy dealer with
unsavoury consequences in this dark,
atmospheric tale of dependence.
Graffitiger is a witty and a slightly
melancholic story of a lonely graffititiger, whose home-place are walls
and facades of Prague buildings.
Johnny is a young boy training
with his grandfather for the biggest
competition in the sleepy seaside
town that they live in.
In a plot to scam the tooth fairy, a
mischievous boy gets both more and
less than he bargained for.
Drama, UK Premiere
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Matt Mullins,
Simon Howells, Rebecca Knowles
Writer: Simon Howells
DOP: James Khan
Editor: Matt Mullins
Sound: Michael O’Connor, Matt Cox
Music: Jordan Andrews
Cast: Brian Hibbard, Rebecca
Knowles, James Ashton
Prod: Pavla Kubeckova
Writer: Libor Pixa
DOP: Jan Suster
Editor: Otakar Senovsky
Animator: Libor Pixa
Sound: Marek Musil
Music: Michal Reynaud
and Luka Krizek
Prod: Sam Hoare
Writer: Sam Hoare
Matt Mullins: a Cardiff based
filmmaker, Score is his 4th short film
developed for UnrelatedFilms alongside
writer/partner Simon Howells.
Contact: Matt Mullins
mattmullins@me.com
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Libor Pixa: graduated from The
Film and Television School at
The Academy of Performing Arts
in Prague (FAMU). In his work,
Libor focuses on the combination
of animation techniques and live
action on 3D computer animation.
Sam Hoare: is a full time actor
who has appeared in TV such as
Eastenders and films such as The
Golden Compass. This was his first
time behind the camera and he hopes
to spend a lot more time there.
Contact: Sam Hoare
sam_hoare@hotmail.com
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Animator: Izabela Melamed
Music: Jack Brewer
Izabela Melamed: an established
animator from Bulgaria. She gained
artistic experience and film making
skills while contributing to numerous
international productions, including
a rich diversity of countries and
animation studios that spanned a wide
variety of genres and techniques.
Contact: Izabela Melamed
izabela844@gmail.com
Contact: Libor Pixa
libor.pixa@seznam.cz
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Grand Prix
Hop the Twig
Dir: Marc Riba & Anna Solanas
Spain 2011
8 mins
Dir: Kyle Rideout
Canada 2010
10 mins
Cloudless sky. Vehicles on the grid.
Blas, Ivan and Hector take their places.
It’s is about to start! Ready, steady…
When little Audrey’s potted plant
dies, the tot’s deepest fears take over
her wildly growing imagination.
Classic animation meets a classically
told child’s fable.
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Marc Riba, Anna Solanas
Distributor: I+G Stop Motion
Writer: Marc Riba, Anna Solanas
DOP: Anna Molins
Editor: Sergi Marti
Animator: Nuria Riba
Sound: Anna Solanas
Music: Roqui Albero
Marc Riba & Anna Solanas:
have been working in the world
of puppet animation for 10 years.
They have made 6 short films which
have been selected in more than
700 festivals around the world.
Contact: Marc Riba & Anna Solanas
info@stopmotion.cat
Prod: Kyle Rideout, Yifeng Song
Writer: Kyle Rideout
DOP: Byron Oren
Editor: Kyle Rideout
Animator: Blake Laing-Smith
(VFX supervisor)
Sound: Chris McLaren
Music: Joelysa Pankanea
Cast: Emily Kozak, Kelly Metzger,
William Samples, Gillian Paddon,
Kathryn Shaw, Lee Vincent, Ian
Butcher, Eliza Rideout, Kyle Rideout
Kyle Rideout: Hop the Twig is
his directorial debut. He is a self
taught, multi award winning actor,
working extensively in theatre,
voice-over, film and television.
Das Haus
(The House)
Dir: David Buob
Germany 2011
6 mins 48 secs
The dream of the little girl is to care
for her grandmother, but the aunt and
the mother do not let her do so.
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Sound: Christian Lutz
Music: David Buob, Christian Lutz
David Buob: 1972 born in Calw,
Germany. 1992-94, he studied
architecture in Kassel. 1994-97,
participated in vocational training
as a stonemason, Kassel. 1998-2003,
he studied Sculpture, HfBK Dresden.
2001-02, he attended the Academy
of Fine Arts Vienna. 2003, he took
a Diploma HfBK and now lives and
works in Dresden and Berlin.
Contact: David Buob
david@davidbuob.de
Angelinho
Flight at the Museum
Dir: Maryna Shchipak
Germany 2011
4 mins 28 secs
Dir: Demitri Delinikolas
Greece 2010
4 mins 5 secs
Angelinho is a cautious guardian
angel… His best efforts only make
the thrill-happy cyclist, for whom
he is responsible, more and
more adventurous.
A Shadow Theatre Figure flies inside
the Museum of Greek Civilization, and
teases the night guard with the help of
other exhibits.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Martin Backhaus
Maryna Shchipak: Born in Ukraine
in 1983, and attended art school
from the age of 11. She studied
Graphic Design and Fine Arts in
Kiev and Bern, Switzerland. In 2011
she graduated in Animation at the
Baden-Württemberg Film Academy.
Contact: Martin Backhaus
contact@martinbackhaus.com
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Animator: Nikos Spathis, Simos
Magliveras, Vassilis Koletis,
Angelos Christopoulos
Sound: Panagiotis Delinikolas
Music: Ilias Pantoleon
Cast: Giorgos Patras
Demitri Delinikolas: Studied
Film and Animation in the UK
and has worked as a Commercials
director in Greece since 2006.
Contact: Demitri Delinikolas
deitri_del@yahoo.com
Mały Listonosz
(Little Postman)
Dir: Dorota Kobiela
Poland 2011
3 mins 22 secs
Little Postman set to Chopin’s
Revolutionary Etude is the world’s first
painting animation in 3-D telling a
touching story set in World War II.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Hugh Welchman
Writer: Dorota Kobiela
DOP: Nicolas Villegas Hernandez
Editor: Dorota Kobiela
Music: Fryderyk Chopin
performed by Lang Lang
Dorota Kobiela: a painter-artist and
film director. In her films she mixes
these arts coming up with exciting
new forms of motion pictures.
Contact: Dorota Kobiela
dorota@breakthrufilms.pl
Contact: Kyle Rideout
Kyle.rideout@gmail.com
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SAT 19 NOV 15:00 Watershed Cinema 1
2 HRS
The Girl with the
World in her Hair
Dir: Debbie Howard
UK 2011
4 mins
Using real footage and animation,
this is a charming tale of a young
girl’s efforts to feel good about her
exceptional crowning glory.
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Debbie Howard
Writer: Debbie Howard
DOP: Mark Cohen
Editor: Neil Fergusson
Animator: Zane Whittingham
Sound: David Mitchell
Music: Martin Snape and Asa Bennett
Cast: Jasmine Givnan, Sonny Givnan,
Stephen Givnan, Debbie Howard
Debbie Howard: set up Big Buddha
Films with an emphasis on making
films with a strong female voice. She
has made many award winning shorts
and is currently in post-production
on her new film Peekaboo.
Contact: Debbie Howard
debbie@bigbuddhafilms.co.uk
Nokia “Dot”
Das Tub
Dir: Sumo Science
UK 2010
1 mins 30 secs
Dir: James Cunningham
New Zealand 2010
4 mins 5 secs
Dot is a tiny 9mm girl who wakes
up in a magical, magnified world
to discover her surroundings are
caving in around her.
Lost in the frozen depths of the Atlantic
in a German U-Boat, the crew find
themselves on a collision course with
objects stranger than they can fathom.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Laura Pepper,
Jason Fletcher-Bartholomew
DOP: Mark Chamberlain
Editor: Nikk Fielden
Animator: Sumo Science
Sound: Aaron Reynolds,
Wave Studios London
Music: Michael Sims
Ed Patterson & Will Studd (Sumo
Science): both finished animation
and graphic design degrees in 2003 in
Bristol. They are commercials directors
at Aardman Animations and have
completed ads for Innocent Orange
Juice, P&O, Weetos Cereal and Nokia.
Contact: Maggie O’Connor
maggie.oconnor@aardman.com
Every year, DepicT! asks filmmakers
across the globe to show their stuff in
just a minute and a half. Chosen from
over 500 entries submitted from 30
countries, the 14 films on this year’s
shortlist stood out for their originality,
imagination and ability to engage. This
big screen premiere and Q&A with
the filmmakers is followed by a panel
on the possibilities and challenges
of the ultra-short film format. After
the screening, get a free drink with
your ticket courtesy of Bath Ales.
depict.org
Contact: James Cunningham
jamesc@mediadesignschool.com
Antonymy
Dir: Michelle Arbon
UK 2011
1 min 30 secs
Dir: Shashwati Talukdar Taiwan
China 2010
47 secs
Unprepared for what he finds, a
young soldier is left to make a life
changing decision.
Do antonyms belong together?
Chinese speakers explore the answer.
Experimental
Animation
Michelle Arbon: completed her MA
in Screenwriting at the Northern
Film School in 2008. She then trained
as a Camera Assistant and now
works as a Clapper Loader whilst
pursuing her passion for writing
and directing her own shorts.
Prod: James Cunningham,
Oliver Hilbert, Leon Woud
Writer: Nick Ward
DOP: Simon Riera
Editor: James Cunningham
Animator: Jonathan Hagan,
Junying Xu, Kirsten Pretorius,
Priyan Jayamaha, Rupert Ashton
Sound: Victoria Parsons,
Dave Whitehead
Music: Dave Whitehead
Cast: Craig Hall, Gareth Reeves
James Cunningham: (born 1973)
a New Zealand film director and
animator. He has directed eight
award winning short films. He is
based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Above as Below
Supported & Managed by
Shashwati Talukdar: is a Film
and Video artist originally from
India. He works in the United
States and lives in Taiwan.
part of
Sponsored by
Supported by
Reception supported by
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Attack of the
Alien Emmets
Dir: Paul Parker
UK 2011
1 mIN 30 secs
A swarm of ant like aliens invade
Earth. Their target: Cornwall.
Luckily it has an unexpected defence.
Candy Crime
Egg & Fag
Dir: Ben Jacobson
UK
1 mIN 30 secs
Dir: Sjaak Rood
Netherlands 2011
1 mIN 10 secs
Dir: Rose Hendry
UK 2011
1 mIN 30 secs
“All you need to make a movie is a girl
and a gun.” Jean-Luc Godard, 16th
May 1991. A satirical look at the very
serious issue of teenage gun crime.
The line gets lost in the drawing.
The drawing gets lost in the movement
of the animation. Until it stops.
The surroundings of a woman
are slowly revealed.
Animation
Drama
Paul Parker: a Cornwall born
director/compositor who works
with blending handheld video
footage with photorealistic
computer graphics. He particularly
enjoys making things explode.
Ben Jacobson: This year, inspired
by his talented daughter, Ben has
returned to his first passion - dramatic
filmmaking - and he’s loving it.
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De Lijn (The Line)
Drama / Experimental, World Premiere
Animation / Experimental
Sjaak Rood: After studying Arts
and Illustration in Amsterdam, Sjaak
worked as a theatre technician,
which impacted on his practice.
He is developing a short (At
First Sight), supported by the
Dutch Filmfund. sjaakrood.nl
Rose Hendry: A graduate from
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
& Design in Dundee, Rose has been
collaborating with cinematographer
Ian Forbes on a series of Artists’ film,
music video and narrative shorts.
Experiments
in Parahypnosis
Dir: Neil Hepburn
UK 2011
1 mIN 30 secs
These are the only surviving images
from the ‘experiments’ conducted by
Dr Schlaf at an institute in Berlin,
1973, after a fire claimed the lives
of all participants.
Drama / Experimental
Neil Hepburn: Neil has made
experimental shorts and written
screenplays with support from the
BBC, Skillset and DigiCult. He’s
now developing a feature-length
psychological thriller (Bitter Memoirs).
Innocent Dream
Dir: Ali Ahmed Brohi
Pakistan 2010
1 min 10 secs
A little girl from rural Pakistan with
an innocent dream. Will it come true?
Drama
Ali Ahmed Brohi: (DepicT! 2010,
Plastic Dreams) has been making films
since 2008 many of which have been
screened at international festivals.
His work focuses on social issues
especially the issues that affect women
and children. mediavoicefilms.org
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Memory Loss
Dir: Matthew Bartlett
& James Kermack
UK 2011
1 min 18 secs
A haunting snapshot of a young
father struggling to cope with how one
seemingly innocuous moment can
change everything.
Drama
Matthew Bartlett & James
Kermack: After working together
for the past four years; collaborating
primarily on comedy and theatre
projects, Matthew & James are
developing a series of shorts under
the name of Nothin’ or Double.
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Our Satisfying
Conclusion
Dir: Henrik G Dahle
Norway 2011
1 min 30 secs
“I want to show you some stuff we
made, if you’ve got a moment, and can
be bothered to engage with a couple of
thoughts I had. “
Experimental
Henrik G Dahle: This is Henrik’s 5th
DepicT! inspired film (The Equator
Complex ’06) between writing longer
dramas for theatre and film, climbing
trees, and planning the revolution.
Quite seriously - gauntlettandson.com
Plasma from Heaven
Dir: David Gilbert
& Maxim Lucas
UK 2011
1 min 30 secs
Magpies are out looting - shiny bounty
beware! All is going to plan until
they accidentally interrupt someone’s
peaceful night in front of the telly.
Animation
David Gilbert & Maxim Lucas: David
Gilbert (The Picnic, DepicT! 2007
Audience Award winner) and Maxim
Lucas graduated from UWE, Bristol in
2008 in graphic design and animation
and have since gone on to form their
own company ‘Plastic Horse’.
The Existential
Pleading of the
Inner Heart
Dirs: The Brothers McLeod
UK 2011
1 min 25 secs
The philosophical musings of an
internet filmmaker... A little bit
observational, a little bit
confessional, a little bit silly.
Animation
The Brothers McLeod: Illustratoranimator Greg and screenwriter
Myles create animations for TV, film,
games and the web such as Quiff
and Boot (BBC), Art Sparks (Tate
Kids) and the BAFTA nominated
Codswallop. brothersmcleod.co.uk
The Launderette
Wake
Dir: Tim Bassford
UK 2011
1 min 30 secs
Dir: Nick Fogg
UK 2011
1 min 30 secs
A tired cleaner finds more than she
bargains for when doing a stranger a
favour in this unusual launderette.
87-year old Lis is determined to live life
to the full. She decides to hold her own
wake – whilst still very much alive –
so as not to miss out on the party.
Drama
Documentary
Tim Bassford: Tim has been making
shorts for a decade. From crazy
video installations to an Arts Council
funded short Coalescence. He finished
in the top 3 of the 2010 ‘Enter the
Pitch’ competition and worked on
the recent NFTS film Revolving.
Nick Fogg: Nick began directing
in the theatre. Her first short films
were broadcast on BBC Local TV.
In 2008 she was shortlisted for
Screen WM’s digishorts. She is
now developing her first feature.
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2 HRS
Sunny Boy
Rough Skin
Prize Partners
Night Shift
Assessment
Hollow
Dir: Jane Gull
UK 2011
11 mins 14 secs
Dir: Cathy Brady
UK 2011
22 mins 48 secs
Dir: Ruth Reid
UK 2011
9 mins 5 secs
Dir: Mark Gutteridge
UK 2010
12 mins 10 secs
Dir: Rob Sorrenti
UK 2010
20 mins
Danny has a rare skin condition that
prevents him from being in the sun and
a desire to be a regular teenager.
After nine months in prison,
Kelly struggles to adjust to life
outside, back in the family home
with her mother, Linda.
Anne Wallace once had a dream to help
Glasgow’s working women. Soon after
she had a double decker bus, and the
Ministry of Salt and Light.
Rachel’s developing adolescent shape is
a problem for tutors at a top London
ballet school. Michael, a local school
boy, is struggling with his exams.
A sensitive observation about the
nature of addiction and the inevitable
sacrifice that comes with sobriety.
Drama
Documentary
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Eligible Awards:
Documentary Award, European
New Talent, EFA Nomination
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Emma Curtis
Writer: Jane Gull
DOP: Justin Brown
Editor: Benjamin Gerstein
Sound: Bennet Maples, Simon Byshee
Cast: Darren Kent, Lewis
Nicolas, Tara Hodge
Jane Gull: comes from a theatrical
background. Her springboard into
filmmaking came when she was
fortunate to write and direct Together
Alone as part of the Digital Shorts
2004 scheme. Jane has since gone
on to make several self funded films.
Contact: Jane Gull
jane.gull@sky.com
Producer: John Chapman, Tom Nash
Exec Producer: Emma Burge
Writer: Laura Lomas
DOP: Tim Palmer
Editor: Richard Graham
Sound: Martin Trevis
Music: Dan Parry
Cast: Andy Brierley
Cathy Brady: has made several
shorts, promos and EPKs under her
own production company. Cathy’s
film Small Change won the Irish
Television and Film Award for Best
Short 2011 and the Claire Lynch
Award at the Cork Film Festival 2010.
Contact: Cathy Brady
poppy@touchpapertv.com
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Prod: Flore Cosquer (SDI Productions)
DOP: Maja Borg, Minttu Mantyen
Editor: Maja Borg
Sound: Ruth Reid
Distributor: Scottish
Documentary Institute
Ruth Reid: upon graduating with a
Law degree from Edinburgh University,
Ruth Reid began making films in
New York and Bristol. Recently she
was the second unit director and the
associate producer on Sue Bourne’s
feature documentary JIG about
the 40th Anniversary of the Irish
Dancing World Championships.
Contact: Finlay Pretsell
f.pretsell@eca.ac.uk
Prod: Jack Tarling, Tom Clutterbuck
Writer: Mark Gutteridge
DOP: Damien Pawle
Editor: Brian Hovmand
Sound: Jack Gillies
Music: Foreign Beggers
Cast: Joe Cole, Tahirah Sharif,
Faye Daveney, Jordon Stevens,
Jade Moulla, Jassa Ahluwalia
Mark Gutteridge: Interested in the
space between dreams and real life,
story is key for Mark and shorts the
medium to tell it. There are no easy
answers to any questions he poses but
the answers always come from life.
Contact: Jack Tarling
jack@shudderfilms.co.uk
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Long Distance
Information
Dir: Douglas Hart
UK 2011
7 mins 40 secs
Alex and his father are as distant
emotionally as they are in miles.
In the waning light of Christmas
day Alex phones home.
Drama
Prod: Rob Sorrenti, Roopesh Parekh
Writer: Rob Sorrenti, Lee Thomas
DOP: David Raedeker
Editor: Leo King
Sound: Andy Hodges
Music: Christopher Slaski
Cast: Morven Christie, Martin McCann,
Nonso Anozie, Haydn Gwynne
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Rob Sorrenti: debut short Wednesday
was exec. produced by Stephen Daldry.
