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YOURYOUR CLASSCLASS STARTSSTARTS FEBFEB SAE.EDU.AUSAE.EEDU.AUDU.AU | 18001180800 723723 33833338 of great short film across the country, and I would also like to extend an enormous watching audiences warmly embrace the thanks to our major government partner inspiring art of short filmmaking. Screen who supports both our festival, and the national tour, and As Australia’s leading Academy® who has been a continuous source of accredited short film festival, the shorts encouragement as we strive to deliver our in competition at Flickerfest are fiercely vision of providing a platform that nurtures vying for a number of prestigious prizes and supports Australian Filmmakers, and including the Flickerfest Award for Best in turn provides Australian audiences with International Short Film, the Yoram Gross access to inspirational storytelling from Award for Best International Animation, their own backyard and beyond. the Virgin Australia Award for Best Australian Short Film, and the Flickerfest To all our partners who are acknowledged Award for Best Documentary. Plus a host in this programme, I am extremely grateful Bronwyn Kidd of other hotly contested prizes which for the essential and ongoing support FESTIVAL DIRECTOR recognise the various craft areas inherent they provide. We thank them enormously in making a great short film. for their belief in us, which assists us in maintaining Flickerfest as one of the best Welcome to the 27th Flickerfest 2018 brings over 22 different short short film competitions in the world. International Short Film Festival. As we film programmes across the 10- move forward into another film filled day festival season. We are proud to Behind the scenes, the many talents of the and jam packed festival, I am thrilled announce that due to the outstanding extremely hardworking Flickerfest team that Flickerfest continues to be the most home grown talent and creativity bring Flickerfest to life. My enormous influential dedicated short film event on received this year, we will be screening thanks and appreciation must go to the Australian landscape. 7 Australian competitive programmes Festival Tour/Production Manager Shane Flickerfest continues its proud tradition of in addition to the 5 international and 2 Rennie, Festival Program Manager bringing world-class short films to Bondi documentary programmes, which make Lies Bruines, Festival coordinator Amy Pavilion, celebrating and uncovering the up our Academy qualifying short film Hoogenboom Production Coordinator most talented filmmakers the world and competitions. Alongside these competitive Tatiana Velasco, Industry and Jury Liaison Australia has to offer. programmes our youngest filmmakers Leigh Russell, Marketing coordinator Lisa duke it out in SAE FlickerUp, our national Audus and Festival Assistants Fabienne The Flickerfest team and special schools and youth competition, an exciting Neff and Assistant Betty Russ. And last but selection committee watched and peek at the cinema stars of tomorrow! not least our Director of Projection Alan reviewed over 2500 entries from across Butterfield, and projectionist Anthony Yeo. the globe, of which just over 100 will The Best Of shorts is be officially screened in competition; back to showcase the best shorts from Short film continues to excite and thrill confirming that Flickerfest continues the EU in partnership with The European me year after year, and I still strongly to attract the latest in cutting edge Union Delegation To Australia; FlickerKids believe shorts are the perfect vehicle for shorts from the world’s most exciting promises a delightful programme for the our latest generation of storytellers to and innovative emerging filmmakers for young and the young at heart; Love Bites, cut their teeth and express the stories our Academy Accredited® and BAFTA a romp through the quirky world of modern at the heart of who we are. Every year recognised shorts competition. relationships is perfect for date night and I am moved, surprised and inspired Short Laughs takes you on a hilarious by the films raising the bar for what is The uniting force among the shorts journey from the weird to the wonderful. considered “the best” in short film. The screening at the 2018 Flickerfest Festival imagination and creativity showcased This year as Australia finally introduces is their ability to push the conventions of throughout Flickerfest highlights the role gay marriage we are also thrilled to film and narrative to deliver surprising, of short film as being at the centrepiece celebrate amazing LGBTQI films from exciting and groundbreaking results of innovation and creativity in global around the world in our Rainbow Shorts across animation, documentary and every cinema today. genre in between. celebration curated by Craig Boreham. I welcome you to experience the best in Presenting an International festival Once Flickerfest wraps up its 10-day short cinema at Bondi and across Australia considered among the best in the world celebration of short film in Bondi, we this summer, as Flickerfest celebrates 27 is made possible by the generous support pack up all the highlights from the years. ‘Now That’s A Short Film!’ festival and hit the road on our 50+ venue of our major sponsors SAE Creative Bronwyn Kidd national tour. It has been a joy to see Institute, Virgin Australia Inflight, Canon Festival Director Flickerfest extend its reach as the home and Screen NSW.

NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 1 27TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM AND SESSION TIMES DAY 10am 2pm 4.30pm 6.30pm 8:45pm

Festival Opening FRI 12 Highlights & Party

Best of Best of Best of SAT 13 International 1 Australian 1 Australian 2

Best of Best of Best of SUN 14 Australian 3 International 2 Australian 4

Best of Best of MON 15 International 3 Australian 5

FlickerKids Best of Best of Best of TUE 16 (ages 6–12) Documentary 1 Documentary 2 Australian 6

Best of Best of WED 17 International 4 Australian 7

Best of THU 18 Best of EU1 Love Bites International 5

Short Laughs FRI 19 FlickerLab (10am – 5pm) Love Bites (Repeat) Comedy 1

FlickerUp School Shorts Rainbow Shorts SAT 20 Best of EU 2 Short Laughs Comedy 2 Competition LGBTQ+ Final

Closing Night Short Laughs Comedy 1 Awards, Winning SUN 21 (Repeat) Highlights & After Party 7.15 for 7.45

2 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! SPECIAL EVENT OPENING NIGHT

FRIDAY 12 JANUARY 2018 7.45PM FOR 8.15PM

A fantastic night of films and fun under the stars. Join us for a selection of festival highlights, to give you a wonderful introduction to the 2018 season. Then kick up your heels at our fabulous After Party at the Flickerfest bar on the upstairs terrace, overlooking the beach and toast the home of great short film, now in its 27th year.

TICKET PRICE INCLUDES SCREENING & WELCOME A CATERED PARTY AND 7.45PM FOR 8.15PM START ENTERTAINMENT AT THE AFTER PARTY FLiCKERFEST BAR. 10.30PM – LATE

OPENING NIGHT HIGHLIGHTS

DURATION: 69 mins

AN IMAGINED CONVERSATION: MARTHA THE MONSTER KANYE WEST & STEPHEN Australia / 15min / 2017 HAWKING WRI/DIR: Christopher Weekes / 7min / 2017 PROD: Jamie Hilton, Michael Pontin WRI/DIR/PROD: Sol Friedman In an upside-down world where PROD: Sol Friedman, humans live alongside monsters, Sarah Clifford-Rashotte Martha, a 20-something furry, is having Over a Chinese food picnic at the a major crisis. beach, Stephen Hawking and Kanye NSW PREMIERE West discuss Dance moves, Drake and the art of Divination. WHO’S WHO IN MYCOLOGY AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Czech Republic, USA / 16min / 2016 WRI: Micah Schaffer, Marie Dvorakova, SECOND BEST Tony Hendra Australia / 20min / 2017 DIR: Marie Dvorakova WRI: Alyssa McClelland, Simone PROD: Marta Kuchynkova, Marie Moessinger Dvorakova, Milan Kuchynka DIR: Alyssa McClelland A young trombone player spends an PROD: Daisy Bray adventurous night trying to open an ‘Second Best’ is a dark comedy about impossible bottle of wine. the power of identical twin sisters AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE and the invisible, unbreakable bond that binds them, no matter what might try and break them. WORLD PREMIERE

WREN BOYS / 11min / 2017 WRI: John Fitzpatrick, Harry Lighton DIR: Harry Lighton PROD: Sorcha Bacon On the day after Christmas, a FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: An Imagined Catholic priest from Cork drives his Conversation: Kanye West & Stephen nephew to prison. Hawking, Martha The Monster, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Who’s Who in Mycology

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4 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! FESTIVAL INFORMATION

Catch some of the most innovative, provocative and wildly entertaining short films the world has to offer at Australia’s leading Academy® Accredited and BAFTA recognised short film festival. Now in its 27th year, Flickerfest is the home of great short film. – Over 150 spectacular short films under the stars – Glam Opening Night and Closing Night Parties – Panoramic Pop Up Beach Bar

SCREENING IN 2018 SPECIAL EVENTS

IN COMPETITION: OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 12 JANUARY Highlights screening INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS* 7:45pm for 8:15pm AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILMS* After party 10:30pm – late DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM* CLOSING NIGHT SUNDAY 21JANUARY ALL ACADEMY® ACCREDITED COMPETITIONS Awards and screening 7:15pm for 7:45pm start + PLUS Awards and screening 10.30pm – late Celebrate the end of the festival at RAINBOW SHORTS - Celebrating marriage equality the Closing Night and Awards FLiCKERUP – National School Students and Youth Competition Ceremony. A selection of the festival’s award-winning films will be screened, ENJOY THE EVER POPULAR SHORT FILM SHOWCASES INCLUDING: followed by music and drinks at the Flickerfest Bar. EU IN AUSTRALIA – the best short films on offer from the European Union SHORT LAUGHS – our comedy program that will have you in stitches FLiCKERLAB FRIDAY 19 JANUARY 10.00am to 5.00pm LOVE BITES – films about love and relationships A one-day journey from shorts to And FLiCKERKIDS – short films suitable for children aged features – includes workshops and 6-12 years and for the young at heart! interviews with directors, producers, *Highlights of these programmes hit the road on our 50+ venue national tour from January - May 2018 writers, development agencies and distributors and marketing experts.

