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AUTUMN ADAGIO [FUWAKU NO ADAGIO]
FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER AT 9:30PM
A nun going through her menopause might sound like the
punch-line of a joke you wouldn’t tell your mum, but Tsuki Inoue’s
disarmingly beautiful film Autumn Adagio takes what could have
so easily been a premise ripe for exploitation and makes from it a
profoundly moving and utterly restrained masterpiece.
Mariko, who is first seen absent-mindedly plucking the stamen
from a bouquet of lilies, lives a cloistered, routine life. One day,
confused by the way she is feeling, she takes a leap of faith and
volunteers to play the piano for the local ballet school. Whilst
working she becomes entranced by the instructor’s graceful
movements in a scene that is both gently surreal and quietly
erotic. Although she plays well, the instructor tries to encourage
her to put more of herself into the music. Moriko, who has spent
her life repressing her sexuality and emotions, decides to let them
out for a short time before they are lost forever and we can’t help
but be swept along with her new enthusiasm.
From then on the film is by turns disturbing, tragic and uplifting
as she learns to reengage with the world. More and more we
start to see her without her habit, and the change is striking. The
tension between religion and sexuality has been explored in many
films, but rarely has it been handled with such sensitivity. DB
Country Japan Running Time 70 mins Format HDCam Director/Producer/
Screenplay Tsuki Inoue DoP Yosuke Omori Cast Rei Shibakusa, Peyton Chiba, Takuo
Shibuya Print Source Dongyu Email dongyu.international@dongyu.co.jp
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18TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
BOYS ON THE RUN [BOIZU ON ZA RAN]
Boys on the Run stars Kazunobu Mineta (frontman for punk-rock
band Ging Nang Boyz) as Tanishi, a 29-year-old virgin stuck in
a menial position at a failing company. Tanishi’s idle existence
of porn and fantasizing is thrown into disarray after a night of
drunken flirtation with his co-worker Chiharu.
Despite Tanishi’s repeated acts of self-sabotage it seems that
nothing can drive Chiharu away. But when Aoyama, star salesman
of a rival capsule company becomes a rival Tanishi vows to fight
him for Chiharu’s honour. Playing a bit like the Japanese take
on 40 Year Old Virgin, Boys on the Run is based on a manga by
Kengo Hanazawa and is the debut feature film from successful
theatre director Daisuke Miura. Chock full of deliciously awkward
moments, the film also has a lot more depth than the average
sex comedy, asking us to consider how and when exactly a boy
becomes a man. On the run from the ever-looming threat of
responsibility and maturity, Tanishi tries to explore his masculinity
through sex and after that fails, through violence. Boys on the
Run is both a hilariously demented sex comedy and a surprisingly
touching almost-love story that repeatedly and ingeniously turns
underdog clichés on their head. CP
Country Japan Running Time 114 mins Format 35mm Director/Screenplay
Daisuke Miura Producer Yasuhiro Masaoka, Takeshi Sawa, Hitoshi Endo DoP Shinya
Kimura Cast Kazunobu Mineta, Mei Kurokawa, Ryuhei Matsuda Print Source Amuse
Soft Entertainment Email festival-entry@picturesdept.com
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GEIDAI SHORTS
THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER AT 9:45PM
YOTSUYA ALPHA BETA [YOTSUYA IROHA]
Japan RT 7 mins Format HDCam Director Nana Anzai
Producer Mitsuko Okamoto Print Source Nana Anzai
Email nananna7@me.com
A girl becomes caught in a surreal world of Japanese characters
BRING ME UP [TSUMAMARERU KOMA]
Japan RT 6 mins Format HDCam Director/S’play Miki
Tanaka Prod Koji Yamamura E strawberry0612chips@gmail.com
A boy feels like a piece on his parents’ board-game until one
day he decides to cut off his relationship with them.
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI [KENJA NO OKURIMO]
Japan RT 13 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay
Toshikazu Ishii Producer Yuichi Ito Print Source Toshikazu
Ishii Email tshkz141@ybb.ne.jp
An apprentice magician and his wife struggle to find the funds
to buy christmas presents for each other.
ANTI-CHAOS [KYOHAKUTEKI NA CHITSO
NI TSUITE NO KAERU]
Japan RT 4 mins Format HDCam Director/S’play Shino
Nagasako Producer Yuichi Ito E nekonohito_com@yahoo.co.jp
A frog wants to make his companions stand in a perfect line.
GATHERING [SHUSHUKA NO SAMPO]
Japan RT 6 mins Format HDCam Director/S’play/DoP
Akiko Omi Prod Takehito Deguchi E akiko_omi@hotmail.com
A stroll through the park creates a scrapbook of memories in
this inventive blend of live action and animation.
GETTING DRESSED [FUKU WO KIRUMADE]
Japan RT 9 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay
Aico Kitamura Producer Koji Yamamura Print Source Aico
Kitamura Email kiron726@auone.jp
A woman who lives alone, looking after her bird is forced to face
the world when her cereal runs out.
WOMAN WHO STOLE FINGERS [YUBI WO
NUSUNDA ONNA]
Japan RT 4 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay Saori
Shiroki Producer Koji Yamamura Print Source Saori Shiroki
Email saori-shiroki@hotmail.co.jp
A boy who becomes separated from his mother is found by
a strange woman who takes his fingers.
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CLIMBER
Japan RT 6 mins Format HDCam Director/S’play Akifumi
Nonaka Producer Mitsuko Okamoto E akkey_n@yahoo.co.jp
Climbers struggle to surmount an impossible stone pillar until
they learn to work as a swarm
PAPA
Japan RT 4 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay Kumi
Matsui Producer Takehito Deguchi E kumu93@hotmail.com
A girl explores a formless world, leaving footprints on the sand.
GOOGURI GOOGURI
Japan RT 8 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay/
DoP Yoshiko Misumi Producer Koji Yamamura Print Source
Yoshiko Misumi Email misu-mi@hotmail.co.jp
Googuri is secret word shared between a girl and her grandpa.
HI! OTSUKA DRUGSTORE
SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER AT 1:45PM
The cranky Otsuka presides over the shambolic drug store of
the title like a griffon in her den, scaring off customers with her
grating manner and flatulence. Either that or she can be found
sleeping behind the counter. No wonder she’s being robbed left
right and centre and it certainly doesn’t help that she seems
unable to tell a customer from a burglar. But when a girl drops by
the store every morning to buy a different coloured nail varnish
the older woman recognises this as an attempt to attract a crush,
and against her worse nature decides to help.
Through Nakasaku’s attempts to land the object of her desires,
Otsuka seeks to relive her own past and in particular the failed
high-school romance that saw her betrayed by her match-maker
twenty five years ago. As her past comes flooding back her stern
demeanour begins to melt and her advice to Nakasaku softens.
Told in vivid over-saturated flash backs, with over-the-top
manga sensibility and wonky framing that fits the film’s sultry
central character perfectly, debutant director Yuu Katsumata
none-the-less brings the film to a surprisingly moving finale. This
is a promising early work that suggests Katsumata may soon be
making endearingly quirky comedies along with the best of the
new wave of Japanese indie directors. AW
PRESENTED BY
Country Japan Running Time 48 mins Format Beta SP Director/Screenplay Yu
Katsumata Producer Tokyo Net Movie Festival DoP Takashi Sakuma Cast Aya Anoji,
Kana Kobayashi, Mayuko Arisue
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LOST AND FOUND
WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER AT 5:15PM
In a non-descript Japanese train station several random
characters pass one another by, each struggling with life in some
way: a European man retraces the steps of his grandfather in
postwar Japan, a girl struggles with the urge to abandon her
child, a blind woman photographs the world that she will never
see, and a disgraced business man teeters on the platform’s
edge. These characters all share the fact that they have lost
something and their stories revolve around Mr Togashi who runs
the station’s lost property office.
Unlike many Japanese indie films its eccentric characters
remain very believable and empathetic as they are brought
together and broken apart by a series of lost objects, each of
which is given tremendous emotional weight thanks to Nobuyuki
Miyaki’s subtle plotting and gentle camera work. This seems
to evoke Mr Togashi’s own philosophy as he chides his young
associate for dismissing some of the items he cares for as trash,
saying: ‘that’s not for you to decide. If it comes in here then it
belongs to someone. It’s important.’ Miyaki’s self-assured debut
feature is a charming drama of fleeting encounters, which fans
of Shunji Iwai or Edward Yang will love. Despite its subtlety its
themes will resonate long after you leave the cinema. DB
Country Japan Running Time 75 mins Format HDCam Director Nobuyuki Miyake
Producer Hirotaka Asano Screenplay Maki Arai, Nobuyuki Miyake DoP Toshiharu
Yaegashi Cast Shun Sugata, Tomoyuki Hatanaka, Kaori Fujii Print Source Nobuyuki
Miyake Email bob@gazebofilm.jp
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LOST GIRL
A carefully observed depiction of mental illness with brilliantly
nuanced central performances; Lost Girl’s restrained, nonjudgemental tone makes it a powerful experience.
Ryoko Tanabe was once a successful chef who ran a
restaurant with her partner Daichi, but we first meet her in the
film wrapped in blankets in her tiny bedroom, surrounded by junk
food packets and vomiting into a bucket. She has bulimia.
The film hints at various causes: perhaps it was triggered
by the incident in which she accidentally poisons a customer,
perhaps she’s motivated by a perverse sense of rebellion, or
maybe it’s because she can’t have children? These things are
never easily explained and the film is all the better for not trying
to prescribe a solution or give a reason. For his part Daichi can’t
accept the person she has become, and tries everything to get
her back; begging her to eat, using psychological tactics and
eventually brute force born out of desperation.
Lost Girl is an acutely aware and sensitive portrayal of
depression from first time director Daisuke Yamaoka, and the
fantastically subtle performances from the two leads push
the film even further. DB
PRESENTED BY
Country Japan Running Time 63 mins Format Beta SP Director/Screenplay
Daisuke Yamaoka Producer Mountain Cross DoP Masayoshi Kunimatsu Print
Source Mountain Cross
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LUNAR CHILD [RUNA NO KODOMO]
THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER AT 5:45PM
Stark, brutally honest and beautifully shot, Lunar Child offers a
observation upon the fleeting and transient experiences of three
women who seek love, but cannot grasp it tightly enough. Their
barren relationships contain only a little hope; each is seeking
meaning in relationships that are ultimately doomed. ‘Her Story’
concerns a young woman and an older man who spend the night
together by chance, sharing their pain and misery with each
other: he is terminally ill with cancer, she is traumatized by a
recent abortion and the crumbling relationship with her boyfriend.
Mizuki is distancing herself from her girlfriend, Maho; she
already has doubts about their two-week-old relationship. Having
grown up with liberal attitudes towards sex, she is beginning to
see love-making as a meaningless and empty pastime.
Hikari is a writer and the breadwinner of the household,
supporting her unemployed and emotionally dependent husband.
When her dreams are dashed she is forced to face the reality
of her life and relationships. Her attempts to rekindle her
marriage, however, cast a gentle glow of hope on all the female
protagonists. LC
Country Japan Running Time 108 mins Format HDV Director/Screenplay Akihiro
Suzuki Producer Keiko Tanaka DoP Tsuyoshi Kawarazuka Cast Kanaha Saeki,
Makiko Oku, Eri Iwamoto Print Source SIG Email ass@sig-inc.co.jp
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PURE ASIA
SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER AT 5:45PM
Pure Asia follows a nameless Japanese teenager at a time
of extreme tension between Japan and North Korea. When a
beautiful girl saves him from a mugging she drags him away and
onto a train. Hoping to meet her again, the next day he waits
outside the station to see if she comes past. When she does, he
is shocked to see that she is in Korean dress. As the boy stands
helplessly by she is surrounded by a group of Japanese students
who bully and eventually kill her.
