“the place to discover new talent” marK Kermode

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13th Bristol International Short Film Festival
Wednesday 21 – Sunday 25 November 2007 Watershed UK
Box Office +44 (0) 117 927 5100
www.encounters-festival.org.uk
“The place to discover new talent” Mark Kermode
Funders
Principal Sponsors
Partners
Contents
Welcome
Introduction
Information Calendar 3
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8–9
Delegates Information
Delegates Information Added Attractions Film School: The Producers Story Animation Industry Day 12
13
14
15
Special Events & Awards
Opening Highlights Persepolis Feature Preview
Where’s The Bunny Ronnie? 4:30 Desert Island Flicks Kodak Cinematography Masterclass BAFTA Short Film Paradise Special Events Events for Kids Awards Juries 21
22
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27
28 – 29
30 – 31
Competition Screenings
South West Showcase International Panorama 1
International Panorama 2
Best of British 1 Best of British 2 Best of British 3 Emerging Talent 1 Emerging Talent 2 Children’s Jury Award Animate Award Late Lounge DepicT! Showcase 38 – 39
40 – 41
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48 – 49
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52 – 53
54 – 55
56 – 57
58 – 59
60 – 61
62 – 63
Guest Screenings
Super-8 Cities Singapore Showcase BBC Three New Film Makers Award Canon of UK Short Film Out of Control: Freeform Filmmaking NAHEMI Student Shorts UK Film Council’s Digital Generation Canada Calling Cinema Extreme Shorts from Sweden The Audi Channel Reel Talent Award B3 Showcase
BBC New Music Shorts Animate Commissions Short Matters!1 Short Matters!2 68 – 69
70 – 71
72 – 73
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Information
Film Index Film Contacts Acknowledgements & Thanks
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93 – 96
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Welcome
Programme Introduction
A very warm welcome to Bristol and to this, the
13th edition of the Encounters Short Film Festival. The selection process is a roller coaster of emotions
stirred up not only by the range of work I go through but by
the knowledge that I simply will not be able to fit everything
in. The breadth of short films this year is inspiring.
Our purpose is to encourage and applaud existing and
emerging talent from wherever it may come and this year
that means we are offering a unique mix of outstanding
shorts from all genres and from every corner of the globe. To say we were spoilt for choice in making the final
selection is an understatement. This year, our
competitions attracted over 1,750 entries - the highest
total in the festival’s history - and came from a record 66
countries. We can only screen a selection but we believe
our choices to be the absolute cream of the crop.
Other elements of the festival are equally international
and varied, with guest screenings from Asia, Europe and
North America; a Film School explaining the international
Art of Producing; many exciting high profile speakers
and guests, and what promises to be a very lively and
engaging look at animation training, and the different
approaches used by leading schools in the UK and
further afield. Some thoughts and observations: The Brazilians are
reinventing surrealism, What gives in Germany? their
shorts are as strong and individual as their feature films.
That Egyptian film was so moving yet funny and economic.
Polish director Anna Kazejak is one of the most talented
filmmakers around. Simon Ellis’ new film is up there with
Michael Haneke’s Hidden. British men are delving deep
into the male psyche, British women are telling tough but
ultimately optimistic stories.
Feel free to contribute your own thoughts during
the festival.
Mark Cosgrove, Creative Director
Many people have worked long and hard to create
Encounters 2007 and my sincere thanks go to all of
the festival team, our volunteers and to everyone who
gives support, particularly the funders, partners and
sponsors. Without them, Encounters simply
couldn’t happen.
So, please, do come down to Bristol’s waterfront, soak
up the atmosphere and energy that surrounds short
film and make the most of your chance to be part of this
exciting celebration!
Sue Lion, Managing Director
PRE-FESTIVAL EVENT
Encounters Presents...
Happy Birthday Morph!
With Peter Lord & Phill Jupitus
Sun 18 Nov 14.00 hrs Cinema 1 90 mins Price £8 /£6.50 conc
Happy Birthday Morph!
Morph is 30 years old this year! See his creator Peter Lord
in conversation with Morph fan and comedian Phill Jupitus,
and discover the story of one of children’s television best
loved animated characters. On stage chat with plenty of
extracts of Morph and the wonderful world of Aardman
Animations. Morph of course ‘talked’ with the irrepressible
Tony Hart and had endless adventures in his art studio.
A unique opportunity for young audiences and nostalgic
adults to find out the true story of Morph.
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Information
General Information
Booking Information
Venues
Individual events & screenings
Encounters 2007 takes place at the Watershed and Arnolfini (see map for
locations). All events and screenings must be booked through Watershed
Box Office.
Ticket Prices
All events and film programmes cost £6 full / £4.50 concessions,
unless otherwise indicated. All film programmes are Certified 15,
unless otherwise stated. Tickets on sale through Watershed Box Office.
Event Start Times
Tickets £6 (£4.50 concs) unless otherwise stated
Box Office +44 (0) 117 927 5100
Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TX
www.watershed.co.uk
Opening hours: Mon to Fri from 9am, Sat & Sun from 10am
Times listed are the actual START TIMES of programmes. Programme
running times listed are for the duration of the actual film programmes,
most programmes also include a short introduction and sometimes a
filmmaker Q&A.
Festival Passes
Disabled Visitors
Book online at www.encounters-festival.org.uk
Disabled visitors access and facilities are available at both venues.
Please call venue box offices for further details.
To register as a delegate, enrol for the Film School
or Animation Talent Symposium
Network Delegate
Please see www.encounters-festival.org.uk for the full festival
programme and to join our mailing list for regular updates from
our E Bulletin.
Price: £50 Full / £35 Concs
Valid: Wed 21 – Sun 25 Nov
Benefits: Special Events for Delegates (Wed 21 - Sat 24 Nov)
UK Film Council Party (Fri 23 Nov) & Closing Night Party (Sat 24 Nov)
Use of Delegates Facilities throughout the festival.
Staying in Bristol
Film School: The Art of Producing Delegate
The preferred festival hotel is the Premier Inn, The Haymarket, Bristol.
To book, call +44 (0) 870 238 3307 or visit www.premierinn.com.
Please quote ‘Film’ when booking to be entered into a prize draw
for a free two night stay in Bristol on a future date.
Price: £ 60
Valid: Wed 21 Nov
Benefits: Tickets to Film School Sessions.
Use of Delegates Facilities on the day.
Further Information
Rates: Monday -Thursday £65.00 / Friday–Sunday £54.00 Room Only
For details of other accommodation, see www.visitbristol.co.uk or
contact Bristol Tourist Information Centre on 0845 408 0474 (calls from
the UK) or +44 870 444 0654 (calls from overseas).
Map
Animation Talent Symposium Delegate
Price: £75 Full / £45 Students & Independents
Valid: Thu 22 Nov
Benefits: Emerging Talent 1 & 2*
Keynote Address
Symposium Discussion
Wrap Drinks Reception
Film School & Animation Talent Symposium Delegates who wish to extend
their passes to include Network Delegate accreditation can book this at the
concessionary rate.
*Tickets for events which are free to delegates and tickets for events which are
free for all, are offered on a first come first served basis on the day of the event.
All other tickets must be purchased thought the Watershed Box Office.
All film programmes are Certificate 15 (suitable for audiences aged 15 and above)
unless a different age recommendation is given.
Bordeaux
Quay
Delegates Only events are reserved exclusively for delegate pass holders.
Ticket packages for groups
Contact the Festival office: T +44 (0) 117 929 9188
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CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY 21
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
Opening
Highlights
C1
C3
24
1
23
24
1
SOUTH WEST
SHOWCASE
Int’national
Panorama
1
Super-8
Cities
A1
23
Persepolis
The Film
Short
Film School
22
Thursday 22
9
C1
10
11
Int’national
Panorama
2
C2
BBC New
Music
Shorts
C3
Best of
British
1
12
13
Emerging
Talent 1 *
14
Keynote
Address
15
16
17
18
Best of
British
2
PM Session
20
BBC Three
New Film
Makers
21
22
Desert
Island
Flics
Out
of
Control
4:30
Singapore
Showcase
Where’s
the Bunny
Ronnie?
Int’national
Panorama
3
Int’national
Panorama
4
A1
19
Emerging
Talent 2
Int’national
Panorama
5
Int’national
Panorama
6
Canon of
UK Short Film
UKFC
Filmmaker
Brunch
Bq
C1
C2
C3
W3
W
A1
A2
BQ
8
Special Events
Competition Screenings
Guest Screenings
Events for KIDS
Film School
FREE
Animation Talent Symposium
WATERSHED CINEMA 1
WATERSHED CINEMA 2
WATERSHED CINEMA 3
WATERSHED WATERSIDE 2
WATERSHED
Arnolfini CINEMA
Arnolfini: THe LIGHT STUDIO
Bordeaux QUAY
* tickets available to public
Times listed here are film start times.