It has screened at 50 Festivals around
the world, winning several awards.
Rob recently completed his new short,
Hollow. He is now working on his
first feature with Rocket Pictures.
Douglas Hart: originally from The
Jesus and Mary Chain, Hart has
directed many music videos since
1991. His short film Long Distance
Information is his first drama, a dark
comedy exploring the relationship
between a father and son.
Contact: Rob Sorrenti
rob.sorrenti@futuretimepictures.com
Contact: Ohna Falby/
Beth Montague
ohnafalby@gmail.com/
beth@hsilondon.co.uk Prod: Beth Montague, Ohna Falby
Writer: Douglas Hart
DOP: Stuart Bentley
Editor: Dan Robinson
Music: Gruff Rhys
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BRIT 2: SELF HELP
2 HRS
Subculture
Happy Clapper
Prize Partners
Egg & Fag
Jam Today
James Dean
The Pizza Miracle
Dir: Elfar Adalsteins
UK 2011
14 mins 45 secs
Dir: Tom Marshall
UK 2010
23 mins 29 secs
Dir: Rose Hendry
UK 2011
1 mins 39 secs
Dir: Simon Ellis
UK 2011
14 mins 35 secs
Dir: Lucy Asten Holmes-Elliot
UK 2011
7 mins 20 secs
Dir: Tony Grisoni
UK 2010
22 mins 47 secs
Lily and Darryl, who both sleep rough
on the streets of London, find themselves
caught in a dangerous predicament.
Wannabe gangster living alone in
a caravan gets a visit from a born
again Christian. They have both been
waiting for this moment to come.
The surroundings of a woman are
slowly revealed exposing a surreal,
heightened world.
Impatient to grow and become a
man, Robert is stuck on a boating
holiday with his parents in the
English countryside.
A family day out takes an
unexpected turn when young Alex
decides to share her secret.
In a stifling pizzeria kitchen, a
belligerent father who doesn’t know
how to be loved, battles with a son
who doesn’t know how to live.
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Elfar Adalsteins,
James Marquand, Sigvaldi Karason
Writer: Elfar Adalsteins
DOP: Matthew Whyte
Editor: Sigvaldi Karason
Sound: Nicolas Liebing
Music: Biggi Hilmarsson
Cast: Tuppence Middleton,
Joseph Kennedy, Mark Womack,
Jody Halse
Distributor: Berserk Films
Elfar Adalsteins: a director and
screenwriter who lives and works
in Buckinghamshire, England.
His directorial debut Subculture
starring Tuppence Middleton,
Joseph Kennedy and acclaimed
actor Mark Womack was filmed in
Hammersmith, London last year.
Contact: Elfar Adalsteins
info@elfaradalsteins.com
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Eligible Awards:
Prod: Maria Forsstrom
Cast: Joe Dempsie, Felicity Mintagu
Tom Marshall: writer/director
from the north east, Tom won the
BBC New Talent Award in 2007 and
was named a ‘Star of Tomorrow’ in
Screen International magazine.
Contact: Kate Dobson
kate@vitanovafilms.com
Experimental, World Premiere
Drama
Drama
Eligible Awards:
DOP: Ian Forbes
Sound: Rose Hendry
Rose Hendry: a filmmaker from
Fife, Scotland, studied at Duncan of
Jordanstone College of Art & Design.
Contact: Rose Hendry
rose.hendry@live.com
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Jonas Blanchard
DOP: David Procter
Simon Ellis: his films have received
many festival awards and have been
presented collectively in retrospective
programmes at over a dozen film
festivals worldwide. His film Soft
won thirty-eight prizes including
the jury prize for Best International
Short at Sundance Film Festival.
Contact: Simon Ellis
simonellis@bubtowers.com
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Jennifer Scammell
Writer: Lucy Asten Holmes-Elliot
DOP: George Geddes
Editor: Bert Eeles
Sound: Chris Duddy
Cast: Lauren Dempsie, Laura McBain,
Vince Docherty, Elaine Blair
Distributor: Diversity Films
Lucy Asten Holmes-Elliott:
a Glasgow based filmmaker from
East Sussex. She studied Film
in Manchester. Her final year
film Grandma and the Monster,
which she directed, won the ‘Best
of the Northwest’ award at the
Exposures Film Festival 2006.
Contact: Diversity Films
mail@diversityfilms.org.uk
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Mike Elliott
Writer: Tony Grisoni
DOP: Florian Hoffmeister
Editor: Nicholas Chaudeurge
Sound: Tim Barker
Music: Funki Porcini
Cast: Matt Berry, Stanley Townsend,
Josef Altin, Olive Supple-Still,
Anamaria Marinca, Ray Cooper
Tony Grisoni: has worked in many
different areas of filmmaking before
turning to screenwriting. He has
worked closely with a number
of directors including Michael
Winterbottom, John Boorman and
Terry Gilliam. His directorial debut,
Kingsland#1, was BAFTA nominated.
Contact: Tony Grisoni
toona@toona.co.uk
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BRIT 3: NEW LOOK
SUN 20 NOV 13:30 WATERSHED CINEMA 3
2 HRS
Radio Amina
God View
Prize Partners
Baby
Our Ordered Lives
Saved
Aisha’s Song
UK 2011
9 mins
Dir: Billy Lumby
UK 2011
7 mins 2 secs
Dir: Daniel Mulloy
UK 2010
25 mins
Dir: Christine Entwisle
UK 2011
10 mins
Dir: Stuart Elliott
UK 2011
11 mins 35 secs
UK 2011
9 mins
Radio Amina tells the story of Amina,
a street hawker and her imaginary
radio show.
From an unusual perspective,
we follow Philip around his
neighbourhood in Hackney, East
London. He is mentally unwell
and misses his wife and daughter.
A young woman is followed
home by a stranger.
Escaping from the horror of her own
actions, a young woman is catapulted
from her airless Cumbrian home to
the wildness of the fell tops.
An 11 year old girl struggles to save
herself as her world is suddenly torn
apart by a deadly virus.
Blinded by aged 3 and sent to work on
the streets of Kano aged 9, Aisha life
chances were’t great. This is her story.
Documentary, World Premiere
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Suzanne Reid
Writer: Stuart Elliott
DOP: George Geddes
Editor: Scott McCartney
Sound: Tom Griffiths
Music: Giles Lamb
Cast: Megan Fraser, Bailey
Newsome, Eric Roberts
Prod: Orlando von Einsiedel, Jon Drever
Editor: Katie Bryer, Peta Ridley
Sound: Patrick Vernon
Music: Patrick Jonnson
Documentary, World Premiere
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Orlando von Einsiedel,
Jon Drever
DOP: Franklin Dow
Editor: Katie Bryer
Sound: Patrick Vernon
Music: Patrick Jonnson
Orlando von Einsiedel: his last short
Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul
was officially selected for Sundance
2011. Von Einsiedel’s credits extend
not only to documentaries, but also to
music videos and promos for a number
of bands and international brands.
Contact: Jon Drever
amelia@grainmedia.co.uk
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Billy Lumby
Writer: Billy Lumby
DOP: Brett Turnbull, Tony Hill
Editor: Billy Lumby
Sound: Dario Swade
Cast: Cornell S. John,
Hammed Animashaun
Billy Lumby: born in London and
studied philosophy at UCL. He
works as a ghostwriter and visual
researcher for other directors, such
as Harmony Korine, Mike Figgis,
Jonas Akerlund, Tom Hooper.
Contact: Billy Lumby
billylumby@gmail.com
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Drama
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Ohna Falby
Writer: Daniel Mulloy
DOP: Lol Crawley
Editor: Dan Robinson
Sound: Sam Auguste, Victoria Franzan
Music: Alexander Balanescu,
Benny Di Massa
Cast: Arta Dobroshi, Daniel Kaluuya
Distributor: Sister Films
Daniel Mulloy: BAFTA award winning
director has studied fine art in London
and New York. He has written and
directed five multi award-winning
short films and is currently working
on his two forthcoming feature films.
Contact: Laura D’asta
sisterfilms.info@googlemail.com
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Eddie Robson
Writer: Christine Entwisle
DOP: Phil Wood
Editor: Eddie Robson
Sound: Mark Kershaw
Cast: Freya Parker, Eilis Hetherington
Christine Entwisle: other short
films include Death of a Double Act
(also Film Council Funded) and
Relate. Animations include The
Wonderhorse Chronicles. Entwisle
was commissioned to write a feature
Bat Boy for North West Vision. She
performs as an actor and cabaret
artist and has a background
in visual theatre.
Stuart Elliott: Saved is Stuart’s
third short film, and was developed
through Digicult. His previous film,
The Pedestrian, was screened at
several festivals across Europe.
Winning the audience award at
the Glasgow Film Festival.
Orlando von Einsiedel: last short
Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul
was officially selected for Sundance
2011. Von Einsiedel’s credits extend
not only to documentaries, but also
music videos and promos for a number
of bands and international brands
Contact: Jon Drever
amelia@grainmedia.co.uk
Contact: Stuart Elliott
elliottcast@yahoo.co.uk
Contact: Christine Entwisle
christineentwisle@me.com
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BRIT 4: ENGLAND MADE ME
2 HRS
Prize Partners
Yellow Wall
A Gun for George
Burn my Body
Rite
Dir: Alex Goddard
UK 2011
2 mins 52 secs
Dir: Matthew Holness
UK 2011
16 mins
Dir: Fyzal Boulifa
UK 2010
18 mins
Dir: Michael Pearce
UK 2010
16 mins 50 secs
“To assume reincarnation doesn’t
exist makes an Ass out of you and
me, Ghandi said that…the Bear”.
Terry Finch is a frustrated pulp
fiction author and eternal loner
looking for brutal revenge on the
mean streets of Kent.
Hana removes her headscarf in
public but when she gets home
there are severe consequences.
Mike takes his son out for his birthday;
But drink and the simmering violence
threaten to bring out the worst in him.
Drama
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Gavin Humphries, Anna Higgs
Writer: Fyzal Boulifa
DOP: Taina Galis
Editor: Taina Galis, Fyzal Boulifa
Sound: Shane Vahey, David Heinemann
Cast: Zehra Zorba, Simin Jahangiri-pour,
Hussina Raja, Mohammad Riaz,
Michael Wallis, Haydar Koyel
Prod: Paul Welsh, Ross McKenzie
Writer: Michael Pearce
DOP: Benjamin Kracun
Editor: Maya Mafioi
Sound: Dario Swade
Music: Daniel Padden, Kylie Earl
Cast: Martin Herdman, Bradley Hall
Drama
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Writer: Alex Goddard
Alex Goddard: injects his films with
a distinctive pace which gives his
work a charming makeshift quality.
Often creating pieces for Kino, the
prestigious London open-mic short film
night, Alex’s films focus on expressing
unique theories over visual perfection.
Contact: Alex Goddard
alex_goddard@hotmail.com
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Ally Gipps, Peter Carlton
Writer: Matthew Holness
DOP: David Rom
Editor: Nick Fenton
Sound: Hackenbacker
Music: KPM, Sugar Music,
Matthew Holness
Cast: Matthew Holness,
Roger Ashton-Griffiths,
Edward Halstead, Veronica Roberts,
Tim Skelton, Matthew Ashforde
Matthew Holness: created the
character Garth Marenghi and, with
Richard Ayoade, co-wrote the 2001
Perrier Award-winning show Garth
Marenghi’s Netherhead, Channel
4’s Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and
Man to Man with Dean Learner. As
an actor he has appeared in Russell T.
Davies’ Casanova and Ricky Gervais
and Stephen Merchant’s The Office,
Cemetary Junction and Life’s Too Short.
Fyzal Boulifa: has written and
directed two shorts with the UKFC/
B3 Media - Afternoon and Whore, the
latter of which won the Grand Prix du
Jury at Angers Premiers Plans, and Best
Short Film at London East End Festival.
Michael Pearce: undertook Film
Directing BA course at the Arts
Institute at Bournemouth where he
made short films, documentaries
and commercials. His graduation
film, Isaac Ellen won Best Screenplay
at Cherbourg Film Festival.
Contact: Gavin Humphries
production@quarkfilms.com
Contact: Ashley Black
ashley@digicult.co.uk
An History
of Civilisation
Dir: Andrew Kotting
UK 2010
7 mins
The film takes as its starting point
a Fun Fair in Southwark Park with
its backdrop of Canary Wharf.
All of humanity is at play.
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Andrew Kotting
Writer: Andrew Kotting
DOP: Gary Parker
Editor: Andrew Kotting
Sound: Andrew Kotting
Music: Andrew Kotting
Andrew Kotting: an artist and
film-maker; he has been making
work since 1980. Awards and
commissions include Film Four,
BBC, The British Film Institute, Tate
Modern, Centre Pompidou, The
Wellcome Trust and the AHRC.
Contact: Andrew Kotting
andrewbadblood@yahoo.co.uk
Contact: Ally Gipps
ally@warpfilms.com
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Big Society
Man in Fear
Dir: Nick Scott
UK 2011
7 mins
Dir: William Jewell
UK 2011
10 mins 55 secs
One man’s controversial new approach
to handling social issues.
A bloodied man walks into a police
station wanting to be locked up. He
tells the Policeman artists are trying
to kill him. By accident…
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Jonathan Rhodes, Melissa
Simpson, Nick Scott
Writer: Nick Scott, Jonathan Rhodes
Editor: Gareth C. Scales
Sound: Justin Bryant
Cast: Jonathan Rhodes, Ian Appleby,
Nick Crawford, Tarek Gjonnes,
Garrett David Millerick, Ben Taub,
Tom Wright, Zane Burkmar,
Yasmin Chamberlain, Nathan Charles,
Oliver Collins, Benjamin Fisher,
Lewis Meagor, Reece Roe,
Simone Smedley
Distributor: Egoist Films
(Russia and CIS)
Nick Scott: a film writer/ director
based in London. His films have been
shown at international film festivals,
including Clermont-Ferrand, Golden
Lion South Africa and BornShorts in
Denmark. He has won the Straight8
film competition three times.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Daniel Nixon
Writer: William Jewell
DOP: Dominic Jones
Editor: David Wigram
Sound: Tim Howarth
Music: Will Hood
Cast: Luke Treadaway,
Tim Healy, James Lance
Will Jewell: directed his first feature
film South Coast: a documentary
about the effects of US culture in the form of hip hop - on British
seaside towns. The film won
various awards and was selected
for over a dozen festivals globally.
Contact: Daniel Nixon
dan@fracturedfilms.com
When the
Dust Settles
Dir: Tom Stewart
UK 2011
10 mins 36 secs
Set in a decaying seaside town,
Ed returns to find friends and
relatives have moved on, bitter
towards his success. Disappointed,
he recalls his childhood.
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Tom Stewart
Writer: Tom Stewart
DOP: Tom Doran
Editor: Alfi Elgarice
Sound: Will Lambert
Music: Elis Llwyd Williams
Cast: John Weaver, Danny Stewart
Tom Stewart: born in London,
England, in 1989. He studied Art and
Design at Kingston University, before
graduating from the Manchester
School of Art in Contemporary
Film and Video. “When The Dust
Settles” is his graduate film.
Contact: Tom Stewart
tom@stewwwart.com
Pitch Black Heist
Dir: John Maclean
UK 2011
13 mins 30 secs
Professional safe crackers meet on
a simple job, but the catch is a light
activated alarm system impelling the
men to embark on a pitch black heist.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Gerardine O’ Flynn
Writer: John Maclean
DOP: Robbie Ryan
Editor: John Maclean
Sound: Gernot Fuhrmann
Music: John Maclean
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Liam
Cunningham, Alex MacQueen
John Maclean: founding member
of The Beta Band 1997-2004 and
The Aliens from 2005-2010. His first
short, Man on a Motorcycle starred
Michael Fassbender, his involvement
integral. This fruitful collaboration
led to his second short Pitch Black
Heist starring Fassbender and
Liam Cunningham. First feature is
currently in development with Film4.
Contact: Gerardine O’ Flynn
GOflynn@Channel4.co.uk
Contact: Nick Scott
nick@nickdavidscott.com
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BEST OF SOUTH WEST
SAT 19 Nov 12:00 Watershed cinema 1
2 HRS
请勿打扰
(Do not disturb)
Dir: Barry Wilkinson
UK 2011
9 mins 43 secs
Little White Lies
Dir: Stuart Napier
UK 2010
11 mins
A Chinese man on business in the UK
tries to ignore the feelings he has for his
colleague, in order to get the job done.
Two brothers look forward to a picnic
with Mum but the unexpected arrival
of Mum’s new boyfriend, has unforeseen
and dramatic consequences.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Writer: Barry Wilkinson,
Yang Bai Wilkinson
Editor: Tim Trusler
Music: Gavin Salkeld
Cast: Jay Oliver Yip, Michelle Yim
Prod: Raymond Day
Writer: Jenny Davis
DOP: Simon Richards
Editor: Bobby Sheikh
Sound: Jonathon Gunton,
Jonathon Jenkins
Music: Stuart Gordon
Cast: Christine Bottomley,
Joe McFadden, Nehemiah Goodridge,
William Wright-Neblett
Barry Wilkinson: After graduating
from the University of Lincoln, Barry
moved to Bristol to work at a video
production company. Having created
short films from a young age, he
has continued to work on several
short films in the last few years.
Contact: Barry Wilkinson
bazwilkinson85@gmail.com
Stuart Napier: Stuart has many
years experience as an award
winning documentary director and
editor. In editing he has a BAFTA
nomination and has won the
prestigious Wildscreen Award. In
directing, he has won the West of
England RTS for Wacky Racers.
The things I
think about
Dir: Geoffrey Taylor
UK 2011
4 mins 20 secs
This is a short, peculiar film about
Ed and the things he thinks about.
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Geoffrey Taylor
Writer: Geoffrey Taylor
DOP: Charlie Stoddart
Editor: Geoffrey Taylor
Sound: Eifion Jones
Cast: Ed Rapley, Nina Wyllie
Geoffrey Taylor: Geoffrey’s latest
short The Things I Think About is
the first in a series of films with actor
Ed Rapley. Other main films include
Breathe, Isabella and My Grandma,
some have won awards at major
festivals, including Encounters.
Contact: Geoffrey Taylor
geoff@wideeyed.co.uk
Maria
Dir: Paul Dudbridge
UK 2011
27 mins 30 secs
Young prostitute “Maria” decides to
go back to school. Things don’t go
smoothly when a familiar face walks
in to teach her first class…
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Joanna Beard, Paul Dudbridge
Writer: Will Griffin, Paul Dudbridge
DOP: Roger Pearce
Editor: Paul Dudbridge
Sound: Xander McGrouther,
James Hayward
Music: Josh Wynter
Cast: Amy Burnett, Jason Bailey,
Kessie Bartlett, Lily Davis-Bromme
Paul Dudbridge: Paul has been
making films since the age of 11.
