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As ’s leading Academy® accredited as we strive to deliver our vision of providing a short film festival, the shorts in competition platform that nurtures and supports Australian at Flickerfest are fiercely vying for a number Filmmakers, and in turn provides Australian of prestigious prizes including the Flickerfest audiences with access to inspirational storytelling Award for Best International Short Film, the from their own backyard and beyond. Yoram Gross Award for Best International To all our partners who are acknowledged in Animation, the Virgin Australia Award for Best this programme, I am extremely grateful for the Australian Short Film, and the Flickerfest Award essential and ongoing support they provide. We for Best Documentary. Plus a host of other thank them enormously for their belief in us, hotly contested prizes which recognise the which assists us in maintaining Flickerfest as one various craft areas inherent in making a great of the best short film competitions in the world. short film. Behind the scenes, the many talents of the 2019 brings over 22 different short film extremely hardworking Flickerfest team BRONWYN KIDD programmes across the 10-day festival bring Flickerfest to life. My enormous thanks season. We are proud to announce that FESTIVAL DIRECTOR and appreciation must go to Festival Tour/ due to the outstanding home grown talent Production Manager Shane Rennie, Festival Welcome to the 28th Flickerfest International and creativity received this year, we will Program Manager Lies Bruines, Programming Short Film Festival. As we move forward into be screening 7 Australian competitive Team Liz Harkman, Rich Warren, Linda another film filled and jam packed festival, I am programmes in addition to the 5 international Olszewski, Industry Liaison Leigh Russell, thrilled that Flickerfest continues to be the most and 2 documentary programmes, which Festival Coordinator Jess Green, Partnerships influential dedicated short film event on the make up our Academy qualifying short film Manager Lucy Rhoades, Flickerlab Coordinator Australian landscape. competitions. Alongside these competitive Pam Otto and Festival Assistant Fabienne Neff. programmes our youngest filmmakers Flickerfest continues its proud tradition of And last but not least our Director of Projection compete in SAE FlickerUp, our national bringing world-class short films to Bondi Alan Butterfield, and projectionist Anthony Yeo. schools and youth competition, an exciting Pavilion, celebrating and uncovering the most peek at the future cinema stars of tomorrow! Short film continues to excite and thrill me year talented filmmakers the world and Australia has after year, and I still strongly believe shorts are to offer. The Best Of shorts is back the perfect vehicle for our latest generation of to showcase the best shorts from the EU in The Flickerfest team and special selection storytellers to cut their teeth and express the partnership with The European Union Delegation committee watched and reviewed near 2700 stories at the heart of who we are. Every year I To Australia; FlickerKids promises a delightful entries from across the globe, of which just over am moved, surprised and inspired by the films programme for young and young at heart; 100 will be officially screened in competition; raising the bar for what is considered “the best” Love Bites, a romp through the quirky world of confirming that Flickerfest continues to attract in short film. The imagination and creativity modern relationships is perfect for date night the latest in cutting edge shorts from the showcased throughout Flickerfest highlights the and Short Laughs takes you on a hilarious world’s most exciting and innovative emerging role of short film as one at the centrepiece of journey from the weird to the wonderful. filmmakers for our Academy Accredited® and innovation and creativity in global cinema today. BAFTA recognised shorts competition. We are also thrilled to celebrate amazing I welcome you to experience the best in short LGBTQI films from around the world for the The uniting force among the shorts screening cinema at Bondi and across Australia this second year, in our Rainbow Shorts celebration at the 2019 Flickerfest Festival is their ability summer, as Flickerfest celebrate 28 years of curated by award winning queer filmmaker to push the conventions of film and narrative to ‘Kapowerful Short Films’ Craig Boreham. deliver surprising, exciting and groundbreaking BRONWYN KIDD results across animation, documentary and Presenting an international festival considered FESTIVAL DIRECTOR every genre in between. among the best in the world is made possible by the generous support of our major sponsors Once Flickerfest wraps up its 10-day SAE Creative Institute, European Union celebration of short film in Bondi, we pack up Delegation to Australia and Create NSW. all the highlights from the festival and hit the road on our 50+ venue national tour. It has I would also like to extend an enormous KAPOWERFUL been a joy to see Flickerfest extend its reach as thanks to our major government partner SHORT the home of great short film across the country, Screen Australia who supports both our and watching audiences warmly embrace the festival, and the national tour, and who has FILMS! inspiring art of short filmmaking. been a continuous source of encouragement

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PROGRAM AND SESSIONON TIMESTIMES

DAY 10.00AM 2.00PM 4.30PM 6.30PM 8.45PM

FESTIVAL OPENING FRI 11 HIGHLIGHTS & PARTY 7.45PM FOR 8.15PM START

SAT 12 Best of International 1 Best of Australian 1 Best of Australian 2

SUN 13 Best of Australian 3 Best of International 2 Best of Australian 4

MON 14 Best of International 3 Best of Australian 5

FlickerKids (ages TUE 15 Best of Documentary 1 Best of Documentary 2 Best of Australian 6 6-12)

WED 16 Best of International 4 Best of Australian 7

THU 17 Best of international 5 (86KRUW)LOP6KRZFDVH1 Love Bites 1

FRI 18 FlickerLab (10am - 5pm) Love Bites 2 Short Laughs Comedy 1

FlickerUp SAT 19 School Shorts (86KRUW)LOP6KRZFDVH2 Rainbow Shorts Short Laughs Comedy 2 Competition Final

CLOSING NIGHT AWARDS, Short Laughs Comedy 1 SUN 20 WINNING HIGHLIGHTS & (repeat) AFTER PARTY 7.15PM FOR 7.45PM

2 SPECIAL EVENT OPENING NIGHT

FRDIAY 11TH JANUARY 2019 7.45PM FOR 8.15PM All the glitter of the stars of the screen, under a starry sky… Join us for a selection of Flickerfest’s juiciest highlights – an introduction to all the incredible cinema to come in our 2019 season. After the films we party on the upstairs terrace at the Flickerfest Bar, overlooking Bondi beach, and raise our glasses to Kapowerful short films!

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

FRIDAY 11 JAN 7:45PM OPENING NIGHT HIGHLIGHTS DURATION: 76 MINS

EDEK LIL BOIS / 6min / 2018 Australia / 17min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Malcolm Green WRI/DIR: Grant Thompson PROD: Marc Cave, Sara Huxley PROD: Courtney Collins An 85 year old Holocaust survivor named After swimming with his friends in a billabong, Janine and a young American rapper named a nervous little boy returns to his camp and Kapoo collaborate to deliver a Hip Hop message discovers everything has changed. to the youth of the world. A poignant and NSW PREMIERE uniquely challenging fusion of prose, and rap. For the first time, one of the world’s MAGIC ALPS darkest stories is told in an entirely new way. / 15min / 2018 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi WRI: Giuseppe Isoni DELLA MORTIKA: CAROUSEL OF SHAME PROD: Andrea Italia Australia / 17min / 2018 An Afgani refugee arrives in Italy with his goat WRI352': Geraldine Martin and seeks political asylum for both of them. DIR352': Marisa Martin AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE This is the fantastical world of Della Mortika, where steam is king, where life is hard, but BETWEEN THE SHADOWS where adventure is always adventure. Portugal / 13min / 2018 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Mónica Santos, Alice Guimarães PROD: Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura, BIRDIE Jean-François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois, Australia / 8min / 2018 Pedro Medeiros WRI/DIR: Shelly Lauman Natália, trapped in a tedious job, engages PROD: Lizzie Cater in a search for a stolen heart. In a world On a bright, ordinary day a woman walks alone where hearts can be deposited in a bank, the to the train station. As she descends the stairs protagonist faces a dilemma: give her heart or to the underground platform she smiles at a keep it to herself. young man. He smiles back. With the smallest AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE of gestures, the woman is caught in a subtle and sinister game. NSW PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Lil Bois, Birdie, Magic Alps

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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 in January. Now in its 28th 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 2019 SPECIAL EVENTS OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 11 JANUARY IN COMPETITION: HIGHLIGHTS SCREENING INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS* 7:45pm for 8:15pm 10:30pm – late AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILMS* AFTER PARTY

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM* CLOSING NIGHT SUNDAY 20 JANUARY ALL ACADEMY® ACCREDITED COMPETITIONS AWARDS AND SCREENING 7:15pm for 7:45pm start AWARDS AND SCREENING 10.30pm – late PLUS Celebrate the end of the festival at the Closing Night RAINBOW SHORTS – Best LGBTQI+ from at home & the world and Awards Ceremony. A selection of the festival’s award-winning films will be screened, followed by FLiCKERUP – National School Students and Youth Competition music and drinks at the Flickerfest Bar.

ENJOY THE EVER POPULAR SHORT FILM SHOWCASES INCLUDING: FLiCKERLAB FRIDAY 18 JANUARY E<:/69;-034:HOWCASE – the best short films on offer from the European Union 10.00am to 5.00pm A one-day journey from shorts to features – includes SHORT LAUGHS – our comedy program that will have you in stitches workshops and interviews with directors, producers, LOVE BITES – films about love and relationships writers, development agencies and distributors and marketing experts. And FLiCKERKIDS – short films suitable for children aged 5-12 years and for the young at heart! *Highlights of these programmes hit the road on our 50+ venue national tour from January - May 2019

TICKETS BOOKINGS FOOD AND BAR The Flickerfest bar, upstairs in the Bondi Pavilion SEASON PASS $170 / $155 ^ Tickets available via is open daily before each session and into 10 SESSION PASS $130 / $120 ^ FLICKERFEST.COM.AU the night, serving delicious organic food and 3 SESSION PASS $55 / $50 ^ Limited number of tickets may beverages from our sponsors Parker’s Organic SESSION TICKET $20 / $18 be available from the box office Juices, Rosnay, and Young Henrys. 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 the beach OPENING NIGHT SCREENING & parking area; limited meter parking is available AFTER PARTY $70/$65 * in nearby streets; some unmetered parking also CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING & available a short walk from the Pavilion. AFTER PARTY $50 / $45 * Enjoy your visit car-free with a train to Bondi

^ (Excludes opening and closing nights & workshops) Junction and catch the 333, 380 or 381 bus to * Ticket price includes food, organic beverages and the door; or ride a bike! entertainment. (Includes GST. Booking fees not included.) All sessions approx. 100 minutes long & rated 15+ except FlickerKids and FlickerUp.

KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 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.

BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 1 RISE OF A STAR SATURDAY 12 JAN 4:30PM / 18min / 2018 DURATION: 109 MINS WRI: Stephane Landowski DIR: James Bort PROD: Boris Mendza RED DRESS. NO STRAPS Emma is about to be the new Ballerina at Paris United Kingdom / 8min / 2018 Opera. But something upsets her. A secret. A WRI/DIR/PROD: Maryam Mohajer secret liable to undermine what she has spent 1985. Tehran. Iran-Iraq war. An ordinary a whole life on. Starring Catherine Deneuve. evening at the grandparents’. ‘Marmar’ still AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE remembers the ‘death to America’ chants from the other day at school; the head teacher BETWEEN THE SHADOWS was telling them to say it. She is listening to Portugal / 13min / 2018 grandad’s favourite radio program; The voice of WRI/DIR: Mónica Santos, Alice Guimarães America. She’s also eagerly waiting for granny PROD: Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura, Jean- to make her a dress exactly the same as one François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois, Pedro worn by the American Popstar; bright red, no Medeiros straps. Natália, trapped in a tedious job, engages AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE in a search for a stolen heart. In a world where hearts can be deposited in a bank, the BEST GAME EVER protagonist faces a dilemma: give her heart or / 20min / 2018 keep it to herself. WRI/DIR/PROD: Marcus McKenzie AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Kirsty Stark When two CCTV technicians find out about an MAGIC ALPS AI machine threatening their jobs, they must get Italy / 15min / 2018 out of their chairs to beat the system - leading WRI/DIR: Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi them to an unexpected solution. The new short WRI: Giuseppe Isoni film of Academy Award-winner Kristóf Deák. PROD: Andrea Italia AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE An Afgani refugee arrives in Italy with his goat and seeks political asylum for both of them. A TARGET AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Finland / 8min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Antti Heikki Pesonen WILDEBEEST PROD: Miia Haavisto Belgium / 19min / 2017 Arto is waiting for his wife and child in his car. WRI/DIR: Nicolas Keppens, Matthias Phlips As they return from the store they tell him that PROD: Brecht Van Elslande, Bert Lesaffer an unknown man harassed them. Arto decides Going on a safari is a dream for many. For to take the law into his own hands and plans middle-aged couple Linda and Troyer, it turns to make a video to shame the man on social into a horribly real adventure when they get left media. behind in the wilderness. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PHONE DUTY Russian Federation / 8min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Lenar Kamalov PROD: Lenar Kamalov, Natalia Frolova FROM TOP TO BOTTOM:Magic Alps, Phone Duty, A Donbass rebel fighter with a nom de guerre Red Dress. No Straps, Rise of a Star Cat is ordered to sit on phone duty, but it’s not as easy as it may seem. NSW PREMIERE

6 BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 2 CURED SUNDAY 13 JAN 6:30PM / 15min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Gabriel Villanueva DURATION: 117 MINS PROD: Mara Tasker, Doug Schultheis Marcos and his wife Alma are infected, though TAKE RABBIT that much isn’t obvious at first glance. They United Kingdom / 15min / 2018 have become afflicted by a bizarre dancing WRI/DIR: Peter Peake pandemic, which has compelled them (and the PROD: Gareth Owen other people in town) to dance nonstop for days Take Rabbit is a humorous take on an age-old on end. The good news? Marcos has found a conundrum - a man attempts to transport some cure... unlikely passengers across a river in his tiny AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE boat but soon realizes he’s taken on more than he bargained for. The film features the vocal A SIEGE talents of top British actors Stephen Graham, Hungary / 23min / 2018 Amelia Bullmore, Steve Pemberton and Matt WRI: Kálmán Gasztonyi Berry. DIR: István Kovács AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Mónika Mécs, Nóra Alföldi, Tamás Hutlassa, Barnabás Hutlassa, Gábor Osváth MARGUERITE 1994, Sarajevo. No water, no electricity nor / 19min / 2018 food in the town under siege. Tea Mikic, despite WRI/DIR: Marianne Farley the horrible war conditions, manages to keep PROD: Marie-Hélène Panisset her positivity. She lost her husband during the For several years now Marguerite, a diabetic war and is completely self-sufficient. She is woman in her seventies, has been getting daily getting ready for something in the morning, so visits from Rachel, her home health nurse. In she decides to wash her hair even though all spite of her declining condition, Marguerite has her backup supplies are gone. She starts her been gradually emerging from her loneliness as desperate journey to look for water, and neither she experiences moments of tenderness and her neighbors nor sniper fire can stop her. sensuality, under Rachel’s care. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FREAKS OF NURTURE HOW TO SWIM Canada / 6min / 2018 / 15min / 2018 DIR: Alexandra Lemay WRI/DIR: Noa Gusakov PROD:Maral Mohammadian PROD: Leah Tonic A stop-motion film about a mother-daughter Abigail is heavily pregnant, but something is relationship bursting at the seams with babies, missing. Terrified about the imminent birth, she poodles and flying spaghetti. kidnaps an unsuspecting stranger to comfort AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE her for one afternoon. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

JETER L’ANCRE UN SEUL JOUR (FIND HARBOUR FOR A DAY) France / 24min / 2018 WRI: Blandine Jet, Paul Marques Duarte DIR: Paul Marques Duarte FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Cured, How to Swim, PROD: Thomas Guentch Take Rabbit, The Box Adèle, an english teacher is about to board in Saint-Malo with her class on a ferry to . But this time she needs to put up with the arrival of a new pupil who is about to disrupt the crossing and push the professor to reevaluate herself… AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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BEST OF INTERNATIONAL 3 THE MANDARIN TREE MONDAY 14 JAN 6:30PM / 18min / 2017 DURATION: 11 MINS WRI: Cengiz Akaygün, Duc-Thi Bui DIR: Cengiz Akaygün PROD: Philipp Lutz THE FLOOD IS COMING After her father is arrested for political reasons United Kingdom / 9min / 2018 by the Turkish government, little Sirin is finally WRI/DIR: Gabriel Böhmer allowed to visit him in prison for the first time. PROD: Samantha Monk When a prison official interprets her painting of a A forest hermit tries to prepare for a flood, but bird as an anarchistic symbol and confiscates it, he becomes distracted by his noisy neighbour the girl is devastated, but her father encourages - who happens to be the hermit’s left eye.The her to believe in the freedom of thought. Flood is Coming explores the growing anxiety AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE about the state of nature, and our place in it. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE THE BOX Slovenia / 12min / 2017 MY FRIEND MICHAEL JONES WRI/DIR/PROD: Dušan Kastelic / 15min / 2018 You have probably heard of the phrase “To WRI: Eldon Booth, Ian Leaupepe, Samson Rambo think outside of the box”? Well, this is a story DIR: Ian Leaupepe, Samson Rambo about such a box. The box is full of miserable PROD:Alex Lovell, Eldon Booth creatures. One of those creatures doesn’t MJ is the ridicule of his high school peers. His belong there. He’s thinking outside of the box… obsessive compulsive need to avoid cracks AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE in the pavement and finger-tap doorframes before entering make him a target for relentless THE ROLE bullying. When MJ discovers a secret that Iran / 12min / 2018 threatens Selena’s standing within her family WRI: Ali Asgari, Farnoosh Samadi & school clique, the two form an unlikely bond DIR: Ali Asgari through a shared passion for music & dance. PROD: Pouria Heidary Oureh AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A woman accompanies her husband for an audition. The thing that happens there leads her 5,=,93(5+ for an important decision... 8QLWHG6WDWHVPLQ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE :5,',5%UHWW6PLWK 352'%UHWW6PLWK-DPHV3LGJHRQ$YLHOOH JUDGEMENT +HDWK&KULV.RVHU Philippines / 15min / 2018 1(9(5/$1'WHOOVWKHVWRU\RIDQLQQHUFLW\ WRI/DIR: Raymund Ribay Gutierrez IRVWHUER\ZLWKQRWKLQJEXWKLPVHOIDQGKLV PROD: Brillante Mendoza LPDJLQDWLRQWRNHHSKLPFRPSDQ\+LVRQO\ Joy, a mother of a 4 year-old girl, finally decides HVFDSHFRPLQJWKURXJKKLVGD\GUHDPVWR to file a case under domestic violence against 1HYHUODQGZKHUHDOOOLWWOHER\VZLWKRXWPRWKHUV her abusive husband, Dante. DQGIDWKHUVJRWRILWLQDV/RVW%R\V AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE THE BACKWARD ASTRONOMER TO PLANT A FLAG United Kingdom / 10min / 2018 Norway / 14min / 2018 WRI: Jade Shames WRI/DIR: Bobbie Peers DIR: Jake Nelson FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: My Friend Michael Jones, PROD: Ruben Thorkildsen, Henrik Hofstad PROD: -DNH1HOVRQ The Backward Astronomer, To Plant a Flag, In preparation for the moon landing in 1969, A privileged, young man falls in love with a The Flood is Coming NASA sent a team of astronaut to the lunar wealthy woman and together they lead reckless landscapes of .Their hi-tech training lives of opulence in New York City. That is, until mission soon discovers what obstacles one can he finds something better—a doorway leading meet when facing an Icelandic sheep farmer. directly to the surface of the moon. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

8 ),:;6-INTERNATIONAL 4 EL DESTETADO (THE FOREIGN BODY) WEDNESDAY 16 JAN 6:30PM Venezuela, France / 18min / 2018 DURATION: 1 MINS WRI/DIR/PROD: Héctor Silva Núñez PROD: Eva Chillón, Marco Olmos Jairo is a native young man from Venezuela UNTRAVEL who was born with no nipples. Distanced from Serbia, Slovakia / 9min / 2018 the customs of his people, he explores in the WRI: Ana Nedeljkovic city a male ideal to belong to. DIR: Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Jelena Mitrovic A film about (local) patriotism, tourism and PIGGY emigration. The girl lives in a gray, isolated Spain / 14min / 2018 country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has WRI/DIR: Carlota Martínez Pereda never travelled anywhere, but all her life she PROD: Luis Angel Ramírez,Mario Madueño has dreamt of leaving forever for a perfect Sara is an overweight teen that lives in the world called “Abroad”. shadow of a clique of cool girls holidaying in her AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE village. Not even her childhood friend, Claudia, defends her when she’s bullied at the local LE CHAMP DE MAÏS (THE FIELD) pool in front of a unknown man. Her clothes France, Uk, India / 19min / 2018 are stolen and Sara must get home wearing WRI/DIR: Sandhya Suri nothing but her bikini. The long walk home will PROD: Thomas Bidegain mark the rest of her life. A poor agricultural labourer leads a double life AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE in the villa’s last remaining cornfield but the harvest is approaching. SISTER AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE China / 8 min / 2018 WRI/DIR/PROD: Siqi Song THE ATLAS A man remembers his childhood memory of / 28min / 2018 growing up with an annoying little sister in WRI/DIR: Maciej Kawalski 1990s China. How would his life have been if ę PROD: Ewa Jastrz bska things had gone differently? A remote, and a bit crazy, psychiatric hospital AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE receives a curious patient — he doesn’t move nor speak but spends his days standing with his hands up. The only thing known is his nickname — “The Atlas”. In a word, he is a riddle and a riveting one at that. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 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 )est Australian Short Film.

BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 1 PERISHER SATURDAY 12 JAN 6:30PM Australia / 11min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Gabriel Hutchings DURATION: 11 MIN PROD: Lachlan Pezet, Odin B Fernandez A teenage girl, a middle aged man and a retired A LOW HUM racehorse confront their uncertain futures in a Australia / 4min / 2018 forgotten town. WRI/DIR: Scott Otto Anderson NSW PREMIERE PROD: Linda Micsko, Jessica Giacco, Craig Deeker RITUAL Girl meets boy meets autonomous drone. Australia / 15min / 2018 A love story for the digital age that asks if WRI/DIR: Robert Linsley technology brings us together or pushes us PROD: Andrew Brinsmead apart. For the Devlin family God is everything. When NSW PREMIERE their eldest daughter disappears from their remote farm, the local cop sent to investigate is AN ACT OF LOVE disturbed by what he uncovers. Australia / 11min / 2018 WORLD PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Lucy Knox PROD: W.A.M Bleakley, Daphne Do YULUBIDYI – UNTIL THE END The intimate connection between identical Australia / 13min / 2017 twins May and June is tested when one WRI/DIR: Nathan Mewett, Curtis Taylor attempts to step beyond their shared identity. PROD: Glen Stasiuk A young Aboriginal man, Jarman, is tasked with SHILOH protecting his younger disabled brother from life Australia / 16min / 2018 in a harsh remote community. His father, Thunder, WRI/DIR: Vanessa Gazy wants him to become the leader of the tribe and PROD: Liam Heyen, Cyna Strachan mocks any weakness in him. In a moment of desperation and despair, Shiloh WORLD PREMIERE travels back in time to save her mother’s life. What will changing the course of history for 6ATE7 her mother do to her own future? Australia/ 16min / 2018 NSW PREMIERE WRI: Amanda Maple-Brown DIR: Maggie Kiley ALL THESE CREATURES PROD: Amanda Maple-Brown Australia / 13min / 2018 Tim, putting the final touches on his ‘Vol 7 - WRI/DIR/PROD: Charles Williams Songs for and about Em’ CD mix (his annual An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his anniversary gift to the love of his life), joyfully memories of a mysterious infestation, the discovers a letter from Emma’s gynaecologist. unravelling of his father, and the little creatures It can only mean the good news that she is inside us all. pregnant - something they have been trying to do NSW PREMIERE for a long time. Playful banter quickly descends into harsh accusations as they dance around PEEPIN each other, searching for the truth, seemingly too Australia / 5min / 2018 ugly to bear WRI/DIR: Haein Kim and Paul Rhodes AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Dorian is on her own playing wall ball when FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: An Act of Love, she discovers a hole in the wall that reveals Shiloh, YulubidyiUntil the End, $WH &200$1'(56$0 a public hook up spot. She runs to show the $XVWUDOLDPLQ school’s popular girls Kimmy K and Jae Lee :5,',5/LDP)RXUDFH her new discovery to potentially make a friend. 352''DQLHO5REELQV 6DPDQG1HLODUHDVWURQDXWVDQGWKHLUZRUOGLV VXUURXQGHGE\VSDFHLQVSLUHGFUHDWLRQV6DP VSHQGVKHUQLJKWLQDVSDFHVKLSIRUJHGIURPKHU IDWKHU¶VZRUNYDQZKRZRUNVQLJKWFRQVWUXFWLRQ EXWDIWHUDGDQJHURXVFORVHHQFRXQWHUWKHLU 12 UHODWLRQVKLSLVFKDOOHQJHG BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 2 GHOSTBEAR SATURDAY 12 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 6min / 2017 WRI/DIR/PROD: Paul Mc Dermott DURATION: 111MIN PROD: Justine Kerrigan, Lincoln Wogan A polar bear cub, the Ghostbear, wanders through LOST & FOUND the antic wasteland in search of his place in the Australia / 8min / 2018 world and his birthplace in the stars. WRI: Bradley Slabe AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Andrew Goldsmith, Bradley Slabe PROD: Lucy J. Hayes THE CRAFT A bumbling knitted dinosaur must unravel Australia / 11min / 2018 himself to save the love of his life. WRI/DIR: Armand De Saint-Salvy 6FUHHQLQJ2XW2I&RPSHWLWLRQ PROD: Benjamin O’Donnell A Hollywood acting guru challenges a young SHOTS FIRED actress to confront her demons in order to Australia / 14min / 2018 maximise her potential. WRI/PROD: Kyle McCallion, Sam Monaghan, WORLD PREMIERE Gabriel Stolz DIR/PROD: Manon Lewis DRUM WAVE Whilst on a hunting trip in the great Australian Australia / 10min / 2018 bush, Katie, a precocious 13-year-old girl, WRI/DIR: Natalie Erika James helps her Dad & his two long-time friends PROD: Emma Haarburger navigate their quarter life crises. The catch; A young pianist is forced to confront her fear they are as useless at hunting as they are at of motherhood when she marries into a remote sorting out their issues. island community with bizarre fertility rituals. WORLD PREMIERE DJALI INCUBATOR Australia / 17min / 2017 Australia / 15min / 2018 WRI/DRI/PROD: Hunter Page-Lochard WRI/DIR/PROD: JP O’Brien PROD: Eryk Lenartowicz, Belinda Mravicic PROD: Christian D’Alessi Six months after famed dancer Johnny injures A mother takes her son’s education into her himself, he is forced to find his missing dog (Djali) own hands. in the Australian bush which puts him in a life or WORLD PREMIERE death situation.

PRIDE DESERT DASH Australia / 17min / 2018 Australia / 13min / 2018 WRI: Daniel King WRI/DIR: Gracie Otto PROD: Mario Biancacci PROD: Gracie Otto, Jessica Carrera, Francesca Whilst celebrating Australia day, Jason Duncan, Graig Deeker discovers an Aboriginal girl made fun of his On the outskirts of Australia, Opals are now the daughters stutter. Provoked by his patriotic currency for survival in the game of Desert Dash. family, Jason confronts the girls parents at the When a feisty heroine gets the opportunity to local pub. Things don’t go as planned. Jason is ‘level up’ there is no choice but to win. Game On. given an opportunity to change his opinion AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE towards Aboriginal people. WORLD PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Lost and Found, Drum Wave, Desert Dash, Shots Fired

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BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 3 STRANGER SUNDAY 13 JAN 4.30 PM Australia / 19 min / 2017 WRI/DIR/PROD: Peter Skinner DURATION: 105 MIN PROD: Joel Jackson, Holly Fraser A wanderer drifts through an Australian outback DELLA MORTIKA: CAROUSEL OF SHAME mining town until an unexpected connection with Australia / 17min / 2018 a motel maid leaves him confronting his own WRI: Geraldine Martin identity. DIR: Marisa Martin AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Marisa Martin, Geraldine Martin This is the fantastical world of Della Mortika, NURSERY RHYMES where steam is king, where life is hard, but Australia / 5min / 2017 where adventure is always adventure. WRI/PROD: Will Goodfellow AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Tom Noakes PROD: Lucy Gaffy, Morgan Benson-Taylor SPECTRUM On the side of a rural highway, a bizarre Australia / 15 min / 2018 encounter with a Metalhead takes a profound WRI: Timothy Parish, Philip Tarl Denson turn. DIR: Timothy Parish PROD: Gaia Osborne CALLING Ari is a young child diagnosed on the autism Australia / 14min / 2018 spectrum is prescribed an A.I. ‘sidekick’ which WRI/DIR: Miley Tunnecliffe will help him in day to day life. The two of them PROD: Emilia Jolakoska, Miley Tunnecliffe quickly bond and Ari begins to learn far more A modern comedy chronicling the dysfunctional than anyone expected. relationship between a mother and daughter NSW PREMIERE entirely through their phone calls. NSW PREMIERE SLEEPWALKING Australia / 20min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Melissa Anastasi PROD: Eva Di Blasio Phoenix, 12, lives on an isolated property with his sleepwalking mother, and overbearing religious stepfather, who is intent on moulding him in his image. Phoenix’s loyalties are torn when he and his mother try to break free of the control his stepfather has over their lives. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

PAPERCUT Australia / 15 min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Damian Overton PROD: Manon Lewis, Danielle Redford, Damian Overton Two closeted actors on their way to their first high profile awards ceremony fight both FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Spectrum, Nursery expectation and each other, as intimacy and Rhymes, Della Mortika: Carousel of Shame, insecurity collide in the back seat of a car. Sleepwalking AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

14 BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 4 NO SINCERER LOVE SUNDAY 13 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 14min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Amelia Saunders DURATION: 108 MIN PROD: Shireen Narayanan Harriet has prepared a tea party for her friends. HARD RUBBISH But that afternoon, the girls’ anxieties run Australia / 11min / 2018 rampant, and their seemingly perfect lives WRI: Michael Beck begin to unravel. DIR: Stephen Packer WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Adam Camporeale While vandalizing a private girls high school late CATTLE at night, image conscious 15 year old Simon & Australia / 20min / 2018 his friends are caught off guard by a gang of WRI: Kerinne Jenkins the very people they are trying to emulate. DIR: Kerrine Jenkins AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Katie Amos On a rural cattle farm, two sisters worry about THE HUNT their mother’s cancer, but an unexplained death Australia / 9min / 2018 in the herd gives the girls cause to go out alone WRI/DIR: Holly Hargreaves, Catherine Mack looking for answers. PROD: Holly Hargreaves, Catherine Mack, NSW PREMIERE Nigel Huckle Set in a dystopian world in which women hunt DOTS men in the name of equality, five female hunters Australia / 23min / 2017 must choose between loyalty or the law. WRI/DIR: Eryk Lenartowicz AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Rebecca Janek People start dying after the arrival of a ETERNAL mysterious stranger in a small Australian town. Australia / 16min / 2018 Despite this, the local police officer is too WRI/DIR/PROD: S.F. Tusa preoccupied by his dream Mercedes to pay PROD: Ewan Cutler, Lalania Tusa,Curtis Lambert attention to the deaths surrounding him. During one night, 3 teenagers; James, Royston and Saskia seek to escape their troubled home lives, only to find that they may have brought the trouble with them. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

HERE THERE BE MONSTERS Australia / 15min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Drew Macdonald PROD: Steve Geddes To escape incessant bullying on the bus ride home, a young girl falls asleep only to wake up trapped at an empty bus yard, with something lurking outside - something big - and if she wants to make it out alive, this frightened girl will have to unleash a monster of her own. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: No Sincerer Love, The Hunt, Here There Be Monsters, Hard Rubbish

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BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 5 WALLSPACE MONDAY 15 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 6 min / 2018 DURATION: 116 MIN WRI/DIR: Mohini Herse PROD: Sleena Wilson Perenna is haunted by a scratching noise SAMMY THE SALMON coming from her wall. Australia / 7min / 2018 WORLD PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Jake Shannon PROD: Chris Luscri POST MORTEM MARY Spencer, a closeted homosexual, is offered help Australia / 10min / 2017 from a talking salmon to get his love life back WRI/DIR: Joshua Long on track. PROD: Daniel Schultz, Ben Nott WORLD PREMIERE Mary and her mother run a post-mortem photography business in 1840’s Australia. They HOME arrive to a small farmhouse to find devastated Australia / 16min / 2018 parents grieving over the death of their WRI/DIR: Peter Gurbiel daughter but as they get to work Mary’s mother PROD: Iris Tascon, Jess Black, Peter Gurbiel is required to comfort the grieving parent, Tormented by the news that they bear, two men leaving Mary alone to confronts her phobia from town watch over a family whose lives are she must do all she can to make the dead look about to change forever. alive… WORLD PREMIERE NSW PREMIERE

TANGLES AND KNOTS MUTT Australia / 16 min / 2017 Australia / 17min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Renée Marie Petropoulos WRI/DIR: Sara West PROD: Janet Brown, Yingna Lu PROD: Cowan, Jodie Kirkbride A intimate bond between mother and daughter In the desolate landscape of the South becomes threatened when the mother helps Australian river land a young girl struggles her teenage daughter throw a house party to to find meaning in the wake of her mothers impress new, more popular friends. chosen death by helping others to do the same. NSW PREMIERE SWALLOWS Australia / 17min / 2018 SAD SACHS DIR: Victoria Thompson Australia / 10 min / 2018 PROD: Linus Gibson WRI/DIR: Joel Perlgut Set in Australia’s frontier past, a young PROD: Sarah Christie, Sleena Wilson Indigenous boy begins work on an isolated 7KH6DFKVVLEOLQJVDUHUXQQLQJODWHWRWKHLUFRXVLQ¶V sheep property and forms a connection with the ZHGGLQJZKHQWKHLUGULYHUOHWVORRVHDEL]DUUHDQWL owner’s daughter. 6HPHWLFUDQW6DG6DFKVLVDEODFNFRPHG\DERXWD WORLD PREMIERE ORYLQJIDPLO\DFRXQWU\ZHGGLQJDQGDQHR1D]L WORLD PREMIERE LIL BOIS Australia / 17min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Grant Thompson PROD: Courtney Collins After swimming with his friends in a billabong, : Lil Bois, Post Mortem FROM TOP TO BOTTOM a nervous little boy returns to his camp and Mary, Swallows, Mutt discovers everything has changed. NSW PREMIERE