Friday 23
9
10
11
Best of
British
3
C1
12
15
16
UKFC’s
Digital
Generation
Int’national
Panorama
7
18
19
20
21
International
Panorama
2
Cinema
Extreme
22
23
24
1
Late
Lounge
BAFTA
Shorts
from
Sweden
UKFC
Presents
Future
of
Gaming
Best of
British
1
Animation
Artists
Awards
International
Panorama
1
a1
17
Canada
Calling
NAHEMI
NFTS
Docs
EM
Media
Presents
C3
14
Contentertainment
Children’s
Jury
Award
C2
13
Kodak
Masterclass
W3 Breakfast
Debate
UKFC
Filmmaker
Brunch
BQ
SATURDAY 24
9
10
11
12
13
HIT: Thomas
the Tank
Engine
C1
14
15
B3
Showcase
Mini
Masterpieces
C3
Filmmaker
Best of
British
3
Int’national
Panorama
7
A1
18
Focus
2
Aardman
Workshop
(slug)
W3
DepicT!
20
21
22
23
Awards
Ceremony
& Party
24
1
Late
Lounge
Children’s
Jury
Award
Int’national
Panorama
3
International
Panorama
5
Mini
Masterpieces
A2
19
Int’national
Panorama
4
Filmmaker
Focus
1
Nickelodeon
Kids
17
South West
Showcase
Audi
Reel
Talent
Awards
C2
16
Best of
British
2
Int’national
Panorama
6
Animation
Commisisions
Aardman
Workshop
(BUNNY)
W
Awards Party
SUNDAY 25
9
C1
C3
A
10
11
12
13
Best of
THE Fest
Emerging
Talent 1
14
15
16
Short
Matters 1
Children’s
Jury
Award
17
18
Short
Matters 2
Emerging
Talent 2
19
20
21
22
23
24
1
Best of
THE Fest
Shorts
from
Sweden
Canon of
UK Short Film
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THE BEST OF BRITISH
SHORTS STRAIGHT TO
YOUR DESKTOP
Film Network screens three new
shorts in broadband quality every
week, adding to a growing catalogue
of great films from the most
promising new talent. You can
watch, comment, rate and, if you’re
a filmmaker, submit your films and
create your own profile page.
showcasing new
British filmmaking
bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork
DElegates Info
Delegates
Booking
Information
All passes should be booked online at
HP Digital Viewing Library
Watershed Waterside 1
Wed 21 10.00 – 18.30
Thu 22 – Sat 24 9.00 – 18.30
Please note delegate numbers are
strictly limited, early booking is advised
to avoid disappointment.
Sun 25 Nov 10.00 – 17.00
A digital library providing viewing facilities for delegates to watch films
submitted to and screening in the festival that they have missed or would
like to see in a quiet environment.
Network Delegate
Price: £50 Full / £35 Concs
Valid: Wed 21 – Sun 25 Nov
UK Film Council Party (Fri 23 Nov) & Closing Night Party (Sat 24 Nov)
Delegates Lounge
Watershed Waterside 3
Use of Delegates Facilities throughout the festival.
Wed 21 10.00 – 18.30
Benefits: Special Events for Delegates (Wed 21 – Sat 24 Nov) *
Thu 22 – Sat 24 9.00 – 18.30
Film School: The Art of Producing Delegate
Sun 25 Nov 10.00 – 17.00
Price: £60
The delegates lounge offers delegates a calm environment in which to
have meetings and access the Internet.
Valid: Wed 21 Nov
Benefits: Tickets to Film School Sessions.
Animation talent Symposium Delegate
Price: £75 Full / £45 Students & Independents
Valid: Thu 22 Nov
Benefits: Emerging Talent 1 & 2
Keynote Address
Symposium Discussion
Wrap Drinks Reception
Film School & Animation Talent Symposium Delegates who wish to
extend their passes to include Network Delegate accreditation can book
this at the concessionary rate.
*Tickets for events which are free to delegates and tickets for events
which are free for all, are offered on a first come first served basis on
the day of the event. All other tickets must be purchased thought the
Watershed Box Office.
All film programmes are Certificate 15 (suitable for audiences aged 15
and above) unless a different age recommendation is given.
Delegates Only events are reserved exclusively for delegate pass holders.
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Festival Information Desk
Watershed Upstairs Foyer
Wed 21 10.00 – 21.00
Thu 22 - Sat 25 Nov 9.00 – 21.00
Sun 25 Nov 10.00 – 18.00
Staff at the Festival Information Desk will greet you on arrival and will be
happy to help with any enquiries you have during the festival.
Added Attractions
Free Events are offered on a first come first served
basis on the day of the event. For events with
places allocated in advance, please contact the
festival office on +44 (0) 117 929 9188 or
[email protected] to book.
UK FILM COUNCIL PARTY
Fri 23 Nov 21.30 Watershed Delegates Lounge 3hrs
Delegates Only: Free
Join us for the UK Film Council’s essential festival party.
SURGERIES
Wed 21, Thu 22 & Fri 23 Nov Watershed
Surgery appointments provide an invaluable chance to discuss your
latest project and receive professional development advice from an
industry executive. To apply for a surgery appointment please download
an application form from www.encounters-festival.org.uk.
EA Games Room
MINI MASTERPIECES
Sat 24 Nov 9.45 Watershed Cinema 3 1hr 15mins Free
Mini Masterpieces 2007 developed drama episodes by six different teams
of young filmmakers for YouTube. See how this ‘viral’ content developed
in unexpected ways and join the film-makers and guests from BBC
Drama and Channel 4 for a discussion on online drama.
Thu 22, Fri 23 & Sat 24 Nov 10.00 Watershed Waterside 2 Free
Can you Beat the Makers? Prizes will be awarded to those who triumph
against the home team in The EA Games Room where other attractions
include rolling video presentations and the chance to talk to recruiters
and game makers about careers in Games.
MAKE YOUR OWN MINI MASTERPIECE
FILMMAKERS BRUNCH
Thu 22 & Fri 23 Nov 10.00 Bordeaux Quay 1hr 15mins
Delegates Only: Free (Places Allocated in Advance)
The UK Film Council is offering short filmmakers the opportunity for an
informal chat over brunch with delegates from some of the key industry
organisations and companies working with new talent. Hosts are likely to
include representatives from the UK Film Council, FilmFour, the British
Council Films Department, BBC Film Network, Short Circuit Films,
Dazzle Films and various regional and national screen agencies.
BREAKFAST debate:
DIGITISATION, DISTRIBUTION & DISRUPTION
Fri 23 Nov 9.00 Watershed Delegates Lounge 1hr
Debate the impact of digital media technologies on content
distribution models and the UK intellectual property regime with an
expert panel from the BBC, Licorice Films and TLT. More information:
www.TLTsolicitors.com/digitalmedia
Sat 24 Nov 14.00 Arnolfini 2hrs Free (Places Allocated in Advance)
Mini Masterpieces 2007 developed short drama for YouTube with young
filmmaking teams. See the story so far and make your own film in
response. Training available, teams welcome, no age restriction! Bring
your own camera or borrow ours.
DOGHOUSE POST PRODUCTION:
FINAL CUT PRO TRAINING
Sat 24 & Sun 25 Nov 10.00 Doghouse 6hrs
Spend the day with Doghouse Post Production at their facility in Bristol
and get a hands-on overview of Final Cut Pro Studio and the ways it can
be used for broadcast, encoding and DVD making.
Aspects covered will include:
•Basics of how an edit suite is set up and deck integration.
•Different ways of digitising and ingesting footage. Linear and Non
linear including music and footage from file formats.
•Demonstrate media management within Final Cut Pro.
•Basic editing techniques, composing a sequence, editing with tracks,
layers and audio tools.
•
KODAK PRESENTS STOP BY SHOOT FILM
Fri 23 & Sat 24 Nov 9.30 Harbourside Venues
Kodak will be running a two-day workshop at Encounters where
delegates will learn all about the benefits of film and how to use a
16mm camera whilst shooting their own short film. Following the
event, delegates will receive a DVD of their footage, so they will see for
themselves what film quality means.
Creating Quick-times from a sequence for play-outs, FTP and DVD
authoring, and demonstrate the capabilities of compressor.
•
The processes required for laying back to tape for a master.
This day-course is aimed at edit assistants and technical runners, who
have an interest in pursuing a career in post production. Whilst a vast
knowledge isn’t essential, some experience of digitising and basic editing
skills will be required.
Hurry only 6 places available each day!
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Film School:
The producers story
Wed 21 Nov 10.00 Watershed Cinema 3
6hrs
The
producer
is at the
sharp end
of the film
business.
Facilitator:
Catharine Des Forges,
Independent Cinema Office
Speakers include
Lenny Crooks, Michael Kuhn and Al Clark.
They are required to keep all options open,
develop networks of potential funding and
talent, identify outlets and new markets for
their productions, keep a range of projects live,
ready for pitching.