After watching the funeral from afar, the boy meets the
girl’s sister, almost identical to her in appearance but the polar
opposite in attitude. Hell-bent on revenge against just about
everyone, she drags the boy on a journey of vicious destruction
and blind vengeance.
The director has enticed fresh, invigorating performances from
the actors and puts equal skill into the camera-work. Shot in stark
black and white, Pure Asia is a road movie of grief in all its guises.
Shocking, affecting and lent extra strength by it its political
resonance, it’s a morality tale that shows us that the greatest evil
of all comes from those who stand by and do nothing. CP
Country Japan Running Time 108 mins Format HDCam Director Ikki Katashima
Producer Ikki Katashima, Naoto Monma, Kazuyuki Kitaki Screenplay Junichi Inoue
DoP Atsuhiro Nabeshima Cast Hanae Kan, Shige Kasai Print Source Pictures Dept
Email festival-entry@picturesdept.com
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USB
Yuichiro, played with just the right amount of ennui by Watanabe
Kazushi, is twenty six and lives with his mother, who wants him
to follow in the footsteps of his recently deceased father and go
to medical school. The lazy, feckless Yuichiro, however, dreams
of becoming a director – not that he does much to move either
career forward besides befriending the terminally ill filmmaker
Fujimori. Instead, desperate to pay off the massive debt he’s
incurred with loan shark Nanbaru, Yuichiro is eventually forced
into becoming a test subject in a dangerous experiment.
Fans of maverick Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa will
find much to appreciate here; there’s the same atmosphere
of impending doom, the plot driven by hidden motivations and
surreal events, the theme of mortality, and even the presence
of a mysterious centuries old tree. The film also shares with
Kurosawa’s masterpiece Pulse the sense of a doomed generation
with its focus on young protagonists.
The film’s events, unremarkable and surreal alike, unfold
against the backdrop of a major radiation leak from a nearby
power plant – a suitable atmosphere for a cursed generation
attempting to live in the nuclear age. DB
Country Japan Running Time 95 mins Format Beta SP Director/Screenplay
Shutaro Oku Producer M6 Trance Picture Works DoP Yonaha Masayuki Cast
Kazushi Watanabe, Kaori Momoi, Kazanobu Mineta, Nao Omor, Ren Osugi Print
Source M6 Trance Picture Works
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PRESENTED BY
YELLOW KID
Tamura, inspired by the heroic figure of Yellow Kid in Iga Taro’s
manga, decides to become a boxer and thus a hero himself. But
the characters at the local gym are far from heroes; most are
nothing more than petty thugs headed by aggressive punk kid
Enomoto. When Taro decides to write a sequel to Yellow Kid
he bases his character on Tamura, thus completing the cycle of
influence and inspiration.
Tamura does his best to fit Taro’s new character whilst
squaring up to the violent thugs at the gym and trying to fit into
a repressive culture. Pushed too far by Enomoto and society
as a whole, Tamura begins taking his comic book persona too
seriously as he struggles to make sense of the world around him.
A world of run down boxing clubs, violent loan sharks, grizzled
coaches and one young boxer with a dream. You could be
forgiven for thinking that you’ve seen this one before. Add a
manga artist searching for a boxer on which to base his latest
comic and outbursts of exaggerated violence and you have
a recipe that is uniquely Japanese. Yellow Kid is an intense
viewing, trading thick and fast comic book imagery with stark,
kinetic cinematography that marks the very best of Japanese
independent film. CB
Country Japan Running Time 107 mins Format HDV Director/Screenplay
Tetsuya Mariko Producer Takashi Hara DoP Yutaka Aoki Cast Kaname Endo, Ryo
Iwase, Kazuki Namioka Print Source Chihiro Takano E takano.chihiro@off.geidai.ac.jp
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YURIKO’S AROMA
Yuriko is a mid-thirties aromatherapy masseuse who heals her
customers with a sensitive touch and perfectly chosen aromas.
She becomes troubled however, when she catches the scent of
her boss’ nephew, the hormonal teenager Tetsuya. An odd love
triangle develops as Yuriko becomes fixated on Tetsuya and a
female client begins to reveal her crush on Yuriko. Wonderfully
restrained direction follows Yuriko’s actions and decisions as she
gives into her fetish and develops and awkward relationship with
the much younger Tetsuya.
Smell is a difficult sense to capture on camera but
director Kota Yoshida succeeds with the help of a committed
performance from lead actress Noriko Eguchi. Focused close-ups
and delicate camera movement capture the surreally intimate
scenes between Tetsuya and Yuriko.
The Japanese film industry has a long history of sex cinema
– ‘pink film.’ The success of Yuriko’s Aroma can be found in the
way it tackles those issues without the pornographic content.
Here then is a meditation on fetish, and the consequences of
finally giving into it. Erotic but never explicit, it’ subjects lie outside
the mainstream; rather it celebrates human sexual diversity and
the satisfaction of desire. JB
Country Japan Running Time 73 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay
Kota Yoshida Producer Tsuyoshi Goto, Koichi Kusakabe, Keiko Kusakabe DoP
Akitoshi Minami Cast Noriko Eguchi, Shota Sometani, Saori Hara, Jun Miho Print
Source Makotoya Co Ltd Email movie@makotoyacoltd.jp
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PRESENTED BY
ARMLESS
MONDAY 4 OCTOBER AT 6:30PM & TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 3PM
John is a mild-mannered insurance executive who harbors a
dark secret. His wife, Anna, on the other hand, believes she’s
married to Mr. Normal with whom she fully expects to live out
her version of the American Dream. John’s Mom believes she’s
got an upstanding citizen of a son that she can fully depend on.
It comes as a shock to both when he abruptly vanishes. Panicstricken, Anna eventually tracks him down to an anonymous hotel
room in New York where she’s faced with a disturbing reality:
her husband – in a closet – with a chainsaw. John’s secret has
unraveled to reveal a man who is preparing to act on a burning
desire – to rid himself of his arms and replace them with nubbins.
A quirky dark comedy, the film boasts great performances
all round. Daniel London, in particular is never less than fully
believable as John, the low-key eccentric who suffers from the
real life condition – Body Integrity Identity Disorder – in which
the sufferer believes that in order to feel whole he must have
one or more limbs removed. This is a debut feature from director
Habib Azar who directed his first TV soap at the age of 22
and has gone on to direct more than 100 hours of episodic
television. The film is based on a stage play of the same name
by screenwriter Kyle Jarrow. SB
Country USA Running Time 82 mins Director Habib Azar Producers Carla Stuart,
Hsiano Bian Screenplay Kyle Jarrow DoP Orson Robbins-Pianka Cast Daniel
London, Janel Moloney, Matt Walton Print Source Habib Azar E razini@hotmail.com
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FLOODING WITH LOVE FOR THE KID
TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 6:45PM
Flooding with Love for the Kid is debut director Zachary
Oberzan’s bold retelling of the story of Rambo, made famous by
Sylvester Stallone and based on the novel, First Blood by David
Morrell. But that’s just about where any similarity ends.
Oberzan’s one-man epic was shot on a sub-shoestring budget
of 96 dollars. All of the action takes place in the directors’ 200
square foot Manhattan apartment with Oberzan acting out all
the roles himself. Inspired by Rambo’s zeal, he also acted as
his own one-man crew. The director embraces his self-imposed
limitations to go on to tell a story that despite some dodgy props
and locations – a paper cup becomes a megaphone, his bathtub
serves as a river, his fireplace and a couple of twigs denote a
forest – is still riveting.
An extreme low budget film like you’ve never seen before,
Flooding with Love for the Kid has received glowing reviews
following its premiere showcase at the Anthology Film Archive in
NY, described as an ‘outsider-cinema mastepiece’ (Time Out) with
The Guardian claiming it was an ‘assault on the notion that high
production values are necessary for compelling storytelling’. SB
Country USA Running Time 106 mins Director/Producer/Screenplay/DoP/
Cast/Print Source Zachary Oberzan Email strawandgold@gmail.com
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HELENA FROM THE WEDDING
Out in the snowy countryside a pair of newlyweds, Alice and Alex,
play host to six old friends to see in the New Year. All together
again, the couples drink, play games and catch up, gradually
revealing more about their fractured relationships and the
unspoken connections between them. When the young English
model, Helena, turns up unexpectedly, a secret history between
her and Alex begins to be revealed.
As the film develops the fault lines in every relationship are
explored; Nick has left his wife for another woman but now finds
himself without either; Dom’s marriage to Lynn is descending into
backbiting and disrespect; Alice and Alex are both troubled by
the presence of Helena.
Debut director Joseph Infantolino spins an enthralling web
of social transactions around the viewer, leaving it up to the
audience to judge where their allegiances lie. The cast fully
convince as a group of young professionals inwardly
questioning the decisions they have made – gripping and
realistic Helena from the Wedding unflinchingly dissects
marriage in modern-day America. PT
Country USA Running Time 89 mins Director/Screenplay Joseph Infantolino
Producer Alexa Fogel DoP Stephen Kazmierski Cast Dagmara Dominczyk, Paul
Fitzgerald, Dominic Fumusa P/S Joseph Infantolino E joe@beechhillfilms.com
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INCREDIBLY SMALL
SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER AT 6:45PM & SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER AT 10:30AM
Dean Peterson’s Minneapolis set feature debut describes itself as
a 300 square foot love story; the setting may be incredibly small
but it packs an incredibly big punch. When Emir and Anne move
into their new apartment their fledging relationship immediately
comes under strain. Anne is far from impressed with the studio
flat’s ‘rustic charm’ (which seems to be another word for rising
damp) and things only get worse when her parents arrive and
conclude that their daughter has moved in with an imbecile.
But if Emir is an eternal man-child then Anne is overbearing
and idealistic, and the audience’s sympathy is skilfully bounced
back and forth thanks to Peterson’s incredibly sharp script, which
draws the utmost amount of pathos and humour.
The cracks in the young couple’s relationship are fully prised
open when their neighbour Tom, a Seinfield-esque college
professor with wonderful hair, takes a shine to Anne and throws
all of Emir’s faults into stark relief, even more so when his old
friend Brian turns up on his doorstep with stories of how much
dope ‘Eagle’ used to smoke in high school. DB
Country USA Running Time 83 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay Dean
Peterson Producers Dean Peterson, James Francis Flynn, Britni West DoP Adam
Ginsberg Cast Stephen Gurewitz, Susan Burke, Alex Karpovsky Print Source Dean
Peterson Email petersoncinema@gmail.com
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THE LAKE EFFECT
TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 9.10PM & WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER AT 1:45PM
Rob is trying to get his latest business venture off the ground
when his wife drags him away to his father’s old lakeside house
for a month-long holiday. A few days in and his estranged
eighteen-year-old daughter from a previous relationship turns
up nine months pregnant. As they all struggle to work out what
will become of the child, tensions in their relationship become
apparent. With the baby just days away Rob desperately tries to
hold onto his holiday, manage his broody wife, plan a future for
his daughter and close a crucial business deal.
This is a classic American indie film, made with a small crew
and fantastic locations. The interior of the modern lakeside house
is beautifully shot, interspersed with some stunning photography
of the lake and its surrounds. The script is wonderfully
constructed; every character brings a different perspective on life
and love to the film and they clash in wonderfully delicate, subtle
ways. Smart, funny and tender, the dialogue is brought to life by
nuanced performances from all the actors. The Lake Effect is a
film about growing up and taking responsibility for your actions.
As mistakes and decisions are echoed through the generations,
this family has a chance to come together or fracture forever. JB
Country USA Running Time 93 mins Director/Screenplay Tara Miele Producer
Jennifer Westin DoP Brett Juskalian Cast Ross Partridge, Tara Summers, Kay
Panabaker Print Source Jennifer Westin Email jennifer_westin@yahoo.com
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SOMEWHERE NEVER TRAVELED
USA 6 mins Format DVCPro Director/
S’play Ben Garchar Producer Douglas
Schwartz DoP Matthew Beck Cast
Alexander Michael, Taylor Cloyes,
Jonathan Barajas P/Source B Garchar
One one love. Only one take. And then
what?