16 BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 6 UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY TUESDAY 15 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 20 min / 2018 DURATION: 113 MIN WRI/DIR: Tyson Mowarin PROD: Robyn Marais Uncle inflicts an impromptu visit to country on THE SNIP his wayward nephews, imposing two cultural Australia / 16min / 2018 traditions, one highly literary and the other WRI: Chas Fisher deeply personal, to get them thinking about a DIR/PROD: Ben Mizzi new way to go. The Snip gets to the meat and potatoes of family pressure to have kids, and one man’s unique MONSTERS solution to overcome the problem once and for Australia / 7min / 2018 all. WRI/DIR: Sophie Hawkshaw WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Rebekah Hawkey On the night of his wife’s funeral, Alex attempts BIRDIE to put his son Jamie to sleep. Grief has a way Australia / 8min / 2018 of lurking, like a monster under the bed. WRI/DIR: Shelly Lauman WORLD PREMIERE PROD: Lizzie Cater On a bright, ordinary day a woman walks alone FINAL RESTING POSE to the train station. As she descends the stairs Australia / 4min / 2018 to the underground platform she smiles at a WRI: Gemma Yates-Round young man. He smiles back. With the smallest DIR: Alyson Standen of gestures, the woman is caught in a subtle PROD: Lauren Jessie Jones, Gemma Yates- and sinister game. Round NSW PREMIERE After the loss of her partner, a young woman uniquely navigates her way through grief, within BLOOD ORANGE the confines of her small flat. Australia / 15min / 2018 WORLD PREMIERE WRI/DIR: M.P. Wills PROD: Sharath Ravishankar THE PROJECTIONIST A blind man tormented by the mysterious Australia / 18min / 2018 disappearance of his dog is one day visited by WRI/DIR/PROD: Marcus McKenzie a sadistic childhood friend, igniting a disturbing PROD: Kirsty Stark, Daniel Principe journey of self discovery. Jack is an elderly widower grieving the recent WORLD PREMIERE loss of his wife. While cleaning out their house he discovers an old Super 8mm film projector BODIES that transports him into the world of the films Australia / 15min / 2017 it plays. WRI: Laura Nagy, Daniel Monks WORLD PREMIERE DIR: Laura Nagy PROD: Yingna Lu SHERBERT ROZENCRANTZ, YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL A toxic friendship between two teenage girls is Australia / 10min / 2018 brought to breaking point as they compete for WRI/DIR: Natalie van den Dungen the attention of their gym class teacher. PROD: Nicole Coventry AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Milly’s world revolves around her pet guinea pig. When her mother attempts to engineer FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Bodies, Birdie, for her a ‘real’ friend, it results in ridicule and The Projectionist, Blood Orange forces Milly to question her sense of self. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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BEST OF AUSTRALIAN 7 JUDAS COLLAR WEDNESDAY 16 JAN 8:45PM Australia / 15min / 2018 DURATION: 111 MIN WRI/DIR: Alison James PROD: Brooke Silcox In outback Australia, a wild female camel is

THE LOST SOUND captured and fitted with a tracking device Australia / 2min / 2018 known as a Judas Collar based on a real-life WRI: Hiromi It practice, Judas Collar explores the importance DIR/PROD: Steffie Yee of connection and the tragedy of self-sacrifice. Inspired by the poem ‘On Ç’ by Hiromi It ,a woman looks at the matrilineal inheritance PINCHPOT of linguistic tones in her family, mourning the Australia / 4min / 2018 parts of languages that become extinct through WRI/DIR/PROD: Greg Holfeld semantic evolution. A short story about art and work, giving and receiving, life and death, and things made from I F*CKED A MERMAID AND lumps of clay. NO ONE BELIEVES ME AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia / 15min / 2018 WRI: Joel Perlgut SHAKESPEARE IN TOKYO DIR: Madeleine Gottlieb Australia / 20min / 2018 PROD: Cyna Strachan, Liam Heyen WRI/DIR: Genevieve Clay-Smith Gilligan is 15. He’s into epistolary novels and PROD: Seigo Tono, Henry Smith, Tetsuya psychoanalysis. His Mum has died, and in Bessho an effort to connect with a son he doesn’t A man with Down syndrome embarks on a solo understand, his Dad has taken him on a adventure to discover Tokyo. crummy beachside holiday. NSW PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE TROLL BRIDGE A CIVILIZED LIFE Australia / 25min / 2018 Australia / 15min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Daniel Knight WRI: Victoria Keon-Cohen, Daniel Jay Sheiman PROD: Ahren Morris DIR: Victoria Keon-Cohen An old barbarian and his talking horse, embark PROD: Victoria Keon-Cohen, Lawrence Bender, on a suicidal quest to battle a bridge troll. Dean Winters, Andrea Harrison WORLD PREMIERE In 1870 during a drought in the old west, two girls who have been bought by miners as wives, pursue their independence as survival endures over morality. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

KHANA KHAZANA Australia / 15min / 2017 DIR: Arka Das PROD: Nicholas Mutton A migrant worker discovers the dark side of immigrant labour as his boss starts to control his destiny. FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Judas Collar, Pinchpot, Shakespeare in Tokyo, Troll Bridge AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 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).

BEST OF DOCUMENTARY 1 BARBARA TUESDAY 15 JAN 4:30PM Australia / 5min / 2017 TOTAL DURATION: 112 MIN WRI/DIR: Larissa Behrendt PROD: Kiki Dillon , Michaela Perske Noongar woman Barbara was caring for her THROUGH THE WINDOW grandchildren when her daughter Tiara was Australia / 4min / 2018 taken by welfare workers and relocated. WRI: Nick Baker Barbara, with the help of other Grandmothers, DIR/PROD: Cecilia Rumore, Tristan Klein, Nick Baker fought for the next seven months to have Tiara Through the Window is an animation inspired by returned… Nas Campanella, a 29-year-old Triple J newsreader AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE who has been blind since six months of age. WORLD PREMIERE HAMAMA & CALUNA Switzerland / 23min / 2018 PRISONER OF SOCIETY WRI/DIR: Andreas Anuuk Muggli Georgia / 15min / 2018 PROD: Edith Flückiger DIR: Rati Tsiteladze The two young friends Hamama and Caluna An intimate journey into the world and mind of have left everything behind to flee their home a young transgender woman, locked away from country and ended up stranded in a camp in the outside world for the past decade, trapped northern Italy. One day, they decide to cross the between her personal desire for freedom and closed border into Switzerland over the Alps. traditional expectations of her parents that AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE threaten their unity. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE HULA GIRL United States / 10 min 20 sec / 2018 JUCK [THRUST] DIR: Riess Hill / 17min / 2018 Hula Girl is the untold story behind one of the DIR: Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika biggest fads in modern American history. At Bandeira 94 years of age, Joan Anderson has waited 60 PROD: Dea Saracevic years to prove that “a gentleman’s handshake ” This groundbreaking group of dancers push the was hardly a deal and it’s time to set the record boundaries for how we are used to seeing the straight. female body. They provoke, inspire and break norms. The film poses the question: what is femininity? AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

THE DARKROOM Australia / 10min / 2018 WRI: David Boon DIR/PROD: David Boon, Simeon Pratt A photographer wrestles with raw emotions and a void in his life after his brother passes away violently, while on a life affirming journey across Iceland and Australia. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Barbara, Juck, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: THE UNCONDITIONAL The Unconditional, Hula Girl United States / 30 min / 2017 WRI: Matt Cascella DIR: Dave Adams An unflinching look into the lives of two undiagnosed special needs kids and their parents as they grow older with no answers in sight. WORLD PREMIERE

20 BEST OF DOCUMENTARY 2 GUAXUMA TUESDAY 15 JAN 6:30PM Brazil / 14min / 2018 TOTAL DURATION: 120 MIN WRI/DIR: Nara Normande PROD: Damien Megherbi, Justin Pechberty, Livia de Melo EDEK Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north United Kingdom / 6min / 2018 east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea WRI/DIR: Malcolm Green breeze brings me back happy memories. PROD: Marc Cave, Sara Huxley AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE An 85 year old Holocaust survivor named Janine and a young American rapper named DUST DEVIL Kapoo collaborate to deliver a Hip Hop message Australia / 9min / 2018 to the youth of the world. A poignant and DIR/PROD: Poppy Walker uniquely challenging fusion of prose, music In Death Valley’s ghost town, a dancer brings and rap. For the first time, one of the world’s her gilded dream to life. darkest stories is told in an entirely new way. WORLD PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE KYOKO CIRCLE Spain / 20min / 2018 United Kingdom, Canada, India / 14min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Marcos Cabotá, Joan Bover WRI/DIR/PROD: Jayisha Patel PROD: Joan Bover, Nacho Tejedor, Carmelo Present-day India. Three men sit at the edge Sirera of a field smoking. A woman is crouched in On April 23, 1971, Mallorca witnessed an the field working. Another is cleaning the floor extraordinary event: the arrest of in the house. Two young women are shucking and Yoko Ono. The reason was the kidnapping peas. One of them tells her sister about of a girl named Kyoko.. her rape and who she blames. It’s her own AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE grandmother’s fault. The fire blazes away out in the field. THIS IS YARRA AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia / 15min / 2018 DIR: Lydia Rui THE AMBASSADOR’S WIFE PROD: Lydia Rui, Nima Sobhani, Bonnie Moir Sweden / 20min / 2018 For nearly 15 years, basketball has played WRI/DIR/PROD: Theresa Traore Dahlberg a central role in bringing together the South We find ourselves in an extravagant garden Sudanese community in Australia. ‘THIS IS in Ouagadougou. The French Ambassador’s YARRA’ follows the story of Riyadh Aden and wife dreamt about becoming a famous opera Deng Dut of the Yarra Wild Beasts as they singer. Instead, she is now using the singing as prepare for the South Sudanese Australian a ventilator to survive her seemingly privileged National Basketball Association Tournament, life surrounded by workers. This film raises with the hope of taking home their first trophy questions about power structures, class, for the junior team intersectionality, post colonialism and feminism AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE in a poetic, subtle and seductive way. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE CHASING MONSTERS Australia/ 5min /2018 THE BARBER SHOP DIR: Krystle Wright, Toby Pike France / 17 min / 2017 PROD: Canon Australia FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: The Barbar Shop, This is WRI/DIR: Emilien Cancet, Gustavo Almenara For the past 20 years, Australian photographer Yarra, The Ambassador's Wife, Guaxuma PROD: Luc Camilli Nick Moir has been chasing weather systems Surrendered to razors and scissors, Emran, throughout the world. Nick journeys through the Gadisa and Maher are having their hair cut famous Tornado alley that stretches through the or beard trimmed. Sitting before the mirror, American midwest that produces catastrophic their thoughts drift between memories of the yet beautiful storms that earn the appropriate land and the tragic events of the journey that nickname, monsters on the plains. brought them here, to the Calais Jungle.. (Screening Out Of Competition) AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 21 EU :/69;-034SHOWCASE

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

EU :/69;-034SHOWCASE 1 A TARGET THURSDAY 17 JAN 6:30PM Finland / 8min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Antti Heikki Pesonen DURATION: 102 MINS PROD: Miia Haavisto Arto is waiting for his wife and child in his car. BETWEEN THE SHADOWS As they return from the store they tell him that Portugal / 13min / 2018 an unknown man harassed them. Arto decides WRI/DIR: Mónica Santos, Alice Guimarães to take the law into his own hands and plans to PROD: Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura, Jean- make a video to shame the man on social media. François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois, Pedro AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Medeiros Natália, trapped in a tedious job, engages THE MANDARIN TREE in a search for a stolen heart. In a world Germany / 18min / 2017 where hearts can be deposited in a bank, the WRI: Cengiz Akaygün, Duc-Thi Bui protagonist faces a dilemma: give her heart or DIR: Cengiz Akaygün keep it to herself. PROD: Philipp Lutz AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE After her father is arrested for political reasons by the Turkish government, little Sirin is finally A SIEGE allowed to visit him in prison for the first time. Hungary / 23min / 2018 When a prison official interprets her painting of a WRI: Kálmán Gasztonyi bird as an anarchistic symbol and confiscates it, DIR: István Kovács the girl is devastated, but her father encourages PROD: Mónika Mécs, Nóra Alföldi, Tamás her to believe in the freedom of thought. Hutlassa, Barnabás Hutlassa, Gábor Osváth AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE 1994, Sarajevo. No water, no electricity nor food in the town under siege. Tea Mikic, THE BOX despite the horrible war conditions, manages Slovenia / 12min / 2017 to keep her positivity. She lost her husband WRI/DIR/PROD: Dušan Kastelic during the war and is completely self- You have probably heard of the phrase “To sufficient. She is getting ready for something in think outside of the box”? Well, this is a story the morning, so she decides to wash her hair about such a box. The box is full of miserable even though all her backup supplies are gone. creatures. One of those creatures doesn’t belong She starts her desperate journey to look for there. He’s thinking outside of the box… water, and neither her neighbors nor sniper fire AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE can stop her. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