This Film School will provide an invaluable
insight into the working practices and
strategies, of the lives of a variety of producers.
They will range from those working exclusively
in shorts, in the UK, through to feature films
and working in a global market.
It will provide essential information and tips
for up and coming producers, how to pitch
a project, where to seek funding, how to
maintain networks of contacts.
Everything you wanted to know about the
producers job description and the detail
of producing film will be revealed in this
film School.
£60 Including VAT
Book online at
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Lenny Crooks
In September 2006 Lenny Crooks took over as Head of the New Cinema
Fund at the UK Film Council. Prior to this, from 2003 Lenny was the Director
of Glasgow Film Finance, Scotland’s first venture capital fund dedicated to
feature film investment. Executive Director credits include On A Clear Day and
the forthcoming film from David Mackenzie Hallam Foe.
In 1993 he founded, and later became Executive Director of the Glasgow Film
Fund (GFF) with investments including Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave, Lynne
Ramsay’s Morvern Callar and Terence Davies’s House of Mirth. From 19972006 as Director of the Glasgow Film Office, Lenny part financed over 30 films with Executive Director
credits including Andrea Arnold’s Red Road (Winner of the Prix du Jury, Cannes 2006). Lenny has a
strong background in developing new talent both in the UK and internationally, and serves as a jury
member of the Balkan Film Fund.
Michael Kuhn
Michael Kuhn was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1949. After primary school he
left to attend Dover College in England in 1962 and went on to Clare College
Cambridge in 1968 to read Law. He joined Polygram N.V (now part of
Universal) in 1975 and in 1991 set up Polygram Filmed Entertainment, which
made and distributed over 100 feature films and which between them won
14 Academy Awards. These films included Four Weddings and a Funeral,
Notting Hill, Dead Man Walking, The Usual Suspects, Lock, Stock and Two
Smoking Barrels, Elizabeth, Trainspotting and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
He served on Commissioner Oreja’s Committee that reported last year and was awarded the Michael
Balcon Award for services to British Cinema, in 1999. He married Caroline in 1995 and has two sons.
He returned to Britain in 1999, after being based in Los Angeles. He set up Qwerty Films in 1999 and
secured finance to produce bigger budget movies and has investments in a music company, theatre
and a film development joint venture with the Film Council. Qwerty Films has produced 8 features in
its first 6 years of operation, including the recently-completed “Severance”, directed by Christopher
Smith (Creep), and Alien Autopsy directed by Jonny Campbell and starring Declan Donnelly and Ant
McPartlin (TVs Ant and Dec). He is currently producing The Duchess staring Keira Knightley and
Ralph Fiennes, due to shoot in September 2007.
His book 100 Films and a Funeral was published in 2001. He was appointed Chair of the National Film
and Television School in 2002.
Al Clark Profile
Together with Rachel Robey (also a Nottingham based producer) Al founded
Wellington Films in 2000. Their BAFTA nominated debut feature film – London
To Brighton by Paul Andrew Williams (private / UK Film Council) – was shot
in October 2005, and was premiered at the 2006 Edinburgh International Film
Festival where it won the Skillset New Director’s Award. Its international
premiere followed at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Discovery
section and has since won the Hitchcock D’Or at Dinard, Best UK Feature at
Raindance, Best Film at Seagate Foyle and Best Achievement in Production
at the British Independent Film Awards, as well as being nominated in three
categories at the London Critics Circle Film Awards and the Carl Foreman Award category at the
BAFTAs (for director, P.A. Williams). Having received 5-star reviews, the film was released by Vertigo
Films theatrically in the UK in December 2006 and on DVD by Momentum Pictures in April 2007.
ANIMATION TALENT SYMPOSIUM
Thur 22 Nov Watershed
£75 Full / £45 Students & Independents
Produced by Shelley Page, DreamWorks Animation
The purpose of this day-long event is to focus
on the successes of recent graduates from the
leading animation schools in the UK and Europe
and to present a debate between the educational
community and representatives of the animation,
gaming and visual effects sector concerning
the skills required for growth of the animation
community in the UK.
Moderators:
Shelley Page
DreamWorks Animation
Shelley Page is currently Head of international
Outreach for DreamWorks Feature Animation.
Her responsibilities include sourcing leading
animation talent from Europe and maintaining
strong relationships with the most prominent European
Animation and Visual Effects studios. Originally trained
as an illustrator, Shelley has been working in the field of Feature
Animation since 1986 when she was Backgrounds Supervisor on Who
Framed Roger Rabbit (Disney). Following its success she joined Steven
Spielberg’s Amblimation Studio in London as Background Supervisor. In
January 1995 she moved to Los Angeles to participate (Co-Head of
Artistic Development) in the creation of the new DreamWorks
Animation studio.
Professor Paul Wells
University of Loughborough
Professor Paul Wells is Director of the Animation
Academy in the School of Art and Design,
Loughborough University. He has published widely in
the field of animation including ‘Understanding
Animation’ (Routledge), ‘Fundamentals of Animation’
(AVA) and his latest book, ‘Scriptwriting’ (AVA). He was
series consultant for the BBC’s ‘Animation Nation’ series, has curated
exhibitions, advised on curricula, and spoken at animation events and
festivals worldwide.
EMERGING TALENT 1*
11.30 Watershed Cinema 1 1hr 16mins
New animation from around the world in this, the first of two
programmes presenting the shortlist for the International Newcomer
Award. Programmed by Claire Jennings.
KEYNOTE ADDrESS
13.30 Watershed Cinema 1 1hr
Encounters welcomes Henry LaBounta, Director of Art, Electronic Arts
Games to deliver the symposium keynote presentation; exploring the
development of emotionally believable characters and the future of
games graphics.
An Academy Award® nominee with a distinguished background in film,
Henry LaBounta calls upon over 20 years of experience in computer
animation in creating EA games such as SSX3, Need for Speed, NBA
Street, FIFA and most recently Skate. LaBounta joined PDI/DreamWorks
in 1996 to supervise the climactic Red Sea sequence in The Prince of
Egypt, and went on to supervise the visual effects on films including
Minority Report, A.I., Mission Impossible 2 and Forces of Nature. Prior
to DreamWorks he worked at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) on many
feature films including Star Trek VII Generations, Casper and Twister for
which he was nominated for an Oscar and won a BAFTA.
PM SESSION
A panel discussion led by representatives from leading studios in the
UK who will be presenting new work created by recent graduates
in their first professional situations. This session will focus on each
studios’ experience of selecting and encouraging new talent. Including:
Framestore-CFC, Cartoon Network UK, Cosgrove Hall, Aardman
Animations, HIT, Studio AKA, Nexus, The Mill, Red Kite, Double Negative,
4:2:2, Lionhead Studios, Passion Pictures, EA Games Europe.
WRAP DRINKS
17.00 @Bristol 1hr 30mins
AM SESSION
A networking event to round off the day’s discussions.
9.00 Watershed Delegates Lounge 2hrs (Invited Guests Only)
An open discussion between the representatives of all the schools
present, addressing how schools can best reconcile academic and
creative industry requirements while creating exciting opportunities for
their graduates.
Schools present will include: NCCA, NFTS, RCA, UWE, University of
Teeside, Loughborough University, Swansea Institute, Escape Studios,
Ravensbourne, Kingston University, UCCA, Glamorgan, Dundee University,
Newport, Arts Institute Bournemouth, Les Gobelins Paris, Filmakademie
Stuttgart, Supinfocom Valenciennes, BallyFermot BCFE, Dublin, La
Poudriere Valence, Kask Gent, The Animation Workshop, Denmark.
EMERGING TALENT 2*
The second of two programmes presenting the shortlist for the
International Newcomer Award.
* Tickets available on a first come first served basis on the day.
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OPENING HIGHLIGHTS
1hr 9mins
£8 Full / £6.50 Concs
The hors
d’oeuvre
before
the feast…
join us to
celebrate the
opening of
the festival
with a very
special
preview
screening
featuring
a choice
selection of
the cinematic
treats in
store over
the next
five days
THE PEARCE
SISTERS
Dir: Luis Cook
UK 2007 8 mins
Prod: Jo Allen
Writer: Luis Cook
A bleak tale of love,
loneliness, guts, gore,
nudity, violence, smoking
and cups of tea.
Also screening in
South West Showcase
ELA
POLLE (HORSIE)
AFRAID SO
Dir: Silvana Aguirre
Dir: Sara Wahl
Dir: Jay Rosenblatt
UK 2007 12 mins 15 secs
Finland 2006 1 min 37 secs
USA 2006 3 mins
DoP: Liam Iandoli
Editor: Fiona DeSouza
Script, Animation, Sound:
Sara Wahl
Poem:
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Sound: Ayush Ahuja
How to survive as a horsie?