TICKETS BOOKINGS FOOD AND BAR We serve delicious organic food and SEASON PASS $170 / $155 ^ Tickets available at beverages at the Flickerfest bar, 10 SESSION PASS $130 / $120 ^ flickerfest.com.au upstairs in the Bondi Pavilion. The bar 3 SESSION PASS $55 / $50 ^ Limited number of tickets may will be open daily before each session SESSION TICKET $20 / $18 be available from the box office and into the night. FLiCKERLAB $40 / $35 daily but bookings advised. FLiCKERKIDS and FLiCKERUP PARKING & TRANSPORT Flickerfest is an all weather event. $8 Kids / $12 Adults / $30 Family of 4 All day metered parking is available in OPENING NIGHT SCREENING + the beach parking area; limited meter AFTER PARTY $65 / $60 parking is available in nearby streets; CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING + some unmetered parking also available AFTER PARTY $50 / $45 * a short walk from the Pavilion. ^ (Excludes opening and closing nights & workshops) * Ticket price includes food, organic beverages and Enjoy your visit car-free with a train to entertainment. (Includes GST. Booking fees not Bondi Junction and catch the 333, 380 included.) All sessions approx. 100 minutes long & rated 15+ except FlickerKids and FlickerUp. or 381 bus to the door; or ride a bike!

NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 5 BEST OF INTERNATIONAL

Five sessions of the best international short films in competition. Be uplifted, inspired and moved by the next generation of the world’s most talented filmmakers, Academy® Accredited.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 1 THE WORLD IN YOUR WINDOW SATURDAY 13 JAN 4:30PM / 15min / 2017 WRI: Zoe McIntosh, Costa Botes DURATION: 117 MINS DIR: Zoe McIntosh PROD: Hamish Mortland AN IMAGINED CONVERSATION: Eight-year-old Jesse lives in a KANYE WEST & STEPHEN HAWKING twilight world of sadness and silence, Canada / 7min / 2017 squeezed into a tiny caravan with his WRI/DIR: Sol Friedman grief stricken father. PROD: Sol Friedman, NSW PREMIERE Sarah Clifford-Rashotte Over a Chinese food picnic at the WATU WOTE (ALL OF US) beach, Stephen Hawking and Kanye / 22min / 2017 West discuss Dance moves, Drake WRI: Julia Drache and the art of Divination. DIR: Katja Benrath AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Tobias Rosen For almost a decade Kenya has been FIVE BY FIVE targeted by terrorist attacks of the United Kingdom / 25min / 2017 Al-Shabaab. WRI: Cat Jones, Lee Coan, Namdi AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Khan, Selina Lim, Nathaniel Price DIR: Kate Herron WHO’S WHO IN MYCOLOGY PROD: Dean Byfield Czech Republic, / In a bustling metropolis of millions, 16min / 2016 young Ash is lost. Then a chance WRI: Micah Schaffer, Marie Dvorakova, encounter leads him to make a Tony Hendra dangerous decision which begins a DIR: Marie Dvorakova chain reaction of events. PROD: Marta Kuchynkova, Marie Dvorakova, Milan Kuchynka WREN BOYS A young trombone player spends an United Kingdom / 11min / 2017 adventurous night trying to open an WRI: John Fitzpatrick, Harry Lighton impossible bottle of wine. DIR: Harry Lighton AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Sorcha Bacon On the day after Christmas, a Catholic priest from Cork drives his nephew to prison. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

DÖDA FARMOR (KILLING GRANDMA) / 21min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Lars Vega Persson PROD: Isabelle Björklund It’s the 90’s and two young girls are practicing for QuakeCon. When they are forced to spend time with one of the girls' grandmother, they discover From top to bottom: An Imagined that she is a world-weary woman of Conversation: Kanye West & Stephen strong will. Hawking, Five By Five, The World In WORLD PREMIERE Your Window, Watu Wote (All Of Us)

6 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 2 DEKALB ELEMENTARY SUNDAY 14 JAN 6:30PM United States / 20min / 2017 DURATION: 120MINS WRI/DIR/PROD: Reed Van Dyk PROD: Cory Desrosiers, Reed Van Dyk, Christopher Leavins, Enrique Diaz, THE CANNONBALL WOMAN Morgan Peteron, Ricardo Ramirez Switzerland / 14min / 2017 Inspired by an actual 911 call placed WRI: Germano Zullo during a school shooting incident in DIR: Albertine Zullo, David Toutevoix Atlanta, Georgia. PROD: Claude Barras, Jérôme NSW PREMIERE Duc-Maugé, Maral Mohammadian, Marianne Chazelaz, Michael VIOLA, FRANCA Fukushima, Maxime Fossier , 16min / 2016 Madeleine the Human Cannonball and WRI: Marta Savina, Andrea Brusa her husband are carnies. Their lives, DIR: Marta Savina like their show, seem to be perfectly PROD: Gregory J.Rossi, under control. Tatiana Vecchio, Marta Savina AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Sicily, 1965. 17 year old Franca attracts the attention of young made- CALAMITY man Filippo Melodia. When Franca Belgium / 20min / 2017 rejects him, Filippo resorts to violence, WRI/DIR: Séverine De Streyker, kidnapping and raping her. Maxime Feyers AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Maxime Feyers meets her son’s girlfriend for BONBONÉ the first time. She loses control... Palestine, Lebanon / 15min / 2017 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Rakan Mayasi A Palestinian couple resorts to an TÉMOINS (WITNESSES) unusual way to conceive as the France / 29min / 2017 husband is detained in an Israeli jail WRI/DIR: David Koch where visits are restricted. PROD: Lucie Moreau, Gaetan AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Rousseau, Pierre Cazenave Stéphane, a freelance war FERN photographer, is covering the United Kingdom / 6min / 2017 Syrian conflict. She follows the daily WRI/DIR: Johnny Kelly existence of a young couple: Farah, a PROD: Greet Kallikorm schoolteacher, and Omar, a doctor. A woman loses her husband, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE and finds a potted plant. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

From top to bottom: The Cannonball Woman, Viola, Franca, Témoins (Witnesses), Fern

NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 7 BEST OF INTERNATIONAL CONTINUED

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 3 ACROSS MY LAND MONDAY 15 JAN 6:30PM United States / 15min / 2016 WRI: Fiona Godivier, Thymaya Payne DURATION: 114 MINS DIR: Fiona Godivier PROD: Adrian Salpeter, NÉHÁNY SZÓ (JUST A FEW WORDS) Elizabeth Levine, Michael Tubbs, / 8min / 2017 Joaquin Phoenix, Fiona Godivier DIR: László Csáki Arizona 2016, the portray of an PROD: Péter Csornay, Miklós Kázmér, American family at the Mexican Zoltán Hidvégi border. “… it might not have been a question AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE of right and wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right DOLPHIN results, and vice versa.” / 28min / 2017 –Murakami Haruki WRI: Laurits Munch-Petersen, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Pernille Andersen DIR: Laurits Munch-Petersen AYA Anna takes her 7-years old son Tunisia / 24min / 2017 Robert to the beach to finish his WRI/DIR: Moufida Fedhila swimming course, the Dolphin, but PROD: Antonio Magliano, Mehdi Hmili, something is terribly wrong and Issam Saidi Anna needs to face reality. In Tunis lives Aya, a smart little girl, WORLD PREMIERE with her Salafist parents. But one day a special event disrupts the life of this WAVE family. Ireland / 14min / 2017 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Benjamin Cleary DIR: TJ O’Grady Peyton PÉPÉ LE MORSE PROD: Rebecca Bourke (GRANDPA WALRUS) A man wakes from a coma speaking France / 15min / 2017 a fully formed but unrecognizable WRI/DIR: Lucrèce Andreae language, baffling linguistic experts PROD: Jérôme Barthélemy, from around the globe. Daniel Sauvage NSW PREMIERE On the windy and cloudy beach, Granny is praying, Mum is shouting, the sisters don’t care, Lucas is alone. Grandpa was a weird guy, now he’s dead. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

KONTROLL (CONTROL) Norway / 13min / 2016 WRI/DIR: Henning Rosenlund PROD: Maria Ekerhovd, Ragna Nordhus Midtgard From top to bottom: NÉHÁNY SZÓ In an attempt to control her life, (Just A Few Words), Pépé Le Morse Tina begins to routinely film herself. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE (Grandpa Walrus), Aya, Wave

8 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 4 FACING MECCA WEDNESAY 17 JAN 6:30PM Switzerland / 25min / 2017 DURATION: 119 MINS WRI: Jan-Eric Mack, Anna Schinz DIR: Jan-Eric Mack SOG PROD: Joel Jent Germany / 10min / 2017 Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed’s WRI: Jonatan Schwenk, Merlin Flügel assistance when the Syrian refugee DIR/PROD: Jonatan Schwenk is faced with the burial of his Muslim After a flood, some fish got stuck in wife. old trees. In danger of drying-out AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE they scream sharply. Woken up by the noise, the inhabitants of a nearby cave UGLY don’t feel happy about the unintended Germany / 12min / 2017 gathering. WRI: Nikita Diakur, Redbear AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Easterman DIR/PROD: Nikia Diakur IT’S COMPLICATED An ugly cat struggles to coexist in South Africa / 17min / 2017 a fragmented and broken world, WRI: Kelvin Wong eventually finding a soulmate in a DIR: Grant De Sousa mystical chief. PROD: Justin Cohen, Tyrone Rubin, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Alan Lawson When lonely Andy invites a girl whom ZŁE UCZYNKI (EVIL DEEDS) he met online to his apartment, he / 24min / 2016 falls head-over-heels for her despite WRI/DIR: Piotr Domalewski his flatmate Nigel’s repeated attempts PROD: Jerzy Łukaszewicz to point out her seemingly obvious Max - the ten-year-old son of a flaw. hospital cleaner has been caught AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE trying to steal a patient’s wallet. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE HEYVAN (ANIMAL) Iran / 16min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Bahman Ark, Bahram Ark PROD: Iranian National School of Cinema A man who wants to pass the border, disguises himself as a ram. NSW PREMIERE