He now produces short films and
music videos as well as working
as a lighting cameraman in the
business. His previous short films
have been screened on ITV.
Contact: Paul Dudbridge
paul@hanoverpictures.co.uk
My Dream/
My Reality
Until my Heart’s,
Like, Finished
Dir: Scubaboy
UK 2011
5 mins
Dir: Pete Snelling
UK 2010
10 mins 14 secs
From a real story about the emotional
and psychological impact of sex
trafficking from the point of view
of the victim.
A raw and moving film, which sees
young people talking frankly about their
personal experiences of homelessness.
Produced by Somerset Film and
Bridgwater YMCA.
Documentary
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: James Thomson
DOP: Robbie Bryant
Editor: Scubaboy
Music: UNKLE, New Volunteer
Cast: Louise Ennever, Nigel Long
Scubaboy: Bristol based directing
duo Scubaboy work in music videos,
tour visuals, commercials and all sorts
of other pieces which move and are
viewed on screens. They have directed
videos for Frank Turner, UNKLE,
Cagedbaby, Mr. Fogg and more.
Contact: Scubaboy
studio@scubaboy.co.uk
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Phil Shepherd
Editor: Rachel Tunnard
Music: James Price
Distributor: Somerset Film
Pete Snelling: Peter makes films,
does drawings and runs things. In
his pockets you will find a paper bag
that once contained a Belgian bun,
a supermarket receipt and a note
book containing ideas that will
happen, ideas that might happen
and that are never going to
happen in a million years.
Contact: Pete Snelling
peter@mypockets.co.uk
Contact: Stuart Napier
stuart@123media.co.uk
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NAHEMI
2 HRS
The National Association for Higher
Education in the Moving Image,
NAHEMI, presents a programme
of outstanding recent work by
produced by film, television and
animation students around the
country, with special awards for
creativity and cinematography.
I’ll Tell You
Car Park Babylon
Ella
Generously sponsored by Avid,
the prizes will be presented by Nik
Powell, Director of the NFTS.
Lost Tracks
Nighthawks
Dir. Rebecca Archer
& Joanna Arlington
UK 2011
2 mins 14 secs
Dir: Rachel Tillotson
UK 2010
9 mins 44 secs
Dir: Joe Magee & Bill Bailey
UK 2010
11 mins 21 secs
Dir: Dan Gitsham
UK 2011
8 mins 54 secs
Dir. Jon Stanford
UK 2011
21 mins
At war with a mother who’ll never
understand her, Lola feels propelled to
tell an intimate tale about what love is.
I was trapped in a car park on
Christmas Eve with a car full of
presents. It was a freak occurrence
– the two pound coins landed
equidistant in the slot and
wouldn’t drop.
A Mother dead in the kitchen.
A Father with blood on his hands.
Not all is what it seems!
Tobi, a teenager disillusioned
with her family life and friends,
gets ready to run away from her
life in rural Shropshire.
“The inner life of a human being
is a vast and varied realm”
Edward Hopper (1953)
Drama
Animation
Prod: Charlotte Pegram
DOP: Ben Caird
Editor: Ali Jaberansari
University for the
Creative Arts, Farnham
www.ucreative.ac.uk/farnham
London Film School
www.lfs.org.uk
Contact: Rebecca Archer
& Joanna Arlington
Joarlingon@hotmail.com
Rebecca_archer@live.co.uk
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Jayne Chard
Writer: Rachel Tillotson
DOP: Ursula Pontikos
Editor: John Minton
Music: Alex Heffes
Cast: Ella Peel, Julia Ford,
Alex Child, Angus Fox
Distributor: Some Like It
Short - Juan Escudero
Drama
Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Mike Elliot
Writer: Joe Magee, Bill Bailey
DOP: Hubert Taczanowski
Editor: Scot Crane, Ted Guard
Cast: Bill Bailey, Chris Brassington,
Lucy McCall
Rachel Tillotson: a Royal College
of art film graduate who is currently
developing a handful of feature
films. She is a BAFTA winner
and also won the first Watershed
DepicT! short film competition
with As I Was Falling in 1999.
Bill Bailey & Joe Magee: Initially
a stand-up comedian, Bill Bailey has
also proved himself to be a versatile
comic actor. Joe Magee is an awardwinning UK filmmaker and artist. For
several years he has been engaged in
a series of collaborations with Bill.
Contact: Joanna Beard
joanna.beard@hotmail.com
Contact: Zoe Rocha
zoe@sproutpictures.com
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Eligible Awards:
EFA Nomination
Prod: Sophie Mair
Writer: Dan Gitsham, James Driver
DOP: Christopher D Jones
Editor: James Taggart
Sound: Bennet Maples, Paul Kerr
Music: Dave Colebrook
Cast: Anthony Head,
Lisa Backwell, Joanne Lancastle
Contact: Jon Stanford
Jonstanfordproduction@hotmail.co.uk
Dan Gitsham: Dan has directed 5
short films, which have screened at
over 100 film festivals worldwide,
including the Midnight Movie
Award winning The Sack (2009).
Ella (2011) is his second UK Film
Council funded short film.
Contact: Dan Gitsham
dangitsham@gmail.com
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Mrs Bates
Belly
Coming Out
Dir. Luis Jara
UK 2011
12 mins 20 secs
Dir. Julia Pott
UK 2011
7 mins 29 secs
Dir. Milo Howitt
UK 2011
19 mins 29 secs
Life before Psycho, this is the story of
Norman’s relationship to his mother.
Oscar is coming of age, against his
better judgement. In doing so he must
experience the necessary evil of leaving
something behind, but he can still feel it
in the pit of his stomach.
Marc Foster hides a dark secret, living
in exile amongst the shadows. A visitor
makes a discovery that will force Marc
to confront his past and to step back
into the light once more.
Animation
Drama
Sound Design: Joseph Tate
Additional Compositing: Robin Bushell
Prod: Ashley Hancock & Chris Hoskins
Writer: Jon Brooks
Royal College of Art
www.rca.ac.uk
Cardiff School of Creative &
Cultural Industries
cci.glam.ac.uk
Drama
DOP: Richard Jephcote
Set Design: Richard Glenn
Lighting Design: Doreen Fonju
Goldsmiths College
www.gold.ac.uk
Contact: Richard Jephcote
richardjephcote@hotmail.com
Contact: Julia Pott
Julia_pott@hotmail.com
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Contact: Milo Howitt
Milo@milomail.co.uk
The New and
the Other
Dir. Joseph Carauna
UK 2011
4 mins
A confined community, a stagnant
routine: when one man ventures
outside, he is shocked at what he sees
and comes back to try and share what
he has seen of the world outside.
Animation
Animation: Joseph Carauna
Sound Design: Tom Allen
University for the
Creative Arts at Farnham
www.ucreative.ac.uk/farnham
Contact: Joseph Carauna
joscar28@gmail.com
Eighty Eight
Dir. Seb Feehan
& Josh Bamford
2011
11 mins
Champion roller skater, cyclist and
swimmer Ralph Settle refuses to let
life get the better of him. Now 88 and
a widower, everyone on the streets of
Cornwall knows him by sight as ‘The
Banjoman’.
Documentary
Abuelas
Dir. Afarin Eghbal
2011
9 mins 14 secs
In a small apartment in Buenos Aires,
an old woman eagerly awaits the birth
of her grandchild. However horrific
circumstances mean that she will have
to wait for over 30 years.
Animated documentary
Prod: Hannah Bone
Prod: Kasia Malipan
Co-Writer: Francesca Gardiner
Editor: Katherine Lee
Newport Film School
www.newportfilmschool.co.uk
National Film & Television School
www.nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk
Contact: Seb Feehan
Seb.feehan@hotmail.com
Contact: NFTS
festivals@nfts.co.uk
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Animated Encounters
INTRODUCTION
Whether you’re a fan, an animation
professional, a student, or just
passionate about animation, there
is plenty here to inspire, excite
and deepen your interest. The
festival is packed with exciting
competition programmes, special
guests, panel discussions, workshops
and studio focus events.
“there is such
diversity this
year that cannot
fail to impress”
This year Animated Encounters
received several hundred film
submissions. Over 8 hours of
competition films have been
selected: each has been placed into
one of six themed programmes.
You can identify each film’s
award category in the listings.
There are some great opportunities
to join in discussions on key issues
facing the industry today; we will
be looking at strengths in UK preschool production through to the vital
exchange of knowledge between major
schools and related courses. With
the panel discussions on offer there
are plenty of learning opportunities
and sessions where you will have a
chance to make your voice heard.
I hope you take advantage of these,
and most importantly, enjoy diving
into some of the many different
worlds animation has to offer.
Kieran Argo, Animation
Programme Manager
As far as film programming was
concerned, selection had highs and
lows: joy for all the fantastic films
that made it through the process,
and sorrow that screen time is never
enough to show everything that’s
good. Looking back to last year,
it’s very pleasing to see a healthy
increase in films from new animators
and this is proportionally reflected in
the programmes. From the extreme
and bizarre that will blow your
mind to those that resonate more
familiarly - there is such diversity
this year that cannot fail to impress.
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ANIMATED ENCOUNTERS JURY
ANIMATED ENCOUNTERS AWARDS
Animated
Grand Prix
John Kricfalusi
Animator & Founder,
Spümcø studio
Canadian animator and Los Angeles
based Spümcø studio-founder John
Kricfalusi is best known for The Ren
and Stimpy Show and the internetonly cartoon series Weekend Pussy
Hunt. Widely regarded as one of the
most outstanding and innovative
animators of his time John K. is a
pioneer in the classic US cartoon
tradition with a highly distinctive,
idiosyncratic and very funny style.
Léa Zagury
Festival Director, ANIMA MUNDI
Léa Zagury is one of the founder
directors of ANIMA MUNDI. In 1986,
she received an intern-ship from the
Brazilian Government and the NFB to
participate at an animation program
in Rio de Janeiro. She graduated with
an MFA from California Institute of
the Arts in Experimental Animation in
1990 with the support of the Fulbright
and CNPq Scholarship. She worked
at Pacific Data Images as an effects
animator for feature films, Turner
Feature Animation as a development
artist, senior animator at In-Tonic.
She is back in Brazil and works as
a free-lancer and documentaries.
Nigel Davies
Animation director,
Aardman Animations
Co-founder/director of Bristol-based 2D
production company A for Animation
(now A Productions). Between 1986
and 1996 produced animated series,
commercials, pop promos and titles for
the BBC and ITV networks. Freelance
animator and animation director from
1996 to present; made 2 short films
for S4C, and since 2004 has been
represented by Aardman Animations
as a commercials director. Led the
2D team on the multi award-winning
short the Pearce Sisters (2006-07).
Last year completed production of
Blind Date, a short film for Aardman,
and selected for competition at
numerous international festivals.
The winner of the Grand Prix is the
cream of the crop and considered
to be the best film in competition
by the Animation Jury. All films are
eligible for the cash prize of £2,000
and will receive a Bristol Blue Glass
Award. The winning film will also
receive a digital print for distribution
in Digital Cinemas courtesy of our
prize partner Arts Alliance Media.
The winning film is also eligible for an
Academy Award (Oscar®) Nomination
for ‘Best Animated Short Film’. All
films are eligible and are therefore
not highlighted in the catalogue.
Best of
British Award
The award is offered to the film judged
to be the best in all areas of production,
direction and story. Films in the British
& South West categories are eligible
for the cash prize of £1000 supported
by Cartoon Network. This award is
selected by our Animation Jury. Eligible
films are highlighted in the catalogue.
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Animated
Encounters
European New
Talent Award
New for 2011, Encounters introduces
the European New Talent Award,
celebrating European short film talent
produced by graduating students or
first time directors. With a prize of
€1,000 supported by the University
of West of England, the winning
film is selected by the Animated
Encounters Jury. Eligible films are
highlighted in the catalogue.
Best of South
West Award
In the creative industries, as in all
businesses, it’s the people who make
the difference. In the South West the
talent base has strength in depth
as well as in numbers. The South
West Jury Award recognises the
maturity of the creative industries
in the region and is an investment
in talented individuals to ensure
continued growth. The winner,
selected by the Animation Jury, will
receive a prize of £500 supported
by South West Screen. Eligible films
are highlighted in the catalogue.
Children’s Animation
Jury Award
Encounters have teamed up with
FILMCLUB to give a huge hip hip
hooray to an animated short of under
10 minutes that appeals to the mind
of our voting audience – a collective
jury of secondary school children (9-14
year olds). This award celebrates a
one off short animated film (not an
episode of a series for TV). The winner
will receive £500. Eligible films are
featured in the Children’s Animation
Jury programme (see p 158).
Cartoon d’Or
All European animations selected
in competition are eligible for a
prestigious Cartoon d’Or nomination,
presented annually by Cartoon,
with the support of the MEDIA
Programme of the European Union.
This will film be selected by the
Animated Encounters jury.
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1 HR 30 MINS
Crowded
First Contact
Dir: Luke Sault
UK 2011
2 mins 35 secs
Dir: James Cunningham
New Zealand 2010
5 mins 37 secs
The experiences, musings and utterings
of a suffering schizophrenic, illustrated
through traditional animation.
Two aliens interrogate a sub-contractor
who they sent to Earth to handle ‘first
contact’, but things didn’t quite go
to plan.
Documentary, European Premiere
Animation, European Premiere
Eligible Awards:
Best of British, Documentary
Award, European New Talent
Luke Sault: from Shropshire, UK,
and has recently begun making
animated films. Crowded, a project
that began whilst studying at the
University of Wolverhampton, is his
first offering, dealing with a friend’s
struggle with schizophrenia.
Contact: Luke Sault
luke_sault@msn.com
Prod: James Cunningham,
Oliver Hilbert, Leon Woud
Writer: Nick Ward
DOP: Simon Riera
Editor: James Cunningham
Animator: Anthony Carter,
Ejiwa Ebenebe, Fan Zhang,
Gi Baek Baek, Jason Wong,
Jonathan Sothern, Joon-Seok Yoon,
Kit Hayes, Mahesh Kumar,
Oana Croitoru, Richard Chang,
Ryan Ware, Tiana McKenzie, Yu Su
Sound: Victoria Parsons,
Dave Whitehead
Music: Stephen Gallagher
Cast: Andrew Beattie, Paul Glover,
Simon McKinney
James Cunningham: (born 1973)
a New Zealand film director and
animator. He has directed eight
award winning short films. James
teaches at Media Design School,
where he produces and directs
short films with his students.
When The
Dust Settles
Dir: Spencer Cross
UK 2010
6 mins 39 secs
An introduction to the controversial
use of depleted uranium weapons.
Compelling images and narration
give an overview of the health,
environmental, legal and
political issues.
Documentary
Eligible Awards:
Best of British, Best of South
West, Documentary Award
Prod: Wim Zwijnenburg,
Dave Cullen
Writer: Doug Weir
Animator: Spencer Cross,
Henry St Leger
Sound: Sarah Faust, Mark Good
Music: Mark Good
Cast: Susan Rae
Spencer Cross: enjoys pretending
to be a person, who is themselves
attempting to impersonate someone
who is a professional animator. Spencer
Cross has been lumbering around
Bristol for approximately 9 years.
Gorge
Botanical Nightmare
Dir: Thomas Knowler
UK 2010
3 mins 20 secs
Dir: Thomas Lucas
UK 2011
3 mins 59 secs
A young boy’s chance of escaping a
self-consuming, decaying city is through
music. Will he find his muse?
Sometimes friendship is the
unexpected answer.
A civilian science vessel discovers
an organic life form on an uncharted
planet and decides to investigate the
mysterious creature.
Drama
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Best of British, European New Talent
Prod: Thomas Knowler
DOP: Thomas Knowler
Editor: Thomas Knowler
Animator: Thomas Knowler
Thomas Knowler: studied in
London and NYC, which gave him
the chance to work with Bill Plympton
whilst animating Gorge. Although
Thomas studied Illustration to Masters
level, his real passion is animation
to bring his drawings to life.
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Sound: Alistair Pilgrim
Music: Alistair Pilgrim
Thomas Lucas: recent graduate
of University of Glamorgan BA
Animation course. Now working
in the animation industry and
developing small personal projects.
Contact: Thomas Lucas
LucasAnim@googlemail.com
Mad Dogs and
Englishmen
Dir: Daniel Chester
UK 2010
4 mins 42 secs
A quintessential British summers
day out. Picnics, Spitfires, real
ale, naps and some good old
fashioned patriotism.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Sound: Joseph Tate
Daniel Chester: graduated from the
Royal College of Art in 2010 with an MA
in animation. Since then he has worked
on various projects as a freelance
animator and director for clients such
as Cartoon Network and Channel 4.
Contact: Daniel Chester
info@daniel-chester.com
Contact: Thomas Knowler
thomas@knowlerdraws.co.uk
Contact: Spencer Cross
spencer@world-of-look.com
Contact: James Cunningham
jamesc@mediadesignschool.com
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Hinterland
Dir: Linda McCarthy
UK 2010
2 mins
Small Birds Singing is besieged by
plastic bottles. Where have they come
from? Who is to blame? As Consommé
and Delphinium play croquet,
Spandisman investigates…
Drama
The Backwater
Gospel
Dir: Bo Mathorne
Denmark 2011
9 mins 31 secs
Coming of the Undertaker has meant
the coming of death. Until one day the
God fearing townsfolk of Backwater
wait for someone to die.
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Prod: Linda McCarthy
Distributor: Tiny Elephants Ltd
Writer: Steven Appleby
DOP: Joe Dembinski
Editor: Linda McCarthy
Animator: Linda McCarthy
Sound: Paul J Rogers
Music: Paul J Rogers,
Verbal Vigilante Music
Cast: Kerry Shale
Prod:Michelle Nardone
Linda McCarthy: a film maker
and ceramicist. She received a BA
in Animation in 2007 and formed
stop-motion animation company
Tiny Elephants. She is currently
collaborating with cartoonist Steven
Appleby to make films adapted from
Steven’s Small Birds Singing.
Contact: Linda McCarthy
linda@tinyelephants.co.uk
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Bo Mathorne: was born in Denmark
in 1986. In 2011 he graduated from The
Animation Workshop with a Bachelor
of Arts in Computer Graphic Art where
he debuted as a film director with the
animated short The Backwater Gospel.
Contact: The Animation Workshop
OWFestival@animwork.dk
Hurdy Gurdy
Dir: Daniel Seideneder
& Daniel Pfeiffer
Germany 2011
3 mins 30 secs
An enclosed cosmos - just like a
hurdy gurdy, that starts over to play
its song anew.