Voice: Garrison Keillor
Music: Chris White
UK Premiere
We meet 8-year old Ela at
a very particular moment
in her life: the moment she
experiences loss for the
first time.
Also screening in
Emerging Talent 1
Afraid So is about fear and
anxiety. It is based on a
poem in which each line
forms a question, with the
implied response being
“afraid so”.
UK Premiere
World Premiere
Also screening in
Also screening in
Best of British 3
MONSIEUR SORLIN
ARCHITECTE
SHUTEYE HOTEL
HUNDEFUTTER
(DOGMEAT)
PUFFING AWAY
KWIZ (QUIZ)
Dir: Bill Plympton
Dir: Isaac King
Dir: Renaud Callebaut
Dir: Jacques Strang
USA 2007 7 mins
Dir: Till Kleinert
Canada 2006 3 mins
Belgium 2006 5 mins
France 2006 13 mins
Prod/Editor:
Biljana Labovic
Germany 2007 15 mins
Animation: Isaac King
Prod: Claude Greens
Prod: Anna de Paoli &
Christin Geigemüller
Music: Wagon Christ
(courtesy of Ninja Tune)
DoP: Martin Hanslmayr
Our gremlins of energy
over-consumption hit a
hyperactive high.
Two middle-aged women
armed with mobile phones
throw themselves into a
merciless quiz. How far will
they go to avoid losing face?
UK Premiere
UK Premiere
Also screening in the
Children’s Jury Award
Also screening in
Prod: William Picot
DoP: Nicholas Gaurin
Editor: Eric Armbruster
Patrick Sorlin, a successful
architect, is hit on the face
with a custard pie during
a TV interview. He then
moves between attraction
and repulsion for anything
in his daily life that reminds
him of the incident.
UK Premiere
Also screening in
Sound Designer:
Greg Sextro
Music: Corey Jackson
Music: Enis Rotthoff
A film noir murder mystery
that takes place in a sleazy
hotel. As cops investigate
the gruesome murders
they become victims of this
evil force. What Jaws did to
swimming, Shuteye Hotel
will do for sleeping.
Raffi dares Chris to
break into the house of
an old woman. Seeing the
sleeping lady, Chris gets
the bold idea to steal the
dentures right out of
her mouth.
Also screening in
International Premiere
Also screening in
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ANIMATED FEATURE PREVIEW
PERSEPOLIS
1hr 35 mins £6 Full / £4.50 Concs
Dir: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud 2007
The poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and
outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic
Revolution, based on Iranian author Marjane Satrapi’s
internationally best-selling and award-winning comic book
autobiography, Persepolis and Persepolis 2.
It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine
year old Marjane that we see a people’s hopes dashed as
fundamentalists take power - forcing the veil on women and
imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the
“social guardians” and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden.
Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs
fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war, the daily fear that
permeates life in Iran is palpable.
This film shared the Jury Prize at Cannes this year and has
been put forward as France’s Best Foreign Language film for
the Oscar®s.
WHERE’S THE
BUNNY RONNIE?
Thur 22 Nov 14.30 Watershed Cinema 3
1hr 30mins £8 Full / £6.50 Concs
Two filmmakers with more
in common than you’d think…
both unconventionally trained
directors, each with a huge cult
following around the world, who
continue to push the creative envelope
and creatively explore the short film
form whilst also developing their
signatures as feature directors.
Shane Meadows is regarded as one of the rising stars of British
Cinema, making films unlike anybody else’s, in a manner that is wholly
his own. Self-taught, the Midlands-based wunderkind had already
produced 33 shorts by the age of 25 when he tackled his first feature
TwentyFourSeven. His Midlands movies represent some of the very
best and most humane British films of the past decade, and have been
recognized by festivals including, London, Edinburgh, Cannes and
furthermore through BAFTA, The Directors Guild and British Independent
Film Awards nominations and awards.
Royston Tan has been heralded as one of Asia’s most promising young
filmmakers and its latest cult icon. Known for his distinctive cinematic
style, Royston has received over 41 international and local film awards
for both his feature and short films, notably 15 and Sons. He has been
recognized in Asia with several awards including ASEAN Director of the
Year (2001), Young Artist of the Year (2002) by the National Arts Council in
Singapore and in 2003, Netpac Jury has recognized him as the Asia Most
Promising Talents. In 2004, Royston Tan was cited as one of the ‘Top 20
Asian Heroes’ by Time Magazine.
LIKE THIS? TRY THIS...
Singapore Showcase
(features Tan’s Monkey Love & D.I.Y)
Thu 22 Nov 12.00
(page 70).
4:30
(Tan’s second feature)
Thu 22 Nov 16.30
(page 23)
UK Canon of Short Film
(features Meadow’s Where’s The Money Ronnie?)
Thu 22 Nov 20.30 & Sun 25 Nov 15.00
(page 74).
4:30
Dir: Royston Tan Singapore 2006
1hr 33 mins
A remarkable and beautiful depiction
of loneliness and isolation from
past Encounters winner, Singapore’s
Royston Tan.
Left alone in his flat by his traveling mother, Xiao Wu spends his time,
when not at school, warmed by the meager comfort of pot noodles.
When a new tenant moves into the building, nursing heartache, Xiao Wu
tries every which way possible, physical and metaphorical, to connect
with him.
Told entirely from the perspective of the boy, as the title suggests, the
film centers on a moment in the still of the night and Xiao Wu’s attempt
to cling to that moment to escape his drab reality, in a life not yet
fulfilled. Ultimately, this is a poignant story about unrequited friendship,
shared experience and the appreciation of solitude in the urban age.
Royston Tan has been heralded as Singapore’s most promising young
filmmaker and latest cult icon. Known for his distinctive gift for cinematic
narrative, original directorial style and an innate ability to connect
with his audience, he has collected over 40 film awards for his short
films, documentaries and more recently his feature films. In 2002, the
Singapore National Arts Council named Tan ‘Young Artist of the Year’ and
in 2004 he was heralded as one of the “Top 20 Asian Heroes” by Time
Magazine for being bold, brave and remarkable in his field.
Singapore Showcase
(features Tan’s Monkey Love & D.I.Y)
Thu 22 Nov 12.00
(page 70).
Where’s The Bunny Ronnie?
(Shane Meadows & Royston Tan in Conversation)
Thu 22 Nov 14.30
(page 23).
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Desert Island Flics
Thurs 22 Nov 21.00 Watershed Cinema 1
1hr 15mins
Frank Cottrell Boyce is an award winning British screenwriter,
novelist and occasional actor. He is probably best known for
his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom.
He wrote the script for Winterbottom’s first feature Butterfly
Kiss. They have worked together six times taking in Welcome to
Sarajavo, 24 Hour Party People and Cock and Bull Story.
His other collaborations include with Danny Boyle, Julien
Temple and Alex Cox. He has also written for television Coronation Street and Brookside amongst them. In addition he
is a celebrated children’s author. A wealth of writing experience
but what films have inspired and influenced this multifaceted
writer? This evening sees him marooned with only Irish film
director and writer Damien O’Donnell (East is East, Heartlands,
Inside I’m Dancing) and his favourite films for company.
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Damien O’Donnell
KODAK CINEMATOGRAPHY
MASTERCLASS
Fri 23 Nov 15.15 Arnolfini Cinema
1hr 30mins £8 full / £6.50 concs
An interview with
Cinematographer Balazs Bolygo
Balazs takes us through starting out as a Cinematographer,
from film school to shooting current TV dramas such as Hustle and
Life on Mars. Previously Danny Cohen, Alex Thompson BSC, Mike
Valentine BSC and John Mathieson BSC have filled this slot: here’s
another chance to get a tutorial from one of the industry’s
top Cinematographers.
Balazs having completed his training at the National Film School,
went on to shoot his first feature film, Fakers, a crime caper set in
the eccentric London art world. This eventually led him to shoot It’s
All Gone Pete Tong, about the troubled life of a fictional Ibizian DJ,
which won Best Feature Film, at the GEN ART Film Festival, the HBO
Comedy Arts Festival in 2005, and the Toronto Film Festival in 2004.
Balazs was also nominated for Achievement in Cinematography, at
the Genie Awards, in 2006 for his work on the film.
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Balazs Bolygo
Since then, Balazs has been
predominantly working in the
television drama arena on
shows such as; Hustle,
The Family Man starring Trevor
Eve, Stan a one off BBC film
on Stan Laurel, and most
recently the highly successful
time travel show Life On Mars,
which last year picked up an
International Emmy Award and
Best New Programme at the
Broadcast Awards.
Balazs has just finished shooting Mistresses, a 6 part drama by
Ecosse Films for the BBC, shooting on location in Bristol. And is
currently shooting Lark Rise To Candleford also in Bristol.