A DROWNING MAN Denmark / 15min / 2017 WRI/DIR/PROD: Mahdi Fleifel PROD: Patrick Campbell, Signe Byrge Sørensen Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through From top to bottom: Ugly, SOG, his day. It's Complicated, Facing Mecca NSW PREMIERE

NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 9 BEST OF INTERNATIONAL CONTINUED

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 5 COMPARTMENTS THURSDAY 18 JANUARY 4:30PM Germany, / 15min / 2017 WRI: Daniella Koffler DURATION: 108 MINS DIR: Daniella Koffler, Uli Seis Netta, a young Israeli woman wishes SARAUJ, JUST! (JUST GO!) to immigrate to Berlin. Her father, the Latvia / 11min / 2017 son of Holocaust survivors, is horrified WRI: Laura Lapina, Pavel Gumennikov by her decision to live in the land that DIR/PROD: Pavel Gumennikov killed her ancestors. Inspired by the incredible true story AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE about a young man JUST (24), who lost both of his legs in a childhood accident LE SCÉNARISTE (THE and who is in love with the girl next SCREENWRITER) door - IEVA (23). Belgium / 27min / 2017 WRI/DIR: François Paquay LES BIGORNEAUX (THE WINKLES) PROD: Gregory Zalcman, Alan Knoll, France / 24min / 2017 François Paquay, Xavier Diskeuve WRI: Clémence Madeleine-Perdrillat, To finish his script, Jonas is ordered Alice Vial by his producer to work with a DIR: Alice Vial talented Parisian scriptwriter, whose PROD: Jonathan Hazan arrival at his home affects his life in In Brignogan-Plages, Zoé ( 30), works unimaginable ways. with her father, Guy, at his bar “Les AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Bigorneaux”. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

WEEKENDS United States / 15min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Trevor Jimenez PROD: Jeremy Slome Weekends is the story of a young boy shuffling between the homes of his recently divorced parents. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

U PLAVETNILO (INTO THE BLUE) Croatia / 22min / 2017 WRI: Christina Lazaridi DIR: Antoneta Alamat KusijanoviÐ PROD: Zoran Dåeverdanoviü Thirteen year old Julija and her mother flee their abusive household to find refuge on an idyllic Croatian island where Julija grew up. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

From top to bottom: Les Bigorneaux (The Winkles), Compartments, U Plavetnilo (Into The Blue), Le Scénariste (The Screenwriter)

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NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 11 BEST OF AUSTRALIAN

Seven sessions of the best Australian short films in competition. Our homegrown talent battle it out for the prestigious Academy® Accredited Award for best Australian Short Film.

AUSTRALIAN PROGRAM 1 RED INK SATURDAY 13 JAN 6:30PM Australia / 13min / 2017 DURATION: 105 MINS WRI: Duncan Graham DIR: Alex Ryan HALFSIES PROD: Kristen Hodges Australia / 8min / 2017 Fearing the wrath of Stalin if he fails, a WRI: Elliot Peck, Bryce Thomas man tries to purchase a packet of SAOs DIR: Bryce Thomas for the dictator at his local supermarket PROD: Millie Sykes, but other shopper’s frustrations set in Brendon Follington motion an unexpected disaster. HALFSIES chronicles Ollie’s SNOW relationship with his slightly younger Australia / 19min / 2017 sister through their text message WRI/DIR: Alex Murawski interactions; unpacking obligations PROD: Rob Coe, Zachary Luke Kislevitz, and social misreadings. WORLD PREMIERE Sam Meikle 11-year-old Sam leaves an injured girl EYE CONTACT in barren snowy farmland. The weight Australia / 9min / 2017 of his departure presses upon him and WRI: Stuart Mannion, Carla Silbert he sets back out to find her before it’s DIR: Stuart Mannion too late. PROD: Naomi Mulholland HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN You will still be able to meet someone Australia / 15min / 2017 in a bar, but will you really connect? NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Anya Beyersdorf PROD: Nicole Coventry THROUGH THE HAZE A single mother living on the fringes of Australia / 11min / 2017 society with her two girls wakes in the WRI/DIR: Kieran Wheeler night with a unique problem – a light, When a hazing ritual at a construction shining from within her – taking over site goes horribly wrong, things her life as it takes over her body. quickly spiral out of control. NSW PREMIERE

BLUE GAMES Australia / 30min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Eugénie Muggleton PROD: Stephanie Westwood A story about a group of women who’ve inherited the wasteland of rural Australia as the coastline went to rot and about the soldiers who visit them for sex. WORLD PREMIERE

From top to bottom: Halfsies, Snow, Red Ink, How The Light Gets In

12 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! AUSTRALIAN PROGRAM 2 TWO BITES SATURDAY 13 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 13min / 2017 WRI: Barb Cromie DURATION: 119 MINS DIR: Jonathan Pease PROD: Jo Austin AFTER ALL Maudie has lived a long eccentric life Australia / 13min / 2016 filled with travel and adventure. As her WRI/DIR: Michael Cusack imminent death approaches, her eager PROD: Richard Chataway children, Peter and Janet, and her After all is said and done… all that is grandchildren, descend on her heirloom left are memories. A man cleans out filled home. his childhood home remembering past WORLD PREMIERE conversations. BROWN LIPS KILL OFF Australia / 13min / 2017 Australia / 16min / 2016 WRI/DIR: Nakkiah Lui WRI/DIR/PROD: Genevieve Clay-Smith Two cousins from 's western PROD: Erin Black, Eleanor Winkler, suburbs decide that the only way to Karen Burdett feel loved, is to turn their back on their American Horror Story’s Jamie family for good. Brewer stars as Sonja, a woman with an intellectual disability who forms an SECOND BEST unlikely friendship with a Sudanese Australia / 20min / 2017 refugee through their mutual love of WRI: Alyssa McClelland, Simone KRUMP. Moessinger NSW PREMIERE DIR: Alyssa McClelland PROD: Daisy Bray BUOY ‘Second Best’ is a dark comedy about Australia / 15min / 2016 the power of identical twin sisters and WRI: Christopher Nelius the invisible, unbreakable bond that DIR: Christopher Nelius, binds them, no matter what might try Justin McMillan and break them. PROD: Andrew McLean, WORLD PREMIERE Justin McMillan In a sleepy coastal town 16 year-old UNDER THE HAMMER Corey arrives late for his last day of Australia / 14mins / 2017 work on a council shark-meshing boat. WRI: Daniel Reisinger, Nicholas Boshier NSW PREMIERE DIR: Daniel Reisinger PROD: Daniel Reisinger, Annie Schutt LET’S SEE HOW FAST THIS BABY A man struggles to stop his beloved WILL GO family home from being sold from Australia / 15min / 2016 under him... WRI/DIR: Julietta Boscolo WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Eva Di Blasio A young woman must negotiate her first car purchase... whilst having her first baby. NSW PREMIERE From top to bottom: After All, Kill Off, Let’s See How Fast This Baby Will Go, Second Best

NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 13 BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED

AUSTRALIAN PROGRAM 3 MIRO – AN AUSTRALIAN WWII FIRST SUNDAY 14 JAN 4:30PM Australia / 24min / 2016 DURATION: 111 MINS WRI/DIR: Victoria Wharfe McIntyre PROD: Fran Dobbie, BONESLAYER Amadeo Marquez-Perez Australia / 6min / 2016 When Miro returns home at the end WRI/DIR: Oliver Ramsay of WWII, he finds his land taken, his PROD: Honeylyn Lisson, daughter stolen, his people relocated Oliver Ramsay and his service record treated with An old man and a stolen dog share an contempt. NSW PREMIERE unlikely kinship in this sweet but sad story of an odd couple. WORLD PREMIERE UNDERCURRENT Australia / 13min / 2017 BEGINNERS WRI/DIR/PROD: Patrick Fileti Australia / 14min / 2017 After a dangerous sea crossing, a young WRI/DIR: Yeoseop Yoon girl faced with tragedy is forced to find PROD: Samantha Lombardo hope. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Sang Kon, a 43-year-old man is isolated and struggles to cope with ST BERNIE his new environment. WORLD PREMIERE Australia / 15min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Elise Tyson WATER PROD: Janine Kaiser Australia / 13min / 2017 When fourteen-year old Bernie is WRI/DIR: John Harvey caught attempting to pleasure herself PROD: Belinda Mravicic whilst holding her meticulously Water is life. And without it, life does compiled “sex bible”, she must convince not exist. her religious mother Frances that she NSW PREMIERE is not a depraved sex addict, but just a teenage girl exploring her sexuality. GIRL OF THE SKY WORLD PREMIERE Australia / 11min / 2017 WRI: Raphael Elisha, Ariel Martin DIR: Ariel Martin PROD: Ariel Martin, Tatiana Shevchuk Dasha, a 15-year-old Ukrainian girl with an unwanted reputation is forced to stand up to her past. WORLD PREMIERE