LOVERS OF HATE
MONDAY 4 OCTOBER AT 8:30PM & TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 1:45PM
Kicked out by his wife Diana and without a steady job, Rudy is
living in his car, showering in carwashes and stolen faucet water.
When his successful writer brother Paul comes to town Rudy is
desperate to prove he isn’t a total failure and tries to persuade
Diane to pretend that they are still together. Their sibling rivalry is
still strong and Rudy can’t bear to give Paul any more ammunition
to bully him with. When the ruse collapses Rudy leaves, heading
for a ski-lodge retreat. He hopes to work on his own novel, Lovers
of Hate, but his plans are disrupted when Paul and Diane arrive.
Rudy decides to remain hidden and becomes something of
a ghostly presence in the house, leaving only occasional clues
– the unflushed toilet – to his presence. As the film turns into a
game of cat-and-mouse the two brothers rivalry turns vicious and
the tone is expertly balanced between comedy and thriller.
Lovers of Hate is a modern American tragi-comedy; designed
to make you laugh, squirm and pity its characters. Brilliant
direction keeps the cat-and-mouse game under tight control
and the cinematographer does an excellent job of creating a
claustrophobic locale. LC
Country USA Running Time 93 mins Format HDV Director/Screenplay Bryan
Poyser Producer Megan Gilbride DoP David Lowery Cast Chris Doubek, Heather
Kaska, Alex Karpovsky Print Source IFC Films Email saorazio@ifcfilms.com
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ON HOLIDAY
THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER AT 6:30PM & FRIDAY 1 OCTOBER AT 3:15PM
Peyton and his girlfriend decide to take their shot at the big
dream. She’s an aspiring actor and he’s an electronic musician,
and if there’s anywhere they’re going to make it big, it’s Los
Angeles. However innocent their intentions are when they arrive
in LA, they become firmly ensconced in a circle of friends that
love nothing more than losing themselves in a serious drug party.
They are immersed in a world of indulgence and intimacy that
puts themselves, and their relationship, through the ringer.
On Holiday is a whirlwind of personalities and interactions
filmed from party to party as the couple interacts and evolves
with their new big city friends. On Holiday is instead all about the
private lives of the couple and how they unwittingly adapt to their
ever-complicated new social scene.
Focusing on Peyton the film maps his efforts and failures as
he navigates this complex new world of experiences that he is
completely unequipped to deal with. Amidst the lunatic antics of
their Los Angeles parties, however is a close examination of two
young people realising that they may finally need to grow up. SS
Country USA Running Time 85 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay Brian
McGuire Producer Bret Roberts, Logan Sparks DoP Jared Bariva Cast Whitmer
Thomas, Jenn June Ross, Tipper Newton Print Source Brian McGuire
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TREASURE OF THE BLACK JAGUAR
SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER AT 8PM & SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER AT 7PM
Two best friends have a great idea – a get-rich-quick scheme
which promises great returns. They quickly escape the grasp
of their mother and girlfriend but land themselves behind bars,
almost as quickly as they left. In the Mexican jail a man offers
them two options, to stay there ‘and get arse-raped’, or escape
with him on condition they help him find a secret treasure, the
Black Jaguar. It quickly emerges that they might end up paying
the ultimate price for their multi-million dollar cut.
The cast at this film’s core seem destined for big things, with
brooding Cameron van Hoy co-starring as one of the boys after
a fast-buck, but also co-producing the film and co-writing the
screenplay with director Mike Bruce. Michael Drayer – who
plays the other half of the calamitous pair – is an adept comic
companion to Van Hoy’s straight man role. Panoramic portrayals
of desert endurance are interspersed with visual and verbal
humour that flows thick and fast – as do lashings of blood,
ensuring the boys’ classic plaid shirts are thoroughly smattered
and sullied by their desert adventure. Sped-up sequences,
innovative camera angles and bold saturated colours combine
to immerse the viewer in this dizzying escapade, culminating
in a film that is funny, trendy and laced with gore. AM
Country USA Running Time 93 mins Format HDCam Director Mike Bruce
Producers Cameron Van Hoy Screenplay Mike Bruce, Cameron Van Hoy
DoP Salvador Lleo de la Fe Cast Cameron Van Hoy, Michael Drayer, Timothy Murphy
P/S Cameron Van Hoy E cameronaction@yahoo.com
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VACATION!
SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER AT 8PM
Returning to Raindance a year on from Modern Love Is
Automatic, maverick director/writer Zach Clark takes us on a wild
ride to the seaside accompanied by four hormonal young women.
Inviting her three old college friends on a week long vacation,
Sugar arranges to take over a friend’s beach house in North
Carolina. Lorelei is still hung up on her ex-boyfriend Dave, whilst
glamazon Dee-Dee is caught up in a lesbian affair. Meanwhile
Donna dodges all advances in order to remain single.
Spending their days dressing up in blonde wigs to go shopping,
getting high and hanging out with the local drug dealer, the
breezy tone is abrubtly darkened when a girl is found dead after
a night of partying.
Clark reprises the talents of his last film, Maggie Ross in the
role of Sugar and the statuesque Melodie Sisk as Dee-Dee.
Trieste Kelly Dunn, recently voted one of 25 new faces to watch
by Filmmaker magazine, plays Donna and Lydia Hyslop appears
as Lorelei. Clark has developed his own retro style which, during
the acid sequence, is doused with saturated colour for an almost
hyper-realist aesthetic. He also collides digital images with those
of the girls’ camcorders to create a breezy post punk feel that
singles him out as a director to keep an eye on. SB
Country USA Running Time 95 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay Zach
Clark Producer Zach Clark, Daryl Pittman, Melodie Sisk DoP Daryl Pittman Cast
Trieste Kelly Dunn, Lydia Hyslop, Maggie Ross, Melodie Sisk Print Source Candy
Castle Motion Pictures LLC Email vacation.movie@gmail.com
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CAMP VICTORY, AFGHANISTAN
Shot over a three year period and extracted from 300 hours of
footage, this documentary is about the Afghan officers tasked
with creating a national army and the American soldiers there to
mentor them. This process is the heart of the US exit strategy:
a functioning army must be set up in order for US troops to
withdraw. The enormity of this task is made clear; most who sign
up are impoverished and illiterate, having grown up in refugee
camps and their motives are sometimes dubious. Problems arise
as the Americans lose patience when some soldiers co-operate
with the Taliban and the Afghans are frustrated by high turnover
and lack of stability from their advisors.
The film centres on the battle-weathered General Sayar, who
has been a soldier in the Afghan army since age 13. Wary of the
Americans his trust is eventually won by the sincere Colonel
Shute. It is inspiring to see these men from such different
backgrounds learning to work together and, despite cultural and
language barriers, forming a strong emotional bond.
This is an insightful and important documentary which
refreshingly avoids sensationalism. Instead it gives an intimate,
unbiased portrayal of the everyday realities of the American effort
in Afghanistan, from the tragic to the mundane. SE
Country USA Running Time 88 mins Director Carol Dysinger Producer Jeff LevyHintie, Dallas Brennan Rexer Print Source Carol Dysinger
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THE CUTTING TRADITION: INSIGHTS INTO FEMALE GENITAL…
WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER AT 6PM
The cutting tradition focuses on the issue of female genital
mutilation (FGM), a custom, which appears barbaric to the
westernised eye but it is still practiced in many African and some
Middle-Eastern countries. Despite being illegal in many of the
places where it is practiced, FGM continues to be administered to
very young women, often even little girls. In the majority of cases
it exposes them to medical and psychological problems from
which they sometimes never recover. This film is a balance and
non-judgmental exploration into the reason for FGM which find
their roots in religious cultural and historical grounds.
Natives of Burkina Faso, Egypt and Ethiopia express their
opinions and points of view both in support and against FGM.
Their authentic, undiluted statements highlight the difficulty of
resolving an issue that is deeply rooted in their cultures.
Commissioned by the International Federation of Gynecology
and Obstetrics, The Cutting Tradition is narrated by Meryl Streep,
with footage of traditional wedding celebrations and a shocking
scene which follows a young girl experiencing FGM. Streep’s
narration takes us through this journey in a delicate and nonjudgmental way which, coupled with the astounding direction
by Nancy Durell McKenna and John Howarth. MP
Country Burkina Faso/Djibouti,/Egypt/Ethiopia/UK Running Time 47 mins
Director Nancy Durrell McKenna, John Howarth Producer Nancy Durrell McKenna
Screenplay/DoP John Howarth Narrator Meryl Streep Print Source Nancy Durrell
McKenna Email ndm@safehands.org
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ROUGE CIEL
SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER AT 3.45PM
French artist Dubuffet coined the term ‘art brut’ to describe
works created outside of the conventional parameters of the art
world. Established in the 1940s art brut was created by those who
rejected preconceptions of art and a number of its contributors
were clinically insane asylum inhabitants. The term primarily
referred to the manner in which the pieces were created, through
impulses, rather than from visual or stylistic guidelines.
Among those whose contributions are explored, we learn
about Fernand Desmoulin, the early 20th century French artist
who drew in darkness, believing his hands were guided by spirits
while producing his works. Elsewhere and in the present day,
American-born George Widener has memorized events from the
last 2,000 years, and uses these memories to predict the future,
committing his visions to ‘magic squares’ on a paper tablecloth.
Director Bruno Decharme has an absolute passion for his
subject, and he has approached this exploration of art brut in a
highly imaginative fashion. Rouge Ciel provides an informative
and educational analysis throughout. This film will be certain to
appeal to art brut fans but it is also a celebration of humanity and
the artistic impulse and that makes it accessible to all. CP
Country France Running Time 93 mins Director/Screenplay/DoP Bruno
Decharme Producer Barbara Safarova Featuring Zdenek Kosek, Kunizo Matsumoto,
George Widener Print Source Bruno Decharme Email bsafarova@gmail.com
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CATO IN WONDERLAND
UK 5 mins Format HD Director/
Producer/Screenplay/DoP/Print
Source Cato Heath l
A light-hearted and funny documentary
short. A typical day in the life of Cato
Heath, a 21-year-old college student
living with cerebral palsy.
THE SOUND OF MUMBAI: A MUSICAL
THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER AT 5:30PM
The opening shot of the sprawling, cramped Mumbai slums
accompanied by the cheerful voice of Julie Andrews is the kind
of contradiction that Sarah McCarthy’s insightful documentary
is built around. Following a group of slum children rehearsing for
a performance of the world’s favourite musical at the prestigious
and affluent National Centre of the Performing Arts she skilfully
juxtaposes the worlds of Mumbai’s wealthier class with that
of its famous slums.
McCarthy focuses her film on one boy, Ashish, upon whom
Slumdog Millionaire’s protagonist could so easily have been
based. Ashish dreams of a wealthy patron and perhaps even
a beautiful upper-class girlfriend after he wins the glory of a few
solo lines. His family make no secret of their hope that Ashish,
with his command of English and new exposure, can be the
one to take them out of the slums. Ultimately India’s rigid social
structure isn’t going to be overthrown overnight by a musical but
for those few involved it represents a precious opportunity to just
maybe better their lives. McCarthy is careful not to let the film
become swept away in their optimism however, she is always
aware of the distance between dreams and reality. DB
Country UK Running Time 65 mins Format DigiBeta Director Sarah McCarthy
Producer Joe Walters DoP Liam Iandoli Print Source Sarah McCarthy
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STOLEN
Every week the UN organises family reunions in refugee camps
across Western Sahara. Fetim is a young mother of three, who
filmmakers Daniel Fallshaw and Violeta Ashawa document as
she attempts to organise the week long reunion with her mother.