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Prod: Susanne May
Distributor: dropout-films
Writer: Daniel Seideneder
DOP: Daniel Seideneder,
Daniel Pfeiffer, Uwe Winter
Editor: Fred Schuler
Sound: Bernd Thurig
Music: Aphex Twin
Daniel Seideneder: founded the
production company dropout-films
together with two fellow design
students. He has directed numerous
short films, and commercials.
Daniel Peiffer: studied at the
Johannes Gutenberg- University. Since
2004 has been working as a freelance
author and director of documentaries.
Contact: Daniel Seideneder
info@seideneder.com
Drama in
the Wetlands
Dir: Big Red Button
UK 2011
30 secs
This is the story of what happens
when a heartbroken mallard and a
shell-shocked duck hunter stumble
across one another in the wetlands.
Animation, World Premiere
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Animator: Karim Gouyette, Joe Dennis,
Simona Tositti, Martin Lye
Sound: Jeremy Corbett
Big Red Button: a London-based
directing duo with impulse control
issues. They enjoy moustaches,
robots in animal costumes,
lonely unicorns, tear-stained
pillows and things like that.
Contact: Big Red Button
pier@bigredbutton.tv
The Saga of Biôrn
Dir: Benjamin Kousholt
Denmark 2011
7 mins 6 secs
Biôrn is determined to reach Valhalla.
To Gain entry he has to die honourably
in battle, but the right death isn’t easy
to come by.
Drama, UK Premiere
Four
Dir: Margherita Premuroso
& Luca Da Rios
Italy 2011
3 mins 10 secs
The happening of a new season is
described as an awakening and
is symbolically represented by the
character Spring’s waking up.
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Writer: Jonas Georgakakis,
Mads Lundgård, Frederik Poulsen
Editor: Jonas Doctor, Daniel
Christensen, Benjamin Kousholt
Animator: Jesper Jensen, Daniel Dion
Christensen, Pernille Ørum-Nielsen,
Jonas Doctor, Benjamin Kousholt
Sound: Thomas Arent
Music: Mathias Winum
Cast: Philip Sacramento, Alberte
Thorning Agerskov, Jack E. Soutar
Prod: The Animation Workshop:
Michelle Nardone
Benjamin Kousholt: A Film by
Frederik Valentin Bjerre-Poulsen,
Daniel Dion Christensen, Jonas Doctor,
Jonas Georgakakis, Jesper Aagaard
Jensen, Benjamin Juel Kousholt,
Mads Lundgård, Steffen Lyhne.
Prod: Inkymind
Writer: Margherita Premuroso,
Luca Da Rios
Animator: Frank Spalteholz,
Emanuel Amler
Sound: Felipe Paszkiewick
Music: Alexandra Harwood
Margherita Premuroso: after finishing
art studies, Margherita Premuroso
moved on to animation and illustration.
She then specialized in 3D animation
online as an animation mentor.
Contact: Margherita Premuroso
& Luca Da Rios
mmeghy@mac.com,
darios@playstos.com
Contact: Benjamin Kousholt
benjamin.kousholt@gmail.com
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Salma
Nokia “Dot”
Dir: Martín Sand Vallespir
Denmark 2011
4 mins 17 secs
Dir: Sumo Science
UK 2010
1 mins 30 secs
Salma is a film about a girl living in a
land recovering from war. One day her
father dies in a cluster bomb accident.
Dot is a tiny 9mm girl who wakes
up in a magical, magnified world to
discover her surroundings are caving
in around her..
Drama, UK Premiere
Drama
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Editor: Martín Sand Vallespir,
Patrick Voetberg
Animator: Anders Friis Christiansen,
Kirsten Rosenkrants Grann, Astrid
Marud Lauridsen, Rikke Skovgaard
Music: Nikolas Vetterli,
Martín Sand Vallespir (MasKinE)
Cast: Alberte Thorning Agerskov
Michelle Nardone
Martín Sand Vallespir: born in
Aarhus, Denmark 1985. He graduated
in 2011 from The Animation
Workshop - Bachelor of Arts, as
a Computer Graphic Artist.
Contact: Martín Sand Vallespir
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Eligible Awards:
Prod: Laura Pepper,
Jason Fletcher-Bartholomew
DOP: Mark Chamberlain
Editor: Nikk Fielden
Animator: Sumo Science
Sound: Aaron Reynolds,
Wave Studios London
Music: Michael Sims
Ed Patterson & Will Studd
(Sumo Science): both finished
animation and graphic design
degrees in 2003 in Bristol. They are
commercials directors at Aardman
Animations and have completed
ads for Innocent Orange Juice,
P&O, Weetos Cereal and Nokia.
Contact: Maggie O’Connor
maggie.oconnor@aardman.com
Prilivy Tuda-Siuda
(Tides to and Fro)
Dir: Ivan Maximov
9 mins 50 secs
About life on the strip between land
and sea, when the water level constantly
changes: some are in the dry, others
in the wet.
Slow Derek
Dir: Dan Ojari
UK 2011
8 mins 12 secs
Dir: Yuval & Merav Nathan
Israel 2010
3 mins 43 secs
The epic and spellbinding tale of
Derek, an office worker, as he struggles
with the true speed of planet earth.
At sunset, the sand comes to life and
takes forms of a mini eco-system of
aquatic life. Journey of a new born
turtle to his mother.
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Aleksandr Gerasimov
Writer: Ivan Maximov
Animator: Roman Efremov,
Tatyana Yatsyna, Olga Alexandrova
Sound: Vadim Kruglov
Sound: Joe Tate
Ivan Maximov: studied photography,
worked as an illustrator, cartoonist and
designer before moving into animation
in 1989. He teaches at the studio SHAR
and at the Film Institute, Moscow.
Contact: Dan Ojari
daniel.ojari@network.rca.ac.uk
Contact: Alexander Gerasimov
mail@masterfilm.ru
Lose this Child
Dan Ojari: a stop-motion animator
and recent graduate of the Royal
College of Art animation MA.
Prod: Yuval & Merav Nathan
Distributor: Anova Productions Ltd
Writer: Yuval & Merav Nathan,
Nadav Ben Simon, Guy Ben Shetrit
DOP: Yuval Nathan
Editor: Yuval & Merav Nathan
Animator: Yuval Nathan, Guy Ben
Shetrit, Moshe Zilbernagel, Talia Tzur
Sound: Eatliz
Music: Eatliz
Cast: Adi Nathan
The Nathans: joined forces in 2006,
when they began creating music
videos and commercials. Between
their works - Her Morning Elegance,
a 2010 Grammy nomination, chosen
for Saatchi and Saatchi show case
2009. They hold an Annie Award
for Best Commercial 2009.
Contact: Yuval & Merav Nathan
joshua.perry@anovamusic.com
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ANI 2: ANIMALIS ANIMA
1 HR 30 MINS
Belly
Damned
Dir: Julia Pott
UK 2011
7 mins
Dir: Richard Phelan
UK 2011
8 mins
Oscar is coming of age, against his
better judgement. In doing so he
must experience the necessary evil
of leaving something behind.
An over-ambitious beaver goes too
far when he gets the chance to realise
his ultimate dream. Some dreams
are just too big.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
Haru No Shikumi
(The Mechanism
of Spring)
Dir: Atsushi Wada
Japan 2010
4 mins 20 secs
Everybody is excited to see the arrival
of spring. This film tries to depict the
excitement spring brings.
Sales: Tomaki Okamoto
Prod: Animation Staff,
Animator: Robin Bushell,
Eamonn O’Neill, Ben Cady,
Stephen Middleton, Theo Nunn
Sound: Joseph Tate
Cast: Olivia Gurney-Randall,
Joseph Tate, Cornelius Clarke,
Robert Blythe
Julia Pott: a freelance animator and
illustrator working in London. She
employs awkward animated characters
to act out her inner turmoil’s.
Contact: Animation
Department, RCA
jane.colling@rca.ac.uk
Prod: Philipp Zakrzewski
Writer: Gareth Sargent and Richard
Phelan
DOP: Stil Williams
Editor: Simon Bullen
Animator: Richard Phelan
Sound: Tom Drew
Music: Jon Wygens
Distributor: National Film
and Television School
Richard Phelan: studied Animation
at the University of Wolverhampton.
After graduation he won the Bristol
School of Animation storyboard
competition, his prize being to attend
the prestigious three-month course.
Contact: Richard Phelan
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Atsushi Wada: graduated from
Osaka kyoiku University, Image
Forum Institute of Moving image and
Tokyo University of the Arts. Like to
make comfortable movements and is
always thinking about the Japanese
traditional concept called Ma, the
tension produced between movements.
Contact: Hiroko Onoe
entry@c-a-r-t-e-blanche.com
Flamingo Pride
Milk Hare
Let me come in
Dir: Tomer Eshed
Germany 2011
6 mins 2 secs
Dir: Emma Windsor
UK 2011
4 mins 10 secs
Dir: Paul Rice
UK 2011
6 mins 51 secs
The story of the only heterosexual
Flamingo in his desperate attempt
to find love…
There’s a belief in Nordic countries that
witches steal cream with a Mjölkhare or
Milkhare, a creature bought to life with
the witch’s own blood.
The Three Little Pigs retold as
a tense, terrifying Western.
Eligible Awards:
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Prod: Dennis Rettkowski
DOP: Olaf Aue
Editor: Martin Reimers
Sound: Michal Krajczok
Music: Stefan Maria Schneider
Distributor: Hochschule für Film
und Fernsehen (HFF) “Konrad Wolf”
Tomer Eshed: 1995:Graduation,
1996: Miltary service, 2000: work
and travel in America, 2004: Study
Animation in Germany, 2010:
Director/Animator - Talking Animals,
Animation Studio - Berlin
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Emma Windsor
Writer: Emma Windsor
Editor: Emma Windsor
Animator: Emma Windsor
Sound: Tijs Ham, Sam Huisman,
Tim Kelly
Music: Dennis Braunsdorf
Cast: Chloe Shannon,
Lisa Vigour, Ashley Bond
Emma Windsor: with a passion
for the gothic, the macabre and
the downright odd, Emma Windsor
specialises in stop-motion, embracing
many techniques including pixilation
and timelapse. She’s currently
studying for an MA in animation at the
University of West England, Bristol.
Drama
Prod: Will Ould & Paul Rice
Writer: Paul Rice
DOP: Paul Rice
Editor: Paul Rice
Animator: Paul Rice
Sound: Paul Rice & Alex Fionda
Music: Alex Fionda
Cast: Paul Rice
Paul Rice: having just graduated
in Animation from the Edinburgh
College of Art, is intent on producing
animated films with all the
visceral impact of their live-action
counterparts, whilst retaining the
total creative freedom of animation.
Contact: Paul Rice
pauldavid.rice@gmail.com
Contact: Emma Windsor
emma@earsandwhiskers.co.uk
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Flocons et Carottes
(Snowflakes
and Carrots)
Dir: Samantha Leriche-Gionet
Canada 2010
4 mins 1 secs
A little girl steals all the carrots
she can find on snowmen.
Drama, UK Premiere
Animator: Samantha Leriche-Gionet
Sound: Samantha Leriche-Gionet,
Michel Gionet
Music: Michel Gionet
Distributor: Ouat Media
Samantha Leriche-Gionet: born
in Montreal, Canada, has been
piling up animation paper for nine
years. Only recently graduated from
animation school, her student films
have already been screened in more
than fifty festivals around the world.
Contact: Samantha Leriche-Gionet
boum@boumerie.com
The Golden Bird
Dir: Cat Bruce
UK 2011
11 mins 37 secs
When a boy goes in pursuit of a
mysterious golden bird, he soon finds
out that in his world things are not
what they seem.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Writer: Cat Bruce,
Dean James Fairbairn
Animator: Cat Bruce
Sound: Augoustinos Tsiros,
Tom Bestwick
Music: David MacGregor,
Jenny Masterson
Cast: Dean James Fairbairn,
Maggie Spalding
Cat Bruce: born in a forest clearing
in Scotland and raised in a small
village. One day she went to seek
her fortune in the city of Edinburgh,
where she explored art and went
on to study animation at ECA.
Contact: Cat Bruce
wee_cat@hotmail.com
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All Consuming Love
(Man in a Cat)
Dir: Louis Hudson
UK 2010
8 mins 55 secs
A comedic love triangle between
a man, two women, and a cat.
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Prod: Louis Hudson, Jon Petrie
Writer: Louis Hudson, Ian Ravenscroft
DOP: Louis Hudson
Louis Hudson: a 2D animation
director and co-founder of comedy
collective Dice Productions. Louis’s
work at Dice Productions has included
BBC Comedy, Comedy Central,
Warner Entertainment and NTFS.
Contact: Simon Flynn
simon.flynn@screenwm.co.uk
The Eagleman Stag
Dir: Mikey Please
UK 2010
9 mins
Chop Suey
Dir: Marco Hakenjos,
Johannes Flick
Germany 2010
4 mins 4 secs
Repeating the word ‘fly’ sounds like
you’re saying ‘life’. This is no help to
Peter. His answers lie in the brain
of a beetle.
In an ancient Chinese town a
tiny parrot chick hatches in the
wrong place at the wrong time.
Drama
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Distributor: Filmakademie BadenWuerttemberg, Sigrid Gairing
Writer: Marco Hakenjos, Johannes Flick
Animator: Kyra Buschor, Marco
Hakenjos, Johannes Flick, Adrian Koch
Sound: Maximilian Müller
Music: Maximilian Müller
Prod: The Royal College of Art
Writer: Mikey Please
DOP: Mikey Please
Editor: Mikey Please
Animator: Mikey Please
Sound: Benedict Please
Music: Benedict Please
Cast: David Cann, Tony Guilfoyle
Mikey Please: a BAFTA award
winning London based animation
Director. He is represented by Agile
Films for his commercial broadcast
work and is developing a long form
project with Warp Films for 2012.
Contact: Mikey Please
pleasemikeplease@gmail.com
Marco Hakenjos: since 2009, (1988)
has been studying Animation at the
Baden-Württemberg Film Academy
in Ludwigsburg. Johannes Flick
(1986) trained as an audiovisual media
designer in Karlsruhe. Since 2009,
he has been studying Animation
at the Baden-Württemberg Film
Academy in Ludwigsburg.
Contact: Sigrid Gairing
sigrid.gairing@filmakademie.de
Chroniques de la
Poisse (Sticky Ends)
Dir: Osman Cerfon
France 2010
6 mins 17 secs
Jinx is a man with the head of a
fish. Misfortune bubbles escape from
his mouth and follow people who
becomes dogged by bad luck.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Prod: Franck Ekinci
Writer: Osman Cerfon
Editor: Osman Cerfon,
Franck Ekinci
Animator: Osman Cerfon,
Grégory Duroy, Ulrich Totier
Sound: Denis Vautrin
Music: Denis Vautrin
Osman Cerfon: first studied graphic
design, then Fine Arts, and finally
animation in “La Poudrière” school
in Valence, where he graduated in
2007. Since then, he has worked on
various projects as a scriptwriter
or as an animation technician.
Contact: Osman Cerfon
osmancerfon@yahoo.fr
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ANI 3: THE HUMAN CONDITION
1 HR 30 MINS
Història D’este
(Story of Him)
Dir: Pascual Pérez
Spain 2011
7 mins
On the stage of an old theatre, it’s
performed the story of Him, a normal
guy with a daily routine on coffee,
brandy and beer.
Drama, UK Premiere
The Man with
the Stolen Heart
Dir: Charlotte
Boulay-Goldsmith
UK 2011
7 mins 24 secs
The Man With The Stolen Heart is
a surreal tale about a man who wakes
up one day discovering that his heart
has run away.
Drama
Prod: Pascual Pérez
Writer: Pascual Pérez
DOP: Simon Jacobs
Editor: Producciones la hormiga
Animator: Pascual Pérez
Sound: Producciones la Hormiga
Music: The No Frills Band
Cast: Pascual Perez, Juan Carlos
Iniesta, Pascual Manzanet,
Xavier Rubert
Distributor: Pascual Pérez
Pascual Pérez: Born in Valencia,
Spain. He works as a stop-motion
Animator. Història d’Este is his
first attempt as a writer/director.
Contact: Pascual Pérez
hsensato@gmail.com
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Writer: Charlotte Boulay-Goldsmith
DOP: Simon Frost
Editor: Charlotte Boulay-Goldsmith
Animator: Hyebin Lee, Philip Bacon,
Junior Springer, Laura Hyde,
Adam Smith, Haruna Sakai
Sound: Christopher Wilson
Music: Jessica Danneheisser
Cast: Bill Nighy
Prod: Humpty Dumpty Films Ltd
Charlotte Boulay-Goldsmith: a
writer/director based in London,
represented by Casarotto Ramsay.
She is currently developing an original
feature with the Bureau and has
completed her second adaptation
her book of Topsy Turvey Tales:
The Man With The Stolen Heart.
The Gloaming
Liberties
Life and Stuff
Greetings
Dir: Nobrain
France 2010
14 mins 13 secs
Dir: Beatrice Borghini
UK 2011
4 mins 32 secs
Dir: Kumar Satkunarasa
UK 2010
4 mins 29 secs
Dir: Sam Morrison
UK 2010
5 mins
A character creates a world that is
beyond his control. Civilization and
its accelerated evolution.
The tranquil world of an old man
and his dog is ravaged by a war played
with very peculiar rules.
One life condensed into 5 minutes.
If not Henry, then who?
Drama, UK Premiere
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Eligible Awards:
Best of British, Best of South West
Prod: Nicolas Schmerkin,
Géry Bouchez, Niko Nobrain
Writer: Niko Nobrain
DOP: Quentin Rosan
Editor: Niko Nobrain, Grégoire Sivan
Animator: Florian Durand,
Ludovic Mannoni
Sound: Kouz Production
Music: Joseph Arthur
Distributor: Autour de Minuit
Prod: Beatrice Borghini
Writer: Beatrice Borghini
Animator: Beatrice Borghini
Sound: Laura Coates
Music: Marco Testoni
Cast: Arril Johnson
Writer: Kumar Satkunarasa
Animator: Kumar Satkunarasa
Sound: Thomas Miksa
Cast: Kumar Satkunarasa
Writer: Sam Morrison
Animator: Ian Hickman
Cast: Michael Rosen
Nobrain: a collective of four French
directors who have worked together
since 2001. Sylvain, Sèbastien,
Charles and Niko specialise in
the post-production area.
Beatrice Borghini: an Italian animator
and concept artist. Before graduating
from UWE in 2011 with an MA degree
in animation, she worked as animator,
model maker and set dresser in clay
animation projects for television.
Kumar Satkunarasa: has just
finished his degree in computer
animation at the NCCA and is
looking forward to the delights of
unemployment. If you’ve seen his
animation and want to chat/get a
coffee/insult him, then get in touch.