THE ATLAS Poland / 28min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Maciej Kawalski PROD: Ewa Jastrzębska A remote, and a bit crazy, psychiatric hospital receives a curious patient — he doesn’t move nor speak but spends his days standing with his hands up. The only thing known is his nickname — “The Atlas”. In a word, he is a FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: A Siege, The Box, riddle and a riveting one at that. A Target, The Mandarin Tree AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

22 EU :/69;-034SHOWCASE 2 RISE OF A STAR SATURDAY 19 JAN 4:30PM France / 18min / 2018 WRI: Stephane Landowski DURATION: 115 MINS DIR: James Bort PROD: Boris Mendza

UNTRAVEL Emma is about to be the new Ballerina at Paris Serbia, Slovakia / 9min / 2018 Opera. But something upsets her. A secret. A WRI: Ana Nedeljkovic secret liable to undermine what she has spent DIR: Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr. a whole life on. PROD: Jelena Mitrovic AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A film about (local) patriotism, tourism and emigration. The girl lives in a gray, isolated WILDEBEEST country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has Belgium / 19min / 2017 never travelled anywhere, but all her life she :5,',51LFRODV.HSSHQV0DWWKLDV3KOLSV has dreamt of leaving forever for a perfect 352'%UHFKWYDQ(OVODQGH%HUW/HVDIIHU world called “Abroad”. Going on a safari is a dream for many. For AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE middle-aged couple Linda and Troyer, it turns into a horribly real adventure when they get left THE AMBASSADOR’S WIFE behind in the wilderness. Sweden / 20min / 2018 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Theresa Traore Dahlberg We find ourselves in an extravagant garden MAGIC ALPS in Ouagadougou. The French Ambassador’s Italy / 15min / 2018 wife dreamt about becoming a famous opera WRI: Andrea Brusa, Giuseppe Isoni, Marco singer. Instead, she is now using the singing as Scotuzzi a ventilator to survive her seemingly privileged DIR: Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi life surrounded by workers. This film raises PROD: Andrea Italia questions about power structures, class, An Afgani refugee arrives in Italy with his goat intersectionality, post colonialism and feminism and seeks political asylum for both of them. in a poetic, subtle and seductive way. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FLOWING THROUGH WONDER BEST GAME EVER France / 14min / 2018 Hungary / 20min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Joanna Lurie , Jean-Marc Bouzigues WRI/DIR/PROD: Marcus McKenzie PROD: Christian Pfohl PROD: Kirsty Stark It’s time for the villagers to start their journey. When two CCTV technicians find out about an They cross the perilous water in nutshells, with AI machine threatening their jobs, they must get their loved ones to their final destination... out of their chairs to beat the system - leading where the blue sky and the blue ocean meet up. them to an unexpected solution. The new short When do we leave the world of the living? film of Academy Award-winner Kristóf Deák. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

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KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 23 LOVE BITES

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

LOVE BITES 1 6ATE7 THURSDAY 17 JAN 8:45 PM Australia / 16min / 2018 DURATION: 101 MIN WRI/DIR: : Tim, putting the final touches on his ‘Vol 7 - Songs for and about Em’ CD mix (his annual anniversary SAMMY THE SALMON gift to the love of his life), joyfully discovers a letter Australia / 7min / 2018 from Emma’s gynaecologist. It can only mean the WRI/DIR: Jake Shannon good news that she is pregnant - something they Spencer, a closeted homosexual, is offered have been trying to do for a long time. Playful help from a talking salmon to get his love life banter quickly descends into harsh accusations back on track. as they dance around each other, searching AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE for the truth, seemingly too ugly to bear. Alone, Tim comes upon a mother and son and in their EDITH & HENRY interaction, realises what Emma had really done. France / 14min / 2018 What appeared to be betrayal was, in truth, the WRI/DIR: Clémence Lebatteux highest love and greatest sacrifice. PROD: Arhtur Goisset, Bastien Daret, Robin Robles After 50 years of marriage, Edith discovers that GOOD HANDS GOOD FEET Henry consults porn websites on the computer Taiwan / 13min / 2018 they just bought. She decides to lock herself WRI/DIR: Marshall Law in her room but her husband is watching her PROD: Ocean Wang through the keyhole… A naughty game is Ex-lovers reunite, they must work together to about to start between them. seize the opportunity that will allow them to AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE redeem themselves. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE TEMPTATION Australia / 9min / 2017 JUST TELL HIM HOW YOU FEEL DIR: James Nicholson Australia / 5min / 2018 WRI/PROD: Kate Ingram WRI: Melissa Brownlow Alli and Nathan are totally and completely DIR/PROD: Joshua Calder addicted to sex. That is until they are asked to $\RXQJZRPDQEDUHVKHUKHDUWLQDSDLQIXOO\ take a pledge to reframe from sexual contact. DZNZDUGDQGXQUHFLSURFDWHGGHFODUDWLRQRIORYH Then things get complicated for these two. -XVW7HOO+LP+RZ

24 LOVE BITES 2 F*CK FRIDAY 18 JAN 6:30 PM United Kingdom / 10min / 2018 DURATION:108 MIN WRI: Helen Simmons DIR: Danny Morgan PROD: Stephanie Aspin, Helen Simmons INLOVE A young couple try to navigate their sex life France / 7min / 2018 after the birth of their baby. WRI/DIR: Les Fères Lopez INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE While on patrol in a Middle Eastern country, a western army squad stops for a while in the THE PROPOSAL village of Iqmarba… Norway / 6min / 2018 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Det Sporadiske Filmkollektivet Out on the ocean in a little rowboat Joachim THE BOOKSHOP gets down on his knee and proposes to Toril, Australia / 9min / 2018 the woman of his dreams. Unfortunately Toril WRI/DIR/PROD: Ashley Pollard has a slightly different perception of their A desperate writer tries to woo a publisher relationship. into taking on his manuscript. But has his INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE arrogance, and stupidity, got in the way of something more real than a book deal? TRYING Australia / 9min / 2018 OFF PISTE WRI/DIR/PROD: Holly Hargreaves, Simone Ball Switzerland / 15min / 2018 An improv’d drama following two couples as WRI/DIR: Jules Pourchet they spend the weekend away together, only Gaspard, a young seasonal worker in a ski to be confronted with the problems in their resort, is in love with his new colleague Chloé. relationships. He understands that Chloe is not interested, AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE and that she makes fun of him. Through the snow-covered peaks of Jura, which can be BETWEEN THE SHADOWS as dangerous as they are beautiful, Gaspard, Portugal / 13min / 2018 this young man smooth in every respect, find WRI/DIR: Mónica Santos, Alice Guimarães himself confronted with his own nature, more PROD: Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura, Jean- cruel than he thought. François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois, Pedro AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Medeiros Natália, trapped in a tedious job, engages THE ORGY in a search for a stolen heart. In a world United KIngdom / 15min / 2017 where hearts can be deposited in a bank, the WRI/DIR: Sam Baron protagonist faces a dilemma: give her heart or PROD: Tilly Coulson keep it to herself. A romantic comedy about a heartbroken guy AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE who throws caution to the wind and goes to an orgy. THE SNIP AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Australia / 16min / 2018 WRI: Chas Fisher HIGH SCHOOL LOVER DIR/PROD: Ben Mizzi Australia / 8min / 2018 The Snip gets to the meat and potatoes of WRI/DIR: Cielo Croci family pressure to have kids, and one man’s FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: The Proposal, The Orgy, If you ever really loved them, maybe you unique solution to overcome the problem once The Snip, The Bookshop always will. and for all. WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE

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

SATURDAY 19 JAN 2:00PM ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE DURATION: 111 mins Australia / 3 min / 2018 DIR: Luce Carnivale and Max Askew WRI: Class 4/5 Galaxy MIND CHANGER PROD: Darlinghurst Public School Australia / 1 min / 2017 The school has been hit by a meteorite. Half WRI/DIR: Harvey Pyefinch the class turns into zombies. How can we turn Brett goes into a transformer shop and turns them back? himself into a tyre but then he is not so sure about his new look. CHOCOLYPSE! Australia / 8 min / 2017

MY CAT HAS ISSUES WRI/DIR: Students of Stage 3, Glenwood Australia / 2 min / 2018 Public School DIR: Claire Davison, Myah French, Tahlia Jones, PROD: Thomas R. Gough Evie Spears, Liam Taylor A new choc bar is coming to town - but WRI: Myah French, Tahlia Jones, Evie Spears, warning: it may contain traces of something Liam Taylor, Claire Davison strange! My cat has issues. Yesterday he curiously disappeared. RUNNING LATE Australia / 7 min / 2018

#LIKED DIR/WRI: Jason Fricker Australia / 8 min / 2018 PROD: Helena Moore DIR/ WRI: Gladesville Public School Auditions for the talent search competition kick PROD: Lisa Jencsok, Jane Fitzpatrick, Maria off at 10am sharp - don’t be late! Kotovc One girl. One phone. One screen obsessed THIS IS ME. family. What could possibly go wrong? Australia / 7 min / 2018 WRI/DIR/PROD: Bella Merlino

SPENDING TIME WISELY The poignant story of a young girl suffering Australia / 2 min / 2017 exclusion, bullying and low self esteem. WRI/DIR/PROD: Essex Heights Primary School Grade 4CT ROSIE What do you know about time? Australia / 5 min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Ellen Weiss

GOLD RUSH PROD: St Marys Anglican Girls School Australia / 3 min / 2018 Rosie experiences the pressure of the transition WRI/DIR: 6E of moving out of school and into adulthood. PROD: Cabramatta Public School A school gets turned on its head when gold ELYSIAN is found. Australia / 8 min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Matthew Lowe, Sean Grace

WATER’S SPELL PROD: Joseph Baronio, Johanna Hayes Australia / 2 min / 2018 When a boy enters an idyllic simulation, the DIR: Heather Britton lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur. WRI: Areti Tsironis, Rosy Gaden, Sonny Laing, Nick Smoljko PROD: Yaraville West PS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Dead Weight, My Cat Has Olga is a young witch who just wants to join Issues, Water's Spell, Elysian the village children in their game.

26 ANANSI YOURS BEFORE I KNEW Australia / 4 min / 2018 Australia / 2 min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Elliot Gibson WRI/DIR/PROD: Alexandra Lipa PROD: Cindy Carpenter 7ZRVRXOPDWHVUHLQFDUQDWHDVWKH\ILQGHDFK Potion master, Anansi, is a man of many faces. RWKHURYHUDQGRYHUDJDLQDVORYHUV Which face will he show an innocent boy in search of a potion for his sick father? DEAD WEIGHT Australia / 9 min / 2018 FINALS NIGHT DIR/ WRI: Daniel Shen Australia / 5 min / 2018 PROD: Richard Leask WRI/DIR: Hugo Odgers Look inside. What are you holding onto? Late night surprise WHY? PANCAKES Australia / 2 min / 2018 Australia / 1 min / 2018 DIR: Simon Digby WRI/DIR: Amelia Pieri PROD: Scotch College A little boy writes a letter to his grandmother, A stop-motion clay man develops an trying to remind her of the special times understanding of his world and learns not to they’ve shared. jump to conclusions so quickly.

HITCHCOCK SYNDROME WHEN IT RAINS Australia / 7 min / 2018 Australia / 5 min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Leonardo Bosi DIR: Lachlan Thompson A strange disease leads two friends into a WRI: Nick Ward muddy world. Love the rain - love me

CLOWN IN THE DUMPS MEMORY PALACE Australia / 9 min / 2018 Australia / 1 min / 2018 WRI/DIR Jordan Foulkes WRI/DIR: Austin Macfarlane PROD Ashley Hall PROD: Austin Macfarlane Snuggles the Clown has been Natalie’s When a boy loses his keys, he cunningly enters imaginary friend for 12 years. Today, Snuggles is his ‘Memory Palace’ – a collection of every getting dumped. event in his life – where he can step from hour to hour in an instant. THE SOUND SILENCE MAKES Australia / 6 min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Coco Mata-Heppenstall PROD: Jordan Paolillo A young boy has his world and relationships change forever.