In what starts as a feel-good family reunion, she discusses life in
the camps and reluctantly delves into a forbidden subject, one of
modern day slavery, and the enslavement of the black community.
The camera quickly turns on the two Australian filmmakers as
they try to discuss the issue with the UN refugee agency and
soon afterwards are pursued by the Polisario Front police who
scour the camp in the search of their hidden tapes.
Fascinatingly shot, what started as a simple reunion turns into
a story which sees the filmmakers escaping the country and
being followed into France. What makes Stolen an even more
important document, are the issues which ensued following
the film’s premiere in Sydney, with the Polisario flying out the
protagonists to protest against the filmmakers and state they had
been forced to lie. Since then Polisario Front have tried to block
screenings of the film, with several festivals dropping it as a result
and most recently a festival in Norway was taken to court over
the right to screen the film. XR
Country Australia Running Time 77 mins Format HDCam Directors/Screenplay/
DoPs Violeta Ayala, Dan Fallshaw Producer Tom Zubrycki, Violeta Ayala, Dan
Fallshaw, Deborah Dickson P/S United Notions Film E v@unitednotionsfilm.com
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THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND
There Once Was an Island follows the small community that
inhabits the tiny Polynesian island of Takuu, and their personal
engagement with the effects of rising sea levels. Only half a
kilometre long and one metre above sea level, Takuu’s salty,
poisoned gardens and rapid coastal erosion are the first signs of
sea-level rise, which threatens to destroy this community and its
culture. After a bad tidal flood, the community are torn between
resettling to the mainland of Bougainville, or to stay, and face an
uncertain future, possibly watching their paradise disintegrate.
Life on the mainland is very different from the Takuu and
adapting to a cash economy will irreversibly change their culture.
Briar March’s stunningly poignant eco-documentary follows the
decisions of Taaku’s inhabitants. Some, like Teloo, are intent on
staying; hoping to salvage their culture. Others, like Satty, believe
the best decision is to move to the mainland, aware of the island’s
dwindling ability to sustain life. Whether you are an avid believer
or a sceptic about the effects of global warming becomes a moot
point – this is a film about a society struggling to decide its future
when it meets the implacable force of nature. LC
HOW GREEN WAS OUR VALLEY
Iran 32 mins Format BetaCam Director
Fereshth Joghataei Producer/DoP
Touraj Aslani E feridoll.1977@yahoo.com
Somewhere in dusty rural Iran a dam
has been built and the water is rising. 63
villagers are being forced to relocate, but
don’t even understand what is happening,
so turn to the shrine to pray for salvation.
Country New Zealand/Papua New Guinea Running Time 85 mins Format
HDV Director/DoP Briar March Producer Lyn Collie Print Source Lyn Collie
E lcollie@southnet.co.nz
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THIS WAY OF LIFE
A unique and intimate portrait of family solidarity, This Way of
Life follows the Maori Karena family as they rise to meet the
challenges threatening to destabilize their rural lifestyle. Shot
over four years, the documentary charts one couple’s refusal to
concede their values to seemingly insurmountable troubles. With
six children and fifty horses, Peter and Colleen somehow remain
philosophical through arson, miscarriage and theft, dedicating
themselves to the idyllic and isolated life they have chosen for
themselves and their children.
Shot against the jaw-achingly beautiful backdrop of New
Zealand’s Ruahine ranges, lush greens and mist-laced horizons
become a peaceful anchor to familial drama. With knowing skill,
Tom Burnstyn’s camerawork is subtle and understated, allowing
the philosophies of Peter and Colleen to resonate with honesty
against the mountainous backdrop. As her fearless offspring
ride bareback along empty beaches, Colleen’s worry that she is
raising her children ‘to be disappointed’ by what lies outside their
childhood seems at once understandable and ridiculous.
Insightful yet unobtrusive, This Way of Life is a masterful
exploration of the Karena’s unbreakable spirits, and their
admirable refusal to compromise. JK
Country New Zealand Running Time 85 mins Director/DoP Thomas Burstyn
Producer Barbara Sumner Burstyn Print Source Julie Rouyer Email jrouyer@zed.fr
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SKYLIGHT
UK 5 mins Format HDCam Director/
Screenplay/DoP David Bass
Producers David Bass, Sean Craig Cast
Jason Groh Print Source David Bass
An animated mock documentary about
the ecological plight of penguins in the
Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic
results for the rest of the world.
THE VICE GUIDE TO LIBERIA
Liberia is the fourth poorest country in the world. Its massively
turbulent recent history, various coups and horrifically brutal
civil wars have left a devastating legacy of poverty and violence.
With ex-president Charles Talyor currently on trial for war crimes
at The Hague, Shane Smith sets out to investigate the state
of the country and find out what has become of the civil war’s
remaining warlords.
Smith and his intrepid crew venture into Liberia’s capital,
and there is an overarching feeling that they are genuinely in
danger as they are often forced to flee from seemingly perilous
situations. Things get particularly hairy when the team visit a
brothel at night in ‘West Point’.
The film focuses on Joshua Blahyi, formerly a ferociously
violent warlord known as General Butt Naked (he was known for
fighting naked), now an evangelist preacher and supposedly a
reformed man. An interesting dynamic develops between Smith
and the charismatic, but clearly sociopathic Blahyi. This is intense
viewing, in keeping with Vice’s proclivity for extreme subject
matter. It is an insightful and disturbing film which ultimately
raises the question of what the future holds for Liberia. SE
Country UK Running Time 60 mins Format DV Director/Producer/DoP Shane
Smith, Andy Capper Print Source VBS
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WHEN THE WORLD BREAKS
TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 3:45PM
When the World Breaks, follows the Great Depression that hit
America in 1929., and explores the belief that men who survive
tragedy and crisis can become stronger thanks to them.
When the World Breaks features a collage of rare footage
from the time, together with interviews and testimonies of those
who lived through it. Robert F. Boyle, Jerry Stiller, Mickey Rooney,
Richard Anderson and Paul Dooley, tell us how they found
ways to overcome the hardship when everything seemed to be
doomed and what they learnt from the experience. The director,
musician and filmmaker Hans Fjellestad says he jumped at the
chance to dig into such a formative period in American society,
art and identity and explore what turned out to be a period of
extraordinary creativity and innovation.
What this documentary proves is that those scars are a crucial
part of the human experience. In light of today’s circumstances,
in a world deeply affected by the recession, the message sent
here becomes even more relevant. Despite its subject matter,
When the World Breaks interesting, touching and even humorous
testimonies make for an uplifting and inspiring film. MP
Country USA Running Time 84 mins Director/DoP Hans Fjellestad Producer Joe
Mundo Featuring Jerry Stiller, Phyllis Diller, Buzz Aldrin Print Source Joe Mundo
Email joe@speakeasyfilmsaz.com
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SIEGE OF THE END HILL FARM
UK 3 mins Format Red Director/
Producer/Screenplay Charlie Graley
DoP David Groundwater Cast Pat
Hodges, Spencer Edwards, Neil Chester
Print Source Charlie Graley
This is the true story of the late John
Collingborn who stood up to the
authorities over the Agricultural Training
Levy in 1970.
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PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART
THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER AT 4PM
LIFE+
Running Time 11 mins Format H264 Director/Screenplay
Daniel Broadley DoP Anthony Thornton Cast Robert Paget
One persons kindness has the power to save another’s life.
OF BLOOD AND WATER (EXCERPT)
Running Time 32 mins Format DV/Super-8mm Director/
Screenplay Amanda Buckley Producer Patricia Bruen
Peter and his mother escape their abusive stepfather.
A VERY BRITISH SCANDAL
Country UK/Chagos Islands Running Time 16 mins Format
DVCam Director/Producer/Screenplay Phil Birchall
The government’s expulsion of the poor into small islands.
INSOMNIA (CATCH A RAT)
Running Time 4 mins Format DVCam Director/Producer/
Screenplay Sean Page
An experimental and mathematical examination of insomnia.
KAREN
Running Time 9 mins Format HDV Dir/Pro/Screenplay
Patricia Bruen, Steve Barrett, Katy McLean, Robbie Doran
An intimate look at individuals with learning difficulties.
EMILY
Running Time 9 mins Format DVCam Director/Producer/
Screenplay Sean Page Cast Heidi Dorschler, Karen Turton
A girl struggles with her boyfriend’s death.
PLYMTOPIA
Running Time 1 min Format Super 8mm
Something stirs in a barren landscape.
COYOTE DREAM
Running Time 8 mins Director/Screenplay Alex Blackwood
Animation on the origins of mythical creatures.
MODERNITY
Running Time 8 mins Format H264 Director Alex Thornton
The contrast between natural and urban landscapes explored.
STAFF
Running Time 13 mins Format HDV Director Sergei Kuzin
A species reliant on technology is questioned.
SWITCH
Running Time 4 mins Format Super-16mm Director/DoP
Alex Thonton Producer/Screenplay Alex Blackwood Cast
Graham Sessions
A man dreams in colour in a world of black and white.
A TIME FOR EVERYTHING
Running Time 4 mins Format Super-16mm Directors Tim
Marks, Steven Barrett Producer Patricia Bruen
Experimental approach to exploring life and the organic space
in which we live.
TOM & JENNA
Running Time 10 mins Format DV Director/Producer/
Screenplay Kelsey Fox Cast Tom Priest, Jenna Margetts
A look at today’s British youth culture.
IN SEARCH OF BEARS
Country UK/Canada Running Time 15 mins Format DV
Director/Producer/Screenplay Peter Cayless
Documentary following orphaned bears in Canada.
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NOVA EXPRESS
DREAMLAND
Country Canada Ft 35mm Writer/Director David Marriott
Producer Nathan Oliver E davidmarriott41@gmail.com
Cross betwen Hollywood mythology & crime scene photography.
MR BRADLEY MR MARTIN HEAR US THROUGH THE
HOLE IN THIN AIR
Director/Prod Greig Johnson Screenplay/Cast William
Burroughs Email eclecticschlock@hotmail.com
An alien agent is called home in this visually layered,
expressionistic adaptation of William S Burroughs’ 1965 poem.
ZYMOTIC AMAUROSIS: CONTAGIOUS
ARBITRARY BLIND
Ft 16mm Director/Prod Ozan Adam E ozanadam@gmail.com
Recordings taken through the eyes of an astronaut.
THE GOLDFISH [ZLATÁ RYBKA]
Dir/DoP Jacob Mendel E jacobamendel@gmail.com
Set in Prague the lives of a man, a cat, and a goldfish intersect.
EXTRAORDINARY TOYS
Director/Prod/S’play Toby Dale Email toby@tobydale.com
When you’re young, your toys can do extraordinary things.
THE QUICKEST WAY TO GET OVER YOUR
DEPRESSION
Director/Producer Domitien Chen E domitienchen@aol.com
THE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS OF THE
EXTRAORDINARY GIRL
Director/Producer Lucie Lamy E singsongsally1@yahoo.com
Even extraordinary dreams can come true.
MANHATTAN 4.33 PM
Writer/Director /DoP/Producer Lizzie Oxby Cast John
Taylor Print Source Lizzie Oxby Email info@lizzieoxby.co.uk
A daydream to remind you of NYC’s skyline.
GIVE YOUR ORDINARY SOMETHING EXTRA
Director Eben Bolter Producers/Cast Eben Bolter, Bobby
Taylor Contact Eben Bolter Email ebenbolter@gmail.com
DEAR FRIEND
Director/S’play Don Brosnan Email dpbrosnan@yahoo.co.uk
A man seeks resolution by tapping into the foreign and feminine
aspects of his emotional life.