Sam Morrison: a scriptwriter
(Peppa Pig, Ben and Holly’s Little
Kingdom) and commercials
director with Aardman Animation.
In between he makes short films
and develops series ideas.
Contact: Sam Morrison
sam@theevilgenius.co.uk
Contact: Kumar Satkunarasa
kumaraisin@gmail.com
Contact: Beatrice Borghini
bea.borghini@gmail.com
Contact: Stan Borys
festivals@autourdeminuit.com
Contact: Charlotte
Boulay-Goldsmith
humptydumptyfilmsltd@gmail.com
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The Fisherman
Dir: Ferg Brennan
Ireland 2011
3 mins 34 secs
A lonely Fisherman catches an unusual
fish, which he decides to keep as a pet.
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
La Détente
Dir: Pierre Ducos
& Bertrand Bey
France 2011
8 mins 30 secs
During the First World War, a French
soldier paralyzed with fear, disconnects
from reality and escapes to a world
where wars are fought by toys.
Drama
Prod: Ferg Brennan
Editor: Ferg Brennan
Animator: Ferg Brennan
Sound: Ferg Brennan
Cast: Diarmuid DeFaoite
Prod: Pierre Ducos, Bertrand Bey,
Kawanimation, Alexis Laffaille
Writer: Pierre Ducos, Bertrand Bey
Sound: Agence Face B
Music: Patrick Stemelen
Ferg Brennan: a 22 year old filmaker
from Galway, Ireland. The Fisherman
is his graduate film from the IADT
Dun Laoghaire animation course.
Pierre and Bertrand: met at
Supinfocom Arles, a 3D animation
school in France. In 2004 their short
film True Color, has been awarded
by numerous animation festivals
worldwide. They are now proud to
present their new short film La Détente.
Contact: Ferg Brennan
fergbrennananimation@gmail.com
Contact: Pierre Ducos
contact@ladetentelefilm.com
Ground Running
Dir: Ben Mitchell
UK 2010
1 mins 30 secs
An infant is propelled into the
world and given a fleeting glimpse
of the life to come.
Drama, UK Premiere
Dir: Enrique García,
Rubén Salazar
Spain 2010
6 mins 41 secs
Zaria gathers daisies every day for
a friend that she misses; so as not to
forget him, so as not to lose him.
The Maker
Dir: Christopher Kezelos
Australia 2011
5 mins 17 secs
A strange creature races against time
to make the most important and
beautiful creation of his life.
Drama, UK Premiere
Drama
Eligible Awards:
West, European New Talent
Prod: Ben Mitchell,
Harmful Mind Productions
Distributor: Ben Mitchell,
PhatBoy Media
Writer: Ben Mitchell
Editor: Sue Dunham
Animator: Ben Mitchell
Sound: Ben Mitchell
Music: Ben Mitchell
Ben Mitchell: a Bristol-based
animation freelancer, Ben Mitchell
made his first foray into the world
of animation in 2008, completing
his multiple award-winning film
House Guest at the Bristol School of
Animation. His subsequent films have
been widely screened internationally.
Contact: Ben Mitchell
blmitchelluk@yahoo.co.uk
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Daisy Cutter
Prod: Enrique García, Rubén Salazar
Writer: Enrique García, Rubén Salazar
DOP: Jorge Sánchez
Editor: Rubén Salazar
Animator: Jorge Sánchez, Mikel
Fernández de Ortega, Igor González,
Jon Soler, Yuste Gil, Alexis Herrera
Sound: Aritz Villodas, Mikel F. Krutzaga
Music: Aritz Villodas
Distributor: Kimuak
Enrique García: born in Madrid,
1971 and graduated in Computer
Science at the Albert-LudwigUniversität in Freiburg (Germany).
Rubén Salazar: was born in
Vitoria, 1975 and graduated in
Fine Arts (Audiovisuals) at the
University of the Basque Country.
Prod: Christopher Kezelos
& Christine Kezelos
Writer: Christopher Kezelos
DOP: Matthew Horrex ACS
Editor: Christopher Kezelos
Animator: Christopher Kezelos,
Mark Lagana, David Cox, Ai Ikeda
Sound: Brendan O’Briend
Music: Paul Halley
Christopher Kezelos: graduated
from Sydney University, majoring
in Film Production. For more than a
decade he has worked as a writer,
producer, director and editor on ads,
online videos and award winning
short films, through his production
company Zealous Creative.
Contact: Christopher Kezelos
chris@zealouscreative.com
Zeinek Gehiago Iraun
(Who Lasts Longer)
Dir: Gregorio Muro
Spain 2011
12 mins
A group of children is playing on the
train tracks, challenging each other
to see who stays longer on the tracks
before the train comes.
Drama, UK Premiere
Prod: Gregorio Muro
Writer: Gregorio Muro
Editor: Alatzne Portu
Animator: Imanol Zinkunegi
Sound: Jose Luis Rubio
Music: Txus Aranburu
Distributor: Kimuak
Gregorio Muro: born in San Sebastian,
1954. He is a comic book writer,
screenwriter and film and TV director.
As screenwriter for the animation film
La leyenda del viento del Norte and
as film director in El rey de la granja.
Contact: Gregorio Muro
kimuak@filmotecavasca.com
Contact: Enrique García,
Rubén Salazar
kimuak@filmotecavasca.com
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ANI 4: TRAVELS – NEAR AND FAR
1 HR 30 MINS
A Morning Stroll
Grand Prix
On the Bus
An Interrupted Story
Kahanikar
Dir: Grant Orchard
UK 2011
6 mins 47 secs
Spain 2011
8 mins
Dir: Naomi Zahl & Matt Morris
UK 2011
1 mins 11 secs
Dir: Ania Hazel Leszczynska
UK 2011
8 mins 47 secs
Dir: Nandita Jain
UK 2011
9 mins 50 secs
When a New Yorker walks past a
chicken on his morning stroll, we’re
left to wonder which one is the
real city slicker.
This is about to start! Ready, steady…
War memories of a Bristol bus
ride, made for the Encounters
0117 Film Challenge.
Drama
Drama
One winter night, a long distance
train unexpectedly stops in the middle
of nowhere. Trapped in one place, the
passengers’ journey continues.
7 year old Nirmala attempts to grapple
with the demons of her granddad’s
dementia when he starts to forget the
details of her favourite story.
Drama, UK Premiere
Drama
Prod: Marc Riba & Anna Solanas
Writer: Marc Riba & Anna Solanas
DOP: Anna Molins
Editor: Sergi Marti
Sound: Anna Solanas
Music: Roqui Albero
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Donald Holwill/
Edinburgh College of Art
DOP: Ania Hazel Leszczynska
Prod: Judy Naidoo
Writer: Karissa Hamilton-Bannis
DOP: Emma Dalesman
Editor: Adam Thomas
Animator: Nandita Jain
Sound: Jay Price
Music: Geoff Hannan
Cast: Nishi Maide, Rashid Karapiet
Distributor: National film
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Prod: Sue Goffe
Distributor: Studio AKA
Editor: Nic Gill
Sound: Nic Gill
Music: Nic Gill
Grant Orchard: has won two
prestigious awards and achieved
recognition for his first independent
short film Welcome to Glaringly. In 2007
he created 10 mini-films for QOOBTV
under the banner ‘Lovesport’; gathering
nearly 2,000,000 hits YouTube.
Contact: Kaye Lavender
kaye@studioaka.co.uk
Marc Riba and Anna Solanas:
Contact: Marc Riba
info@stopmotion.cat
Bristol Animation Studio Matinai:
are Matt Morris and Naomi Zahl.
Matt studied fine art until the allure of
CGI turned his head. Naomi works in
traditional stop-motion, and Computer
Animation as she is greedy. Ancient
Matinai proverb ; “Make it funnier!!”
Contact: Matt Morris
matt@matinai.com
Ania Hazel Leszczynska: Edinburgh
College of Art animation student with
a fierce determination to make films.
Contact: Ania Hazel Leszczynska
leszczynska@hotmail.co.uk
Nandita Jain: since graduating with
a specialisation in Animation Film
Design from the National Institute
of Design in India, Nandita has
worked on various animation and
illustration projects around the world.
Contact: Nandita Jain
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La Messicole
(The Cornflower)
Dir: Hannes Stummvoll
UK 2010
1 mins 55 secs
Chloé is distracted from work at the
wheat harvest by some strange creature.
She follows it on a adventurous run
across the landscape.
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Central Saint Martins
College of Art & Design
Animator: Hannes Stummvoll
Sound: Robin Stummvoll
Music: Robin Stummvoll
Hannes Stummvoll: born 1981
in Ulm, Germany. He studied
Communication Design in Stuttgart
and Character Animation in London.
He works on independent film
projects as well as in commercial
advertising as animator, storyboarder,
editor and compositing artist.
Contact: Hannes Stummvoll
hannes-stummvoll@web.de
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Last Fall
Dir: ESBEN ANDERSEN
Denmark 2011
5 mins 58 secs
When an accidental plane crash
causes a devoted father to lose his little
daughter, he follows her into death and
discovers a mechanical Afterlife.
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Michelle Nardone
Editor: Andreas Thomsen, Louie Ishii
Animator: Andreas Thomsen,
Magnus Møller, Morten Helgeland,
Peter Smith, Nicolai Slothuus,
Sylvester Rishøj, Kirsten Rosengran
Sound: Thomas Ahlmark,
Thomas Christensen, Lasse Wingreen
Music: Thomas Ahlmark, Thomas
Christensen
Esben Andersen: born in 1982 in
Denmark. He graduated with a BA
in Computer Graphics Art at The
Animation Workshop in 2010 with
the graduation film Last Fall.
Contact: Andreas Thomsen
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Keep your Eyes
on the Road
Dir: Ashley Dean
UK 2010
4 mins 47 secs
KYEOTR was a tribute to Peter
Gabriel’s ‘Sledgehammer’. Many scenes
wers recreated while new ideas were
used to fit Lone Wolf’a lyrics.
Music Video, World Premiere
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Prod: Ashley Dean
DOP: Ashley Dean
Ashley Dean: received a distinction
for his MA at Leeds Met in 2009. Since
then he has made music videos for
Fossil collective, Sennen, Lone Wolf,
My Broken Garden and Jeniferever.
Contact: Ashley Dean
hesleydean@aol.com
Perdus
Dir: Mark de Winton-Gilbert
UK 2010
3 mins 11 secs
A little girl gets lost in the
crowded Metro of Paris.
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Audun Gulliksen
Editor: Raquel O. Couceiro
Animator: Mark de Winton-Gilbert,
Audun Gulliksen, Nubian Greene,
Chris Matthews, Matt Frost, Stewart
Harvey, Paul Knight, Osama Al-Rasbi
Music: Murray Wyatt
Mark de Winton-Gilbert: he has
drawn cartoons for pleasure all of his
life. Completing a BA (hons) degree
in Animation Production has given
him the opportunity to push his
drawing skills to the next level.
Contact: Anne Terkelsen
aterkelsen@aucb.ac.uk
Mały Listonosz
(Little Postman)
Dir: Dorota Kobiela
Poland 2011
3 mins 22 secs
Little Postman set to Chopin’s
Revolutionary Etude is the world’s first
painting animation in 3-D telling a
touching story set in World War II.
Drama
Prod: Hugh Welchman
Writer: Dorota Kobiela
DOP: Nicolas Villegas Hernandez
Editor: Dorota Kobiela
Music: Fryderyk Chopin
performed by Lang Lang
Paperman
Dir: Richard Kelly
Ireland 2010
5 mins 50 secs
A lone man’s quest to find his true love
in a busy paper metropolis. Will he find
the papergirl he hopes for?
Drama, UK Premiere
Prod: Jessica Kelly
Writer: Richard Kelly & Sean Ryan
Editor: Richard Kelly
Animator: Richard Kelly
& Steven Magann
Music: Giles Packham
Dorota Kobiela: a painter-artist and
film director. In her films she mixes
these arts coming up with exciting
new forms of motion pictures.
Richard Kelly: founder of Prickly
Pear Productions, Richard has worked
in the animation industry for twelve
years. His experience includes
hand-drawn, 2D and 3D animation,
including films, advertisements, music
videos, and children’s television.
Contact: Dorota Kobiela
dorota@breakthrufilms.pl
Contact: Network Ireland
info@network-irl-tv.com
O Sapateiro
(The Shoemaker)
Dir: David Doutel & Vasco Sá
Portugal 2011
12 mins
A shoemaker wrapped up in memories
of his life and the demands of his
job, experiences a crucial moment
in his existence.
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Prod: Eva Yébenes, José Miguel
Ribeiro, Nuno Beato,
Sardinha em Lata, Lda
Writer: Ana Mendes
Animator: Armando Coelho,
Carina Beringuilho, David Doutel,
Diana Salaviza, João Lopes Silva,
Rita Cruchinho, Sara Naves, Vasco Sá
Music: Daniel Carvalho,
David Doutel, Vasco Sá
David Doutel: born in Portugal
in 1983. He graduated with a
degree in Sound and Image.
Vasco Sá: was born in Portugal in 1979.
He graduated in Sound and Image.
Contact: Liliana Costa
liliana@curtas.pt
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ANI 5: DOMESTIC BLISS
1 HR 30 MINS
Playing Ghost
Refrigeration
Nana’s Strawberry
Preserve
Dir: Bianca Ansems
UK 2011
9 mins 59 secs
Dir: Matthew Waruszynski
UK 2010
3 mins 2 secs
Five year old Amy and her Mum are
divided in grief for Dad, occupying very
separate worlds in their struggle to cope.
An old woman who goes to
extreme lengths to keep hold
of everything in her house!
Drama
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
Drama
Prod: Andrew Start
Writer: Catriona Maclean
DOP: Maja Zamojda
Editor: Eduardo Serrano
Animator: Bianca Ansems
Sound: Mauricio D’Orey
Music: Lennert Busch
Cast: Emily Fraser, Luisa D’Orey,
Renata Czinkotai
DOP: Ben Peters
Cast: Matthew Waruszynski
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Matthew Waruszynski: an animator
at RJDM Studios whose graduation
film from the University of Westminster
Refrigeration has been screened
across the UK. It has received multiple
nominations and was a winner of
the Barbican/Ideastap Animation
competition for new talent in 2011.
Writer: Aoife Doyle
Animator: Aoife Doyle
Sound: Paul McDonald
and Stephen Devine
Music: Pat Daly, Franziska Prendergast
and Robert Kelly
Prod: Ballyfermot College of
Further Education Dublin
Bianca Ansems: a recent graduate
from the National Film & Television
School. Prior to the NFTS she studied
Animation at the art academy AKV|St.
Joost in the Netherlands. With her
roots in 2D, ‘Playing Ghost’ is her first
exploration into a stopmotion film.
Contact: Matthew Waruszynski
quarterpolish@gmail.com
Aoife Doyle: an animation graduate
from Dublin, Ireland. Aoife’s student
films Rat Race (2009) and Nana’s
Strawberry Preserve (2010) have been
screened at Festivals Worldwide.
Aoife is currently working in the
Animation Industry in Dublin.
Contact: Bianca Ansems
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The Man who was
Afraid of Falling
Dir: Aoife Doyle
Ireland 2010
3 mins 30 secs
Dir: Joseph Wallace
UK 2011
4 mins 30 secs
This year the pressure gets to Nana as
she works herself into a fever of jam
making madness and inadvertently
finds the winning special ingredient!
Ivor’s life is turned upside down
after a falling plant pot sparks a
series of paranoid reactions.
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Writer: Joseph Wallace
DOP: Emma-Rose Dade
Animator: Joseph Wallace
Sound: Jack Vaughan
Music: Kit Wilson
Joseph Wallace: Wallace’s practice
is fuelled by storytelling. He has
created animations for film, theatre
and television, and his live-action work
includes dance and fashion films. His
films have won awards and have been
screened at festivals internationally.
Contact: Joseph Wallace
joseph-wallace@hotmail.co.uk
Contact: Aoife Doyle
doyle_aoife@yahoo.co.uk
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First Day
Dir: Christina Fung
UK 2011
5 mins 30 secs
A high school boy falls for the girl of
his dreams. In his imagination, he
tries different things to impress her,
but something’s not right…
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Donald Holwill
Christina Fung: animation
student at the Edinburgh College
of Art, graduating in 2011. First
Day is her graduate film. She has
previously worked on Nuria Gonzalez
Blanco’s BAFTA-nominated film
Domingueros as a colourist.
Contact: Christina Fung
christinafung2@yahoo.co.uk
John & Betty
Dir: Alex Hancocks
& Luke George
UK 2011
3 mins 25 secs
Elderly couple John and Betty
are happily married until John’s
un-healthy obsession with solving
crimes leads him to grow dangerously
suspicious of his wife.
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Writer: Alex Hancocks, Luke George
Animator: Alex Hancocks, Luke George
Music: Andy Taylor
Alex Hancocks & Luke George:
Luke is a character designer, modelmaker and animator. Alex is an
animator, photographer and editor, who
loves to tell stories and making films.
Contact: Alex Gallop
marketing@screenacademywales.org
Obscura
Dir: Dan Ojari
UK 2010
5 mins 5 secs
A broken room hangs in a dark
void, as a character looks for his
last fleeting possessions.
Eligible Awards:
Dan Ojari: a stop-motion animator, and
is a recent MA graduate in animation,
from the Royal College of Art.
Contact: Dan Ojari
daniel.ojari@network.rca.ac.uk
Jackie and
Kevin 1977
Dir: Daisy Gould
UK 2011
3 mins 7 secs
An exploration of memory, shared
experiences and imagination, triggered
by a piece of graffiti found in a drawer.
Eligible Awards:
Writer: Daisy Gould
Animator: Daisy Gould
Sound: David Pasqualini
Music: David Pasqualini
Cast: Catherine Griffin, Joseph Wallace
Daisy Gould: She is a 2D animator
who works in an experimental way,
using stories inspired by normal
things that we might ordinarily
overlook, and that wouldn’t be
possible in any other media, with
expressive drawings, morphing and
making impossible things occur.
Contact: Daisy Gould
ohmydaisy@hotmail.co.uk
Heavy Heads
Abuelas
Dir: Helena Frank
Denmark 2010
7 mins 34 secs
Dir: Afarin Eghbal
UK 2011
9 mins 14 secs
In a grey kitchen Monika lives a
solitary life, to the sounds of a dripping
water tap and a buzzing housefly.
In a small apartment in Buenos Aires,
an old woman eagerly awaits the birth
of her grandchild and all the joys of
becoming a grandmother.