BAFTA Short
Film Paradise
Fri 23 Nov 21.00 Watershed Cinema 1
1hr 15mins £10 full / £8.50 concs
Film critic, broadcaster and musician Mark Kermode is the resident
film critic for BBC’s Radio 5 Live, and BBC News 24. He is a regular
reporter on The Culture Show and Newsnight Review and a regular
at Encounters!
Tonight Mark is joined by Richard Eyre for an onstage interview to
discuss influences and aspirations in the art of filmmaking..
Richard Eyre is one of the UK’s leading theatre/television/film
directors. His cv reads like an enviable series of peaks in the UK’s
cultural landscape from landmark theatre to groundbreaking
television, through to a cinema of emotional sophistication and
quality. Richard started in theatre as the associate director of
Edinburgh’s Lyceum theatre. Whilst in Scotland he worked on the
legendary BBC’s Play for Today in the early 1970s. He went onto the
Nottingham Playhouse where he commissioned and directed major
work including the infamous Comedians written by Trevor Griffiths
and featuring an outstanding performance from a young Jonathan
Pryce. He subsequently took over as director of the National
Theatre where his tenure is seen as one of the most exciting.
He worked with a who’s who of theatre – Hare, Stoppard, Brenton,
Hampton, Dench, Day-Lewis, McKlellan. He found time to make
some radical television work – The Ploughman’s Lunch with Ian
McEwan and Tumbledown about the Falklands and served on the
board of the BBC. Over the past decade Eyre has turned his skills
and attention to cinema directing work of the highest quality and
acclaim Iris, Stage Beauty and Notes on Scandal. His work in film
reveals a depth of emotion in his characters and their relationships
and he has drawn award winning performances from such actors as
Judi Dench Cate blanchett, Jim Broadbent and Kate Winslett.
He also had time to exec produce Atonement.
Richard Eyre
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is delighted to host
this event at Encounters as part of Bafta in The Regions. BAFTA
supports, develops and promotes the artforms of the moving image,
by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners
and benefiting the public. Bafta in The Regions is a programme of
screenings and events throughout England run in partnership with
the regional screen agencies. Our aim is to engage with a broader
audience from within the film, television and video games industries
and the general public. We achieve this through a programme of
screenings, events, interviews, workshops and masterclasses with
industry luminaries and BAFTA Award winners.
For an event which began as a one-off celebration to mark the
centenary of cinema, Encounters has definitely grown-up. Now in
its 13th year, it’s become a permanent fixture in the International
festival calendar and BAFTA are delighted to support this session
every year. We invite you to celebrate with us.
Mark Kermode
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Special EVENTS
THE FILM SHORT: JUST A STEPPING STONE?
Wed 21 Nov 16.30 Watershed Cinema 3 1hr 30mins Free
Does the use of the short film as a calling card prevent the form
from being appreciated and valued in its own right? A panel of expert
filmmakers, critics and industry personnel debate the issues:
come and join in!
CONTENTERTAINMENT
UK FILM COUNCIL PRESENTS:
A FILM-MAKERS JOURNEY
Fri 23 Nov 15.45 Watershed Cinema 2 1hr Delegates Only: Free
A rare opportunity to hear about the process around Cinema Extreme,
the UK’s premier short film scheme, from development to delivery and
beyond. Award winning Writer/Director Sean Conway and Producer
Samm Hailey discuss the pressures and opportunities of a commission
of this type, billed as ‘the last short you make before your feature’ and
how Cinema Extreme differs from other schemes in the UK.
Alex and Her Arse Truck will be premiered on Friday 23 Nov at 17.00 in
Watershed Cinema 1 as part of the Cinema Extreme programme 2007
Fri 23 Nov 11.15 Watershed Cinema 1 1hr 30mins
Real Communities. Virtual Worlds. This year Contentertainment will
explore the use of short films by real communities in virtual worlds.
From Nickelodeon’s soon-to-be launched Nicktropolis to alternate
reality games, we’ll be discovering how short films are engaging digital
audiences of all ages.
NFTS DOCUMENTARIES: FINDING YOUR OWN VOICE
Presented by Dick Fontaine, Head of Documentary Direction, NFTS
Fri 23 Nov 11.45 Watershed Cinema 2 1hr 15mins Free
In this digital world of multi-skilling, it is those film-makers who
endeavour to find their own personal voice, whose originality and
humanity will capture the imagination of audiences, and whose
persistence and energy will renew and expand the horizons of the
industry. Dick Fontaine examines ways of creating your own voice using
examples from a decade of student films.
Dick Fontaine is a founder member of World in Action, Dick introduced
the techniques of Direct Cinema to UK Television. He developed the
essay film and made award-winning experiments with the reflexive
camera. He has taught at The School of Visual Arts, NYU, and given
workshops, seminars and masterclasses across the USA. He joined
NFTS in March 1995.
SHOOTING PEOPLE PRESENTS…
FUTURE OF SHORT FILM
Sat 24 Nov 10.30 Watershed Delegates Lounge 1hr 30mins
Delegates Only: Free
James Mullighan (Creative Director, Shooting People) hosts this
panel which poses this: You’ve made your short film. Now what?
Panelists include Ben Blaine (Shooting People), Philip Ilson (Halloween
Short Film Festival), Laura Macdonald (filmaka), Claire Spencer Cook
(BBC Film Network) and Derry O’Brien (Network Ireland TV). This
lively and interactive event will cover traditional sales, acquisitions and
commission opportunities, as well as newer methods for getting films
seen via the internet.
FILMMAKER FOCUS: Anna Kazejak
THE FUTURE OF GAMING
Matthew Jeffery, Head of European Studio Recruitment Electronic Arts
Fri 23 Nov 14:00 Watershed Cinema 3 1hr Free
In this presentation, Matthew will demonstrate just how far gaming has
come but vitally how far it will go in revolutionizing the entertainment
industry in the years ahead. Matthew addresses some hot issues
including whether gaming will replace film as the number one form
of entertainment; what levels of emotion and emotionally believable
characters can be achieved through gaming; the challenges for game
development; where the games industry is heading. This is an essential
presentation for anyone interested in a career in entertainment and
where the gaming industry is heading.
Matthew, Head of European Recruitment, is the ultimate driving force for
Electronic Arts recruitment across European Studios. He is responsible
for overseeing all recruitment for EA in the EAUK / Criterion Games
Studio, home of the Harry Potter franchise of games, Burnout, the
highly acclaimed extreme arcade racing game and Black, the massively
acclaimed FPS.
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Sat 24 Nov 15.00 Watershed Cinema 2 1hr Delegates Only: Free
Director Anna Kazejak, one of the most talented young filmmakers in
Europe, takes the stage to discuss her experiences in this intimate,
audience Q&A based event which includes extracts from some of her
films. Anna’s film Kilka prostych slow (A Few Simple Words) has its UK
Premiere at Encounters in International Panorama 4.
FILMMAKER FOCUS: SIMON ELLIS
Sat 24 Nov 16.30 Watershed Cinema 2 1hr Delegates Only: Free
Writer, Director and Editor Simon Ellis, winner of many International
festival awards takes the stage to share stories of his forays into the short
film form. The event will include an audience Q&A and extracts from
some of Simon’s films. Simon’s latest short Soft is selected for the official
competition this year at Encounters, screening in Best of British 3.
EVENTS FOR KIDS
Sat 24 Nov Watershed & Arnolfini
HIT ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED PRESENTS:
THOMAS & FRIENDS IN ENGINES AND ESCAPADES
NICKELODEON PRESENTS:
SpongeBob SquarePants
Sat 24 Nov 10.30 Watershed Cinema 1 45 mins £2.50 Cert U
Sat 24 Nov 11.30 Watershed Cinema 3 1hr 15mins Free
All aboard for a ride to remember with the Island of Sodor’s number one
steam engine! Come and join Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends for
an exclusive screening of six brand new fun filled adventures. Engines
and Escapades explores the magical world of the little Narrow Gauge
engines high in the hills of Sodor. Meet Rheneas, Skarloey, Mighty Mac
and brand new character Madge – plus many more favourite friends in
these exciting tales from the tracks! The Fat Controller himself will be
there in person to ensure that this screening runs to time with no delay!
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants!
Meet your favourite superstar sea sponge, live and in person at
Encounters, before you settle down to watch your favourite episodes...
© 2007 HIT Entertainment Limited
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ™ © 2007 Gullane (Thomas) Limited.
Plus – be the very first in the UK to see brand new NickToons animated
series Wayside School. Based on the best-selling books by Louis Sachar
these are brilliantly absurd tales of students on the top floor of Wayside,
a quirky grammar school accidentally built 30-stories high.
The best of Nickelodeon on the big screen, for kids aged 6-12.
You can see all your favourites and more on www.nick.co.uk.
MEET GARY THE GASTROPOD!
Aardman Animations:
GARY & NIGEL SLUG WORKSHOP
(For 5 – 10 year olds)
Build A Bunny!
