1. SHORT FILM: WAR PAINT- Drama (3.38 mins) World Premiere ...
Heather Philips (director)
Sara Taghaode (producer)
Heather Philips (writer)
'War Paint' is a simple story which asks its audience to explore much larger themes and world issues. A woman applies her make up while listening to 'Just a thought', her favourite morning radio program, but why is she putting on this make up? For men? For power? For herself? Shot as one continuous shot from extreme close up to wide, 'War Paint' is a visually stimulating film that is sure to get audiences thinking about the big issues.
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2. SHORT FILM: LASH - Animation (5.30 mins) Sydney Premiere ...
Elka Kerkhofs (director/writer/editor)
Karen Maxwell (producer)
Kylie Plunkett (DOP)
Beth Nelson (Camera)
A live action animation exploring an inner life. Celina falls in the water. “What if you live your whole life in one day and that day is today?” By her touch she sees into another lifetime where a woman she has stumbled across on the beach was her lover … but they died for their love. She now has a chance to heal the past and find peace.
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3. SHORT FILM: IDENTITY IN MOTION - Documentary (9 mins) World Premiere ...
Martha Goddard (producer/director)
Gwen Sputore (Editor)
What happens when an innovative contemporary dancer decides to become an academic authority in editing? Karen Pearlman is a dynamic, intuitive authority on rhythm and life… so wonderfully devoted to blending life and dance that she performed on stage nine months pregnant in a pink silk dress. So why is Karen now a self proclaimed retired dancer? Is that the price of academia? Or motherhood? What’s next?
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4. SHORT FILM: WARNING IT MAY CONTAIN SUBTITLES - Drama (10 mins) World Premiere ...
Dinka Bonelle Dzubur (producer/editor)
Jasna Krsmanovic (Director / Writer / Editor)
‘Warning: It may contain subtitles’ is a black comedy, sweet and sad at the same time as it is sardonic and funny. It explores the notion of attraction, identity and belonging. Ana is a beautiful, ambitious and intelligent artist who speaks no English. As to newcomer to Sydney, she agrees to meet a blind date. Their meeting over coffee is an awkward encounter …but her fortunes retrieved when she meets a man who instantly grabs her attention.
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5. SHORT FILM: NECESSARY GAMES - NECESSITY - Dance (8 mins) Sydney Premiere ...
Sophie Hyde, Ingrid Voorendt (producers)
Sophie Hyde, Ingrid Voorendt (directors)
Created in collaboration with and featuring performers, Kyra Kimpton and Dana Nance of Restless Dance Theatre. A game between two girls eternally bound together as they trace their loves onto the walls of their room and try to get below the surface. Winner of Best Short Film at the South Australian Screen Awards 2009.
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6. SHORT FILM: DANCING THROUGH THE PAIN - Documentary (3.49 mins) Australian Premiere ...
Ebony Butler ( Producer/Director/Editor)
For more than twenty years Northern Uganda was victim to one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world. Countless numbers of people were brutalized and killed, one million people were displaced and 30,000 women and children abducted and forced to become child soldiers and sex slaves to the LRA (Lords Resistance Army). Nothing can remove the scars of the past, but song and dance is one way that helps people to relieve their pain and suffering. This documentary introduces three of Jseph Kony’s abductees who are currently undergoing rehabilitation at ‘Friends of Orphans Uganda’.
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7. SHORT FILM: TERROR ON THE NORTHSIDE - Comedy (12.45 mins) World Premiere ...
Venetia Taylor (Director / Producer / Writer)
Daniel Prypchan (Producer)
Aaron Dries (Director)
A 'comedy of embarrassment,' a satire on casual racism, and the desire to accept but not understand. Annabel and Mike, university students in their 20s, arrive at Annabel’s family home to announce their engagement to her Sydney North Shore parents. Annabel fears the worst. It turns out Harold and Marg are terribly interested in Mike’s Muslim background, and a nightmare of misunderstanding ensues.
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8. SHORT FILM: JACOB - Drama (11 mins) AUS ...
Rhea Stephenson (Producer)
Dena Curtis (Director / Writer)
Tania Nehne (Editor)
A tense drama set in the middle of the outback in Central Australia in the 1940’s. The men work far from home for much of the time. Gina, a young Aboriginal mother finds herself in a predicament when her husband Max returns home and learns the truth about baby Jacob.
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9. SHORT FILM: FOUR - Award Winning Comedy (17.46 mins) AUS ...
Zyra McAuliffe (Producer)
Erin White (Director / Writer)
Free love, friendship, family and fondue. It's 1974 and two couples with troubled marriages meet in a quiet Australian suburb. Vincent and Penelope have been unsuccessfully trying to have a baby for years; and Kit and Diana are bound up in a cycle of miscommunication and disconnectedness. The four suddenly find themselves embroiled in a sexual revolution. Together. fOUR explores the issue of unconventional families. fOUR shows that love doesn't always work as it should, sometimes it just works.
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