Drama
Documentary
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Prod: Elisabeth Victoria Poulsen
Writer: Helena Frank
Editor: Jakob Juul Toldam
Animator: Mikkel Aabenhuus Sørensen
Sound: Martin Dirkov
Music: Martin Dirkov
Cast: Sira Stampe, Martin Dirkov
Helena Frank: studied Fine Arts for
four years in Sweden, before starting at
The National Film School of Denmark
in 2006. Graduated in 2010 with the
film Heavy Heads and was awarded
Best New Danish Talent 2010.
Contact: Helena Frank
jill_helena_frank@hotmail.com
Eligible Awards:
Best of British, Documentary
Award, European New Talent
Prod: Kasia Malipan
Writer: Francesca Gardiner
& Afarin Eghbal
DOP: Claire Buxton
Editor: Katherine Lee
Animator: Afarin Eghbal
Sound: Nikola Zivojinovic
Music: Lennert Busch
Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Joy McBrinn,
Jenney Surelia & Lukasz Platkowski,
Alexia James, Sofia Margaritis
Afarin Eghbal: Iranian-born, Afarin
moved to London as a baby with
her family following the 1979 Iranian
Revolution. She recently completed
her MA in Animation Direction
at the National Film & Television
School, graduating earlier in 2011.
Contact: Afarin Eghbal
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149
Der Grosse Bruder
(The Big Brother)
Dir: Jesús Pérez
& Elisabeth Hüttermann
Switzerland 2011
6 mins
Two cartoon characters develop a
life of their own, in the combination
of pixilation and classic animation.
They humiliate and mock the third
unfinished figure.
Drama
Prod: Gerd Gockell
DOP: Gerd Gockell
Animator: Jesús Pérez, Lukas Huber
Sound: Cergio Prudencio
Jesús Ernesto Pérez del Barco:
born in Bolivia. Has made animation
films since 1977. Elisabeth Hüttermann
was born 1943 in Luzern, 1974
graduated Design in Dortmund.
Contact: Gerd Gockell
gerd.gockell@hslu.ch
Fixing Luka
Zaliger
Dir: Jessica Ashman
UK 2011
11 mins 32 secs
Dir: Francesca Adams
UK 2011
8 mins
Dir: Nina Gantz
Netherlands 2010
3 mins 38 secs
Lucy thinks her brother is broken.
His obsessive arrangements of sugar
cubes prove it. Lucy thinks he should
be fixed, but not in the way
she imagines.
Bertie Crisp, a half bear, half panda
lives in a caravan park with his
sociopathic bunny rabbit wife, Grace.
A widower is facing the difficulties
of being alone. Without his wife
everything seems out of place.
Drama
Drama, UK Premiere
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Prod: Rob Watson
Writer: Francesca Adams
& Laura Poliakoff
DOP: Benjamin Baily
Editor: Gideon Gold
Animator: Francesca Adams
Sound: George Linford
Music: Alcyona Mick
Cast: Mark Benton, Kathy Burke,
Tamsin Grieg, Nik Powell
Prod: Nina Gantz
Writer: Nina Gantz
Animator: Nina Gantz
Sound: Raymund van Santen
Music: Raymund van Santen
Distributor: Ursula van den
Heuvel, Netherlands Institute
for Animation Film
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Prod: Anna Odell
Writer: Jessica Ashman
DOP: Ruan Suess
Editor: Rachel Tunnard
Animator: Jessica Ashman
Sound: Romano Valerio
Music: Pete MacDonald
Jessica Ashman: an award-winning
filmmaker based in Glasgow. She
specialises in stop-motion and 2-D
animation. Fixing Luka is Jessica’s
first short animated film and was
developed and produced by DigiCult.
The film won a New Talent BAFTA
2010. Jessica is currently developing
a short film with B3 Media.
Contact: Ashley Black
ashley@digicult.co.uk
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Bertie Crisp
Francesca Adams: gained a BA
in animation at UCA, Farnham and
went on to do her MA in Directing
Animation at the NFTS to develop
better story telling skills, and
collaborate with others. She currently
works freelance, while developing her
own ideas for a potential series or film.
Contact: Francesca Adams
f.adams@live.com
Nina Gantz: Educated between
2006 and 2010, and Graduated Cum
Laude at the Art academie AKV/St.
Joost Breda, animation. Filmography
includes 2007 Telefoon, 2D animation,
student film. Het Laatste Bezoek, a
stop-motion collaborated student
film. In 2008 she worked on EIND
computer 3D animation, a student
film. In 2010 she produced Zaliger, a
2D animation, and graduation film.
Contact: Nina Gantz
niaf@niaf.nl
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ANI 6: LIGHT AND DARK
1 HR 30 MINS
Rippled
Dir: Darcy Prendergast
Australia 2011
3 mins 57 secs
In a dystopian landscape, a new
breed of creature evolves.
Experimental
Animator: Darcy Prendergast, Josh
Thomas, Mike Greaney, Josh O’Keefe,
Donna Yeatman, Darcy Prendergast,
Seamus Spilsbury, Andrew Onorato
Darcy Prendergast: started his
artistic career on the living room
walls but moved into the world of
film making, with a keen sense for
the absurd and a taste for the tactile,
where he still lives to this day.
Contact: Nicky Pastore
nicky@ohyeahwow.com
La Fille & le
Chasseur (The Girl
& the Hunter)
Dir: Jadwiga Kowalska
Switzerland 2010
5 mins 23 secs
It’s raining. A small village is in
big trouble. The raindrops are
actually a young girl’s tears…
Drama
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Prod: Claude Barras, Jadwiga Kowalska
Distributor: Folimage France
Writer: Jadwiga Kowalska
DOP: Ralph Kühne, Jadwiga Kowalska
Editor: Marina Rosset
Animator: Jadwiga Kowalska,
Florian Grolig
Sound: Denis Séchaud,
Alexander Miesch, Irmgard Walthert
Music: Valerie Koloszar
Cast: Patric Gehrig, Joan Seiler
Jadwiga Kowalska: born in 1982.
From 2007-09 was the assistant in the
animation department in HSLU. She
won the Swiss Film Prize Quartz 2009,
Best Animation Film for Tôt ou tard.
The Cameraman
Dir: Phillip Warner
UK 2010
5 mins 2 secs
It seems that one man is solely
responsible for the security of a
city park, unfortunately.
Drama, UK Premiere
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Prod: Donna M Spencer
Editor: Donna M Spencer
Animator: Phillip Warner
Sound: Mark Gilmore
Phillip Warner: a cartoonist
and animator, and has worked at
many leading animation studios
including Klactoveesedstene and
StudioAKA. Most recently he has
worked as a storyboard writer for
the Cartoon Network series, The
Amazing World of Gumball, and
is a visiting lecturer at Maidstone
and Bournemouth universities.
Contact: Phillip Warner
cartoons@phillipwarner.com
Losing Strength
in Every Hand
Dir: Marie Yussuf
UK 2011
3 mins 5 secs
The story is about life and death
of a troubled girl. Each photograph
represents moments in her life that
leads up to her death.
Drama
Hogan
Dir: Peter Millard
UK 2011
1 mins 30 secs
Dir: Nicky Whitfield
UK 2011
3 mins 25 secs
Hello Hulk Hogan, don’t worry
we will be OK in the end.
Fletcher the Gargoyle learns that
when the world seems beyond your
control, life can present unexpected
opportunities to escape your
problems… in one fell swoop.
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Prod: Royal College of Art
Animator: Peter Millard
Sound: Peter Millard
Prod: Marie Yussuf
Writer: Marie Yussuf
DOP: Adam Bradley
Editor: Marie Yussuf
Animator: Marie Yussuf
Music: Nine Inch Nails
Cast: Hailley Foster
Peter Millard: a filmmaker currently
living in London and studying an
MA in animation at the Royal College
of Art. His films are straight-ahead
animated, hand drawn on paper, hand
coloured and often-surreal shorts.
Marie Yussuf: has just finished an
animation degree and her goal now is
to make more shorts using different
techniques. Film, animation and
music are her passions. She loves to
be creative and think outside the box.
Contact: Marie Yussuf
marieyussuf@yahoo.co.uk
Petrified
Contact: Peter Millard
petermillard87@hotmail.co.uk
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Prod: Nicky Whitfield
Writer: Nicky Whitfield
Editor: Adam Kirk
Animator: Nicky Whitfield
Sound: Dave Bainbridge
Music: Dave Bainbridge
Nicky Whitfield: graduated from
Edinburgh College of Arts animation
school. She got her first break at
Cosgrove Hall, being mentored
by Barry Purves. In the real world,
she lives by the mantra, ‘What
Would Wile E. Coyote Do?’
Contact: Nicky Whitfield
studio@neekonline.com
Contact: Jadwiga Kowalska
contact@0x2a.ch
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153
Angelinho
The Mask
Muso Soup
Decoration
You must be Joking
Dir: Maryna Shchipak
Germany 2011
4 mins 28 secs
Dir: Hyoung-Min Choi
UK 2010
4 mins 50 secs
Dir: Damian Gascoigne
UK 2011
7 mins 30 secs
Dir: Ben Wheele
UK 2011
6 mins 24 secs
Dir: Michael Cash
UK 2010
5 mins
Angelinho is a cautious guardian
angel… His best efforts only make
the thrill-happy cyclist, for whom
he is responsible, more and
more adventurous.
In a world where everyone has masks.
A couple always wears a smiley mask
for each other. One day he lost
his smiley…
A pseudo intellectual electronica expert
and a folk loving hippy go head to head
in an online battle to prove whose
music taste is superior.
An elegant vase inhabits the body of a
young girl, and re-stages an event from
her childhood using living tissue.
Drama
Adam Bloom demonstrates how his
skills in improvisation, honed of years
of experience as a comedian, help when
controlling a particularly boisterous
London crowd.
Eligible Awards:
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Prod: Hyoung-Min Choi
DOP: Hyoung-Min Choi
Editor: Hyoung-Min Choi
Animator: Hyoung-Min Choi
Sound: Jimmy Kim
Music: J. Brahms,
performed by Paul Cantrell
Prod: Melissa Venet
Writer: Damian Gascoigne
Editor: Rod Main
Animator: Jonathan Harris,
Joe Sparrow, Blanca Martinez
Music: Adelphoi Music
Cast: Mark Heap, Steve May
Hyoung-Min Choi: born in South
Korea, studied product design and
animation, finished MA Animation
course at University of Wales,
Newport. Hyoung-Min Choi has
been working in the game industry.
Damian Gascoigne: an award
winning director and illustrator
whose significant body of short films,
commercials, and installations have
been exhibited in galleries and festivals
around the world. Fusing hand drawn
animation with digital technology he
creates a uniquely personal aesthetic.
Eligible Awards:
European New Talent
Prod: Martin Backhaus
Maryna Shchipak: born in Ukraine
in 1983, visited art school from the
age of 11. She studied Graphic
Design and Fine Arts in Kiev and
Bern, Switzerland. In 2011 she
graduated in Animation at the
Baden-Württemberg Film Academy.
Contact: Martin Backhaus
contact@martinbackhaus.com
Contact: Hyoung-Min Choi
minchoi@ymail.com
Contact: Melissa Venet
melissa@picassopictures.com
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Eligible Awards:
Prod: Animation Staff,
Sound: Guilia Scarantino
Music: Charles Mauleverer, J.P. Rameau
Cast: Robert Ashby
Ben Wheele: born in 1987, Ben
Wheele studied Fine Art at Nottingham
Trent University before undertaking an
MA in Animation at the Royal College
of Art, graduating in June 2011.
Contact: Animation
Department, RCA
jane.colling@rca.ac.uk
Eligible Awards:
Best of British
Prod: Vicky Brophy
Writer: Adam Bloom
DOP: Fred Reed, Andy McCormack
Animator: Miki Cash
Sound: Rick Demowbary
Music: Alex Lupo
Distributor: Vicky Brophy
Michael Cash: spent 15 years in
animation, freelancing at Aardman
Animations e.g. on Creature Comforts,
Chicken Run, and directing Hot Shot
and studios in America, France, Spain
and Denmark before co-founding the
animation studio Wonky in 2007.
Contact: Vicky Brophy
vicky@wonkyfilms.com
In Stereo –
Tony Blackwood
Dir: Keston Neunie
UK 2010
4 mins 35 secs
An animated short introducing
Tony Blackwood, a 25 year-old
filmmaker narrating experiences
of being stereotyped and breaking
into the film industry.
Documentary
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Keston Neunie
Writer: Keston Neunie
Animator: Keston Neunie
Sound: Oliver Julien, Keston Neunie
Music: Nathan Delsol
Cast: Keston Neunie
Keston Neunie: a trained animator
and the Managing Director of Neunie
Flicks Limited. He is the producer
and director of In Stereo, an animated
short featuring Tony Blackwood,
an entrepreneur filmmaker.
Contact: Keston Neunie
keston@neunieflicks.com
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Stuck in a Groove
Margaret
Dir: Clemens Kogler
Austria 2010
4 mins
Dir: Alberto Montana
UK 2011
2 mins 28 secs
What do Madonna, Massive Attack
and Angela Merkel have in common?
Margaret is rescued from hoodies
by the elderly town hero, but in
his glory squashes the one thing
Margaret holds most dear.
Experimental
Animator: Clemens Kogler
Music: Richard Eigner
Clemens Kogler: started studying
classical painting and worked
some time in an ad agency and
for television but finally decided to
choose a career in film-making, for its
job security and pension benefits.
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Eligible Awards:
Prod: Sian Ross
Writer: Alberto Montana
Animator: Alberto Montana,
Sian Ross, Nigel Kitts
Sound: Sophie Long
Music: Sophie Long
Seven Days
in the Wood
Dir: Peter Larsson
Sweden 2011
6 mins 25 secs
The trees alongside the road, everything
was blurry. There was always a faint
electrical buzz from somewhere. It was
damp and raw, like the Stone Age.
Drama
Prod: Peter Larsson
Writer: Peter Larsson
DOP: Peter Larsson
Animation: Peter Larsson,
Rasmus R Streith
Music: Daniel Karlsson
Alberto Montana: studied BA
(Hons) Animation at University
College Falmouth. With future
career passions to direct 2D
and stop motion animations.
Peter Larsson: has studied animation
in Visby, Sweden (2003-07) and is
now studying free art at the Royal
Institute of Art in Stockholm. He
has directed three stop motion
animated films with puppets.
Contact: Sophie Long
sophielong07@hotmail.co.uk
Contact: Andreas Fock
andreas.fock@sfi.se
Pik (Pecker)
The Neighbour
Luminaris
Dir: Erik van Schaaik
Netherlands 2010
2 mins 55 secs
Dir: Samuel Turner
UK 2011
2 mins 47 secs
Dir: Juan Pablo Zaramella
Argentina 2011
6 mins 20 secs
The bird pecks, the ox objects.
But without the pecking, life
becomes very complex!
‘The Neighbour’ is a short rotoscoped
film about a man who becomes
suspicious of his neighbour’s activities
and decides to follow him one night.
In a world controlled and timed by
light, an ordinary man has a plan
that could change the natural
order of things.
Drama
Drama
Eligible Awards:
Prod: Sol Rulloni, Mario Rulloni
Writer: Juan Pablo Zaramella,
Gustavo Cornillón
Editor: Mauro Ruda
Animator: Juan Pablo Zaramella
Sound: Diego Gat, Alejo Villarino
Music: “Lluvia de Estrellas”
Cast: Gustavo Cornillón,
María Alché, Luis Rial
Drama, UK Premiere
Prod: Jiek Weishut, The Drawing Room
Writer: Erik van Schaaik
Animator: Erik van Schaaik,
Patrick Raats
Sound: Tape TV (Arno Peeters)
Music: Martin Fondse
for Animation Film
Erik van Schaaik: during his study
of graphic design at the academy of
arts, Erik started working for Dutch
television. He has created a series
of animation films, live action drama
and documentaries, always using a
variety of styles and techniques.
Contact: Erik van Schaaik
info@erikvanschaaik.com
Prod: Samuel Turner
Writer: Samuel Turner
Editor: Samuel Turner
Animator: Samuel Turner
Sound: Samuel Turner
Music: Nicola Powell
Cast: Daniel Riseborough
Distributor: Samuel Turner
Samuel Turner: a young filmmaker, about to graduate from
University of Plymouth, where he
has been studying Media Arts.
Contact: Samuel Turner
samt2301@live.co.uk
Juan Pablo Zaramella: an
independent director and animator.
His last short film Luminaris has won
the Audience Award and Fipresci
Award at Annecy 2011. Nowadays,
Juan Pablo is working on a feature film
version of his short Journey to Mars.
Contact: Juan Pablo Zaramella
contact@zaramella.com.ar
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CHILDREN’S ANIMATION JURY
1 HR 30 MINS
SUITABLE FOR AGES 8+
Cloud 8
Damned
Das Haus
(The House)
Dir: Jeremy Diamond
Canada 2011
5 mins 30 secs
Dir: Richard Phelan
UK 2011
8 mins
A guardian angel does everything
in his power to get the lazy human
he is guarding to wake up and
embrace a new day.
An over-ambitious beaver goes too
far when he gets the chance to realise
his ultimate dream. Some dreams
are just too big.
Drama
Prod: Jonas Diamond, Jeremy Diamond,
and Denny Silverthorne
Distributor: Smiley Guy Studios
Writer: Jeremy Diamond
Editor: Andrew McIntyre
Animator: Mateusz Garbuliński,
Richard Duhaney, Nathan Carey,
Kurtis Scott, Craig Schriver
Sound: Paul O’Brien
Cast: Sean Cullen, Don McKellar
Prod: Philipp Zakrzewski
Writer: Gareth Sargent and
Richard Phelan
DOP: Stil Williams
Editor: Simon Bullen
Animator: Richard Phelan
Sound: Tom Drew
Music: Jon Wygens
Prod: David Buob
Writer: David Buob
Cinematographer: David Buob
Editor: David Buob
Animator: David Buob
Sound: Christian Lutz
Music: David Buob, Christian Lutz
Distributor: David Buob
Jeremy Diamond: Jeremy was
co-creator, head writer and actor
on the award-winning animated
comedy Odd Job Jack. As producer,
writer and director, Jeremy is a
core member of Toronto’s Smiley
Guy Studios. He dreams of
making Cloud 8 into a feature.
Richard Phelan: studied Animation
at the University of Wolverhampton.
After graduation he won the Bristol
School of Animation storyboard
competition, his prize being to attend
the prestigious three-month course.
Contact: Jonas Diamond
jonas@smileyguy.com
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Contact: Richard Phelan
Dir: David Buob
Germany 2011
6 mins 48 secs
The dream of the little girl is to care for
her grandmother, but the aunt and the
mother do not let her do so.