LEASED Australia / 5 min / 2018 WRI/DIR/PROD: Madelaine Jamieson A new neighbour moves in and it all turns sour after a horrific accident occurs.

FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Hitchcock Syndrome, Yours Before I Knew, Anansi, Leased

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

SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY 1 HARD RUBBISH FRIDAY 18 JANUARY 8:45 PM Australia / 11min / 2018 WRI: Michael Beck DURATION 105 MIN DIR: Stephen Packer PROD: Adam Camporeale THE GREEN BIRD While vandalizing a private girls high school late at night, France / 7min / 2017 image conscious 15 year old Simon & his friends are WRI/DIR/PROD: Pierre Perveyrie, Maximilien caught off guard by a gang of the very people they are Bourgeouis, Marina Goalard, Irina Nguyen-Duc, trying to emulate. Quentin Dubois. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A Green Bird lays its first egg. It’s going to try everything to make it hatch. TEA WITH LEMON AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE United Kingdom / 12min / 2018 WRI/DIR:Robert Harrison DOLLS PROD: Katie Byfor, Max Hatfield Australia / 6min / 2018 A clueless poet and café regular attempts to charm WRI: Clare Sladden a waitress by constructing an enigmatic persona and DIR: Clare Sladden, Jasmine Sladden learning her mother tongue. But she is too preoccupied PROD: Clare Sladden by her failing marriage to notice his futile efforts. A man fights to save his unconventional relationship during an emotional break-up. BRYCE AND LIAM GO TO SPACE! WORLD PREMIERE Australia / 6min / 2018 WRI/PROD: Bryce Padovan, Liam Seymour ARTEM SILENDI DIR: Bryce Padovan France / 8min / 2017 Two best friends take the extraterrestrial adventure of a WRI: Cécile Larripa, Philippe Pinel lifetime, all starting one night in Bryce and Liam’s back DIR: Frank Ychou shed in Melbourne. PROD: Martin Berléand Sisters are sinners like others. HOW IT FEELS TO BE HUNGOVER AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Sweden / 10min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Viktor Hertz I F*CKED A MERMAID AND NO ONE BELIEVES ME PROD: Johann Skirnir Gustavsson Australia / 15min / 2018 A man wakes up at a clinic specialized in malignant WRI: Joel Perlgut hangovers. The doctor prescribes 600 ml of ice cream DIR: Madeleine Gottlieb and two action comedies, but also shares some news, PROD: Cyna Strachan, Liam Heyen which doesn’t make him feel any better... Gilligan is 15. He’s into epistolary novels and AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE psychoanalysis. His Mum has died, and in an effort to connect with a son he doesn’t CATNAP understand, his Dad has taken him on a Australia / 10min / 2018 crummy beachside holiday. WRI/DIR: Alan King AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Alan King, Angela Ling Socially challenged Danny embarks on an unusual ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR transgression in a desperate attempt to get his chaotic Canada / 14min / 2018 life under control. WRI/DIR: Alison Snowden, David Fine AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Michael Fukushima FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Animal Behaviour, Dolls, Dealing with what comes naturally isn’t easy, HORS PISTE How It Feels To Be Hungover, I F*cked A especially for animals. In Animal Behaviour, the France / 6min / 2018 Mermaid And No One Believes Me latest animated short from the Oscar®-winning DIR: Léo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, team of Alison Snowden and David Fine (Bob’s Oscar Malet Birthday), five animals meet regularly to discuss PROD: Julien Deparis their inner angst in a group therapy session led by The two best rescue workers of the region are ready Dr. Clement, a canine psychotherapist. for their new mission. Despite their professionalism and their determination, it will not go as planned…

28 SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY 2 WILDEBEEST SATURDAY 19 JANUARY 8:45 PM Belgium / 19min / 2017 WRI/DIR: Nicolas Keppens, Matthias Phlips DURATION 102 MINS PROD: Brecht van Elslande, Bert Lesaffer Going on a safari is a dream for many. For DEATH OF A FRUIT FLY middle-aged couple Linda and Troyer, it turns Germany / 5min / 2017 into a horribly real adventure when they get left WRI: Lukas von Berg, Oliver Krause behind in the wilderness. DIR: Lukas von Berg AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Oliver Krause A tiny fruit fly gets swatted. But against all odds, ARREARS it defies death the Italian way. Australia / 11min / 2018 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Wilf Watson PROD: Wilf Watson, Madelon te Lintum MAN SPIDER A humorous story about a man struggling United Kingdom / 8min / 2018 in a mad world. A world where oxygen is WRI/DIR/PROD: Tom Oxenham a commodity and bad customer service is WRI/PROD: Simon Alcock pervasive. A world where losing one’s job to PROD: Hugo Nicholson artificial intelligence is the norm. And a world Everyone knows the Spiderman story: man gets where forgetting to pay bills on time can be fatal. bitten by spider, gets spider powers, becomes NSW PREMIERE hero. But radioactive metamorphosis is a two- way street. So what about the spider who bit DISPERSION Peter Parker? What ever became of him? Switzerland / 8min / 2018 WORLD PREMIERE WRI/DIR/PROD: Basile Vuillemin A man uses an automated funeral homes DOTS company to bury his mother. Australia / 23min / 2017 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WRI/DIR: Eryk Lenartowicz PROD: Rebecca Janek CALLING People start dying after the arrival of a Australia / 14min / 2018 mysterious stranger in a small Australian town. WRI/DIR: Miley Tunnecliffe Despite this, the local police officer is too PROD: Emilia Jolakoska, Miley Tunnecliffe preoccupied by his dream Mercedes to pay A modern comedy chronicling the dysfunctional attention to the deaths surrounding him. relationship between a mother and daughter entirely through theri phone calls. MAMARTUILE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Mexico / 12min / 2017 WRI: Gabriel Nuncio, Abraham Nuncio FREAKS OF NURTURE DIR: Alejandro Saevich Canada / 6min / 2018 PROD: Gabriel Nuncio, Alejandro Saevich DIR: Alexandra Lemay The president of Mexico spends his final days in PROD:Maral Mohammadian office making plans for his future. Everything A stop-motion film about a mother-daughter looks in order until an international conflict relationship bursting at the seams with babies, interrupts his pleasant rest. poodles and flying spaghetti. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Wildebeest, Calling, Man SAD SACHS Spider, Sad Sachs Australia / 10 min / 2018 WRI/DIR: Joel Perlgut PROD: Sarah Christie, Sleena Wilson 7KH6DFKVVLEOLQJVDUHUXQQLQJODWHWRWKHLUFRXVLQ¶V ZHGGLQJZKHQWKHLUGULYHUOHWVORRVHDEL]DUUHDQWL 6HPHWLFUDQW6DG6DFKVLVDEODFNFRPHG\DERXWD ORYLQJIDPLO\DFRXQWU\ZHGGLQJDQGDQHR1D]L :25/'35(0,(5( KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 29 FLICKERKIDS

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TUESDAY 15 JAN 2:00 PM THE SANDPIT DURATION: 2 MIN Australia / 7min / 2018 WRI/DIR352': 0DWW3HDUVRQ :5,PROD: (OVSHWK7UDQWZHLQ THE PIG ON THE HILL Jasmine spends her lunch digging for pebbles in United States / 6min / 2017 the school sandpit. She’s an outcast to the other WRI: John Kelly kids, but Alex sees her differently. DIR/PROD: Jamy Wheless, John Helms When Pig’s free spirited,rambunctious new BUMBARDAI neighbor, Duck, plunges himself into Pig’s quiet, Mongolia / 13min / 2018 orderly life, Pig learns that having friends is what WRI/DIR: Erdenebayar Nambaral, Luvsangaldan he has been missing all along. Erdenebalsuren AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PROD: Tamir Enkhsaikhan, Tatsuya Konoshita A 5-year-old nomadic boy will travel across ALL IN GOOD TIME the vast steppe in a blizzard to mend his ailing Ireland / 13min / 2017 mother. WRI: Rodney Lee AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE DIR: Bonnie Dempsey PROD: Sabina Smitham SPACE GIRLS A comic fantasy about two children, one United Kingdom / 10min / 2017 in 1918, the other in 2018, who magically WRI/DIR/PROD: Carys Watford communicate across time through messages in During a sleepover, four space obsessed 9-year- a bottle and help solve each other’s problems. old girls embark on a secret mission in their AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE cardboard rocket. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE JASPER Australia / 2 min / 2018 GHOSTBEAR WRI/DIR: Simon Rippingale Australia / 6min / 2017 PROD: Alessandra Grasso WRI/DIR: Paul Mc Dermott Jasper is a character piece about a little girl who A polar bear cub, the Ghostbear, wanders will stop at nothing until she achieves her dream through the antic wasteland in search of his to one day fly through the clouds. place in the world and his birthplace in the stars. WORLD PREMIERE $8675$/,$1 PREMIERE

2<(7 ZOUA 6ZLW]HUODQG / 8 min / 2018 Switzerland / 7min / 2018 WRI/DIR: 1LOV+HGLQJHU WRI/PROD: Tiziana Giammarino PROD: /LQD*HLVVPDQQ DIR: Nicolas Wendl, Erwin “Sean” Santia $WDGSROHVRPHKRZPLVVHVRXWRQEHFRPLQJD “ZOUA” tells the story of a special boy who lives IURJDQGLVOHIWEHKLQGDORQH%XWWKHUHLVPXFK on a deserted island and though he is great WRGLVFRYHULQWKHSRQGDQGVSULQJLVVXUHWRFRPH friends with the local animals, he longs more DJDLQQH[W\HDU$OLWWOHVWRU\DERXWJURZLQJXS. than anything to live where he can play with AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE other children. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

SHERBERT ROZENCRANTZ, YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL Australia / 10min / 2018 FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: All In Good Time, WRI/DIR: Natalie van den Dungen Space Girls, *KRVWEHDU, The Pig On The Hill PROD: Nicole Coventry Milly’s world revolves around her pet guinea pig. When her mother attempts to engineer for her a ‘real’ friend, it results in ridicule and forces Milly to question her sense of self. NSW PREMIERE

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SATURDAY 19 JAN 6:30PM STILLE NACHT DURATION: 117 MINS Australia / 13min / 2018 DIR: Matthew R. Young WRI:Charmaine Bingwa, Meg Ryan, PRISONER OF SOCIETY Matthew R. Young Georgia / 15min / 2018 PROD: Meg Ryan, Matthew R. Young DIR: Rati Tsiteladze A rigid German-Australian mother finds An intimate journey into the world and mind of answers to generational secrets through her a young transgender woman, locked away from gay daughter when hard truths from both their the outside world for the past decade, trapped pasts surface over a traditional tea ceremony between her personal desire for freedom and one evening. traditional expectations of her parents that WORLD PREMIERE threaten their unity. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE BLACK LIPS Australia / 15min / 2018 GIRL TALK WRI/DIR: Adrian Chiarella United States / 17min / 2018 PROD: Rebecca Janek WRI/DIR: Erica Rose A lonely abalone trader is awakened by a PROD: Chelsea Moore longing he’s never explored before. A film centered around the complexities of sex, NSW PREMIERE love and intimacy through the lens of the young and queer identified Mia. In the film, we follow NOSEBLEED Mia as she explores the disparity between United Kingdom / 9min / 2018 emotional and physical intimacy, coming to a WRI/DIR: Luna Carmoon head when she meets an intriguing couple. PROD: Loran Dunn AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Nosebleed follows a pivotal week for long-time best friends Lilah and Coby, whose friendship THE OTHER SIDE is morphing into something far more venomous Mexico / 15min / 2016 and toxic. A flower that once delicately bloomed WRI/DIR: Rodrigo Álvarez Flores proves to just as easily draw blood with its PROD: Rodrigo Álvarez Flores, Sarahí Castro, thorns… Luisa Gómez de Silva AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Felipe and Claudio form a very particular relationship, somehow destiny pulls them THERE YOU ARE apart taking Claudio to the US, now Felipe United States / 16min / 2018 must embark on a journey where he will risk WRI: Jen Richards everything in his pursuit of happiness, so he DIR: Lisa Donato can finally meet Claudio at the other side of A trans woman must dress like a boy to say the border. goodbye to her dying grandmother in Texas. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