LITTLE BIRD (PILÈ) Australia / 15min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Tony Radevski PROD: Pete Ireland PILÈ (‘Little Bird’) is a short drama From top to bottom: Boneslayer, that captures a moment in a boy’s life Water, Undercurrent, St Bernie where his masculinity and morality are in opposition, and the life or death of a lizard is in his hands. WORLD PREMIERE

14 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! AUSTRALIAN PROGRAM 4 DAILY BREAD SUNDAY 14 JAN 8.45PM Australia / 17min / 2017 DURATION: 107MINS WRI: Ruby Challenger, Jonathan Wald, Ella Carey LOST PROPERTY OFFICE DIR: Ruby Challenger Australia / 10min / 2017 PROD: Ruby Challenger WRI/DIR: Daniel Agdag In a WWII internment camp in PROD: Liz Kearny Indonesia, Jeanne and a group of Ed is the sole custodian of the Lost Dutch women and children face a Property Office. In many ways, he’s lost daily struggle against abuse, disease as the items he is tasked to look after. and starvation. Meanwhile, the Camp Commandant’s beloved white fluffy cat FYSH is fed fresh juicy meat…. Australia / 13min / 2017 WORLD PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Billie Pleiffer PROD: Rita Walsh MONKEY BUSINESS This is the story of an old man and a Australia / 13min / 2017 fish that changed his life. WRI: Jonathan Cockett NSW PREMIERE DIR: Brad Wilson PROD: Tom Davies, Brad Wilson TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, When Frank, a loyal zoo car park AND TOMORROW attendant of 23 years learns that he’s Australia / 24min / 2016 going to be replaced by baboons, his WRI/DIR: Sunday Emerson Gullifer life is changed forever. PROD: Alexandra George WORLD PREMIERE A complex drama set in the world of a professional theatre company, THE INTENTIONS OF F.SCOTT Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and FITZGERALD tomorrowfollows Lizzie, a working Australia / 17mins / 2017 theatre actor playing Lady Macduff WRI/DIR: Jay Perry, Shaun Perry in a bold and visceral production of PROD: Rhys Sherring Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. The Intentions of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a dark existentialist comedy that follows SMASHED two Australian hitmen on a routine Australia / 13min / 2017 ‘clean up’ job. WRI: Dave Haddin, Sean Lahiff AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Sean Lahiff PROD: Michael Clarkin Fuelled by jealousy, Dean, Ray and Paul kidnap golden boy Christian so Dean can gain the attention of Christian’s girlfriend Jess. The prank soon swerves out of control trapping the youths in a recurring nightmare.

From top to bottom: Fysh, Daily Bread, Lost Property Office, The Intentions of F.scott Fitzgerald

NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 15 BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED

AUSTRALIAN PROGRAM 5 COAT OF ARMS MONDAY 15 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 8min / 2016 DURATION: 112 MINS WRI/DIR: Dylan River PROD: Rachel Clements, GWEN Trisha Morton-Thomas, Nick Lee Australia / 11min / 2017 The spirit of the land keeps secrets a WRI: Naomi Bird modern tourist shouldn’t see. DIR: Candace Wise MOTHER, CHILD PROD: Naomi Bird, Candace Wise A Gwen Stefani doll comes between the Australia / 15min / 2017 friendship of two housemates, Dan and WRI/DIR/PROD: Tin Pang Anthony. Tensions rise and culminate PROD: Sean O’reilly, Andrea Bedelis in a shocking end. Having suffered a recent stroke, WORLD PREMIERE a mother and her adult son are reacquainted and forced to live COOEE together. Australia / 15min / 2017 NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Toby Morris AFTER THE SMOKE PROD: Sam Burnett Four wild girls race through a futuristic Australia / 9mins / 2017 Australia in their electric Holden WRI: Nick Waterman, Commodore, searching for booze, Bertie Blackman drugs and reality. DIR: Nick Waterman WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Melissa Beauford, Nick Waterman THE BABY WHISPERER As if signalling a dark omen, black Australia / 17min / 2017 smoke rises skyward from the huge WRI/DIR: Sean Gilligan chimney. In the background, muted PROD: Lucas Thyer, Caitlin Johnston, sounds can be heard. What is it that Jeff W Tseng makes the people stay in such a Ten-year-old Ruby’s relationship with desolate place? her beloved antique witch doll takes on NSW PREMIERE a sinister dimension when she comes SUPER NICE to believe she can be reunited with her dead mother. Australia / 8min / 2017 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Jack Yabsley PROD: Fiona Pearson ON HOLD In the very nice town of Berrifield, only Australia / 29min / 2017 one person can be the nicest. WRI/DIR: Jake Nielsen WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Alicia Easaw-Mamutil A short film-musical about the choice between following your dreams, and making next week’s rent. WORLD PREMIERE

From top to bottom: Cooee, On Hold, The Baby Whisperer, Mother, Child

16 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! AUSTRALIAN PROGRAM 6 RED TUESDAY 16 JAN 8.45PM Australia / 16min / 2017 DURATION: 118 MINS WRI/DIR: Del Kathryn Barton PROD: Angie Fielder SOMERSAULT PIKE Female power and complexity collides Australia / 7min / 2017 with the innocence of the child, and WRI/DIR: Kate Lefoe primal nature of the spider in a PROD: Honeylyn Lisson surrealist celebration of sex, birth, A competitive diver faces her fears while death and cannibalism. taking on new heights. OUTBREAK GENERATION NSW PREMIERE Australia / 13min / 2017 COLD HEARTS WRI/DIR: Brooke Goldfinch Australia / 18min / 2016 PROD: Leonie Mansfield WRI: Danielle Baynes, Yolanda Ramke In the midst of a global epidemic, DIR: Yolanda Ramke Annie finds herself the sole carer of PROD: April Tafe her eight-year-old Pitted against the harsh terrain of nephew, but he has questions only a Australia’s Snowy Mountains, two mother can answer. colonial women haul a coffin to its final MELON GRAB resting place, only to be confronted with Australia / 10min / 2016 a deadly surprise upon reaching their WRI/DIR: Andrew Lee destination. NSW PREMIERE PROD: Kiki Dillon, Ashlea Ritchie Dysfunctional truth, rap and BLIGHT suspended youth – the final skate Australia / 13min / 2017 between two best friends. WRI/DIR: Perun Bonser YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT TO US PROD: Ryan Hodgson, Melissa Kelly Australia / 15min / 2017 Set in the early 20th century on WRI/DIR: TJ Power Australia’s western frontier, a police PROD: Riley Nottingham, Constable hunts down a band of Kathryn Power dangerous Criminals aided by a young, ‘YOUR CALL’ is a short comedy that female Aboriginal Tracker. confirms our fears about what really REMEMBERING AGATHA goes on at call-centers when we’re Australia / 26min / 2017 asked, ‘Please hold?’ WORLD PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Emma Magenta PROD: Ester Harding The hardest thing about being magical is pretending to be ordinary. NSW PREMIERE

From top to bottom: Somersault Pike, Cold Hearts, Melon Grab, Red

NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 17 BEST OF AUSTRALIAN CONTINUED

AUSTRALIAN PROGRAM 7 LA LICORNE (THE UNICORN) WEDNESDAY 17JAN 8:45PM Australia, France / 11min / 2017 DURATION: 117 MINS WRI/DIR/PROD: Chloé Boreham CO-PROD: Anthony Guilbert MIDNIGHT MAN Sophie and Christophe are on the Australia / 3min / 2016 verge of making love when they are WRI/PROD: Zoë Porter interrupted by a strange phone call, DIR: Toby Burrows which sends their night into disarray. A mysterious tale of unrequited WORLD PREMIERE love & longing. WORLD PREMIERE MEASURING THE JUMP Australia / 14min / 2016 LOCKER ROOM WRI/DIR: Eden Falk Australia / 14min / 2017 PROD: Alex White WRI/DIR: Greta Nash Returning to his hometown to claim PROD: Honeylyn Lisson his inheritance, a young man is caught A 16-year-old girl discovers her between picking up where he left off, best friends, three boys from the or cutting ties altogether. school footy team, have been hiding a WORLD PREMIERE troubling secret from her. NSW PREMIERE GRACE Australia / 15min / 2017 THANKS A LOT DUCHAMP WRI/DIR: Alex Holmes Australia / 19min / 2017 PROD: Kristina Ceyton, Ella Millard WRI: Margot Tasca A teenage girl living in an extreme DIR: Ella Carey Christian sect is driven into PROD: Grace Carey psychological turmoil by her Elders Thanks A Lot Duchamp is an art when she strikes up an innocent lover’s lament about how art once relationship with a boy. required skills and vision but now any WORLD PREMIERE found object can be placed in a gallery and given the same respect and value. MARTHA THE MONSTER WORLD PREMIERE Australia / 15min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Christopher Weekes ORACLE PROD: Jamie Hilton, Michael Pontin Australia / 14min / 2017 In an upside-down world where WRI/DIR: Zohie Castellano humans live alongside monsters, PROD: Ela Furdas Martha, a 20-something furry, is A young girl enters a world of pagan having a major crisis. magic tales where she must master NSW PREMIERE her own volition to find her way home. NSW PREMIERE

LAST DRINKS AT FRIDA’S Australia / 12min / 2017 WRI: Kodie Bedford From top to bottom: Oracle, Locker DIR: Bjorn Stewart Room, Thanks A Lot Duchamp, Last PROD: Lois Randall, Kodie Bedford Drinks At Frida’s A lonely jazz singer and a troubled Indigenous soldier find solace in an underground speak easy, where the rules of the outside world don’t reply.