David Buob: 1972 born in Calw,
Germany. Between 1992-94 he studied
architecture in Kassel. Between
1994-97 he took part in vocational
training as stonemason, Kassel. In
1998-2003 - he studied Sculpture,
HfBK Dresden. Between 2001-02, he
studied at the Academy of Fine Arts
Viennaand in 2003 he received a
Diploma HfBK Dresden and now lives
and works in Dresden and Berlin.
Contact: David Buob
david@davidbuob.de
Der Grosse Bruder
(The Big Brother)
Dir: Jesús Pérez
& Elisabeth Hüttermann
Switzerland 2011
6 mins
Two cartoon characters develop a
life of their own, in the combination
of pixilation and classic animation.
They humiliate and mock the third
unfinished figure.
Drama
Prod: Gerd Gockell
DOP: Gerd Gockell
Animator: Jesús Pérez, Lukas Huber
Sound: Cergio Prudencio
Jesús Ernesto Pérez del Barco:
born in Bolivia. Has made
animation films since 1977.
Elisabeth Hüttermann: was
born 1943 in Luzern, 1974
graduated Design in Dortmund.
Contact: Gerd Gockell
gerd.gockell@hslu.ch
Dimanche (Sunday)
Dir: Patrick Doyon
Canada 2010
10 mins
On this particular Sunday, one of the
village boys lays a coin on the train
tracks… after the train had run over it,
he discovers some amazing changes.
Drama, UK Premiere
Prod: Marc Bertrand,
Michael Fukushima
Patrick Doyon: received a degree in
graphic design from the Université
du Québec à Montréal and works in
both illustration and animated film.
Contact: Madeleine Belisle
festivals@nfb.ca
Dirkjan Heerst!
(Dirkjan Rules!)
Dir: Wilfred Ottenheijm
& Remco Polman
Netherlands 2010
2 mins 30 secs
Dirkjan, a nerdy guy, turns
Leader of the World. Where does his
sudden hunger for power come from?
And what is the Big Plan?
Drama, UK Premiere
Prod: Jantiene de Kroon, Mooves
Writer: Wilfred Ottenheijm,
Remco Polman, Mark Retera
Animator: Wilfred Ottenheijm,
Remco Polman
Sound: Cinemeta
Music: Nick Caris
for Animation Film
Wilfred Ottenheijm & Remco
Polman: In 1999 Wilfred Ottenheijm
founded the animation production
company Mooves, together with
animator Remco Polman and writer/
producer Jantiene de Kroon.
Contact: Ursula Van Den Heuvel
heuvel@niaf.nl
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Grand Prix
Home was the Sailor
Spain 2011
8 mins
Dir: Seana Kozar
Canada 2011
3 mins 40 secs
This is about to start! Ready, steady…
A retelling of the Sisyphus myth with
a darkly humorous maritime twist.
Drama
Prod: Marc Riba, Anna Solanas
Writer: Marc Riba, Anna Solanas
DOP: Anna Molins
Editor: Sergi Marti
Sound: Anna Solanas
Music: Roqui Albero
Marc Riba and Anna Solanas:
Contact: Marc Riba
info@stopmotion.cat
Prod: Seana Kozar
Animator: Seana Kozar
Sound: Graham Bevan
Music: Trevor Dunton
Distributor: Seana Kozar
Seana Kozar: a professional oral
storyteller for over a decade, Seana
Kozar has been a full-time animator
since 2005. Her artistic practice focuses
on the combination of digital and
handcrafted animation techniques to
tell true and truly fantastic stories.
Contact: Seana Kozar
twisted_biscuits@me.com
Lokomoschine
Dir: Ulrike Schulz
& Nikolai Neumetzler
Germany 2011
7 mins 24 secs
Two scientists in the end of the 19th
century invented a machine capable
of bringing books to life. They are
just about to test it for the first time.
Will the experiment work out?
Drama, UK Premiere
Prod: Martin Lischke, Holger Lochau
Editor: Mirja Gerle
Animator: Pauline Kortmann
Sound: Kai Nicolas Theissen
Music: Benjamin Dickmann
Cast: Benjamin Kramme Ulf Schmitt
Distributor: Hochschule für Film und
Fernsehen (HFF) “Konrad Wolf”
Ulrike Schulz and Nikolai
Neumetzler: met in 2004 at the
HFF Konrad Wolf, when they
started studying Animation. After
their Prediploma Tsuribashi and
Ein Traum, they worked together
on their project Lokomoschine.
Pik (Pecker)
Tooth Fairy Affair
World’s Apart
Dir: Erik van Schaaik
Netherlands 2010
2 mins 55 secs
Dir: Izabela Melamed
Bulgaria 2011
6 mins 19 secs
Dir: Michael Zachary Huber
UK 2011
9 mins 4 secs
The bird pecks, the ox objects.
But without the pecking, life
becomes very complex!
In a plot to scam the tooth fairy, a
mischievous boy gets both more and
less than he bargained for.
Drama
Drama
Part science fiction, part thriller and
part cautionary fairytale, Worlds Apart
encompasses the universal themes of
innocence, friendship and the possible
fate of humanity.
Prod: Jiek Weishut, The Drawing Room
Writer: Erik van Schaaik
Animator: Erik van Schaaik,
Patrick Raats
Sound: Tape TV (Arno Peeters)
Music: Martin Fondse
Distributor: Ursula van den Heuvel,
Netherlands Institute for
Animation Film
Animator: Izabela Melamed
Music: Jack Brewer
Erik van Schaaik: During his study
of graphic design at the academy of
arts, Erik started working for Dutch
television. He has created a series
of animation films, live action drama
and documentaries, always using a
variety of styles and techniques.
Contact: Erik van Schaaik
info@erikvanschaaik.com
Izabela Melamed: an established
animator from Bulgaria. She gained
artistic experience and film making
skills while contributing to numerous
international productions, including
a rich diversity of countries and
animation studios that spanned a wide
variety of genres and techniques.
Contact: Izabela Melamed
izabela844@gmail.com
Writer: Michael Zachary Huber
Editor: Jeron Moore
Animator: Evan Clover
Sound: Derrick Reyes
Music: Jeremiah Diaz
Michael Zachary Huber: a Professor
at Cogswell College. Previously, he
has worked on numerous blockbuster
films as a visual effects artist and
computer animator. His credits
include Godzilla, Armageddon, Fifth
Element, Black Hawk Down, Titanic,
The Matrix, and Minority Report.
Contact: Michael Zachary Huber
mhuber@cogswell.edu
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Short Film Studies
2011, Volume 1, 2 issues per year, ISSN 20427824, Online ISSN 20427832
Editor Richard Raskin | Aarhus University
Short Film Studies is a new peer-reviewed journal designed to stimulate ongoing
research on individual short films as a basis for a better understanding of the
art form as a whole. In each issue, two or three short films will be selected for
comprehensive study, with articles illuminating each film from a variety of
perspectives. While the principal focus will be on the short fiction film, other classic
forms, such as the short documentary and the short experimental film will be
discussed. In addition to stimulating ongoing research, Short Film Studies will be an
essential resource for teachers who focus on this art form.
Fresh Flix
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Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, UK, BS16 3JG. Telephone: +44 (0) 117 9589910 | Fax: +44 (0) 117 9589911
FRESH FLIX: inspiring creative talent
Tickets for Watershed
UNDER 18’S OFFER: £2.00
PER SCREENING & FREE
WORKSHOPS AT WATERSHED
Adults: £4.60 Full / £ 3.60
Concs (Before 16.00)
£7.20 Full / £5.60 Concs (After)
Screen writing
BAFTA Masterclass
with Tony Marchant
TUE 1 NOV 16:00 WATERSHED
SUITABLE FOR AGES 15 – 30
Presented by:
Join Tony Marchant (The Mark of Cain,
Recovery, Holding On) to discuss his
approach to writing award-winning
drama for the screen. He found his
inspiration in the DIY punk ethic,
quit boxing after his first play which
he claims was good preparation for
being a writer!
Supported by:
A BAFTA preview of Public Enemies +
Q&A with Tony and director Dearbhla
Walsh follows at 18.00.
For group bookings:
holly.mcintosh@watershed.co.uk
Tel: 0117 927 5128
In partnership with:
Aardman presents:
Kids Model
Animation Workshops
SAT 19 NOV 13:00 & 15:30
ARNOLFINI
SUITABLE FOR AGES 7+
£5 per child / Parents free entry
Join Jim Parkyn from Aardman
Animations, as he shows you how
to make a puppet that can be used
in animation films. Jim will show
his approach to sculpting and
model making, giving you a special
look at how some of our favourite
characters such as Wallace & Gromit
and Shaun the Sheep are made.
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Short Stuff
If you like them short and sweet,
don’t miss Pick ‘n’ Mix 12A (see p97)
Sat 19 Nov Encounters’ selection of
family friendly shorts and this year’s
Cinekids: Encounters Children’s
Animation Jury Shorts 8 – 12
yrs (see p158) on Sat 26 Nov.
Fresh Flix culminates with the launch
of Electric December, Watershed’s
original end of year online showcase
of creative talent from across Europe.
Visit electricdecember.org
every day from 1 Dec
Teen Flicks
Revisit some classic teen flicks on
the big screen such as Persepolis
12A on Sun 13 Nov and This is
England 15 on Sun 27 Nov as well as
the brand new restoration of Kes PG
from Sun 20 – Thu 24 Nov, reissued
to celebrate Loach’s 75th birthday.
A poignant coming-of-age drama, it
remains the now legendary director’s
most beloved and influential film.
Don’t miss the Bristol Premiere of
Award-winning Louder than a Bomb
12 all the way from Chicago on Mon 28
Nov. Who ever said poetry was boring?
Tiny Tots
There’s also plenty to do for families
and little ones. Catch two very special
previews; Red Dog PG on Sun 27
Nov a lovingly-handled pup’s tale that
picked up Best Film Award at this
year’s Showcomotion Young People’s
Film Festival and A Cat in Paris PG
the animated tale of adventurous Dino;
by day, the loyal tabby of the police
superintendent’s daughter and by
night, joining the nocturnal adventures
of a cat burglar. Celebrate the joy of
reading with Dominique Monfery’s
Eleanor’s Secret U followed by a free
Animation Workshop 6 – 12 yrs led
by creatives from Knowle West Media
Centre on Sun 6 Nov.
Call Arnolfini Box Office:
0117 917 2300
arnolfini.org.uk
School Screening:
Arthur Christmas
in 3D
WED 16 NOV 9:30 WATERSHED
PRE-BOOKED FOR SCHOOLS ONLY
With thanks to: Bristol City College,
Bristol CND, Bristol Foyer, Connexions
West, Redland High School,
Fairfield High School, Filton College,
Firstborn Creatives, Young Bristol.
Image (L to R): Grand Prix,
Louder than a Bomb, A Cat in Paris
Fresh Flix, presented by Watershed
and Encounters International Film
Festival is back with a fantastic
programme of film, music and poetry
for young people, children and their
families running from 1 Nov – 1 Dec at
Watershed and Arnolfini in Bristol.
Here are just some of the highlights.
For a full programme and booking info,
visit: watershed.co.uk/freshflix
© Aardman Animations Ltd 2011
1 Nov – 1 Dec 2011 Watershed
freshflix.org.uk
On Christmas night at the North Pole,
Santa’s youngest son looks to use his
father’s high-tech operation for an
urgent mission. Children from Schools
from across Bristol have been invited to
take part in this exclusive screening of
Aardman’s festive feature, plus a Q&A
with Aardman Animations directors
Alan Short and Seamus Malone.
Presented by Encounters
for participants of FILMCLUB.
What’s the Score?
SAT 12 NOV 15:00 – 18:00
WATERSHED
Join Tony Orrell (aka Birdman of
Alkijazz) for a hands-on workshop
to create your own very own live
score to silent film. Your finished
score will performed live on the day
at 19:00 to an invited audience.
BFI Future Film:
The Winning Pitch
Mini Masterpieces:
Telling Stories Together
SUN 20 NOV 11:00 – 12:30
WATERSHED
SUN 20 NOV 13:00 – 17:00
WATERSHED
Watch 10 shortlisted filmmakers,
battling to pitch their Twitter ideas
to a panel of judges. The two best
pitches will win the opportunity to
attend a workshop in East Europe.
Join short film producers Calling the
Shots and theatre makers Green Ginger
to explore how working collaboratively
can generate interesting and
inspirational material for your next film.
To book your place at these free workshops please email holly.mcintosh@watershed.co.uk. For more info call 0117 927 5128.
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Stud Life – TniaMiller ©Paula Harrowing 2010
ARNOLFINI: AFTERIMAGE
Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic
FRI 18 & SAT 19 NOV
ARNOLFINI DARK STUDIO
The International Curators Forum is an open conceptual
network that meets to discuss emerging issues of curatorial
practice in the context of key events in the international
arts calendar. It offers bursaries and professional
development opportunities to curators and works in
partnership with key national and international bodies.
Sat 19 Nov:
Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic is an
ICF International Curators Forum two-day intervention
at the Arnolfini, threading together responses to the
multiplicity of issues that impact on the production,
distribution and critical reflection of the moving
image in an era of mass and intimate media.
13:30 – 15:00
Panel Discussions on moving image practice in relation
to narrative and gallery space with Anthony Gross,
Campbell X and John Sealy.
Inspirational internationally acclaimed artists, curators
and agencies such as: Artangel, the LUX, David A Bailey,
Mike Dibb, Antony Gross, Gil Leung, Gary Stewart,
and Sonia Boyce will be discussing and reflecting on
the historical and contemporary impact of cinema as
both an industry and scene of cultural production.
Fri 18 Nov:
16:30 – 19:00
Tom Trevor: Welcome address
Keynote: Mike Dibb: Thoughts On Artist Moving
Practice In Conversation With David A Bailey.
10:30 – 12:30
A panel discussion on moving image practice in relation
to the spectacle of the performer and installation with Gary
Stewart, Mike Dibb, Judy Price and Sonia Boyce.
BREAK
15:30 – 17:00
Presentations on art institutions moving image commissions
and collections. Followed by Omer Fast Screening.
BREAK
17:30 – 18:30
Caribbean Cinema Club Screening
19:00 – 20:00
Closing Evening Performance with Gary Stewart
(Arnolfini Auditorium)
For tickets and prices see arnolfini.org.uk
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www.krakowfilmfestival.pl
28 MAY − 3 JUNE
DO
NOT
MISS
IT
IN
2012
EXHIBITIONS
DEADLINES: 30 NOVEMBER 2011 for films completed before 31 August 2011
10 FEBRUARY 2012 for films completed after 31 August 2011
Spike Island
Geneva Stop Travelogue
SAT 22 OCT – SUN 27 NOV
FREE
TUES 15 – FRI 26 NOV
FREE
Spike Island is a place of production and exhibition of
contemporary art and design situated on the southern end
of Bristol’s historic docks. Within the 80,000 square foot
building, Spike Island offers a year-round programme of free
exhibitions, events and activities, and provides working
space for artists, designers and creative businesses.
Bristol’s newest gallery for anyone with an interest in ciné
film, presents Travelogue; a collection of found footage and
personal archive material showing travels from around the
world. Some of these films had originally been discarded
and later discovered in skips and on street markets, others
have been kindly lent by artists and the families of home
ciné enthusiasts. Many films from the 50’s, 60’s & 70’s
will be shown in their original format, using equipment
from Geneva Stop’s collection of projectors and viewers.
Cezary Bodzianowski: Tea Back
Spike Island presents the first UK solo show by Łódź based
artist Cezary Bodzianowski. Initially trained as a sculptor,
Bodzianowski has increasingly turned his practice to the
creation of absurdist interventions into everyday settings.
These documented actions bring to mind the era of
silent comedy with their out of place, everyman hero.
Savage presents
Jean Michel Jarre
Savage is the recipient of the 2011 Rootstein Hopkins award,
offering a promising Bristol based artist his or her first major
solo exhibition. Savage’s work engages with the culture of
consumerism, apparently affirming and even celebrating
it, yet with such a degree of futility and emptiness that
it is ultimately negated. Works include the collaged film I
asked you a Thousand Times which presents a barrage of
clips cut from Hollywood movies in which the same clichéd
question ‘What do you want from me?’ is repeatedly posed.
Galleries open: 11:00 – 17:00 Tues – Sun
133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX
+44 (0)117 929 2266
www.spikeisland.org.uk
On Thursday and Friday evenings, films will
be projected into the windows of the gallery
for passersby to see from the street.
Geneva Stop is also offers a high quality digital
transfer service, Super 8 equipment hire and
practical workshops in small gauge film.
Contact David Wilkinson or Dawn
Shorten for more information.
Gallery open: 14:00 – 18:00 Weds – Sat
Night-time window projections:
18:00 – 20.00, Thu & Fri
68 Colston Street, Bristol BS1 5AZ
+44 (0)117 929 4782
info@genevastop.co.uk
www.genevastop.co.uk
Introduction to Super8
SAT 19 NOV 10:30 GENEVA STOP
I HR 30 MINS FREE
David Wilkinson from Geneva Stop, introduces the practical
aspects of Super8 for those intending to use this brilliant
medium whilst it’s still available. The session will cover film
stock, cameras, projectors, processing, editing and transfer.
Spaces are limited, so please only sign up via
www.introductiontosuper8.eventbrite.com
if you are absolutely able to attend.
Images (L to R): Step by Step performance, photo
Lodź, 2010. Photo: Monika Chojnicka, Courtesy Foksal
Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Galleria ZERO, Milan.