Aardman Animations:
Were-Rabbit Kid’s Workshop
(for 7-12 year olds)
Sat 24 Nov 13.00 Arnolfini 1hr 30mins £5.00
Sat 24 Nov 15.00 Arnolfini 1hr 30mins £5.00
With ‘Creature Comforts’ Animator Jim Parkyn
With ‘Creature Comforts’ Animator Jim Parkyn
Your chance to see what a slug is really made of!
Make your own cute Aardman bunny and learn about how
Aardman Animations use stop-motion to create unique and
memorable visual characters.
Join Jim and make your very own Creature Comforts slug.
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AWARDS
AWARDS CEREMONY
ANIMATE AWARD
Sat 24 Nov 19.30
Watershed Cinema 1 1hr 30mins
The Animate project explores the
relationship between animation
and the contemporary visual
arts, through commissioning,
exhibition and publishing. The
Animate Award, with a £2,000
cash prize, is for single-screen,
innovative work, that experiments
with work that experiments with
form, technique and content.
www.animateprojects.org
Tickets:
Awards Ceremony & Party: £20
Party Only: £15
Join us and some very special
guests for our Awards night to
find out the winners.
CARTOON D’OR
NOMINATION
The European animation selected
at Encounters (2006 productions
only) will receive the British
nomination for the prestigious
Cartoon d’Or, presented annually
by Cartoon, with the support of
the MEDIA Programme of the
European Union.
Winner 2006: t.o.m., directed by
Tom Brown & Daniel Gray (UK).
BEST OF
BRITISH AWARD
Announced at the Encounters
festival, BBC Three’s search
for comedy shorts which will be
broadcast on the channel.
The best film receives £5,000
and two runners-up each receive
£2,500. All short-listed films are
also screened on BBC Three.
For more information visit
bbc.co.uk/newtalent
This cash prize of £1,000 is
offered to the film judged to
be the best in all areas of
production, direction and story
in the British, South West and
Late Lounge programmes.
Winner 2006: Empire, directed by
Edouard Salier (France).
Winner 2006: CUBS, directed by
Tom Harper (UK).
COSGROVE HALL
FILMS CHILDREN’S
JURY AWARD
DepicT! AWARDS
This award gives a huge hip hip
hooray to the animated short of
under 10 minutes that appeals to
the mind of our voting audience
– a collective jury of secondary
school children (9-14 year olds).
This award celebrates a one
off animation (not an episode
of a series), which appeals to
the sensibilities of the youthful
imagination and presents
as its shortlist, films that
stretch, stimulate and engage
aesthetically and/or emotionally
with the younger audience.
Winner 2006: Coucou Clock,
directed by Francois Cailleau &
Audrey Fobis (France).
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BBC THREE NEW
FILMMAKERS AWARD
Winner 2006: Dreams and
Desires: Family Ties, directed by
Joanna Quinn (UK).
DepicT! short film competition once again challenges filmmakers from
across the globe to come up with a compelling, imaginative idea and
distill it into 90 seconds of cinematic originality. Not only will shortlisted
films gain priceless industry exposure at Encounters, but they’ll be in the
running for the top cash prize of £2000.
New this year: the DepicT! ‘07 shortlisted entries will be made
available for theatrical screenings in cinemas across the UK through
the Digital Screen Network in ‘08, thanks to a new partnership with Arts
Alliance Media.
Winner 2006, Animation: Flighty, directed by Leigh Hodgkinson (UK).
Winner 2006, Live Action: And the Red Man Went Green, directed by
Ruth Meehan (Ireland).
Supported and Managed by
DepicT!
AUDIENCE AWARD
INTERNATIONAL
JURY AWARD
We’ve partnered up with our
friends at Shooting People to
present the Shooting People
Audience Award, given to the
best film as chosen by the public
on depict.org. The winner will
not only receive a copy of the
recently published Get Your
Short Film Funded, Made and
Seen along with Shooting People
DVD releases Best vs Best Vols.
One and Two, but also a lifetime
membership to Shooting People!
Encounters takes pride in the
exemplary selection of the
latest and greatest short films
from around the world on show
this year. The winner of the
International Jury Award is the
cream of this crop, the best that
the short film world has to offer
and certainly a name to look out
for. This award is selected by our
International Jury. Films in the
International, British, South West
and Late Lounge programmes
are eligible for the cash prize
of £3,000.
Winner 2006: Flighty, directed by
Leigh Hodgkinson (UK).
Winner 2006: Tricko (The T-Shirt),
directed by Hossein Martin Fazeli
(Czech Republic).
The National Association for
Higher Education and the Moving
Image (NAHEMI), supported by
Kodak presents two awards in
recognition of exceptional work
produced by undergraduate and
postgraduate students from
film schools around the UK and
Ireland. www.nahemi.org.
Winner 2006, NAHEMI / Kodak
Prize For Creative Filmmaking:
With Dickinson and I, directed by
Miles Carter (UK).
Winner 2006, NAHEMI / Kodak
Cinematography Award: Tanju
Miah, directed by Sadik Ahmed.
This award recognises originality
and technical achievement for
an independent animated short
film of less than 15 minutes and
is judged by a distinguished
panel of industry professionals.
Films made as student projects
or as personal projects outside
established animation studios
will be eligible. Individual films
or films made by groups of up
to 4 artists will be considered.
Candidates will also be eligible
if they have been working
professionally for less than 5
years. The winner will receive a
prize of £2,500.
ITV WEST AWARD
In the creative industries, as in all
businesses, it’s the people who
make the difference. In the South
West the talent base has strength
in depth as well as in numbers.
The ITV West Award recognises
the maturity of the creative
industries in the region and is an
investment in talented individuals
to ensure continued growth. The
winner, selected by the British
jury, will receive a prize of £1,000.
Winner 2006: The Adventures
of Big Jeff: Bushcraft Alphabet,
directed by Tom Parkinson (UK).
Winner 2006: The Genie in a Tin of
Ravioli, directed by Claude Barras
(Switzerland).
Supported and Managed by
NAHEMI / KODAK
PRIZE FOR CREATIVE
FILMMAKING
KODAK / NAHEMI
CINEMATOGRAPHY
AWARD
INTERNATIONAL
NEWCOMER IN
ANIMATION AWARD
THE SOUTH WEST
SCREEN AUDIENCE
AWARD
THE UK FILM COUNCIL
AUDIENCE AWARD
South West Screen is the
development agency for film,
TV and digital media in the
South West, playing a key role in
fostering local talent, developing
creative individuals and building
creative businesses. This award
celebrates the audience’s
favourite film from the South
West region by offering a cash
prize of £1,000 plus mentoring
from a South West industry
professional. Films produced
in Bristol, Gloucestershire,
Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon,
Dorset and Cornwall which are
screening in the South West
Showcase or Best of British
programmes are eligible.
This award celebrates the film
voted best of the festival by the
audience. Films in the main
competition programmes can
compete for the cash prize of
£500, so don’t forget to have your
say and vote for your favourite
films. The UK Film Council’s
New Cinema Fund is committed
to finding and promoting new
talent, looking for unique ideas,
innovative approaches and
distinctive voices. The fund
finances films with passion and
verve that connect with a broad
range of audiences. This prize
is intended to give you – the
audience – the chance to join us
in spotting the most exciting short
filmmaking talent.
Winner 2006: Benjamin’s
Struggle, directed by
James Breese.
Winner 2006: The End of the
Sentence, directed by
Marisa Zanoti (UK).
BEST OF THE FEST
Sun 25 Nov 12.00
Watershed Cinema 1
Sun 25 Nov 18.00
Watershed Cinema 1
1hr 30mins
If you weren’t lucky enough to
get a ticket for Saturday night’s
Awards Ceremony, this is your
chance to see the winning films
in all their glory. You can meet
some of the film-makers and get
an industry perspective on what
makes them so special.
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Juries
ANIMATE AWARD JURY
British Jury
George Clark
Stephen Dalton
Jacqui Davies
Stephen Dalton writes about film and music
for The Times. He is also a regular contributor
to various publications including Uncut, Sight
& Sound, NME and Scotland on Sunday. He
has never written an un-filmed screenplay or
an unpublished novel, but he might have a go
when if he ever has some free time. He lives in
Bath and Berlin.