18 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! SHOW US WHAT’S POSSIBLE AN OPEN BRIEF FOR PERSONAL PROJECTS

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Best of EU Shorts travel around the BAFTA recognised competition screening in Sydney country and Melbourne and for the first time to Perth! We are proud to be partnering with Flickerfest in promoting such an important part of our cultural heritage and even more so because 2018 will be the European Year for Cultural Heritage. For more information follow @EUinAus and #EuropeForCulture.

European film is well-known for its ingenuity, its variety and its long tradition: the first short film ever recorded was the ZŽƵŶĚŚĂLJ'ĂƌĚĞŶ^ĐĞŶĞ in 1888, a silent film by French inventor Louis Le Prince.

The EU Delegation to Australia has partnered with Flickerfest to showcase in 2018 the Best of EU shorts from Flickerfest's Academy Qualifying and European Union in Australia

NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 19 BEST OF DOCUMENTARY

Two sessions of the best international and Australian documentaries in competition, vying for the Flickerfest Award for Best Documentary (Academy® Accredited).

DOCUMENTARY 1 100 WOMEN I KNOW TUESDAY 16JAN 4:30PM United Kingdom / 13min / 2017 DURATION: 110 MINS DIR: Phoebe Montague PROD: Phoebe Montague, A RESTLESS PEACE Grace Campbell Australia / 5min / 2017 An unapologetic short documentary DIR: Krystle Wright telling honest stories of rape from 100 young women I know. PROD: Canon Australia AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australian photographer Stephen Dupont has a fascination with PHENOMENALITY disappearing worlds. With camera in Australia / 13min / 2017 hand he finds veins to mine in war, in DIR: Lucas Jatoba Mexico’s celebration of the Day of the PROD: Wendy Harper, Ric Friar, Dead and in professionals who deal Lucas Jatoba with the deceased. This is the story of a man who AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE drowned… and came back from the EDITH & EDDIE dead to sleep with the world’s most iconic supermodel, Twiggy. United States / 29min / 2017 NSW PREMIERE DIR: Laura Checkoway PROD: Laura Checkoway, THE DISINHERITED Thomas Lee Wright Spain / 19min / 2017 Edith & Eddie, ages 96 and 95, DIR: Laura Ferrés are America’s oldest interracial PROD: Valérie Delpierre newlyweds. Their love story is Pere Ferrés is 53 years old and owns disrupted by a family feud that a small bus company. Lack of money threatens to tear the couple apart. forces him to drive clients who destroy AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE his vehicle to bachelor parties, but he FINDING MAAWIRRANGGA is not prepared to lose his dignity. Australia / 15min / 2017 HELLO SALAAM DIR: Dylan River The / 15min / 2017 PROD: Julia Morris WRI/DIR: Kim Brand Veteran Indigenous Actor Tom E PROD: Renko Douze, Lewis was uprooted from his Arnhem Hasse van Nunen Land home as a teenager. Forty years Sil, ten years old, and Merlijn, eleven, later, he returns to Numbulwar, are about to go on a big journey: they his Grandmother’s country, to re- will visit a refugee camp on the Greek connect with his culture through the island of Lesbos. Murrungun songline. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

From top to bottom: 100 Women I Know, Edith & Eddie, Phenomenality, A Restless Peace

20 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! DOCUMENTARY 2 LITTLE POTATO TUESDAY 16 JAN 6:30PM United States / 14min / 2017 DURATION: 110 MINS WRI/DIR/PROD: Wes Hurley, Nathan Miller DEIGHTIES An autobiographical short about a boy Australia / 8min / 2016 growing up gay in the Soviet Union, DIR: Mason Fleming his mail-order-bride Mum and their adventurous escape to America. PROD: Jessica Lytton AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Having lost his wife 18 months earlier, octogenarian Phil decides that he no AFTER LIFE longer wishes to be alone anymore New Zealand / 16min / 2016 and to embark on a quest to find new DIR/PROD: Prisca Bouchet, love. Nick Mayow NSW PREMIERE An enthralling look inside the hidden THE DRIVER IS RED world of a New Zealand funeral home, United States / 15 min / 2017 After Life explores a unique, enigmatic DIR: Randall Christopher institution, following the men and PROD: Jared Callahan, women who work with the dead Randall Christopher and the delicate ritual of the body’s preparation for its final journey. The Driver is Red tells the captivating AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE true story of Zvi Aharoni and the Israeli secret service team that brought down ONE SHOT one of the most powerful Nazis on Australia / 12 min / 2017 the run. WRI/DIR/PROD: Jo-Anne Brechin AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE One Shot is about Muhumuza whose EUPHORIA family travelled from Uganda to Poland / 16min / 2017 Australia as refugees. It tells the DIR: Natalia Pietsch story of how this humble young PROD: Studio Munka man became the 10 Years National An experienced pet breeder Shot-Put Champion with the support of his local community. introduces a young girl into the world AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE of pet shows. In spite of the utter competition in this milieu, the women try to form a friendship. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

KAYAYO, THE LIVING SHOPPING BASKETS Norway / 30min / 2016 WRI/DIR: Mari Bakke Riise PROD: Jørgen Lorentzen This documentary is about Bamunu, an 8-year old girl who hasn’t seen her family since she was sent away from From top to bottom: home two years ago to work as a Kayayo Deighties, Little (girl-carrier) to support her family. Potato, Euphoria, The Driver Is Red AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 21 BEST OF EU SHORTS

A selection of moving and entertaining shorts from the European Union that captures the diversity and cinematic excellence of Europe.

BEST OF EU SHORTS 1 WAVE THURSDAY 18 JAN 6:30PM Ireland / 14min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Benjamin Cleary DURATION: 102 MINS DIR: TJ O’Grady Peyton PROD: Rebecca Bourke SOG A man wakes from a coma speaking Germany / 10min / 2017 a fully formed but unrecognizable WRI: Jonatan Schwenk, Merlin Flügel language, baffling linguistic experts DIR/PROD: Jonatan Schwenk from around the globe. After a flood, some fish got stuck in old trees. In danger of drying-out A DROWNING MAN they scream sharply. Woken up by Denmark / 15min / 2017 the noise, the inhabitants of a nearby WRI/DIR/PROD: Mahdi Fleifel cave don’t feel happy about the PROD: Patrick Campbell, unintended gathering. Signe Byrge Sørensen AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city WREN BOYS looking for the means to get through United Kingdom / 11min / 2017 his day. WRI: John Fitzpatrick, Harry Lighton NSW PREMIERE DIR: Harry Lighton PROD: Sorcha Bacon FERN On the day after Christmas, a Catholic United Kingdom / 6min / 2017 priest from Cork drives his nephew to WRI/DIR: Johnny Kelly prison. PROD: Greet Kallikorm AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A woman loses her husband, and finds a potted plant. ZŁE UCZYNKI (EVIL DEEDS) AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Poland / 24min / 2016 WRI/DIR: Piotr Domalewski PROD: Jerzy Łukaszewicz Max - the ten-year-old son of a hospital cleaner has been caught trying to steal a patient’s wallet. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

U PLAVETNILO (INTO THE BLUE) Croatia / 22min / 2017 WRI: Christina Lazaridi DIR: Antoneta Alamat KusijanoviDž PROD: Zoran DževerdanoviDž Thirteen year old Julija and her mother flee their abusive household to find refuge on an idyllic Croatian island where Julija grew up. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

From top to bottom: U Plavetnilo (Into The Blue), Wren Boys, A Drowning Man, Złe Uczynki (Evil Deeds)

22 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! BEST OF EU SHORTS 2 WATU WOTE (ALL OF US) SATURDAY 20 JAN 4:30PM Germany / 22min / 2017 DURATION: 103 MINS WRI: Julia Drache DIR: Katja Benrath PROD: Tobias Rosen NÉHÁNY SZÓ (JUST A FEW WORDS) For almost a decade Kenya has been Hungary / 8min / 2017 targeted by terrorist attacks of the DIR: László Csáki Al-Shabaab. PROD: Péter Csornay, Miklós Kázmér, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Zoltán Hidvégi “… it might not have been a question WHO’S WHO IN MYCOLOGY of right and wrong. Which is to say Czech Republic, United States / 16min that wrong choices can produce right / 2016 results, and vice versa.” –Murakami WRI: Micah Schaffer, Marie Dvorakova, Haruki Tony Hendra AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Marie Dvorakova PROD: Marta Kuchynkova, Marie DÖDA FARMOR (KILLING GRANDMA) Dvorakova, Milan Kuchynka Sweden / 21min / 2017 A young trombone player spends an WRI/DIR: Lars Vega Persson adventurous night trying to open an PROD: Isabelle Björklund impossible bottle of wine. It’s the 90’s and two young girls are practicing for QuakeCon. When they are forced to spend time with one of the girls' grandmother, they discover that she is a world-weary woman of strong will. WORLD PREMIERE

VIOLA, FRANCA Italy, 16min / 2016 WRI: Marta Savina, Andrea Brusa DIR: Marta Savina PROD: Gregory J.Rossi, Tatiana Vecchio, Marta Savina Sicily, 1965. 17 year old Franca attracts the attention of young made- man Filippo Melodia. When Franca rejects him, Filippo resorts to violence, kidnapping and raping her. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

From top to bottom: Döda Farmor (Killing Grandma), Viola, Franca, Who’s Who In Mycology, Néhány Szó (Just A Few Words)

NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 23 RAINBOW SHORTS

40 years after the first Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, Australia voted YES! to marriage equality. Flickerfest is celebrating LGBTQI+ stories from around the world in our first ever Rainbow Shorts program curated by award winning queer filmmaker Craig Boreham.