CLOWN SHOWDOWN
Director Kevin Curtis E kevincurtis11@yahoo.co.uk
A girl squares up to a clown in a cul-de-sac. It’s payback time.
FATUM
Director Pablo Millan E arteautor@yahoo.com
Fatum is the boundless force of opposition against free will.
CLOSE TO HOME
Director/DoPJason Robbins E cheekorobbins@gmail.com
A scout robot explores its world.
MIKE 360
Dir/DoP Peter Bunzl Cast Mike Hayes E peterbunzl@me.com
A 360 degree pixilation and time slice extravaganza
THE PRICE WE PAY
Dir J Steam S’play J Alice E manwiththeballs@rocketmail.com
How do you stamp your identity and personal style?
138
OFF THE RAILS – AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY
Country UK Director/Screenplay Jack H Hancox
A journey into freedom to an abandoned railway line.
SOMEWHERE NEVER TRAVELLED
Director Ben Garchar E Ben.Garchar@att.net
Only one love. Only one take. And then what?
SOMETIMES THE UNDERDOG WINS
Director/Producer/DoP Edward Bryson Cast Andrew Pertjogger, Sebastian Slick the Snail E ebryson@longhornfilms.co.uk
RADIO GIRL (UNDERGROUND MELODY)
DirectorRonni Thomas DoP Eric Giovan Cast Vickers ‘Bastard’
Gringo, Legs Malone, Noble Robinette E raygun76@gmail.com
THE PICK UP
Dir Caz Kennedy Cast Tom Ardley E cazjkennedy@gmail.com
Tom gets a text that sends him on a mission every man dreads.
HALKKE 9
Director Richard Yung Cast Laura Wadell, Tom Bonington, Ian
Swann E richard@richardjungphotography.com
A parody of a 1950s kitchen appliance commercial.
THE UNQUIET MIND – EUPHORIAL
Director Robbie Chihwen Lo Email lolalaland@gmail.com
One dancers euphoric mood swings.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Director/Producer Peilin Kuo Email peilinkuo@yahoo.com
A baby tries to find his way home.
SHAKE IT
Director/DoP Christopher Swank Producer John Raftery
Screenplay Rodney Raftery E swankfilms@gmail.com
A substitute aerobic instructor has some fresh ideas.
PRODUCT
Director/Producer/DoP Johan Mard Cast Ben Andrews,Pia
Olmeadhra E me@nothingproduct.com
Two outer-city youths talk about love and skin care.
THE ACTRESS WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH HERSELF
Director Martin Gooch DoP Martin Gooch, Anna Carrington
Cast Elena Byers, Jo Byers E martin@martingooch.com
–C–
Director Steffan Boje E steffan@littlefischfilms.com
A cucumber talks about its ordeal in life.
SIEGE OF THE END HILL FARM
Director Charlie Graley E charlie@graleybothers.com
The true story of the late John Collingborn who stood up to the
authorities over the Agricultural Training Levy in 1970.
RIBBON
Director Joe Marcantonio E joe@marcantonio.tv
A young couple ask for permission to marry.
CATO IN WONDERLAND
Country UK Dir Cato Heath E catoheath@googlemail.com
A day in the life of Cato, a student living with cerebral palsy.
SKYLIGHT
Director David Baas E dave_baas@hotmail.com
The ecological plight of penguins in the Antarctic
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RISKY LIAISONS
SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER AT 2PM
IN THE MEADOW
Country UK RT 12 mins Ft HDCam Director/Screenplay
Dave Alexander Smith Producer Nicola Clayton DoP Jonathan
Harvey Cast Chris Larkin, Tuppence Middleton Print Source
Nicola Clayton Email nicola@sodalitefilms.co.uk
A married man and his younger mistress head into the English
countryside for an illicit birthday picnic. As the afternoon
progresses, events take a disturbing turn.
TRANSPARENT [TRANSPARENTE]
Country Belgium RT 12 mins Ft Digibeta Director/
Screenplay Sammy Fransquet Producer Charlotte Joulia
DoP Jeremy Tondeur Cast Anne-Pascale Clairembourg, Olivier
Massart Contact Sammy Fransquet E wakatfilms@gmail.com
Eve has an unusual problem; people in the streets bump into
her, cameras are unable to photograph her. Can her doctor help?
ANNIE GOES BOATING
Country USA RT 10 mins Ft DCP Director Noel Paul
Producer Apryl Richards, Joy Saez Screenplay Katie Freeze,
Noel Paul DoP Michael Ragen Cast Alessandra Torresani,
Alycia Delmore, Davie Blue E nico@rokkit.tv
A laconic portrait of a girl on a picnic in the park with her friends.
Shot in stereo 3-d, the film provides a restrained yet immersive
glimpse into the group dynamics of this boating party.
THE BEEKEEPER
Country USA RT 27 mins Ft HDCam Director/Producer/
Screenplay Sean Jourdan DoP Kuba Zelazek Cast Michael
Ward, Michelle Mueller, Oksana Fedunsyzn Print Source Sean
Jourdan Email sjsjourdan@hotmail.com
When his son’s girlfriend becomes pregnant as a result of their
affair, a beekeeper must sacrifice his integrity for his iniquity.
140
KARMA – A VERY TWISTED LOVE STORY
Country USA RT 12 mins Ft Digibeta Director Kevin Foong
Producer Andreas Hager Screenplay Timothy Covell,
Kevin Foong DoP Aksel Stasny Cast Micah Kaneko,Rila Ai
Fukushima, Shuya Chang Print Source Kevin Foong Email
email@bayardstudios.com
When the dashing Kazu meets the quirky Rei, he finds the
love he thought he could never have. But can their romance
overcome the fragility of their own natures?
SILENT THINGS
Country UK RT 12mins Ft HDCam Director Rob Brown
Producer Adam Merryfield Screenplay Rob Brown, Edward
Jackson DoP Justin Brown Cast Georgia Groome, Antonia
Campbell-Hughes, Andrew Scott Print Source Rob Brown
Email rob.brown@whitelantern.co.uk
The friendship between an autistic man and woman is tested
when an impulsive teenage girl comes between them
RETREAT
Country UK RT 11 mins Ft Digibeta Director Simon Richards
Producer Augusto Da Rocha, Simon Richards Screenplay
Paul Richards DoP Phil Becque Cast Singad Beary, Sinead
Beary, Mark Killeen Print Source Simon Rickards Email
simon.rickards@yahoo.co.uk
When a couple take a trip to the country to save their failing
marriage, they get far more than they bargained for.
BEST UK
THE GOLDEN BOY
Country UK RT 15 mins Ft Red Director Craig Pickles
Screenplay Robert Jones DoP Sol Saihati Producer Daniel
Bishop Cast Philip Jackson, Michael Jibson, Bhasker Patel
Print Source Craig Pickles Email cpickles13@gmail.com
Two men follow the trail blazed by The Great Fire of London.
All around them history. Between them, a secret. Ahead of
them, death.
WATCHING
Country UK RT 14 mins Ft Red Director Max Myers S’play
Nico Mensinga DoP Dan Stafford-Clark Producer Ben Hilton
Cast Ian Hart, Charlie Cattrall, Susannah Fielding Print Source
Dakus Films Email info@dakusfilms.com
Opportunities present themselves for the briefest of moments. If
you miss them, they don’t come back.
NATURAL SELECTION
Country UK RT 20 mins Ft 16mm Director/Screenplay Brett
Foraker DoP Mark Patten Producer Gwilym Gwillim, Annabel
Ridley Cast Simon Callow, James D’Arcy Print Source Zung
Packer Email aridley@rsafilms.co.uk
‘Professor Gwyndon, my name is John Henry Wilson and I
have come to kill you.’ In a tense philosophical thriller, renowned
atheist Ted Gwyndon returns from a book tour to find that
an intruder awaits.
STORAGE
Country UK RT 15 mins Ft 16mm Director/Screenplay David
Lea DoP Piers Leigh Producer Kasia Skibinska Cast Tom
Hughes, Steve Lello P/S David Lea E davidlea1@hotmail.com
If you lived in a world only you understood, would you know if
someone was trying to help?
DUST
Country UK RT 10 mins Ft Super 16mm Director/DoP Ben
Lavington Martin Screenplay Jon Spira Producer Hank Starrs
Cast William Hope Print Source Ben Lavington Martin Email
b.lavingtonmartin@gmail.com
An astronaut begins to reflect upon his life and his place in the
universe after he is left stranded on the surface of the moon.
STANLEY PICKLE
Country UK RT 11 mins Director Vicky Mather Producer
Justine Watson DoP John Lee Cast Drew Caiden, Haruka Abe,
Nadia Morgan P/S Vicky Mather Email info@vickymather.co.uk
Stanley never goes outside. He likes to play with his clockwork
toys and every night his mother kisses him goodnight. Stanley is
twenty. Stanley thinks this is all quite normal, until an encounter
with a mysterious girl turns his world upside down.
141
RELATIVE STATES
ARITHMETIC, ANNIE’S LIFE IN LONDON
Country Canada RT 13 mins Ft DVCPro Director/Screenplay
Michal Lavi Producer Michal Lavi, Kathleen Yee, Jennifer
Bysterveld DoP Ian Lister Cast Sarah Lind, Tye Evans, Kamryn
Roy P/S Michal Lavi E michal@lazysusanproductions.com
One may be the loneliest number, but it’s compromise-free
GUIDED TOUR [SIYUR MUDRACH]
Country Israel RT 25 mins Ft 16mm Director/Screenplay
Benjamin Freidenberg DoP Ehud Hermony Producers Ariel
Benbaji, Einat Pinsky Cast Shir Shenar, Isaac Shwartz, Assia
Vilenkin Print Source The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School,
Jerusalem Email festivals@jsfs.co.il
Eitan lives alone in Jerusalem and works at night at painting
lines on the streets of the city. Seeking another person’s
company makes him wonder; between imagination and reality,
clarity and blurriness, on the border between identities, between
the broken lines.
OFFSPRING
Country Sweden RT 14 mins Ft MiniDV Director/
Screenplay/DoP/Producer Kristian A Söderström Cast
Michaela Berner, Anette Sevreus, Per Johansson Print Source
Kristian A Söderström Email symptoms@telia.com
It’s Marie’s birthday and her newly separated parents are
coming to visit. Marie’s wish for a cozy gathering, without traces
of the shattered family situation, dies word by word when the
mother loses control over her bitterness. The birthday party is
transformed in to a verbal war between the parents with Marie
in the line of fire.
142
ANY LITTLE THING
Country Israel RT 11 mins Ft HDV Director Ma’ayan Rypp
Screenplay Anat Gafni DoP Omri Shenhar Producer Noa
Freiman Cast Efrat Gosh, Howard Rypp, Eden Luttenberg Print
Source Ma’ayan rypp Email may_rypp@yahoo.com
A father visiting his daughter is sent by her to buy a six pack of
water. On the way from the kiosk to her house he discovers in
peculiar ways her secret, that she is having an affair with her
neighbour from downstairs, who is married with a child.
THE MUSKRAT BOY OF GRIFFITH PARK
Country USA RT 10 mins Ft 16mm Super Director/
Screenplay Emmy Grinwis DoP Scott Kassenoff Producer
Moira Michiels Cast Corena Chase, Matthew Marcy, Will Lyman
Print Source Emmy Grinwis Email grinwise@mac.com
The Muskrat Boy of Griffith Park explores the unconventional
friendship between a lonely young woman with a flair for the
fantastical and a scruffy, peculiar boy.
BRO
Country UK RT 18 mins Ft HDCam Director/Screenplay
Chris Dundon DoP Justin Brown Producer Jonathan Blagrove
Cast Sean Verey, Michael Davies, Ellie Paskell Print Source
Chris Dundon Email cwdundon@gmail.com
Simon’s brother Mark suffers from Fragile x syndrome. Simon
believes his failure to lead a normal adolescent life is solely
down to his brothers disability.