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INDEX
13.................................................................................85
¿Bailas? (Shall We Dance?).....................................84
1000 Gramm (1000 Grams)........................................93
15 Summers Later.....................................................81
3 Mile Radius..............................................................60
3D Introductory Workshop....................................45
A Fox Tale....................................................................48
A Gun For George....................................................112
A Million Lovesongs.................................................52
A Minuit, Ici Tout S’Arrête
(Everything Stops Here At Midnight)....................51
A Morning Stroll....................................................142
À Quoi Ça Sert L’amour?...........................................53
A Short Look At South East Europe.......................57
Aardman presents: Kids Model
Animation Workshop...............................................164
Aardman, Model-Making and Rapid Prototyping.....36
Above as Below ......................................................101
Abuelas.......................................................76, 121, 149
Afterimage: Engagement with the Cinematic.....167
Aides ‘Sugar Baby Love’...........................................54
Aisha’s Song.......................................................76, 111
Älä Kuiskaa Ystävän Suuhun
(Whispering In A Friend’s Mouth)...........................51
All Consuming Love (Man In A Cat).......................136
All Flowers In Time...................................................95
All That Way For Love...............................................87
An History Of Civilisation......................................113
An Interrupted Story............................................143
Angelinho...........................................................99, 154
Animated Encounters Awards..............................127
Antonymy . ...............................................................101
Apele Tac (Silent River)...........................................80
Assessment..............................................................107
Attack of the Alien Emmets . ................................102
Augenblicke (Blink Of An Eye)................................93
Awakening (The River Of Forgetfulness).............78
Baby . ........................................................................110
BAFTA Masterclass: A Brief Encounter
with Sam Taylor-Wood, OBE.....................................19
BBC Writersroom &
B3 Media 2011 CINEAST Slate....................................60
Belly . ...............................................................120, 134
Benigni .......................................................................59
Bernelov Kyanqs (Loading My Life)........................57
Bertie Crisp.............................................................150
Big Ideas, Big Screen: Francine Stock .................14
Big Society...............................................................114
Blinky..........................................................................63
Botanical Nightmare..............................................129
Brazilian Animation..................................................65
Brief Encounters Awards.......................................75
Brief Exchange: Future Encounters....................30
Brief Exchange: Future of Cinema........................30
Brief Exchange: Future of Short Film..................30
Bristol Encounters: 0117 Hour
Film Challenge 2011.................................................23
Burn My Body..........................................................113
Caixa (Box)..................................................................67
Camas (Beds)..............................................................86
Candy Crime . ..........................................................102
Captain Zip Fetish Night...........................................21
Captivi De Craciun (Stuck On Christmas).............51
Car Park Babylon...................................................118
Cartoon d’Or.............................................................68
170
Case Study: Cartoon Saloon...................................43
Case Study: Studio AKA . ..........................................37
Cathy Davey ‘Little Red’...........................................64
Ce N’est Rien (It Is Nothing).....................................80
Cezary Bodzianowski: Tea Back............................169
Choke..........................................................................89
Chop Suey.................................................................137
Christine Bardsley..................................................74
Chroniques De La Poisse (Sticky Ends).........94, 137
Cloud 8.....................................................................158
Come To Harm............................................................86
Coming Out ..............................................................120
Connection................................................................86
Contentertainment..................................................41
Cross-Country ........................................................91
Crossroad.................................................................49
Crowded.............................................................76, 128
Daisy Cutter............................................................141
Damned..............................................................134, 158
Das Haus (The House)........................................98, 158
Das Tub......................................................................100
David Sproxton..........................................................74
Daylight Saving Time.................................................63
De Lijn (The Line)......................................................102
Decoration...............................................................155
Delkaracja Niesmiertelnosci
(Declaration Of Immortality)...........................76, 89
Den Første Anders (The First Anders)..................83
DepicT! Showcase....................................................101
Der Grosse Bruder (The Big Brother).......150, 159
Der Letzte Gast (The Last Guest)...........................78
Desert Island Flicks with John Kricfalusi...........16
Destiny Lives Down The Road .................................82
Die Intrige Und Die Archenmuscheln
(Intrigue And The Ronches)....................................95
Dimanche (Sunday)..................................................159
Dinero Facil (Easy Money).......................................88
Directors UK Presents: Bruce Robinson.............17
Dirkjan Heerst! (Dirkjan Rules!).........................159
Dji Vou Veu Volti........................................................52
Drama In The Wetlands..........................................131
DREAMS OF A LIFE........................................................26
Edge.............................................................................26
Edina............................................................................57
Egg & Fag .........................................................103,108
Eighty Eight ............................................................121
Eileen Arandiga.........................................................73
El Grifo (The Faucet) ...............................................83
Electroshock............................................................49
Ella............................................................................118
Emilie Simon ‘Flowers’.............................................54
Encounters @ No1. Harbourside..........................22
Encounters Pop-Up Cinema.....................................22
European Short Pitch: Live Script Reading.........35
Experiments in Parahypnosis ..............................103
Falling In Love Again................................................53
Film Quiz.....................................................................23
Filmaker Focus: Carol Morley
& Cairo Cannon ........................................................39
First Contact...........................................................128
First Day...................................................................148
Fishes..........................................................................53
Fixing Luka................................................................150
Flamingo Pride........................................................135
Flight At The Museum...............................................99
Flocons Et Carottes
(Snowflakes And Carrots)....................................136
Fluffy Mccloud.........................................................64
Four...........................................................................131
Fresh Flix.................................................................164
Full..............................................................................60
Furico & Fiofó (Flea & Fly).......................................67
Future Encounters..................................................32
Geneva Stop Travelogue........................................169
Ghost . ........................................................................92
Gina Fucci...................................................................74
God View....................................................................110
Gorge........................................................................129
Grace....................................................................76, 85
Graffitiger.................................................................97
Grand Prix..................................................98, 142, 160
Greetings.................................................................139
Ground Running......................................................140
Häandelse Vid Bank (Incident At A Bank)..............58
Happy Clapper.........................................................108
Haru No Shikumi (The Mechanism Of Spring)......134
Hasta Los Huesos (Down To The Bone)...................55
Headspace..................................................................63
Heavy Heads.............................................................149
Hello...........................................................................55
Hilton ‘Sunrise’.........................................................53
Hinterland...............................................................130
Història D’este (Story of Him)..............................138
Hogan........................................................................153
Hollow .....................................................................107
Home Was The Sailor..............................................160
Hop The Twig...............................................................98
Hurdy Gurdy . ...................................................92, 130
Hvordan De Danser (How They Dance)..................58
I’ll Tell You..............................................................118
In Stereo – Tony Blackwood...........................76, 155
Innocent Dream .....................................................103
Introduction to Super8.........................................169
J’ai Encore Rêvé D’elle (French Song)..................54
Jackie And Kevin 1977.............................................149
Jam Today..................................................................109
James Dean ..............................................................109
Jes Benstock..............................................................73
JJ & the Birdman: An Evening of
Music and Experimental Film..................................15
John & Betty.............................................................148
Junkhearts.................................................................27
- KahAnikAr..................................................................143
Keep Your Eyes On The Road.................................144
Kinderspiel (Child’s Play)........................................91
L.E.R. (R.S.I.)................................................................67
La Calma (The Calm) ............................................76,78
La Détente................................................................140
La Fille & Le Chasseur
(The Girl & The Hunter)..........................................152
La Messicole (The Cornflower)...........................143
La Taxidermiste..........................................................49
Las Palmas..................................................................94
Lásko Má (My Love)....................................................54
Last Fall....................................................................144
Léa Zagury................................................................126
Les Chiens Isoles......................................................49
Let Me Come In.........................................................135
LFA presents: Acting for
Directors Workshops..............................................41
Liberties...................................................................139
Life And Stuff..........................................................139
Linhas E Espirais (Lines And Spirals).....................66
Little White Lies......................................................116
Lokomoschine..........................................................160
Long Distance Information...................................107
Lose This Child........................................................133
Losing Strength In Every Hand............................153
Lost Tracks .............................................................119
Love Song (La Chanson D’amour) ..........................52
Love Story..................................................................53
Luminaris............................................................49, 157
Mad Dogs And Englishmen.....................................129
Mały Listonosz (Little Postman)....................99, 145
Man In Fear...............................................................114
Margaret..................................................................156
Maria.........................................................................117
Marichen....................................................................82
Memory Loss............................................................104
Mercutio’s Dreaming...............................................60
Milk Hare..................................................................135
Miten Marjoja Poimitaan
(How To Pick Berries)..........................................77,90
Mobile.........................................................................69
Mrs Bates ................................................................120
Muso Soup................................................................154
My Dream/ My Reality . ..........................................117
NAHEMI Student Awards.........................................119
Nana’s Strawberry Preserve...............................147
Needle Exchange.......................................................82
Never In Your Wildest Dreams...............................54
New Irish Talent Focus............................................64
NFTS Presents: Cinematography Masterclass....34
Nigel Davis................................................................126
Night Shift..........................................................77, 106
Nighthawks .............................................................119
Nik Powell..................................................................74
Nina Simone ‘My Baby Just Cares For Me’.............54
NISI MASA European Short Pitch Screening . ......51
Nokia “Dot”.......................................................100, 132
Nordisk Panorama....................................................58
Nun Sehen Sie Folgendes (Now Follows) . ...........88
O Céu No Andar De Baixo (The Sky Downstairs)...66
O Povo Atrás Do Muro
(The People Behind The Wall)..................................65
O Sapateiro (The Shoemaker)................................145
Obscura....................................................................148
On Tender Hooks ................................................77, 93
On The Bus................................................................142
One Eskimo “Kandi”...................................................55
Opfer (Submerged)...................................................90
Orba Squara “Gravel”.............................................64
Os Irmãos Williams (The Williams Brothers).......65
Our Ordered Lives .................................................111
Our Satisfying Conclusion .................................104
Painkiller...................................................................60
Pajerama.....................................................................65
Paperman............................................................63, 145
Passo (Birth)..............................................................66
Paths Of Hate.............................................................69
Patrick Collerton....................................................74
Paul Negoescu...........................................................73
Perdus......................................................................144
Petrified...................................................................153
Pik (Pecker)......................................................157, 161
Pitch Black Heist ...................................................115
Pivot............................................................................69
Plasma From Heaven . ............................................104
Play..............................................................................28
Playing Ghost..........................................................146
Pode Acreditar (You Can Believe It)......................67
Posthumno (Posthumous).......................................57
Privily Tuda-Siuda (Tides To An Fro)....................132
Protect The Nation...................................................81
Qualquer Nota (Not Noteworthy)..........................66
Radio Amina........................................................77, 110
Radiostan.............................................................77, 89
Red Cam Workshop...................................................34
Refrigeration..........................................................147
Rippled......................................................................152
Rita...............................................................................51
Rite............................................................................113
Rough Skin................................................................106
Sagan Om Den Lille Dockpojken
(The Tale Of Little Puppetboy)................................59
Salma.........................................................................132
Sam Taylor-Wood......................................................19
Sarah Cooper............................................................74
Satanv ........................................................................95
Savage presents: Jean Michel Jarre....................169
Saved.........................................................................111
School Screening: Arthur Christmas in 3D......164
Score..........................................................................96
Screen writing BAFTA Masterclass
with Tony Marchant...............................................164
Screenshot................................................................88
Sculpture...................................................................21
Seven Days In The Wood..........................................156
Shelley Page..............................................................48
Shelley’s Eye Candy.................................................48
Shoot The Moon.........................................................87
Shooting People presents: Speed Networking...45
Short Documentary Award.....................................76
Short Stuff..............................................................165
Signs............................................................................63
Sinal Vermelho (Red Light).....................................67
Sirkus (Circus) . .......................................................59
Slow Derek...............................................................133
Smáfuglar (2 Birds) ................................................58
Spike Island..............................................................169
Spike Island..............................................................169
Spotlight on Ireland................................................62
Stanka Se Pribira Vkashti
(Stanka Goes Home)...................................................51
Stick Climbing.....................................................77, 87
Stuck In A Groove...................................................156
Subculture..............................................................108
Sunny Boy.................................................................106
Susanne Folkesson...................................................73
Swing Of Change........................................................49
Teen Flicks...............................................................165
The Backwater Gospel...........................................130
The Birdman of Alkijazz...........................................15
The British Guide to Showing Off..........................28
The Cameraman........................................................152
The Day We Danced On The Moon......................77, 80
The Eagleman Stag............................................49, 137
The Elaborate End Of Robert Ebb.........................83
The Existential Pleading of the Inner Heart . ..105
The External World.....................................64, 69, 94
The Father..................................................................85
The Fisherman..........................................................140
The Girl With The World In Her Hair....................100
The Gloaming...........................................................138
The Golden Bird......................................................136
The Gruffalo..............................................................69
The Kiss.......................................................................79
The Last Norwegian Troll.......................................49
The Last Train............................................................64
The Launderette......................................................105
The Little Boy And The Beast
(Der Kleine und das Biest).......................................69
The Magical Misery Tour.........................................18
The Maker.................................................................141
The Man Who Was Afraid Of Falling.....................147
The Man With The Stolen Heart............................138
The Mask...................................................................154
The Meaning Of Eggistence.....................................64
The Monk And The Fly................................................63
The Neighbour.........................................................157
The New And The Other .........................................121
The Night We Were Kings..........................................48
The Pizza Miracle....................................................109
The Programmer’s Fear of
Missing the Masterpiece.........................................36
The Saga Of Biôrn....................................................131
The Things I Think About........................................116
The Way To Documentary.........................................39
Til Alle Mine Venner (To All My Friends)..............79
Time For Love.............................................................65
Tiny Tots...................................................................165
Tooth Fairy Affair.............................................97, 161
Training Day...............................................................97
Tuurngait...................................................................48
Tyger...........................................................................67
UKTI Presents: Beyond Pre-School.......................43
UKTI Presents: How To Bridge The Euro Gap........35
Unter Null (Below Zero).........................................92
Until My Heart’s, Like, Finished......................77, 117
Vejado En El Tiempo (We, Time Machines)..............81
Vida Maria (Maria Life).............................................66
Vintage Mobile Cinema.............................................22
Wake .........................................................................105
When The Dust Settles...........................................114
When The Dust Settles.....................................77, 128
Worlds Apart...........................................................161
Wuthering Heights...................................................25
Yellow Wall.............................................................112
You Must Be Joking.................................................155
Your Face (Ton Visage).............................................53
Zakira Kassira (Short Memory)..............................91
Zaliger......................................................................151
Zeinek Gehiago Iraun (Who Lasts Longer)..........141
Ziriguidum..................................................................66
请勿打扰 (Do Not Disturb)..................................116
171
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & THANKS
Staff
Liz Harkman,
Managing Director
Rich Warren,
Programme Coordinator
Mireia O’Prey,
Festival Coordinator
Hilary Smith,
Archive Assistant (Intern)
Kayleigh Fellows,
Submissions
Assistant (Intern)
Wei Fu, Programme
Assistant (Intern)
Rebecca Lees, Programme
Assistant (Intern)
Sophie Gould, Web &
Print Assistant (Intern)
Sophie Shippen, Volunteer
Coordinator (Intern)
Agnese Freimane, Ticketing
Coordinator (Intern)
Laureline Bedotto, Digital
Marketing Assistant (Intern)
Press & PR
Caroline Jones &
Hilary Cornwell
(Margaret PR)
Board & Advisors
Mark Cosgrove, Artistic
Director – Brief Encounters
Jack Attwood
Lorna Bailey
Momoko Hill
Chaz Hood
Katie Baldock
Millie Hughes-Rodgers
Esther Barnard
Rob Jewitt
Katie Bayliss
Mark Julian Davies
David Sproxton, Chair
(Aardman Animations)
Jack Beddard Coll
Stephanie Kempson
Paul Appleby (Vid Coms)
Tamsyn Black
Harriet Kennedy
Peter Carlton (Warp Films)
Aaron Buckley
Ed Hayes (TLT Solicitors)
Camila Carlow
Alex Gilkison (University
of the West of England)
Maria Chatzialexiou
Ayan Cilmi
Rebecca Lees
Matthew Maneely
(Smith and Williamson)
Katarina Complova
Claire Little
Benjamin Corless
James MacArthur
Star Davey
Holly McGowan Hayes
Felix Drake
Hannah McVeigh
Nadia Dunn
Ana Moraes
Balan Evans
Charlie Nevett
Claire Spencer Cook
(Nexus Productions)
Abigail Davies (UWE /
Freelance Producer)
Eileen Elsey (Freelance
Script Writer)
Gina Fucci (Films @59)
Sarah-Jane Meredith
(South West Screen)
Consultants
& Freelancers
Volunteers
James Mullighan
(Freelance Producer)
Simon Perry (ACE)
James Finn
Nicole Francesca Martin
Georgia Kensley
Virpi Kettu
Danni Kyriaki
Rebecca Owen
James Palmer
Natalie Frear
Elena Perez Martin
Samuel Gonzalez
Kasey Redondo
Emma Grant
Kirsty Fraser
John Greaves
Tom Robinson
Special Event
Thanks
Alex Cook, BAFTA
Christine Bardsley,
British Council
Vicky Brophy & Holly
Marlow, Contentertainment
Emma Gifford & Ollie Halls,
Helen Jack, Shooting People
Jim Parkyn, Aardman
Judith Rooney, UKTI
Fran Keaveney, Louise Ryan
& Emma Scott,
Irish Film Board
Lizzie Spivey,
Aardman Features
Gary Thomas, Animate
Projects UK
Stuart Wealands,
Directors UK
Laura Marshall, Icon Films
Briony Hanson,
British Council
Jing Hasse Filmkontakt Nord
Phillip Walker,
Bristol Museum
Peter Griffiths
Sameuel Sherlock
Patrons
Shelley Bishop,
Destination Bristol
Rowan Guyver
Dawn Smith
Katie Campbell, BAFTA
Jake Eberts
Oliver Hamilton
Sarah Spendlove
Terry Gilliam
Elliot Hancock-Baxter
Rebecca Viale
Lizzie Keates, John Blakeley
& Oli Wells, Harbourside No1
Shereene Amer, Bookkeeper
Jeremy Howe
Chloe Headdon
Rhodri Williams
Ken Hay, Organisational
Development
Terry Jones
Thea Woodrow Davis
Andrew Kelly
Jessica Zausmer
Kieran Argo, Animation
Programme Manager –
Animated Encounters
Maddy Probst, DepicT
& Fresh Flix Coordinator
Nick Park
Nic Powell
And also to:
Preselection Team
Zena Allen, Aardman
Sarah Acton
Caroline Norbury and all the
staff at South West Screen
Nigel Ashcroft
Dick Penny and all the
staff at Watershed
Freya Billington
Laurence Boyce
Al Cameron and all
the staff at Arnolfini
Lucy Catherine
Phillipa Haynes, Jess
Noakes, Ruth Essex
and Esther Mars at
Bristol City Council
Tommy Curtis
Sarah Acton, Kari Nygard
and Graeme Hogg and
the Cube Cinema
Wei Fu
Nicole Briggs & Hannah
Clarke, At Bristol
Martin Hammond
Design: Russell Hancock,
Tony Stiles, Howard Swift
& Rich Webster
(Document.is)
Website: Remco Merbis
(Pixillion.com)
Charlotte Crofts
James Dalby
Eileen Elsey
Juan Gabriel
Liz Harkman
Matt Haynes
Rebecca Lees
Ben Mallaby
Esther Mars
Trailer: Jane Davies,
Paul Hill (A Productions)
Conor Mccormack
Music: James T Lundie
(JTL Productions)
Norris Myers
Bruce Robinson image: ©
lenwhybrowphotography.com
And thanks to all the
filmmakers, animators
and crews participating
in this year’s festival.
Sarah-Jane Meredith
Adrienne Noonan
Kari Nygard
Mireia O’Prey
Maddy Probst
Shawn Sobers
Rich Warren
Marie-Anne McQuay,
Spike Island
Special thanks to all our
Jurors, Speakers, Sponsors,
Special Guests and
contributors. (Details can
be found in this catalogue).
Tony Robinson
Damien O’Donnell
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EVENT PARTNERS
174
SUPPORTERS
175
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