Artists’ Moving Image Officer, Independent Cinema Office
Co-Director, Animate Projects
Shreela Ghosh
Deputy Director, inIVA
Ian White
Adjunct Film Curator, Whitechapel, London
Louise Wilson
Artist
Journalist
Lizzie Francke
Executive Producer, East Midlands Media
DepicT! JURY
Judges this year include;
Claire Cook
Senior Producer, BBC Film Network
Mark Cosgrove
Head of Programme, Watershed and Creative Director, Encounters
Gina Fucci
Managing Director, Films@59
Leigh Hodkinson
Filmmaker and winner of DepicT ’06 Animation award
Phillip Ilson
Co-Director, London Short Film Festival
Ruth Meehan
Filmmaker and winner of DepicT! ’06 Live Action award
James Mullighan
Creative Director, Shooting People
Damien O’Donnell
Director, East Is East, Inside I’m Dancing
David Sproxton
Founding director, Aardman Animations
Royston Tan
Director, 15, 4:30
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Lizzie is Executive Producer at the Regional
Screen Agency EM Media. (This Is England,
Control, And When Did You Last See Your
Father?) Previously she was at production
company Little Bird where she set up
their Ministry of Fear label for which she
co-produced Marc Evan’s psychological thriller
Trauma (2004). She was Artistic Director of
the Edinburgh International Film Festival from
1997-2001. Lizzie started out as a film critic
contributing to Sight and Sound, Premiere,
The Observer and The Guardian among others.
She is also the author of Script Girls, Women
Screenwriters in Hollywood (1994).
Asif Kapadia
Filmmaker
Born in Hackney, London, Asif Kapadia
studied graphic design before his interest in
filmmaking led to him to train at Newport Film
school, the University of Westminster & the
Royal College of Art. Kapadia’s first feature
The Warrior won the Alexander Korda Award
for Best British Film and the Award for the
Most Promising Newcomer at the 2002
BAFTA’s. He also won the Evening Standard
Award for Most Promising Newcomer, the
London Film Festival’s Sutherland Trophy for
the Most Original & Imaginative First Feature
and he was nominated for the European
Discovery Fassbinder Award at the 2002
European Film Awards. Kapadia’s short The
Sheep Thief made at the Royal College of
Art won the 2nd Prize in the Cinefoundation
Section at the Cannes Film Festival 1998 & the
Grand Prix at the European Short Film Festival.
His new film Far North starring Michelle Yeoh,
Sean Bean and Michelle Krusiec premiered at
the Venice Film Festival. Kapadia has directed
commercials and documentaries for TV. He
lives with his wife and son in North London.
EMERGING TALENT JURY
Owen Ballhatchet
Producer, Cosgrove Hall Films
Owen Ballhatchet joined Cosgrove Hall as a
Senior Prop maker but his talent & enthusiasm
for all areas of production made him an ideal
candidate for Producer training. Owen was
appointed Assistant Producer on Fetch the Vet,
a huge European pre-school hit before going on
to produce a short film, Trojan Horse, a great
success on the international short film circuit, this led to him being
asked to produce a number of short films & music promos. Owen works
across many genres and is responsible for producing CGI animation
for Rockstar Games which included work on the multi-million selling
Grand Theft Auto Vice City. His vision outside pre-school animation has
led him to be instrumental in the establishment of the company’s Short
Film competition (already resulting in two highly successful short films).
Owen was promoted to Producer and is presently working in that coveted
position on Postman Pat.
Daniel Lennard
Vice President of Original Series & Development,
Cartoon Network Europe
In 2000 Daniel joined Cartoon Network as
Development Executive, working on a slate of
projects with European talent and production
companies. Currently Senior Director of Original
Animation, Daniel continues to drive forward
Cartoon Network Europe’s commitment to original
production by heading up Development as well as executive producing
such European co-productions as The Cramp Twins with TV Loonland,
Robotboy with Alphanim, and Chop Socky Chooks with Aardman/Decode.
After graduating from university in 1993 with a degree in English Literature
and Film & Drama, Daniel worked as a runner for London Weekend
Television. He then freelanced as a researcher for independent production
companies making documentaries. In 1996 Daniel joined Nickelodeon
where he remained for four years as a writer, director and producer. In
1999 Daniel created, wrote and co-produced a series of Claymation shorts
called Stan and Harvey Do Lunch.
Maria Manton
Producer & Managing Director, Slinky Pictures Ltd
Maria Manton has twenty years experience
producing animation and live action and in
that time working with over 42 film Directors,
producing projects covering almost every type
of film and animation technique. In 2000 Maria
co-founded the production company Slinky
Pictures, where she is also Creative Director. Maria has also produced
literally hundreds of commercials, award winning TV series and 14 award
winning short films to date. These include the BAFTA nominated live
action & animation short Dads Dead, Directed by Chris Shepherd and the
cult short Who I am and What I want and most recently Silence is Golden
which won amongst other awards TCM Best Short film at The London Film
Festival 2006. She is currently in development on two feature
length projects.
INTERNATIONAL JURY
Miguel Dias
Founder, Vila do Conde Short Film Festival
Born in Porto in 1966. Miguel Dias graduated
in graphic design at the Fine Arts School in
Porto and contirnues to teach art at the Vila
do Conde high school. In 1993 he founded the
Vila do Conde Short Film Festival, and has
remained its Co-Director and Programmer.
Miguel is also the Founder and Co-Director
of the Portuguese Short Film Agency since
1999, and of the cinematic art gallery Solar,
since 2005. He was also the Producer and
Programmer in the film department of Porto
2001, European Capital of Culture.
Frédéric Pelle
Filmmaker
Born in 1965, Frédéric Pelle has spent several
years as an Assistant Director and Director,
with a body of work that includes seven short
films, and three documentaries. His short
film, Le Corbeau (The Crow) was awarded the
International Jury Award at Encounters in
2002. In 1998 Frédéric founded Bianca Films
with Pascal Lahmani, they have produced
twenty five shorts and documentaries. Frédéric
is currently in pre-production on his first
feature film.
Anke Lindenkamp
Commissioning Editor, ZDF/ARTE
Born in 1965, Anke Lindenkamp studied
journalism, French, German and Spanish
language and literature in Lyon, Göttingen,
Toulouse and Cologne. From 1993 to 1995
she worked in Public Relations for ARTE in
Strasbourg. In 1996 she began working at ZDF
in Mainz for ARTE with a particular focus on
short films and theme nights. Since 2000 she
has been working as Commissioning Editor at
ZDF/ARTE in the cinema department, dealing
with the selection, acquisition and
co-production of German and International
short films and for the weekly short film
magazine in ARTE. In 2006 she became
involved with the short film competition of the
Kulturstiftung des Bundes, providing script
development for short films.
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FILM: THE DIGITAL FUTURE
A ONE-DAY FILM CONFERENCE PRESENTED BY SOUTH WEST SCREEN
TUESDAY 11 DECEMBER 2007, WATERSHED, BRISTOL, UK
BOOKING +44 (0)117 927 5100
‘Film: The Digital Future’ will bring a
pool of experts to the region to explain how best
to embrace and exploit the ongoing digital
developments within the production, distribution,
exhibition and marketing sectors.
Speakers confirmed from companies /
organisations including the UK Film Council, Arts
Alliance, Content Republic, City Screen and
Hammer. Quite simply, there is no better way to
get the lowdown on the changing landscape of
digital film.
BOOKING
Places are £50 including lunch.
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT
The first 10 places booked will receive a
discount of 10%.
For more information about ‘Film: The Digital
Future’ contact South West Screen on
+44 (0)117 952 9977 / [email protected]
or visit www.swscreen.co.uk
ITV West is proud to support Encounters,
showcasing established and
emerging talent in the West of England.
ITV West sponsors the award for the
best short film made in the region.
Watch the premiere of Digital Shorts,
Tuesday 13 November, 7.30 pm.
UK Film Council Short Film Schemes
Digital Shorts & Digital Shorts Plus
These two schemes are run by the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and 12 partners across the
regions and nations of the UK.
Digital Shorts is open to emerging filmmakers who are creative and technological innovators.
Filmmakers shoot on digital. From September 2007 filmmakers who have already made a Digital Short
will also be able to apply to make new films. Find out more from the partner in your local region contact details: www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/filmmaking/shorts/digitalshorts/
Digital Shorts Plus is open to filmmakers who have already made a Digital Short or work of a similar
level. Budgets are up to £20,000 and the scheme intends to provide filmmakers with the opportunity to
develop their directorial voice.
Cinema Extreme
This scheme funds filmmakers with a distinctive directorial voice and cinematic flair. The scheme is
co-funded with Film4. Budgets are £50,000 and the scheme intends to provide filmmakers with a
stepping stone to a feature film.
Completion Fund
This scheme offers funds to complete short films which have already been shot. In 2007/08 there will
be 2 rounds of funding for the Completion Fund.
Details on all these schemes can be found at www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/filmmaking/shorts
The UK Film Council at Encounters 2007
Digital Generation
Fri 23 Nov at 13.45 Watershed Cinema 2
A selection of Digital Shorts & Digital Shorts Plus
from 2006/07.