THRILLER ZONE
MONDAY 4 OCTOBER AT 4:45PM
DISAPPEARANCE
Country USA RT 9 mins Ft Red Director/Producer/
Screenplay Zachary Volker DoP Richard Anthony Blake
Cast Jordan McFadden, Travis Jahnnsen, Jacob Serban Print
Source Zachary Volker Email zacharyvolker@gmail.com
A haunting, atmospheric story of a young woman’s abduction
and desertion in the woods – and the eight items left behind.
REIGN OF DEATH
Country UK RT 6 mins Ft Red Director/Screenplay
Matthew Savage DoP Ray Orton Producer John Giwa-Amu
Cast Noel Clarke Print Source Matthew Savage Email
m_t_savage@hotmail.com
In a 1930s vision of the future a gumshoe chases down a robotic
murder suspect
BIG DAY OF FISHING
Country USA RT 10 mins Ft HDV Director/Screenplay
Timothy Cawley DoP Geoff McAuliffe Producer Zeke Bowman,
Timothy Cawley, Mark Hankey Cast Steven Barkhimer, Zillah
Glory, Scott Winters Print Source Timothy Cawley Email
tcawley@hhcc.com
Two friends head out into the ocean for a day of fishing. One
returns.
ARTICLE #38
Country UK RT 6 mins Ft HD Director/Screenplay Kuvera
Sivalingam, Nelson Sivalingam DoP Krshna Naganpillai
Producer Jayshree Viswanathan Cast Radha Kumar, Ragavan
P/S Barking Mad Productions E nels_me@hotmail.com
An exiled former militant must save his kidnapped daughter from
an unstable persecutor. The ransom – the stolen childhood in
the name of war.
SUNDAY PUNCH
Country USA RT 18 mins Ft 35mm Director/Screenplay
Dennis Hauck DoP Bill Fernandez Producer Dennis Hauck
Cast Aimée Barth Dichen Lachman, Samm Levine, David Yow
Print Source Foe Killer Films Email foekillerfilms@mac.com
A ring girl decides it’s high time to get out from under the thumb
of a local gangster, and burn every bridge she can on the way.
WHEN THE HURLYBURLY’S DONE
Country Germany RT 16 mins Ft 16mm Director/Screenplay
Alex Eslam, Hanna Maria Heidrich DoP Yoshi Heimrath
Producer Axel Brügmann Cast Damien Molony, Fiona
Hampton, George Taylor Print Source Hanna Maria Heidrich
Email info@filmblau.de
She will bleed to death. Jacob is holding Gwynn in his arms. If
he chooses to escape, she will die.
MAN IN THE ROAD
Country UK RT 10 mins, Ft Red Dir George Milton S’play
Mark Tilton DoP Peter Thwaits Producer Martino Sclavi Cast
Ruben-Henry Biggs, Orla Fitzgerald, George Lenz, Marveille
Lukeba P/S Martino Sclavi E sclavi@2manyexecutives.com
A short story about hope and hopelessness, faithlessness and
faith. Two joggers find a man wounded in the road. He seems
certain to die – if they let him.
ST. CHRISTOPHORUS: ROADKILL
Country Germany RT 26 mins Ft 35mm Director Gregor
Erler Screenplay Benjamin Karalic, Gregor Erler DoP Philipp
Haberlandt Producer Martin Wippler Cast Matthias Ziesing,
Timo Dierkes, Patrick Von Blume
A young lawyer drives on a road towards Hamburg. But his ride
takes an unexpected turn as he witness a tragic accident.
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ABSTRACT NOTIONS
THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 5PM
ART OF BONDAGE [KINBAKU]
Country Finland RT 29 mins Ft HD Director/Producer/
Screenplay Jouni Hokkanen DoP Jussi Käkkis Arhinmäki
Cast Asagi Ageha, Osada Steve, Haruki Yukimura Print
Source John Hakalax E john.hakalax@hakalaxproductions.com
Rope meets flesh in Tokyo, the S&M capital of the world. Haruki
Yukimura is a rope master who has tied over 3000 people during
his life.
HORTUM
Country Netherlands/USA RT 7 mins Ft Red Director/
Screenplay Ayse Altinok Producer Neil Henry DoP
Christopher Blauvelt Cast Rick Chant Print Source Ayse
Altinok Email ayse.altinok@mac.com
An artistic celebration of being at the edge, Hortum shows a
slow descent into a place where delight and despair cohabit.
MAN IN A SHELL
Country Netherlands RT 15 mins Ft HDCam Director/
Screenplay Genja Ferschtman Producer Edgar Kapp DoP
Peterjan van der Burgh Cast Hugo Lammerink Print Source
Edgar Kapp Email edgar@kapp-producties.nl
An artist builds form-work to be filled with concrete. But this is
no ordinary form-work. Will anybody notice?
144
FROG IN THE WELL
Country Japan RT 15 mins Ft HD Director/Producer Ken
Ochiai Screenplay Ken Ochiai/Justin Miller DoP Justin Miller
Cast Ken Ochiai, Chisato Sakurai, Kazuko Tajima Print Source
Ken Ochiai Email kenochiai@gmail.com
Following his mother’s wishes, Jo, a reclusive young tailor from
Tokyo embarks on a solitary journey across Japan.
THE CHRONOSCOPE
Country Ireland RT 20 mins Ft 16mm Director/Screenplay
Andrew Legge Producer Andrew Legge DoP Eleanor Bowman
Cast Serena Brabazon, Pat McCabe, Kevin Brownlow Print
Source Andrew Legge Email andrewlegge@ireland.com
A mocumentary about a beautiful scientist in the 1930s who
invents a machine that can see into the past.
THE OPERA SINGER
Country UK RT 2 mins Ft HDCam Director/Producer/
Screenplay Nadaav Soudry Email hell@nadaav.com
An opera singing diva gives the performance of her life, but will
it sell? A sweet satire about selling out.
RAGING LIBERTIES
K CITIZEN
Country USA/France RT 29 mins Ft Red Directors The Tullio
Brothers Screenplay Stephane Tullio Producer Philippe Tullio
DoP Elie Smolkin Cast Kate French, David A. Kimball, James
Horan Print Source Philippe Tullio E philippe.tullio@gmail.com
If you had the opportunity to go back in time, what would you
say to yourself?
THE AWAKENING
Country UK RT 13 mins Ft DVCPro/HD/Super- 8mm
Director/Producer/Screenplay Gabriela Dworecki DoP
Jason Brooks Cast Philip Munnoch Print Source Gabriela
Dworecki Email duodroume@gmail.com
Captain Zip plays a business man with a particular world hiding
under his bed, revealed only when the night falls. Also featuring
Scary Goth Girl.
WITH ANCHOVIES WITHOUT MAMA
Country USA RT 25 mins Ft HDV Director/Screenplay
Thomas Justino DoP Trent Ermes Producer Ken Regan Cast
Adam Scarimbolo, Johnny Tammaro, Joli Tribuzio Print Source
Thomas Justino Email bullfella@gmail.com
An anchovy makes its way onto a pizza.
THE LADY WITH THE DOG [LA DAME AU CHIEN]
Country France RT 16 mins Ft HD Director Damien Manivel
Producer Le G.R.E.C. Screenplay Damien Manivel, Rémi
Esterle DoP Julien Guillery Cast Elsa Wolliaston, Rémi Taffanel,
Stiki P/S Damien Manivel E damienmanivel@hotmail.com
On a hot summer afternoon, a teenager finds a stray dog in a
local park. He decides to take the dog back to its owner. A fat
black woman, half drunk, opens the door and asks him in by way
of thanks.
MUDVAYNE: NEXUS, LIFE, DEATH
Country USA RT 13 mins Ft HDCAM Director/Screenplay
Frankie Nasso Producer Raymond Foley, Lucille Hansen DoP
Chris Cannucciari Cast Anthony Marks, Diana Cherkas, Harvey
Kaufmann P/S Frankie Nasso E frankienasso@novaent.net
Satan’s creation of man and woman trying to procreate his
spawn on earth and his failed attempts at doing so. He now
needs a human seed to foster his child.
145
ABSENT SENSE
RED SHOES
Country UK RT 11 mins. Ft Super-16mm Director Marta Loza
Alonso Producer/Screenplay Philippa Juul DoP Luca Ciuti
Cast Beth Winslet, Chloe Tannenbaum E pj.juul@btinternet.com
A feisty urban girl loses her way in an eerie forest and discovers
just how far she will go to protect her sexy red shoes.
MEET PURSUIT DELANGE
Country UK RT 25 mins Ft HDCam Dir/S’play Howard
Webster DoP Callum McInnes E howard.webster@gmail.com
It’s not a wonderful. It’s Christmas, Pursuit is broke, unemployed,
in love with the wrong girl and his saviour is a sociopath.
STALKER
Country UK RT 10 mins Ft Super 16 mm Director Phil Haine
Producer Camilla Wren S’play Mark Brown DoP Toby Gorman
Cast David Whitney E info@brainehowndfilms.com
A city boy finds an intruder in his shower, but instead of calling
help, finds out a bit more about himself than he’d bargained for.
ORIGIN
Country UK RT 14 mins Ft Super 16 mm Director/S’play
Danny Stack Prods Danny Stack, Jo-Ann Challis DoP David
Raedeker P/S Danny Stack Email dstack30@gmail.com
A woman tries to keep her family together after her son falls ill
having been bitten by a mysterious creature.
INTERLUDE
Country UK RT 7 mins Ft HDV Dir/S’play Ruaridh Webster
Producer Steffan Boje DoP Oliver Schofield Cast Lisa
Pobereskin, Kenny Solomons E steffan@littlefischfilms.com
When two people with a common passion bump into each other,
anything can happen.
146
POPPING ROUND
Country UK RT 6 mins Ft HD Director Martin Gooch
Producer Eleanor Smithard, Leisha Anna, Martin Gooch S’play
Eleanor Smithard DoP Pete Rowe Cast Eleanor Smithard
Leisha Anna P/S Martin Gooch E martin@martingooch.com
It’s amazing how just popping round someone’s house can
change their whole world forever.
BAD CALL
Country UK RT 6 mins Ft HD Director/DoP Geoff Searle
Producer Mark Straker Screenplay Geoff Searle, Mark
Straker Cast Sam Underwood, Ben Bishop, Amy Connery Print
Source Geoff Searle Email info@geoffsearle.com
After stealing his girlfriend’s phone, furious Dave arranges a
date with a man he believes she is having an affair with.
MISSED CONNECTIONS
Country UK Dir/S’play Christopher Presswell Prod Oleg
Ozoling DoP Phillip Crosby E chris@papersunfilms.co.uk
Misanthrope Jamie becomes so amused by a newspaper’s
missed connections column that he starts replying to them all.
LATITUDE CHASE [LATITUDE WINNER 2010]
Country UK RT 35 secs Director Mark Wilkins Screenplay
Ellie Wilkins Cast Gillian Smith E mail@markwilkins.co.uk
A young girls runs away from something at Latitude.
SIGN LANGUAGE
Country UK RT 5 mins Director Oscar Sharp Prod Tiernan
Hanby S’play Stephen Follows DoP Anthony Gurner Cast
Jethro Skinner, Laura Mugridge E oscar@thereforefilms.com
Meet Ben. He holds a sign in the street for a living – and loves
his job more than almost anything. But today is his last day.
CHANGING LANES
LA PLAYA
Country UK RT 23 mins Ft 16mm Director Elisa Cepedal
Screenplay Elisa Cepedal, Andrés Borda DoP Clara Kraft
Producer Mariana Murillo Cast Laura Diaz, Fernando Barona,
Guillermo Serrano Print Source Elisa Cepedal Email
elisacepedal@googlemail.com
Ana is awakened from monotony by an unexpected encounter
with two youths from a neighbouring village.