THE WORLD IS ROUND SO THAT NOBODY CAN LAST PICK-UP HIDE IN THE CORNERS – PART 1: REFUGE United States / 4min / 2018 Germany / 13min / 2017 WRI: David Turner DIR: Leandro Goddinho DIR: Matthew Bonifacio PROD: Leandro Goddinho A young boy gathers the courage to ask The journey of an African gay refugee seeking FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Black Lips, Last Pick-Up, another boy to his senior prom. for asylum in Germany. Nosebleed, The World Is Round So That Nobody INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Can Hide In The Corners – Part 1: Refuge

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SHEILA JAYADEV ANNMAREE BELL HEATH DAVIS Sheila is a producer Annmaree Bell Heath Davis is a with a background is the producer multi-award winning in entertainment law. and co-founder of filmmaker and teacher. She produced the Azure Productions, Most recently, Davis award-winning feature with near 20 years wrote, directed and film Ali's Wedding project management produced the Australian in 2016 and prior to this produced a number experience Annmaree most recently completed feature film Book Week in conjunction with of acclaimed short films. Sheila has worked feature film Teenage Kicks with writer/director Screen Australia. Book Week recently premiered in development at Scott Free, Ridley Scott’s Craig Boreham which premiered at the to sold out sessions at the Melbourne -based production company, and also as Film Festival. Her short film Ari with writer/ International Film Festival with Bonsai Films’ a Development Executive for Create NSW and director Alex Murawski screened at TIFF kids Jonathan Page (Mary and Max, The Babadook) Screen Australia. Passionate about telling diverse and was made with the support of Screen releasing the film theatrically across Australia. stories, Sheila has written and directed various Australia. In 2012 she produced feature film Book Week is Davis’ sophomore effort following short form productions which have screened at The Jungle with writer/director Andrew Traucki 2016’s award winning drama Broke. The film festivals internationally. Sheila currently also and short Sanctuary with writer/director critically acclaimed Broke, which was named works as features development producer for Benedict Samuel, The Bunker with Rebecca in THE GUARDIAN’S Top 10 films of 2016, was Matchbox Pictures. writer/director Kate Vinen and Blue Monday released by Bonsai Films. It has played at over with writer/director Craig Boreham. In 2010 60 international film festivals and has garnered DAVID CAESAR Annmaree produced the AFTRS graduate numerous awards including Best Film, Best diploma short films Kiss with writer/director David Caesar has Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Alex Murawski which screened in the 2012 been making films Actress. In 2017 Broke enjoyed a limited UK Berlin International Film Festival and 50-50 for over 25 years, and North American theatrical run before a with writer/director Megan Riakos. In addition writing and directing worldwide VOD release. Davis just completed to the AFTRS slate, Annmaree produced The six features - notably principal photography on a multi million-dollar Bind with Michael Chrisoulakis. In 2009 she Idiot Box, Mullet - Australian crime/thriller called Locusts, produced Craig Borehams AFTRS graduate Australian Critics’ Circle award for Best Original which he not only directed but also co-wrote diploma B&W short portraying the final days Screenplay and Dirty Deeds which premiered and produced. Davis’ career also includes of Italian filmmaker Paolo Pasolini, Ostia - La at the Toronto International Film Festival. His the award-winning short films Spoon Man, Notte Finale, their short Drowning premiered documentary Bodywork had a successful Bella, Bee Sting and Rabbit which enjoyed in competition at Flickerfest and won several theatrical run in addition to winning best success at several esteemed film festivals awards around the world. Her 2009 short Vinyl documentary at Melbourne Film Festival and an including Tribeca, Telluride, London, Flickerfest, won at the 2010 Hamptons Film Festival, Frail ATOM Award and received rave reviews in both Melbourne, Seattle, Tropfest and Aspen. won the Best Film award at both the 2010 Australia and the UK. He has also directed over Newtown Film Festival and the 2008 Bondi 120 episodes of high end shows, Short Film Festival. from Bananas In Pyjamas to the popular true crime series Underbelly - most recently the miniseries Dead Lucky (2018) starring Rachel Griffiths for SBS / Subtext Pictures which has sold to Sundance TV for their subscription streaming service Sundance Now.

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SOPHIA ZACHARIOU LYNETTE WALLWORTH Sky and Five, before taking on Head of Factual As Create NSW Director and Head of Development roles for leading Emmy award winning independent production companies in Australia, of Screen Investment, director and artist Engagement and New Zealand and the UK. She’s developed Lynette Wallworth and produced factual programmes and Attraction for the past has consistently two years Sophia documentaries for a wide range of broadcasters worked with film using including Discovery, History Channel, National Zachariou led the Screen new technologies. program since the merger of the two agencies Geographic, ABC and Seven (Australia), TVNZ Wallworth’s works include the interactive video and TV3 (New Zealand). She also has extensive and prior to that was the Head of Development installation Evolution of Fearlessness; the and Production at Screen NSW. During her time experience producing and directing TV and award winning fulldome feature Coral, with its digital content around the world for high-profile at Create NSW, Sophia oversaw the launch of the accompanying augmented reality work; the Made in NSW production fund of an additional non-profit organisations including UNICEF, AACTA award winning documentary Tender, Amnesty International and Comic Relief. $20 million dollars for feature films and TV the Emmy award winning virtual reality narrative Drama as well as an increase in core funding for Collisions which premiered at the Sundance MARK JOFFE screen development and production. These have Film Festival and the 2016 World Economic included the award-winning productions such Forum, Davos and her most recent XR work Mark Joffe has directed as Warwick Thornton’s, Sweet Country, Rachel ‘Awavena’ which premiered at Sundance six feature films to Perkin’s Mystery Road and Bruce Beresford’s Film Festival and in competition at the Venice critical acclaim and Ladies in Black. She was also integral in securing Film Festival. Wallworth has been awarded commercial success the international box office hit, Peter Rabbit for an International Fellowship from Arts Council and over one hundred the state. Prior to joining Create NSW, Sophia England, a New Media Arts Fellowship from and twenty hours of quality television drama. commissioned and executive-produced hundreds the Australia Council for the Arts, the inaugural Mark’s features include The Man Who Sued of hours of television across all genres and was Australian Film, Television and Radio School God; Cosi and Spotswood () and for previously Deputy Head of Entertainment ABC Creative Fellowship and the Joan and Kim Working Title, The Matchmaker. Mark’s first TV. Prior to her time at the ABC Sophia was the Williams Documentary Fellowship. She has feature Grievous Bodily Harm earned him producer of the legendary short film series Eat been awarded a UNESCO City of Film Award, AFI Best Film and Best Director nominations; Carpet for SBS, and as an independent she the Byron Kennedy Award for Innovation and the children’s short feature Boy Soldiers was produced Australia’s first short film initiative for Excellence, and in 2016 she was named by nominated for an International Emmy and won smartphones, Micromovies, in 2004. Sophia Foreign Policy magazine as one of the year’s the Liv Ullman Peace Prize, Chicago Children’s joins Bunya Productions from January 2019 in the 100 Leading Global Thinkers. Wallworths’ most Film Festival. Mark’s most recent film is the newly-created CEO role. recent VR works have been developed at the feature documentary Jimmy Barnes Working invitation of indigenous communities. Wallworth Class Boy which he directed and produced BRIDGET CALLOW WRIGHT has been a frequent advisor to Sundance (with CJZ). The film received unprecedented Bridget Callow Wright is Institute Labs and the HIVE Labs in Australia critical acclaim and achieved the biggest box an award-winning screen and is a newly invited member of the World office opening for an Australian documentary in producer with a focus Economic Forums’ Global Future Council on cinema history. In 2016 - 2018 Mark directed on scripted narrative film Virtual and Augmented Reality. multiple episodes for the top rating Jack Irish, and television. She has the mini-series House of Bond and House produced three feature JEANIE DAVISON of Hancock, screening to huge ratings and films,and is currently producing her first television Jeanie Davison receiving an ADG Best Director nomination. show for STAN. Her most recent feature drama, manages the Other television work includes the BBC The Butterfly Tree premiered at Toronto in 2017, Documentary Worldwide telefeature Dripping in Chocolate was nominated for 3 AACTAS, won best film at Development slate at (nominated Most Outstanding Drama 2013 CIAFF, and has sold around the world. She has a Screen Australia, as ASTRA Awards) and the mini-series A Place wide network of international and local financing well as overseeing initiatives including the ABC to Call Home. Mark received his first award and producing partners, in-depth knowledge of the Art Bites series and Doculab, a talent incubator for the first mini-series he directed - The international content marketplace and an extensive initiative with the South Australian Film Great Bookie Robbery - winning the AFI physical creative producing skillset. She currently Corporation. Prior to joining Screen Australia, Best Mini-Series and Best Director. Mark has several feature film and television projects in Jeanie spent 10 years in the UK producing has also directed numerous music videos, development with support from Screen TV programmes for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, documentaries and further mini-series. and Screen Australia. She holds a Masters Degree in Screen Business.

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RENEE BRACK MILES GIBSON Renée Brack is a Miles Gibson is a versatile journalist and filmmaker and past screen professional with FlickerUp award winner, 20+ years experience taking the best senior in film TV, print and film award for his film digital. Highlights Malcolm & John in included interviews with Morgan Freeman, 2016. Since then he has gone on to write and Quentin Tarantino, Cate Blanchett, as well as direct numerous other award-winning short John Seale ACS, and Dean Semler ACS. Renée films. Miles attended the Victorian College of has written, produced and directed five short the arts to study Screenwriting in 2017 and the films and scripted two plays produced on stage Australian Film, Television, and Radio School in in the world’s largest play festival, Short+Sweet 2018 to study filmmaking. He is an assistant and has recently finished a 360 experience of editor, recently wrapping on an upcoming dementia for the documentary Ticketyboo: A feature documentary about the race car driver Secret in Plain Sight. She is also completing Jack Brabham. When not behind the camera, a postgraduate research degree with a focus Miles enjoys writing and painting. on documentary and VR scripting practice. She scripted the winning short film Red Handed which has screened in multiple international film festivals and has a small slate of screen productions in development. On some days, she lectures in film studies and production at SAE Creative Media Institute. She is a frequent guest speaker, MC, social commentator and continues to be a fervent film buff.