SATURDAY 20 JAN 6:30PM I LIVE HERE DURATION: 103MINS United States / 18min / 2017 WRI/DIR/PROD: Shane Watson In his first weekend of living in the AVEC THELMA (WITH THELMA) place he’s always dreamed of, Stevie is Belgium / 13min / 2017 excited to get out and explore the Bay WRI: Ann Sirot, Raphaël Balboni Area. DIR: Ann Sirot, Raphaël Balboni AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Julie Esparbes An Icelandic volcano has blocked air POP ROX traffic and Thelma’s parents are stuck United States / 14min / 2017 overseas. Until planes start flying WRI: Alyssa Lerner across the sky again, Jean Vincent and DIR: Nate Trinrud Thelma share the same roof. PROD: Benjamin Paulides AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Jesse, an Iranian-American teenage girl, finally decides to tell her best PRE-DRINK friend, Roxanne, that she’s in love Canada / 23min / 2017 with her. WRI/DIR: Marc-Antoine Lemire AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Marc-Antoine Lemire, Maria Gracia-Turgeon LITTLE POTATO Alexe is a young trans woman, and United States / 14min / 2017 CARL a gay man. Best friends since WRI/DIR/PROD: Wes Hurley, forever, an evening spent together Nathan Miller destabilizes ALEXE, when both decide An autobiographical short about a boy to have sex together for the first time. growing up gay in the Soviet Union, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE his mail-order-bride Mum and their adventurous escape to America. WREN BOYS AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE United Kingdom / 11min / 2017 WRI: John Fitzpatrick, Harry Lighton DIR: Harry Lighton PROD: Sorcha Bacon On the day after Christmas, a Catholic priest from Cork drives his nephew to prison. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

PAUPIERE MAUVE (IRIS) Canada / 10min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Gabrielle Demers PROD: Isabelle Kalar Emanuelle is training on her stationary bike but she can’t get her mind off the image of Laura. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE From top to bottom: Avec Thelma (With Thelma), Paupiere Mauve (Iris), Pop Rox, Wren Boys

24 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! LOVE BITES

A quirky short journey through the joys and pitfalls of modern relationships

THURSDAY 18 JAN 8:45PM MADDIE & MARC FRIDAY 19 JAN 6:30PM (REPEAT) Australia / 4min / 2017 DURATION: 103 MINS WRI/DIR: Daniel Flynn Anderson PROD: Benjamin Cotgrove, Daniel Flynn Anderson LA VIE SAUVAGE (WILD LIFE) During a lavish pre-wedding France / 14min / 2017 photoshoot, a neurotic bride is pushed WRI/DIR: Laure Bourdon Zarader to the limit when her childish husband PROD: Alexis Boulanger, Philippe attempts to postpone their impending Ferreira Da Costa, Ethan Selcer nuptials. Arnaud and Nora had a well-ordered WORLD PREMIERE schedule for a perfect weekend: a tour in a wildlife park, pictures with LOSING IT animals, sex, nap and dinner. Australia / 7min / 2017 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Nikki Richardson Hanging out after school one day, a SCHEIDEWEG (TEENAGE teenage girl decides to let her best THREESOME) friend in on a secret. Germany / 4min / 2017 NSW PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Arkadij Khaet One Boy, One Girl and her Stepbrother. HEARTSTRINGS A date goes wrong. Germany / 9min / 2017 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI: Michael Taschek DIR: Sinje Köhler MILES PROD: Vinh-Minh Nguyen, Christophe Australia / 15min / 2017 Deverdun WRI/DIR/PROD: Christopher Sampson A tree, a heart, and Herbert who is PROD: Blake Skuse, Blake Stone, still thinking of 1961. On those hot David Sampson, Jennifer Sampson summer days, 17-year-old Herbert Three lifelong friends involved in a love was madly in love with Regina. triangle embark on a road trip that will AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE change their lives forever. WORLD PREMIERE PATTY LOVESICK Australia / 19min / 2017 ƚƞƠƪƞƣƪƙ (NO SEX) WRI/DIR: James Fitchett Russian Federation / 10min / 2017 PROD: Joshua Fitzpatrick WRI/DIR/PROD: Alexey Ionov His mind’s telling him yes, but his PROD: Andrew Gubenko, Dmitriy body is telling him no. A film about a Kupovih, Evgeniya Ledascheva guy who is allergic to his girlfriend. After a surgery, a young girl is prohibited from having sex for next 6 ÖNSKEDRÖMMAR (MAKE A WISH) months. Sweden / 12min / 2016 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI: Theo Westin DIR: Jonatan Etzler PROD: Markus Waltå, Eliza Jones Anita and Gunnar live a slow and steady retired life. From top to bottom: Heartstrings, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Miles, ͋ͯͱ͛ͯʹͻͪ(No Sex), Maddie & Marc

NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 25 SAE FLiCKERUP

The finalist short films in our national school competition for primary and secondary school students or filmmakers under eighteen years old

SATURDAY 20 JAN 2:00PM REWIND DURATION: 104 MINS Australia / 6min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Ava Woodward PROD: Isabella Rimac CONNECTED A young man signs up for a trial drug Australia / 2min / 2017 test, a drug that allows you to go back WRI/ DIR: Chloe French, in time. Tamsin Thomas, Claire Williams PROD: Table Cape Primary School THE SHACKLES YOU CANNOT SEE Is a person really connected when Australia / 5min / 2016 using their mobile phone? WRI/DIR/PROD: Robyn Fairbairn A social comment about our modern THE MUTE BUTTON society, and how, as people living in Australia / 3min / 2017 this new technological era, we are WRI/DIR/PROD: 5G Cabramatta Public forever being controlled by the media, School, Mr Sollorz trapped in a supervisory society not A student receives a remote control unlike famous philosopher Jeremy that allows her to make everyone she Bentham’s panopticon. meets disappear. DISPOSAL OLDER TIMES DIFFERENT WAYS Australia / 8min / 2016 Australia / 3min / 2017 WRI/DIR/PROD: Oliver Crawford Wri/Prod: Susan Chapman, Year 4 Smith, Oliver Bailey Holy Family Primary School It’s green bins tonight… DIR: Susan Chapman A year four class looks at the MONDAY traditional lifestyle of Australia’s First Australia / 5min / 2017 People. WRI/DIR/PROD: Shanon McKenzie A robot chases his work to the end of FOR ISABELLE the earth in an attempt to hand it in Australia / 3mins / 2017 on time. WRI/DIR/PROD: Tilly Hobkirk Isabelle has waved to the man KING JACK upstairs everyday since she was little. Australia / 5min / 2017 She collects the little wooden animals WRI/DIR/PROD: Kellyville High School he makes for her, even after he dies. Media Team A man with Alzheimer’s refers to IN THE DARK himself as King Jack. Australia / 2min / 2017 WRI/DIR/PROD: Stefanie Giagoudakis CYCLE Nothing goes to plan as a man tries Australia / 6min / 2017 to steal his victim’s handbag, as they WRI: Matthew Lowe walk the city streets in the dark. DIR: Sean Grace, Matthew Lowe PROD: Sean Grace KINDERGANGSTER A boy rides up to the shops on his Australia / 5min / 2017 bike, but along the way, tragedy WRI/DIR/PROD: Stefan Sakellaridis strikes. Armed with a second chance, From top to bottom: Connected, A short comedy film that takes the can he make things right? Disposal, Older Times Different Ways, crime-thriller genre and turns it on Lost its head.

26 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! SINA AND THE EEL PROLOGUE AUSTRALIA / 3MINS / 2017 Australia / 6min / 2016 WRI/DIR PAWARNA, TIA, DANIELLA, WRI/DIR/PROD: Miles Gibson SHANTEL A writer struggles to pin down PROD: GRETA TUCKER, IRIS RADOVIC, his narrative and so his fledgling GENE GEOFFREY characters struggle to cross the Sina and the Eel is a paper cut threshold between imagination and animated film which explains the the solid world of the story. origins of the first coconut tree in Samoan mythology. SHOWTIME Australia / 10min / 2017 PUPILS WRI/DIR/PROD: Daniel Bil Australia / 4min / 2017 When two street magicians turn up to WRI: Nick Ward and Toby Goodman perform at the same park, they must DIR/ PROD: Nick Ward use their magical abilities to win over A troubled boy goes to school, the audience. surrounded by the blinded, and must decide whether to be a victim or a hero. LOST Australia / 7min / 2017 SCHOOL BUT WITH A GHOUL WRI/DIR/PROD: Greta Miller Australia / 3min / 2017 Is Angelica lost or is her mother?, WRI/DIR/PROD: Rory Dalitz or her mother’s phone? A dark, surrealistic, non-linear animation with a humorous undertone. IRONY Australia / 8min / 2017 INSTAFLY WRI/DIR/PROD: Radheya Jegatheva Australia / 5min / 2017 A film that explores the relationship DIR: Param Patwala between man and technology…told A short film about an average guy from the perspective of a phone. gaining the ability to fly, through a new app, in hopes of getting to work faster and winning a bet with his work colleague.

A GUN OVERLOAD Australia / 4min / 2016 WRI/DIR: Tim Dodd PROD: Kris Simak A Gun Overload outlines the complexity of the gun issue around the world.

THE MEDICINE OF SALT Australia / 6min / 2017 DIR: James Campbell A filmmaker/surfer’s connection to the Aboriginal community of Wreck Bay. From top to bottom: iRONY, Pupils, School But With A Ghoul, Showtime

NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 27 SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY

Chortle your way through a hilarious off-kilter selection of shorts from across the world.