THE POOL
Country Ireland RT 12 mins Ft Red Director Thomas Hefferon
Screenplay TJ Hundtofte DoP Ruairi O’ Brien Producer
Dave Leahy, Fiona Kinsella Cast Ryan Andrews, Thomas
Kelly, Andy Gallagher Print Source Thomas Hefferon
Email thomashefferon@gmail.com
Three teenage boys break into their school swimming pool late
one night, with tragic consequences.
PASSENGERS
Country Belgium/France RT 13 mins Ft HDCam Director/
Screenplay Samuel Feller DoP Michel Baudour Producer
Isabelle Mathy Cast Julien Baumgartner, Erika Sainte Print
Source Samuel Feller Email samuel.feller@hotmail.com
Motorcycling down a deserted road, a young couple encounter
three lonely individuals at a gas station, this encounter leads
them to seek a new harmony.
DEEPER THAN YESTERDAY
Country Australia RT 20 mins Ft 35mm Director/Screenplay
Ariel Kleiman DoP Peter Eastgate Producer Anna Kojevnikov,
Benjamin Gilovitz, Sarah Cyngler Cast Albert Goikhman, Dmitiri
Pronin, Nikolai Nikolaeff Print Source Benjamin Gilovitz
Email contact@deeperthanyesterday.com
After three months submerged underwater, the men have
become savages. Oleg fears that losing perspective may mean
losing himself.
CONFORMISTS
Country UK RT 19 mins Ft HDCam Director/Producer/
Screenplay Juriaan Booij DoP Justin Brown Cast Kay
Headley, Robert Emmanuel, Rob Talbot Print Source Juriaan
Booij Email juriaanbooy@hotmail.com
We witness the fraught encounter between a group of strangers,
all of whom are dissatisfied with life. They choose to take their
frustration out on someone who is different. .
SHADOWS OF SILENCE
Country France RT 12 mins Ft Red Director/Screenplay
Pradeepan Raveendran DoP Krshna Naganpillai Cast Krishna
Subramania, Krishanthi Ananthakumar, Unitha Ananthakumar
Print Source Predeepan Raveendran E ravideep12@gmail.com
The nightmares and realities of a depressed person in exile.
147
LEARNING CURVES
THE INVIGILATOR
Country Malaysia RT 12 mins Ft HDCam Director/
Screenplay Manesh Nesaratnam Producer Amy Lim, Roshan
Ravichandran DoP John Goh Cast Cheryl Samad, Tony Eusoff,
Zahiril Adzim Print Source Amy Lim E amy.rosh@gmail.com
An idealistic trainee teacher decides to quit teaching after
an embarrassing argument in class. Her experienced and
unconventional counterpart attempts to convince her otherwise.
I LUV MATT JOHNSON
Country UK RT 17 mins Ft Red Director/Screenplay Jon
Garbett Producer Aradhna Tayal DoP Dan Stafford-clark Cast
Tamaryn Payne E jon@savethedogproductions.com
17 year old Zoe succeeds in juggling her GCSE retakes,
supermarket job and commitments to her friends until her
boyfriend and best mate betray her.
THE PROFESSIONALS
Country Bangladesh RT 13 mins Ft HDV Director Oniket Alam
Screenplay Cal Jahan Producer Aref Syed DoP Aref Syed
Cast Aref Syed, Abdul Hannan, Arpon Mandol Print Source
Aref Syed Email aref.syed@gmail.com
What happens when Joshim, a simple mill worker, comes face to
face with the doctor whose negligence crippled him for life?
ROYALTY FREE
Country USA RT 11 mins Ft Super-16mm Director/
Screenplay Michael Bernstein Producer Chris Bryant DoP
Allen Liu Cast Raymond Cham Jr., Catesby Bernstein, Solomon
Bonne P/S Michael Bernstein E mikebernstein@me.com
Charlie, an entertainer, can bring a smile to anybody – except
one miserable audience member. Every entertainer has an ego,
even if he’s only 12 years old.
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DIPLOMA
Country Israel RT 22 mins Ft HD Director/Screenplay
Yaelle Kayam Producer Tal Siano DoP Ziv Berkovich Cast
Osama Arbiaa, Youssra Barakat Print Source The Sam Spiegel
Film & TV School, Jerusalem Email festivals@jsfs.co.il
Hebron, the night of the Jewish settlement Masquerade. 15 year
old Samer insists on taking his older sister Ayat to collect her
diploma from the Palestinian university. Walking through the city
rooftops and narrow side allies they must avoid the settlers, the
army and the curious new foreign reporters.
THE TERMS
Country UK RT 12 mins Ft Red Director/Screenplay Jason
LaMotte Producer Allon Wechsler DoP Lee Pulbrook Cast
Gary Lewis, Ciaran Flynn Print Source Jason LaMotte Email
lamottejason@mac.com
In this darkly amusing tale, a father and son forge a twisted pact:
one shot will decide between freedom and death.
THE ROAD HOME
Country UK/India RT 21 mins Ft 35mm Director Rahul
Gandotra Screenplay Milja Fenger, Rahul Gandotra Producer
Ameenah Ayub, Rahul Gandotra DoP Christoph Brunner Cast
Arrun Harker, Ashish Dharmadhikari, Emily Lucienne Print
Source Rahul Gandotra Email gangui@mac.com
Sent by his parents to an international boarding school in the
Himalayas, Pico grapples with his identity as he escapes from
his boarding school in search of the road back home to England.
GONE ASTRAY
THE GRAND FALLS [LE GRAND SAULT]
Country Canada RT 15 mins Ft DVCPro Director/
Screenplay/Producer Hervé Demers DoP Hervé Demers
Cast Janice Béliveau-Sicotte, Renaud Fortin Print Source
Herve Demers Email hd@hervedemers.com
A young woman has no idea that their peaceful meeting place
will be the scene of immense turmoil.
GUERRILLA GARDEN
Country USA RT 19 mins Ft 35mm Director/Screenplay
Rafael Palacio Illingworth DoP Autumn Cheyenne Durald
Producer Eleonore Meier Cast Alex Patino, Eddie Ruiz,
Esteban Pena P/S Eleonore Meier E elemeier@gmail.com
On the golf course of a fancy hotel, three Mexican gardeners
compete against fifteen Chinese gardeners.
CHARLIE AND THE RABBIT
Country USA RT 10 mins Ft HDV Director/Screenplay/
DoP/Producer Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Robert Machoian
Cast Elias Graham Print Source Robert Graham Email
robertmachoian@gmail.com
After watching Bugs Bunny, Charlie, a four-year-old boy, decides
to hunt a rabbit of his own.
BOXER
Country UK RT 17 mins Director/Producer/Screenplay
Andrew Cumming DoP Garry Torrance Cast Lewis Howden,
Helen McAlpine Print Source Andrew Cumming Email
andrew@kineticgroup.org
In a decaying Scottish community, a lonely man witnesses a
violent attack that gives him a reason to exist.
HAPPY PILLS
Country Canada RT 8 mins Ft Digibeta Director/Screenplay
Tanya Lemke Producer Aeschylus Poulos DoP Rudolf
Blahacek Cast Christine Horne, Stephen McHattie Print
Source Tanya Lemke Email tanya@tanyalemke.com
A power struggle between an embittered father and his dutiful
daughter ends with a potent lesson in honesty and trust.
SYD
Country France RT 21 mins Ft Red Director/Screenplay
Fabien Gazanhes DoP William Hulin Producer Fabien
Gazanhes Cast Manuel Montero, Antoine Stip, Dominik Bernard
Print Source Fabien Gazanhes E fabiengazanhes@gmail.com
Syd is a famous tap dance performer, exuberant and narcissistic.
The crowd’s cheers are his only reason to live..
NOREEN
Country Ireland RT 18 mins Ft DigiBeta Director/Screenplay
Domhnall Gleeson Producer Juliette Bonass, David Clarke,
Ciaran Deeney DoP Ruairi O’Brien Cast Brendan Gleeson,
Brian Gleeson, Gerard Byrne, Sean McCarthy Print Source
David Clarke Email dave@elzorrezofilms.ie
Two Irish policemen learn life lessons on a housecall. Frank
is young and heartbroken, Con is weary. They’re both alone.
They’re both idiots.
WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS
Country Canada RT 8 mins Ft Super 16mm Director Lee
Chambers S’play Lee Chambers, Christina Sharpe DoP Luke
Grandmont Producers Lee Chambers, Jeremy Landon Cast
Basil Hoffman P/S Lee Chambers E lee@leechambers.com
Calvin attempts to outwit some neighbourhood kids in a battle to
sell the most lemonade.
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BEST INTERNATIONAL
HAPPINESS IS HATE THERAPY
Country UK RT 8 mins Format HDV Director/DoP Brett
Blackwell Producers/Screenplay Ryan McDonald, Matthew
Kloske Cast Sandy Jobin-Bevans, Pat Kelly, Peter Oldring Print
Source Matthew Kloske Email matt@83pictures.com
Joe gets together twice a week with his Hate Therapy group.
This night things start to heat up when a newcomer joins the
group.
MOUSTACHETTE
Country USA RT 17 mins Format HDCam Director Patrick
Stump Producers Paul Klinke, Tobin Nageotte Screenplay
Patrick Stump, Paul Klinke, Tobin Nageotte DoP Kevin Joelson
Cast Pete Wentz, Patrick Stump, Ryan Key Print Source Emily
Denker Email moustachettemovie@gmail.com
A quest for truth in a blanket of stupidity and tongue-in-cheek,
satirical look at a group of pompous, misled young artists.
I AM A FAT CAT
Country USA RT 20 mins Format HDCam Director/
Producer/Screenplay Alex Brook Lynn DoP Jarred Alterman
Cast Shana Solomon, Tatiana Gomberg, Geoff Mosher Print
Source Alex Brook Lynn Email alexbrooklynn@gmail.com
Living in New York City surrounded by so much wealth and
struggling to find some scraps for yourself, the fat cats are lost
people dreaming big about the wrong things.
STILL
Country Cyprus RT 18 mins Format Mini DV Director/
Producer/Screenplay/DoP Alana Kakoyiannis Cast Niki
Kafa, Gunay Hasmetoglu Print Source Alana Kakoyiannis
Email info@alanakakoyiannis.com
A poetic documentary reflecting on the notion of home through
the lens of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot displacement on
the divided island of Cyprus.
FLY
Country Germany, Poland RT 26 mins Format HDCam
Director Piotr J. Lewandowski Producers Carsten Strauch,
Piotr J Lewandowski, Arto Buhmann, Ben Deiss Screenplay
Finn-Ole Heinrich, Jan Oberlaender DoP Lars Petersen Cast
Jacob Matschenz, Sandra Hueller, Oktay Oexdemir Print
Source Piotr J Lewandowski E mail@piotr-j-lewandowski.de
Dima, a petty criminal, is going to be deported from Germany.
Meeting young student Sarah who is working on a documentary
about young foreigners.He becomes the main subject of the
film. Soon enough, Dima and Sarah get emotionally tied up, until
reality hits their lives.
LIN
Country UK RT 25 mins Format DCP Director/Producer/
Screenplay Piers Thompson DoP Alexander Krumov Cast Lin
Clifton Print Source Piers Thompson E info@hectorfilms.co.uk
A woman arrives in an unknown country at day break. She
appears to be running away from her past.
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DOCUMENTARY TONES
SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER AT 11:30AM
THE LAST CUT
Country UK, Mali RT 20 mins Ft HDV Director/Screenplay/
DoP Damian Rafferty Producer Bintou Dicko Cast Lopa
Kothari, Bintou Dicko E damian@flyglobalmusic.com
How traditional African ways hold the key to shaking off the
harmful practice of Female Genital Cutting in Mali.