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KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 35 FLICKERLAB A ONE-DAY JOURNEY FROM SHORTS TO FEATURES PRESENTED BY SAE

FRIDAY 18TH JANUARY 2019, 10AM - 5PM

FlickerLab gives you the chance to immerse SESSIONS MARKET TO MARKET – CONQUER THE WORLD ON yourself in the latest filmmaking trends as ALL PLATFORMS: DISTRIBUTION, FESTIVALS AND you spend the day with some of the industry’s FROM IDEA TO PAGE MULTI-PLATFORM DISTRIBUTION leading film experts, offering up their expertise 10.00AM – 11.30AM 3.45PM – 5.15PM and wisdom with a range of panels designed to enhance and develop your creative ideas and Everyone will tell you a good script is an Now your short film is finished. What next? get your film noticed in the marketplace. The essential ingredient for any good film. Our How do you launch your next project? This entire scope of the film making experience is panel of experienced screenwriters will discuss informative session puts the spotlight on covered, from initial concept through to script, turning a good idea into a good script, looking marketing and distribution trends to get your producing, marketing, distribution and the in detail at development, collaboration and short, feature, web or TV series seen by the latest cross platform and alternative distribution script editing. They will share their insights largest audiences possible. The panel will methods. about their own transitions from independent dissect traditional distribution models and offer up innovative cross platform alternatives. Listen, share, network and engage as our shorts to lauded feature films. Discussions In the age of digital distribution find out how panellists guide you through the joys and will also include observations about writing these new models can enhance the viewing challenges of filmmaking. Absorb essential tips for some of television’s most successful and potential of your film and build your filmmaking and knowledge and be inspired on your own acclaimed dramas. This valuable session reputation. creative journey. is a must for all budding screenwriters and filmmakers looking to develop and write scripts. Our panellists on the day will include NETWORKING DRINKS

Joe Weatherstone (Producer Book Week,), THE DIRECTOR’S JOURNEY PRESENTED BY SAE CREATIVE MEDIA INSTITUTE 5.15PM – 6.45PM Jamie Hilton (Producer Breath, Swinging Safari) 11.45AM – 1.15PM John Collee (Writer/Producer Hotel Mumbai) Intimately follow the career path of an Please join the panellists and participating Alena Lodkina (Writer/Director Strange Colours) esteemed Australian director from independent filmmakers for drinks, mingling and Lisa Garner (Rialto Distribution) short filmmaker to feature film director. Areas collaborative opportunities after the final session. Danny Lechevre (FanForce) of discussion will include script development, working collaboratively, casting, directing Why not follow that up by attending Love Bites Jonathan Page (Bonsai Films) actors, where ideas come from and how to 2 at 6:30pm and Short Laughs Comedy at Andrea Ulbrick (Create NSW) make the leap from shorts to features. 8:45pm. Louise Gough (Arena Media) Richard Harris (ex-Screen Australia and SAFC) MAKING IT HAPPEN and Garry Maddox (Fairfax Media). 2.00PM – 3.30PM For more information about FlickerLab and full The Producer oversees the entire film from list of panelists please visit Flickerfest.com.au the initial idea, right through to production and distribution. They are key in making it happen. Our panellists discuss the role of the producer, from budgeting and financing to marketing, distribution and everything in between. Every producer is different and this diverse panel will share their differing approaches to the very important task of getting the film made.

36 KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! PRIZES

AUSTRALIAN AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AWARDS FLICKERUP AWARDS

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA AWARD FOR BEST AUSTRALIAN FLiCKERFEST AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL SAE CREATIVE MEDIA INSTITUTE AWARD SHORT FILM (ACADEMY® ACCREDITED) SHORT FILM (ACADEMY® ACCREDITED) FOR BEST HIGH SCHOOL PRODUCTION Prize: $2,500 Travel Voucher Prize: $2,500 AUD Prize: $500 AUD

CANON AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION IN AN AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM

Canon C100 Mark11 valued at over $7,800 AUD YORAM GROSS AWARD FOR BEST YORAM GROSS AWARD FOR HIGH SCHOOL ANIMATION BEST ANIMATION (ACADEMY® ACCREDITED) Prize: $250 AUD Prize: $1,500 AUD

AVID AWARD FOR BEST EDITING IN AN AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM Prize: Avid Media Editing System valued at over $3,450 AUD AVID AWARD FOR BEST EDITING SAE CREATIVE MEDIA INSTITUTE IN A HIGH SCHOOL FILM AWARD FOR BEST USE OF DIGITAL Prize: Avid Media Composer Editing TECHNOLOGY IN A SHORT FILM System valued at over $3450 AUD AVID AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC IN AN Prize: $500 AUD AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM Prize:Avid ‘Pro Tools’ Digital Audio Workstation & ‘Sibelius Ultimate’ software valued at over $1,800 AUD PARKER'S AWARD FOR BEST FLiCKERFEST AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY PRIMARY SCHOOL PRODUCTION SHORT FILM (ACADEMY® ACCREDITED) Prize: $250 AUD JOHN BARRY AUSTRALIA AWARD FOR BEST Prize: $500 AUD CINEMATOGRAPHY IN AN AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM Prize: Tripod valued at over $1,000

EU IN AUSTRALIA AWARD FOR BEST EU SHORT FILM REBEL8 AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING Prize: $1,000 AUD EMERGING FEMALE DIRECTOR IN HONOUR OF SAMANTHA REBILLET Prize: $1000 AUD

YORAM GROSS AWARD FOR BEST AUSTRALIAN ANIMATION Prize: $500 AUD

KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 37 NATIONAL TOUR

Please see FLICKERFEST.COM.AU for final dates and booking information for the tour. All dates and programmes subject to change.

BYRON BAY - NSW COFFS HARBOUR - NSW KATHERINE - NT 0(5,0%8/$16: Mullumbimby Civic Hall Jetty Theatre Katherine Cinemas &OXE6DSSKLUH Fri 25 - Sun 27 Jan Fri 1 Mar Thur 21 Mar )UL6DW$SU

BENDIGO - VIC CRESCENT HEAD - NSW ALICE SPRINGS - NT - WA &LYLF Gardens Communal Hall Araluen Arts Centre Lawns Denmark Civic Centre Fri 25 Jan Fri 1 Mar Fri 22 - Sun 24 Mar Thu 18 Apr

DINNER PLAIN - VICSnow MACKAY - QLD HUSKISSON, NSW CANOWINDRA - NSW Park CQ Con of Music Huskisson Pictures Rosnay Vineyard Sat 26 - Sun 27 Jan Fri 1 - Sat 2 Mar Sat 23 Mar Sat 20 Apr

ADELAIDE - SA KEMPSEY - NSW PORT MACQUARIE - NSW BUNBURY - WA Mercury Cinema Oddfellows Hall Majestic Cinemas BREC Cube Theatre Sat 2 Feb Sat 2 Mar Sat 23 Mar Fri 26 Apr

NARRABRI - NSWCrossing NAMBOUR - QLD MURWILLUMBAH - NSW AIRLIE BEACH - QLD Theatre Majestic Cinemas Regent Cinema Airlie Beach PCYC Sat 9 Feb Sat 2 Mar Sat 23 - Sun 24 Mar Fri 26 - Sat 27 Apr

MELBOURNE - VICPalace S/W ROCKS - NSW GRAFTON - NSW TOWNSVILLE - QLD Kino Cinemas S/W Roxy Cinema Saraton Theatre Otto’s Market Wed 13 Feb Sun 3 Mar Thur 28 & Sat 30 Mar Sat 27 - Sun 28 Apr

BARRABA - NSW MARYBOROUGH - QLD CANBERRA - ACT DARWIN - NT The Playhouse Hotel Brolga Theatre Palace Electric Cinema Deckchair Cinema Fri 3 May Sat 16 Feb Sun 3 Mar Thur 4 Apr HUNTER VALLEY - NSW NEWCASTLE - NSW BROOME - WA NARROGIN - WA  Peter Drayton Winery Event Cinemas Kotara Sun Pictures ARtS Space  Sat 4 May Sat 16 Feb Fri 8 - Sat 9 Mar Thur 4 Apr - Sat 6 Apr BIRDSVILLE 4/' GUNNEDAH - NSW SAWTELL - NSW HOPETOUN - WA Birdsville Hall Civic Theatre Majestic Cinemas Hopetoun Community Centre Fri 10 May Sun 17 Feb Sat 9 Mar Fri 5 Apr KUNUNURRA - WAKNX BRISBANE - QLD CAIRNS - QLD PARRAMATTA, NSW Picture Gardens Palace Centro Cinemas Riverside Raffertys Theatre CPAC Cairns Perf. Arts Centre Sun 19 & Fri 24 May Thu 21 - Fri 22 Feb Wed 13 Mar Sat 6 Apr

TOOWOOMBA - QLD NOOSA - QLD HOBART - TAS Armitage Centre The J, Noosa Junction Peacock Theatre, SAC Sat 23 Feb Thur 14 Mar Thur 11 - Fri 12 Apr

PERTH - WA GOLD COAST - QLD CYGNET - TAS Camelot Outdoor Cinema HOTA Cygnet Town Hall Thu 28 Feb - Sat 2 Mar Thur 14 Mar Sat 13 Apr

ULONG - NSW .$/*225/,(:$ Eastern Dorrigo Hall 6WDJH/HIW7KHDWUH Sat 16 Mar 6DW$SU

38 CREDITS

EXECUTIVE / FESTIVAL DIRECTOR FLICKERFEST TRAILER: *DEULHOD*DU]D/DLQH] Bronwyn Kidd DIRECTOR *HRUJLD4XLQQ TOUR AND PRODUCTION MANAGER Vanessa Gazy Grace Carey Shane Rennie EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Gia Frino Hannah De Jorge PROGRAMME COORDINATOR Adrian Shapiro Kate Gooden Iana Simeonov Jess Green Jake Nielsen PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER PRODUCER James Fitchett Lucy Rhoades Morgan Benson-Taylor James Woolley Jay Perry FLICKERUP COORDINATOR / INDUSTRY PRODUCTION MANAGER Jesse Leaman & JURY LIAISON Holly Winter Jez Chen Leigh Russell DOP Joanna Dinning Campbell Brown FLICKERLAB COORDINATOR Jess Green Pamela Otto SOUND DESIGN & MIX John Fink FESTIVAL ASSISTANT Michael Gissing Sound Post Joshua Fitzpatrick Fabiene Neff &20326(5 Joshua Phu &KXUFK6WUHHW6WXGLRV Julian V Costanzo PROGRAMME DIRECTOR Kate Lefoe Bronwyn Kidd CAST Karen Gee PROGAMME MANAGER Tai Hara Ken Crouch Lies Bruines Chantelle Jamieson Kieran Wheeler Marcus Graham Lisa O’Meara PROGRAMMING TEAM James Fraser Lucas Thyer Liz Harkman Jonny Hawkins Martha Ansara Rich Warren Andreas Lohmeyer Melissa Beauford Lies Bruines Niamh Byrne Linda O. Olszewski VOICEOVER ARTIST Troy Planet Nikos Andronicos Shane Rennie Nikki Richardson Leigh Russell –FlickerUp TRAILER SPONSORS Olivia Hantken Craig Boreham –Rainbow Shorts Scoundrel Films Paige Livingston Spectrum Films CAMPAIGN ART DIRECTION & DESIGN Pat Fiske The Editors Alphabet Studio Paul Warren Michael Gissing Sound Post Renee Crea WEBSITE MANAGEMENT Church Street Studios Robert Lingard Shane Rennie Panavision Rozlyn Clayton-Vincent Danny Long Casting CAMPAIGN PHOTOGRAPHY Ryan Murphy Sonar Music Campbell Brown Sam Meikle Swop Clothing Sarah Brill ORIGINAL ART CONCEPT Palace Cinemas Bronwyn Kidd Shane Rennie Waverley Council PUBLICITY Dendy Cinemas Susan Prior KABUKU PR Susie Forster PRE-SELECTION COMMITTEE Taylor Adams DIRECTOR OF PROJECTION Abigail Tabone Tel Benjamin Alan Butterfield Amelia Szulerecka TJ Power PROJECTIONIST & INDOOR TECH Amy Hoogenboom Tim Russell Anthony Yeo Andre Lima Tin Pang Andrew Bambach Toby Morris PATRONS Annmaree J Bell Tony Radevski Baz Luhrmann Beth Rad Troy Planet Gillian Armstrong Betty Russ Warwick Young Wayne Blair Bram Bruines Zoe Porter Nash Edgerton Bridget Callow-Wright FLICKERFEST 2019 VOLUNTEERS Celia Tulevski 28TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL We would like to thank our wonderful and Chole Boreham dedicated volunteers and everyone who Christopher Sampson T +61 2 9365 6877 has helped with time, energy and support Christopher Stollery M PO BOX 7416, BONDI BEACH NSW 2026 throughout the year and during the festival. Claire Connors E [email protected] Emmeline Delhunty FLICKERFEST.COM.AU Fabienne Neff FLICKERFEST PTY. LTD. ABN 59 084 773 400 KAPOWERFUL SHORT FILMS! 39

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