SHORT LAUGHS 1 SUPER NICE FRIDAY 19 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 8min / 2017 SUNDAY 21 JAN 4:30PM (REPEAT) WRI/DIR: Jack Yabsley PROD: Fiona Pearson DURATION: 100 MINS In the very nice town of Berrifield, only one person can be the nicest. M.A.M.O.N WORLD PREMIERE Spain / 5min / 2016 WRI: Ale Damiani, Santi Vecino, IT’S COMPLICATED Juan Andrés Fontán, Javi Cruzado, South Africa / 17min / 2017 Enrique Codesio WRI: Kelvin Wong DIR: Alejandro Damiani DIR: Grant De Sousa PROD: Juan José López PROD: Justin Cohen, Tyrone Rubin, While Donald Trump is undergoing Alan Lawson heart surgery, a portal to another When lonely Andy invites a girl whom reality opens. he met online to his apartment, he falls head-over-heels for her despite his FERN flatmate Nigel’s repeated attempts to United Kingdom / 6min / 2017 point out her seemingly obvious flaw. WRI/DIR: Johnny Kelly AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Greet Kallikorm A woman loses her husband, and UNDER THE HAMMER finds a potted plant. Australia / 14mins / 2017 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI: Daniel Reisinger, Nicholas Boshier LADYLIKE DIR: Daniel Reisinger Australia / 7min / 2017 PROD: Daniel Reisinger, Annie Schutt WRI/DIR/PROD: Tel Benjamin A man struggles to stop his beloved PROD: Alex Ditsas, Lucy Rennick family home from being sold from Maya and Cassie are going to rob under him... Wayne Mason’s house. WORLD PREMIERE DÖDA FARMOR (KILLING GRANDMA) Sweden / 21min / 2017 SWISS MADE WRI/DIR: Lars Vega Persson Switzerland / 3min / 2017 PROD: Isabelle Björklund WRI/DIR/PROD: Sophie Wietlisbach There are 90s and two young girls A satirical portrait of Switzerland, practicing for QuakeCon. When they which makes use of aesthetic codes are forced to spend time with one of inspired by touristic language. the girls’ grandmother, they discover AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE that she is a world-weary woman of strong will. YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT TO US AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia / 15min / 2017 WRI/DIR: TJ Power SMEAR PROD: Riley Nottingham, United Kingdom / 4min / 2017 Kathryn Power WRI: Kate Herron, Briony Redman Your call is a short comedy that From top to bottom: M.a.m.o.n, DIR: Kate Herron confirms our fears about what really Ladylike, Smear, Swiss Made PROD: Douglas Cox goes on at call-centres when we’re Chloe thinks she’s just going in for a asked, ‘Please hold?’ routine pap-smear. Things do not go WORLD PREMIERE as planned. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

28 NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! SHORT LAUGHS 2 LUNCH LADIES SATURDAY 20 JAN 8:45PM United States / 19min / 2017 DURATION: 96 MINS WRI: Clarissa Jacobson DIR: J.M. Logan PROD: Clarissa Jacobson, Joe AN IMAGINED CONVERSATION: Bratcher, Shayna Weber, Jessica KANYE WEST & STEPHEN HAWKING Janos, J.M. Logan Canada / 7min / 2017 Two burnt out high school Lunch WRI/DIR: Sol Friedman Ladies do whatever it bloody takes on PROD: Sol Friedman, their quest to become Johnny Depp’s Sarah Clifford-Rashotte personal chefs. Over a Chinese food picnic at the AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE beach, Stephen Hawking and Kanye West discuss Dance moves, Drake and DARREL the art of Divination. Spain / 3min / 2016 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Marc Briones, Alan Carabantes PROD: Daniel Martinez GWEN Exchange of glances in the metro. How Australia / 11min / 2017 many opportunities have you let slip? WRI: Naomi Bird Darrel will do everything possible to not DIR: Candace Wise let this one escape. PROD: Naomi Bird, Candace Wise AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A Gwen Stefani doll comes between the friendship of two housemates, Dan and LE SCÉNARISTE (THE Anthony. Tensions rise and culminate SCREENWRITER) in a shocking end. Belgium / 27min / 2017 WORLD PREMIERE WRI/DIR: François Paquay PROD: Gregory Zalcman, Alan Knoll, LEMON François Paquay, Xavier Diskeuve United States / 12min / 2016 To finish his script, Jonas is ordered WRI/DIR: Timothy Michael Cooper by his producer to work with a PROD: Simon Taufique, Surina Jindal talented Parisian scriptwriter, whose Seconds after the wedding, a bride arrival at his home affects his life in is stunned to learn that her new unimaginable ways. husband fudged nearly everything AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE about his past, his family, and his accomplishments, but his revelations GOOD GIRLS force her to come clean about a few United Kingdom / 10min / 2017 shocking secrets of her own. WRI/DIR: Niamh McKeown AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Jack Cowhig Bonnie, Pinkman’s finest student and OUR WONDERFUL NATURE – THE head girl takes us on a tour of her COMMON CHAMELEON school as she tries to round up the Germany / 4min / 2016 school captains in time for the school WRI/DIR/PROD: Tomer Eshed photo. The feeding habits of the common AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE chameleon as never seen before. From top to bottom: Catastrophe, CATASTROPHE Good Girls, Lemon, Our Wonderful The Netherlands / 2min / 2017 Nature – The Common Chameleon WRI/DIR: Jamille van Wijngaarden PROD: Derk-Jan Warrink, Koji Nelissen When a little bird suddenly drops dead in it’s cage, all eyes are on the cat. NSW PREMIERE

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A delightful and entertaining program of shorts for families that will appeal to the kid in everyone.

TUESDAY 16 JAN 2:00PM HEDGEHOG’S HOME DURATION: 84 MINS Canada, Croatia / 10min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Eva Cvijanovi˂ PROD: Vanja Andrijevi˂, Jelena Popovi˂ OUR WONDERFUL NATURE – THE In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. COMMON CHAMELEON He is respected and envied by the other Germany / 4min / 2016 animals. WRI/DIR/PROD: Tomer Eshed AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE The feeding habits of the common cameleon as never seen before. LE PETIT BONHOMME DE POCHE (THE POCKET MAN) POLES APART France / 7min / 2016 United Kingdom / 12min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Ana Chubinidze WRI/DIR: Paloma Baeza PROD: Reginald de Guillebon, Corinne PROD: Ser En Low Destombes In a harsh Arctic landscape, a hungry and A little man lives in an old suitcase. solitary polar bear has to decide if a naïve One day he finds a new friend - an old Canadian grizzly bear is her food or her blind man. friend. NSW PREMIERE