BUNKY ECHO HAWK – PROFILE OF
A PROACTIVE ARTIST
Country USA RT 7 mins Ft Mini-DV Director/Screenplay/
DoP Tracy Rector Producer Longhouse Media Cast Bunky
Echo Hawk Print Source Tracy Rector E nativelens@mac.com
Bunky Echo Hawk works to break down stereotypes of Native
American people using his paints, brushes, canvas and culture
ONE FOOT ON THE GROUND
Country UK RT 24 mins Ft HDV Director Matthew
Copson Producer Jeremy Taylor DoP Tom Bateman Cast
Andrei Zelenechii Print Source Matthew Copson Email
onefootonthegroundfilm@googlemail.com
Andrei is a young and promising basketball player growing up
in Moldova, a country still coming to terms with the break up of
the Soviet Union.
TREE OF FORGETTING
Country USA RT 9 mins Ft HDV Director/Producer/
Screenplay/DoP Luis Boor, Valdovino Cast Familia Andersch,
Familia Cardona, Familia Valdovino Print Source Luis Boor,
Valdovino Email luis.valdovino@colorado.edu
The world’s shortest short story takes a detour to a place
where time is a forking path of possibilities leading to the same
eventuality, the past.
BARBER’S DOZEN
Country UK RT 7 mins Ft HDCam Director Tara Manandhar,
David O’Neill Producer Tara Manandhar, David O’Neill DoP
Tara Manandhar Cast Brain, Terry, Roland Print Source Tara
Manandhar Email info@topstoriesfilms.com
ON STONY GROUND
Country UK RT 7 mins Ft HDV Producer/Director/DoP
Rehana Rose Khan Print Source Rehana Rose Khan Email
info@ponderproductions.com
Two homeless alcoholics meet on Brighton beach. A film about
friendship, creativity and alcohol.
THE BIRD OF TAMWORTH
Country UK RT 11 mins Ft Director Alastair Uhlig DoP Daniel
Chaytor Producer Adinia Lavinia Istrate Print Source Chrissy
Bright Email c.bright@lfs.org.uk
Bridie Spicer, talks about coming to terms with the loss of her
son, Leon, a private in the Staffordshire Regiment, British Army,
killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2005. He had been in Iraq for
only seven weeks.
UNEARTHING THE PEN
Country Uganda, UK RT 13 mins Ft HDV Director/
Producer/Screenplay/DoP Carol Salter Cast Locheng Print
Source Carol Salter Email carol@rocksaltfilms.com
A Ugandan Boy faces insurmountable odds trying to get an
education; forty years ago, tribal elders buried a pen, placing a
curse on the written word.
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ANIMATION CITY
NEW DIGS
Country S Africa RT 2 mins Dir/S’play/DoP/Prod Martin
Sen Cast S Cutler P/S M Sen E sen.martin@gmail.com
A little hamster, feeling neglected and unloved by his owner,
decides to leave his rotten home in search for a better one.
THE HAIRY HANDS
Country UK RT 12 mins Ft DigiBeta Dir/Prod/S’play/DoP
Ashley Thorpe Cast Ed Berry E info@carrionfilms.co.uk
Dartmoor: 953 km of desolate moorland, home to a thousand
ghosts and a fugitive racing down a haunted road to meet one!
ONCE UPON A MANY TIME
Country Canada RT 5 mins Ft DV Dir/S’play Eva Cvijanovic
ProdEva Cvijanovic, Ivan Ramadan E eva.toons@gmail.com
A film that explores our relationship with things, places and
people when forced to leave what we consider home.
TAKHABOT
Country Lebanon RT 6 mins Director/S’play/DoP Ghassan
Halawani P/S Kinda Hassan E kinda.h@eka3productions.com
Intense feelings reflecting political chaos.
PRAYERS FOR PEACE
Country USA RT 8 mins Director/Screenplay Dustin Grella
DoP Arthur Grella Producer Dustin Grella, Matt Israel Cast
Devin Grella P/S Dustin Grella E email@dustystudio.org
Pastels on a slate chalkboard underscore life’s impermanence
as the artist confronts the memory of his brother killed in Iraq.
THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE
Country USA RT 5 mins Director/Producer/Screenplay
Gerald Guthrie Email gguthrie@illinois.edu
The human conflict between basic physical requirements and
the need for culture.
KITTEH KITTEH TRIPLE FEATURE: CATZILLA, THE TAIL
RUNNER, CATZILLA & FATAL DANGER
Country UK RT 2 mins Director Sam Lanyon Jones
Producer Tom Atkinson DoP Andy Hague Print Source Sam
Lanyon Jones Email tokyoplastic2@hotmail.com
In these micro-epics from the directors at tokyoplastic we
journey into the dreams of a little kitten and reveal the true
nature of sleeping cats everywhere
152
TALES FROM THE AFTERNOW: LITTLE ROCKS
Canada RT 12 mins Dir David T Krupicz E info@rantradio.com
From a bunker a hooded figure tells the story of his life.
DANNY BOY
Country Switzerland/Poland RT 10 mins Director/S’play
Marek Skrobecki DoP Andrezej Jaroszewicz Producer Luc
Toutounghi, Zbigniew Zmudzki Cast Jisele Rime, Sylviane Tille
P/S Luc Toutounghi E luc.toutounghi@archangelfilmgroup.ch
In a world that seems lost, a young poet falls in love.
NIGHT MUSIC
Country UK RT 13 mins Dir/S’play Paul Jacques Prod Jill
Bryan DoP Charlotte Knowles E jacquespaul@fsmail.net
Sailors, prostitutes, incest, alchemy and murder.
FUSE
Country UK RT 30 mins Dir/S’play Benjamin Barfoot DoP
Sophie Penwill Producer Lee Wade Cast Robin Mayes, Jack
Bailey, Hilary Catherine Gillespie E lee@coppercircle.co.uk
A dark and epic tale of one man’s panicked awakening to an
empty city he can’t remember.
INDEX OF FILMS
-C- 98, 139
32nd December 81
9:06 80
The Actress Who Fell in Love with
Herself 55, 139
Alive 82
All I Ever Wanted: The Airborne Toxic
Event Live from the Walt… 62
American Grindhouse 63
Annie Goes Boating 140
Anti-Chaos 106
Any Little Thing 142
Arithmetic – Annie’s Life in Numbers 142
Armless 116
Article 38, 143
Autumn Adagio 104
The Awakening 145
Bad Call 146
Barber’s Dozen 151
Bedways 64
The Beekeeper 140
Big Day of Fishing 143
The Bird of Tamworth 151
Bo 83
Boxer 149
Boys on the Run 105
Bring Me Up 106
Bro 142
Bunky Echo Hawk – Profile of
a Proactive Artist 151
Camp Victory, Afghanistan 126
Cannibal 84
Cato in Wonderland 128, 139
Charlie and the Rabbit 149
The Chronoscope 144
Climber 106
Close to Home 138
Clown Showdown 138
Conformists 147
The Cutting Tradition: Insights into
Female Genital Mutilation 127
Danny Boy 152
Days of Harvest 85
Dear Friend 138
Deeper Than Yesterday 147
Diploma 148
Dirty Diaries 65
Disappearance 143
Do Elephants Pray? 52
Donoma 76
Dreamland 138
The Extraordinary Dreams of the
Extraordinary Girl 138
Extraordinary Toys 138
Fatum 138
Five Daughters 53
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Flooding with Love for the Kid 117
Fly 150
Freight 54
Frog in the Well 144
Fuse 152
Gathering 106
Getting Dressed 106
The Gift of the Magi 106
Give Your Ordinary Something Extra 138
The Golden Boy 141
The Goldfish 138
Googuri Googuri 106
The Grand Falls 149
Guerrilla Garden 149
Guided Tour 142
The Hairy Hands 152
Halkke 9 52, 139
Happiness Is Hate Therapy 150
Happy Pills 149
Helena from the Wedding 118
Here I Am 92
Hi! Otsuka Drugstore 106
Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry: The Life and
Times Of Norman K Collins 66
Hortum 144
How Green Was Our Valley 131
Huge 55
I Am a Fat Cat 150
I Believe in Angels 86
I Luv Matt Johnson 148
In the Meadow 140
Incredibly Small 119
Interlude 146
Into the West 47
The Invigilator 148
Iron Doors 87
Jackboots on Whitehall 56
K Citizen 145
Karma – A Very Twisted Love Story 140
Kinbaku – Art of Bondage 144
Kino Karavan 88
Kitteh Kitteh Triple Feature: Catzilla,
Tail Runner, Fatal Danger 152
L.A. Zombie 67
La Playa 147
The Lady with the Dog 145
The Lake Effect 120
The Last Cut 151
Latitude Chase 146
Legacy 57
Lights Out 77
LIN 150
Look at What the Light Did Now 68
Lost and Found 108
Lost Girl 109
Lovers of Hate 121
Lummox 58
Lunar Child 110
Macho 98
Man in a Shell 144
Man in the Road 143
Manhattan 4:33pm 138
Marieke, Marieke 89
Meet Pursuit Delange 146
Mike 360 138
Missed Connections 146
Moustachette 150
Mr Bradley Mr Martin Hear Us Through
the Hole in Thin Air 138
Mudvayne: Nexus, Life, Death 145
The Muskrat Boy of Griffith Park 142
My Flesh My Blood 90
My Neighbour Totoro 49
Natural Selection 141
Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind 43
The Necessities of Life 152
New Digs 152
Night Music 152
Nightrunner 91
No Place Like Home 139
Noreen 149
Off the Rails: An Extraordinary Journey 139
Offspring 142
Ollie Kepler’s Expanding Purple World 59
On Holiday 122
On Stony Ground 151
Once Upon a Many Times 152
One Foot on the Ground 151
The Opera Singer 144
Origin 146
Papa 106
Passengers 147
The Pick Up 139
The Pool 147
Popping Round 146
Prayers for Peace 152
The Price We Pay 138
Product 71, 139
The Professionals 148
Pure Asia 111
Question in Details 92
The Quickest Way to Get Over Your
Depression 138
Radio Girl (Underground Melody) 74, 139
Rebels Without a Clue 60
Red Shoes 146
Reign of Death 143
Retreat 140
Ribbon 85, 139
The Road Home 148
Robert Mitchum Is Dead 78
Rouge Ciel 128
Learn Spanish
Royalty Free 148
A Serbian Film 93
Shadows of Silence 147
Shake It 139
Siege of the End Hill Farm 134, 139
Sign Language 146
Silent Things 140
Skylight 132, 139
Slackistan 99
Sometimes the Underdog Wins 139
Somewhere Never Traveled 120, 139
Son Of Babylon 100
The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical 129
Sounds Like a Revolution 69
St Christophorus: Roadkill 143
Stalker 146
Stanley Pickle 141
Still 150
Stolen 130
Storage 141
Sunday Punch 143
Superstonic Sound: The Rebel Dread 70
Swansea Love Story 71
Syd 149
Symbol 72
Takhabot 152
Tales from the Afternow: Little Rocks 152
The Terms 148
There Once Was an Island 131
This Way of Life 132
The Toll 102
Too Much Pussy: Feminist Sluts in
the Queer X Show 73
Transparent 140
Trash 94
Treasure of the Black Jaguar 123
Tree of Forgetting 151
Unearthing the Pen 151
The Unquiet Mind – Euphorial 139
USB 112
Vacation! 124
The Vice Guide to Liberia 133
The Story of My Space 101
Vampires 96
Watching 141
We Are the Mods 74
When Life Gives You Lemons 149
When The Hurlyburly’s Done 143
When The World Breaks 134
With Anchovies Without Mama 145
The Woman Who Stole Fingers 106
The Woman with a Broken Nose 95
Yellow Kid 113
Yotsuya Alpha Beta 106
Yuriko’s Aroma 114
Zymotic Amaurosis: Contagious… 138
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From the Gulf to Japan…
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