DREAMWEAVER LINK Australia / 11min / 2017 Germany / 8min / 2017 WRI: Andrew Georgiou, Tam Morris, Myles DIR: Robert Löbel Conti Two characters are linked by their hair. DIR: Myles Conti They influence each other by every move PROD: Karl Conti they make and wherever they go. A young boy moves to a new AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE neighbourhood and discovers his passion for go-karting. APRICOT Australia / 5min / 2017 CORKY WRI: Nisrine Amine United States / 6min / 2017 DIR: Lara Del Arte WRI: Ty Primosch, KJ Mathieson PROD: Gia Frino DIR: Ty Primosch 10-year old Margaret Mary has a problem. PROD: KJ Mathieson A dentureless, dribbling problem to be A corkscrew with a screw loose battles a exact. Will her efforts to get rid of her giant glass bottle to uncork seven magical elderly grandmother pay off? lightning bugs trapped inside. WORLD PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE TWO BALLOONS RUHE. United States / 9min / 2017 ZUMDONNERWETTERNOCHEINMAL! DIR: Mark Smith (SILENCE! FOR PETE’S SAKE!) PROD: Mark Smith, Adam C Sager Germany / 8min / 2016 Two travelers return to a place crossed WRI/DIR/PROD: Kai Pannen by stars and clouds where love is at the Mr. Bumble is tired and would like to take beginning of everything. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE From top to bottom: Two Trams, Poles a midday nap. It comes to nothing, his Apart, Dreamweaver, Two Balloons friends keep on and on. So he retires to a lonely and quiet place. AMEISE (ANT) AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Germany / 4min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Julia Ocker PROD: Thomas Meyer-Hermann The ants are working together perfectly. But there is one ant who is doing everything differently. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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LINDA OLSZEWSKI GREER SIMPKIN GREG DUFFY Linda Campos Greer Simpkin is Greg produced, Olszewski a Producer with with Lisa Duff affectionately Bunya Productions. and Jeremy known in the Since joining Bunya Sims, the AACTA entertainment in 2015 Greer award-winning industry as “Linda has produced the feature film Last Cab to Darwin starring O.” is one of the most passionate and Ivan Sen feature Goldstone, Warwick Michael Caton and Jackie Weaver, knowledgeable people in the short film Thornton’s Sweet Country and was an written by Reg Cribb and Jeremy Sims industry. A new member of AMPAS Executive Producer on ’ and directed by Jeremy Sims. He also (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and feature Jasper Jones. Greer is currently produced, with Sue Taylor and Lisa Sciences) for their Short Film and producing TV drama series Mystery Duff, the feature film Last Train to Freo Feature Animation branch’s class of Road for the ABC, as well as a drama/ written by Reg Cribb and directed by 2016, she has overseen acquisitions documentary series Blue Water Empire. Jeremy Sims. of the Oscar Shorts Theatrical/VOD/ She is also producing two feature He has worked in legal, creative iTunes releases since 2006 and has docs Sanctuary and Beautiful Minds. and production capacities on served as an Associate Producer. Previous roles include Deputy Head of Film, Television, Radio, and Stage She managed the launch of shorts Fiction - ABC TV, Programme Finance Productions for more than 35 years. He on iTunes for its first 5 years and has Executive - Channel 4 (UK), Head has produced documentaries and short supported several films in their Oscar of Production - Mentorn Films and films, including the award winning The run which have gone onto become Producer for acclaimed filmmaker and Reunion (Flickerfest 1999). shortlisted or nominated including photographer Brian Duffy. Ennemis Intérieurs, Borrowed Time, Greg is presently developing a feature Contrapelo, The Wolf, The Jackal, The GREGORY film with Jeremy Sims called The Line; Rifle and The Boy, and Bear Story, which ERDSTEIN one with Lisa Duff called Home For won the Academy Award for Best Lunch, and an adaptation of Reg Cribb’s Animated Short Film. She has served Gregory Erdstein play called Boundary Street. on over 100 international film fest is a director based Greg is also a Partner of the Media, juries and panels throughout the world, in Melbourne. A Entertainment and Intellectual offering distribution deals for iTunes, graduate of the Property legal practice, Frankel Amazon, and Oscar qualification as VCA Film School, Lawyers, where he has been practising well as TV licenses for ShortsTV™ - The Erdstein’s feature debut That’s Not Me for over 24 years. Short Movie Channel. Additional credits was self-financed. The film had its include Shrek, The Road to El Dorado, World Premiere at the Santa Barbara MATT DAY Prince of Egypt, Reality Bites, and The Film Festival in February 2017 where it played to sold-out audiences, and was Life of David Gale. She began her Matt Day’s film Audience Award Top 10 at both the career as a documentary cameraman roles include Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals and photojournalist in Afghanistan the international 2017. That’s Not Me released nationally during the Soviet invasion and with the hit film Muriel’s in Australian cinemas in September Totonacs in Huehuetla, Mexico. Wedding, Love 2017 to critical acclaim, receiving 4 and Other stars from both The Guardian and Catastrophes, Doing Time For Patsy Time Out, and will be released in the Cline, My Year Without Sex and Kiss or US and UK in February 2018. Kill, Scoop, Touch and Dance Academy: Erdstein’s short films have previously The Comeback. Matt has also worked screened at Flickerfest, MIFF, extensively in the U.K. including roles in International Film Festival, St. Kilda the BBC’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, Film Festival, CinefestOz, Tropfest (with Shackleton opposite Kenneth Branagh, A Bit Rich) and have been broadcast on and a recurring guest role in Spooks. SBS TV. His 2012 short film Picking Up His numerous television credits include at Auschwitz was part of the Flickerfest Rake, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, touring program in 2013.

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Tangle, Love Child, The Outlaw Michael MITCHELL ABC stories Leila Murray and the Long Howe, A Place to Call Home and Stan’s STANLEY Grassers were nominated for Human second series of Wolf Creek. Rights awards. Penny also produced the Mitchell Stanley ABC’s highly successful series Day’s most recent film credit is Yarning Up graduated from 1 and 2 and was a part of the Screen ’s feature film Sweet the Actors Pulse Australia Indigenous Department’s Country alongside Sam Neill and Bryan – Meisner Method Producers Initiative in 2011. She produced Brown. Earlier this year the film won Acting in 2002. He a series of shorts called the Special Jury Prize at the Venice The Forgotten managed the Acquisitions department in 2010, directed by prisoners from Film Festival and the at Ones for National Indigenous Television where the NT, and before beginning her role at Toronto International Film Festival. he directed his short film Aesop’s Way Screen Australia, Penny was working as as part of the Lester Bostock initiative ALICE FOULCHER a Senior Programmer for NITV, National with Screen NSW and Metroscreen, and Indigenous Television, a division of SBS Alice Foulcher is produced The Biggest Post for Director and is currently the Head of Indigenous at an actor, writer Elizabeth Wymarra, both selected Screen Australia. and producer and for the Adelaide Shorts Festival. He a graduate of VCA went on to produce the Aboriginal and DR TREVOR School of Film Torres Strait Islander series Move It GRAHAM and Television. Mob Style for NITV and ABC3. Stanley Dr Trevor Graham She frequently produced Colour Theory with Richard has worked as a collaborates with Bell, an eight-part documentary writer, producer her husband, director and co-writer series that received pick of the weeks and director of Gregory Erdstein –Foulcher is best in The Australian, The Herald and documentary in the Australian industry known for the indie break-out comedy outstanding reviews in The Age. He for over 30 years. His documentaries That’s Not Me, which was released in recently produced Servant and Slave, a have been screened and broadcast cinemas across Australian in 2017 television documentary with director nationally and around the world. He to rave reviews. Appearing in every Steven McGregor which won both at the has made numerous co-productions scene of the film, sometimes twice, Melbourne International Film Festival and commissioned works for Channel Foulcher’s performance has been met and Antenna Documentary Film Festival 4 and the BBC (Britain), WGBH with widespread critical acclaim. That’s in 2016. (America), ARTE (France/Germany), Not Me had its World Premiere at the AVRO (Netherlands), SBS and ABC TV 2017 Santa Barbara International Film PENNY (Australia). In 1997 Graham wrote and Festival. The film had its Australian SMALLACOMBE directed Premiere at the 2017 Sydney Film Mabo Life of an Island Man, Penny Smallacombe a feature film about Indigenous land Festival where it was awarded 4th is a Member of rights in Australia. The film won the Place of the Foxtel Movies Audience the Maramanindji Australian Film Institute Award for Awards. It screened at the 2017 people, from the Best Documentary and won both the Melbourne International Film Festival . prestigious NSW Premier’s History and had its European Premiere at the She has completed a cadetship with the Award and the NSW Premier’s Award for 2017 Raindance Film Festival. Australian Broadcasting Corporation Best Screenplay. Foulcher’s short films have also (ABC) and has a Masters of Arts Graham directed the feature screened at film festival internationally, (Documentary Producing) from the documentary Make Hummus Not including Paris Syndrome (Flickerfest Australian Film Television and Radio War in 2012 which screened at the 2016), Picking Up at Auschwitz School (AFTRS) in Sydney. At AFTRS, Berlin International Film Festival and (Flickerfest 2013), A Bit Rich (Tropfest Penny produced two documentaries - Guangzhou International Documentary 2014) and Why Ryan is On Detention Roger and A Change of Heart. A Change Film Festival. It screened at over 60 (Flickerfest 2014). of Heart was nominated for a Dendy Award and played at several International film festivals throughout the world. film festivals including IDFA. Between In 2016 he co-produced and directed 2004 and 2005 Penny worked in the Monsieur Mayonnaise for the Melbourne Indigenous Programs Unit at the ABC, International Film Festival and ZDF- where she produced and directed for ARTE. The feature documentary series 6 and 7 of Message Sticks. Penny’s screened in the Berlinale’s Culinary Cinema in 2017. NOW THAT'S A SHORT FILM! 33

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HARRY RENÉE BRACK GREENWOOD Renée Brack is a Harry graduated versatile journalist from the National and screen producer Institute of with 20+ years Dramatic Art in experience in film 2012. Harry’s film TV, print and digital. credits include ’s Hacksaw For most of the 21st century so far, she Ridge, Kokoda and 8. His short film was a producer and host at subscription credits include Pacific, The Water Diary, TV service, Movie Network Channels The Gift, The Unlikely Maestro and Steve working on 6 cinema-based programs. the Chameleon. For TV he has appeared She worked on 350+ episodes of Movie in Old School and Gallipoli. For Belvoir Juice interviewing filmmakers ranging he has performed in The Glass from fresh, new independent directors Menagerie and Once in Royal David’s such as Steve McQueen who went on to City. Other theatre credits include Love win the Best Motion Picture Academy and Information (Malthouse Theatre Award® in 2014 for 12 Years A Slave. and ) and Fury Other highlights included interviews with (Sydney Theatre Company). While at Morgan Freeman, Quentin Tarantino, NIDA Harry performed in Caligula, Punk , as well as John Seale Rock, Flutter Kick, Rookery Nook, Idiot, ACS, and Dean Semler ACS. Renée has Richard III, The American Clock and Too written, produced and directed 5 short Young for Ghosts. films and scripted 2 plays produced on stage in the world’s largest play MITZI RUHLMANN festival, Short+Sweet. Love & Addiction is her first ghostwriting published by Mitzi Ruhlmann Impact Press in November, 2016 for made her feature Lorraine Wood. It’s her autobiography film debut in the and corporate story of establishing coming of age film South Pacific Private and its mission Boys in The Trees, to help people living with addiction. which had its premiere at the Venice She currently lectures in film studies Film Festival and also screened at TIFF and production at SAE Creative Media in 2016 followed by Damien Power’s Institute and has a slate of screen debut thriller Killing Ground, which productions in development. She is premiered at MIFF before its North a frequent guest speaker, MC, social American debut at Sundance. commentator and continues to be a She made her television debut in fervent film buff. 2010 when she joined the cast of the popular Australian series . She then followed up with roles in ABC’s Hiding, The Code, opposite Lucy Lawless. Foxtel’s SLiDE and the International Emmy-nominated children’s series Dance Academy. In 2012, Ruhlmann starred in the critically acclaimed short film Yardbird, which was nominated for the Palme D’Or for the Best Short Film at the and the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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