You can also see Digital Shorts in
South West Showcase
Wed 21 Nov at 20.30 Watershed Cinema 3
EM Media Presents
Friday 23 Nov at 09.30 Watershed Cinema 3
B3 Showcase
Saturday 24 Nov at 12.45 Watershed Cinema 1
Cinema Extreme: A Filmmakers Journey
Fri 23 Nov at 15.45 Watershed Cinema 2
Cinema Extreme
World premiere of the 5 new
Cinema Extreme films
UK Film Council congratulates the 10 filmmakers
selected by the festival
Tom Harper with Cherries (Best of British 1)
Selina Cobley with Crow Moon (Emerging Talent 1)
Daniel Mulloy with Dad (Best of British 2)
Sam Donovan with King Ponce (Best of British 2)
Elaine Wickham with My Mother (Best of British 1)
Peter Baynton with Over the Hill (Children's Jury
Award & EM Media Presents)
Simon Ellis with Soft (Best of British 3)
Dave Smith with The Visitor (Best of British 3)
Matt Day with Wish (Best of British 2)
Daniel Elliott with The Making of Parts
(Best of British 3 & Short Matters 1)
Lifesize Pictures manages the UK Film Council's
investment in shorts.
Networking Brunch
Thurs 22 Nov and Fri 23 Nov 10.00 - 11.15
Please sign up at the delegate’s desk
An opportunity for short filmmakers to meet
industry professionals informally
Networking Party
Fri 23 Nov 21.30 Watershed Waterside 3
www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk
competition
screenings
SOUTH WEST SHOWCASE
Sat 24 Nov 14.45 Watershed Cinema 1
1hr 22mins
A showcase
of the best
from the
South West;
eclectic,
ambitious,
atmospheric
and brooding. EAST CLIFF, WEST BAY
HONK
Dir: Tom Williams
Dir: Barry Hecker
Writer: Tom Williams
Prod: Peter Snelling
Prod: George Chan
& Deep Sehgal
Editor: James Price
DoP: Nathan Ridler
On a romantic weekend by the
coast, a video nerd films his
elaborate marriage proposal.
The one thing he hasn’t planned
is her reply.
Writer: Barry Hecker & Marc
Joseph Hudson
A doggone tale of a missing pet,
the end of a relationship, and a
nasty surprise in the woods.
World Premiere
THE PEARCE SISTERS
HEDGEWITCH
Dir: Luis Cook
Dir: Liz Banks
UK 2007 8 mins
Prod: Jo Allen
Prod: Rachel Drummond-Hay
Writer: Luis Cook
DoP: Louie Blystad-Collins
A bleak tale of love, loneliness,
guts, gore, nudity, violence,
smoking and cups of tea.
Writer: Liz Banks
Stacey gets bullied about her
clothes at school. She meets
Carlie, a traveller girl who
introduces her to magic
and self-belief.
World Premiere
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YOUNG OFFENDER
ONE WEEK LATER
THE RIVER
Dir: Isabel Anderton
Dir: Peter Snelling
Dir: Adam Laity
UK 2007 11 mins
UK 2007 10 mins
Prod: Rachel Drummond-Hay
Writer, Prod, Performers:
Pupils from Ferndown Upper
School, Dorset
Cast: David Hargreaves
& Matt Danson
A poignant tale which shows
how prejudice can escalate to
violence and how destructive
this is to all involved.
Sound: Jonny Crew
DoP: Chris Maris
Editor: Tom Lindsay
An 18 year-old white inmate
becomes increasingly disturbed
in the oppressive atmosphere
of a multi-racial young
offender’s institution.
UK Festival Premiere
DoP: Terry Flaxton
On a dark and winding river a
small rowing boat cuts through
the black water, as an old man
and a young boy flee an unseen
foe lurking in the gloom of the
trees on the riverbank.
World Premiere
HORIZON OF EXILE
UK 2007 22 mins
A SHORT COLLECTION
OF HILARY FLAMINGO’S
DREAM VOCATIONS
DoP: Nic Knowland
Dir: Harriet Fleuriot
Featuring: Camila Valenzuela
& Paulina Garrido
Dir: Isabel Rocamora
A journey of exile across the
arid, timeless landscapes of the
Atacama Desert. Punctuated
by voice testimonies of Iraqi
exilees, this universal fiction
uses choreographed gesture
to evoke effacement, yearning
and rebellion.
UK Premiere
Prod Design: Steven Grainger
& Beth Pell
DoP: Fred Reed
Costume: Hannah Summers
Hilary Flamingo feels bored,
distracted and miserable in
her industrialised job. Her
apathetic mood is unexpectantly
illuminated by the spontaneous
arrival of a shining plate of little
cakes that wriggle and entice her
to eat them.
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INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA 1
Wed 21 Nov 20.00 Arnolfini Cinema
Fri 23 Nov 13.15 Arnolfini Cinema
1hr 29mins
An opportunity
to see a
snapshot
of global
creativity
in the short
film form.
This year
we received
a record
number of
International
entries.
These are
the ones
that, for us,
stood out.
EL CERCO (THE FENCE)
Dir: Ricardo Iscar
PHANTOMSCHMERZ
(PHANTOM PAIN)
Spain 2006 12 mins
Dir: Alexandre Powelz
Prod: Hector Faver
Germany 2007 15 mins 54 secs
Kinescope: Manel Almiñana
DoP: Robert Laatz
Post Prod: Pablo Demichelis
& Nicolas Celery
Editor: Anna Kappelmann
Every year thousands of tuna fish
migrate to the Mediterranean
Sea. Men chase them in a ritual
of blood and death: three hundred
tuna fish are trapped into a ring
of nets. Images of nature abused
and overwhelmed.
A woman and a man meet at a
hotel bar. Their intentions are
obvious. A one-night-stand that
turns out to be a melancholic love
story between two solitary artists.
BY MODERN MEASURE
PARTUS
Dir: Matthew Lessner
Dir: Mikkel Munch-Fals
USA 2006 5 mins 45 secs
Denmark 2006 21 mins
Prod: Matthew Lessner
Script: Mikkel Munch-Fals
DoP: Kevin Burnstein
Prod: Meta Louise Foldager
Sound Designer:
Matthew Sordello
DoP: Ulrik Boel Bentzen
An amateur French sociologist
presents his observations on
a day in the life of two young
Americans who meet by chance
outside a Taco Bell.
UK Premiere
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Music: Tilmann Dehnhard
UK Premiere
Elizabeth, a restrained doctor,
gives coffee to a homeless
guy every morning on her
way to work. But what are
her real intentions?
DEN BLÅ SKON
(THE BLUE SHOE)
BETON
NOSTALGIA
Dir: Gaute Hesthagen
Dir: Magnus Fredriksson
Dir: Ariel Belinco
& Michael Faust
Sweden 2006 4 mins 30 secs
Israel 2007 6 mins 29 secs
Writer: Gaute Hesthagen
Script: Anton Raukola
& Håkan Rudehill
Music, Sound Design:
Michael Berkovits
DoP: Trond Tønder
Music: Håkan Rudehill
Prod: Animation Unit, Bezalel
Academy of Art & Design
Sound Design: Martin Eriksson
A fisherman catches a blue
lady’s shoe floating along the
river. Did it belong to Andrea,
the Polish berry-picker, who
fled from the tyranny of the
Blueberry King?
UK Premiere
DoP: Ariel Belinco
& Michael Faust
The day to day life of a military
world is disturbed by the
appearance of a black kite
behind its high walls. The army,
annoyed by the existence of this
kite in its clear sky, decides to
solve the problem.
Norway 2006 4 mins 55 secs
Editor: Lars Apneseth
Close to a country road is an old,
lonely house. Although the house
has been empty for many years,
the memories of those who once
lived there still exist.
UK Premiere
ROAD MOVIE
CHECKPOINT
Dir: Siv Aksnes
& Niels Peter Haerem
Dir: Ben Phelps
Norway 2006 6 mins 30 secs
Prod: Tim Kreibig
Writer: John-Inge Røst
DoP: Hugh Miller
DoP: Dag Harald
Kvammen Andersen
Composer, Music: John Gray
Editor: Siv Aksnes
& Niels Peter Hærem
A humorous short film about the
search for love and good film
ideas. A meta-film where fiction
becomes reality.
Australia 2006 11 mins 30 secs
A Lebanese-Australian family find
themselves in the wrong place,
at the wrong time, when they
encounter a group of soldiers in
rural Australia.
UK Premiere
UK Premiere
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Thu 22 Nov 9.15 Watershed Cinema 1
1hr 31mins
MATAR EL TIEMPU
(KILLING TIME)
NAMIBIA, BRASIL
Dir: Santos Hevia
GRAJDANSKOE
SOSTOANIE
(CIVIL STATUS)
Spain 2006 15 mins
Dir: Alina Rudnitskaya
Writer: Miguel Silveira
Cast: Agripina Menendez
Russian Federation 2006 30 mins
Prod: Andrew Eick
A portrait of an old woman who
fights with her neighbour to give
meaning to her life. She prepares
an ultimate reckoning that gives
fate a chance to determine the
end of this war…
DoP: Sergei Maksimov
Editor: Jerry R. Napier
Prod: Vyacheslav Telnov
A young Brazilian girl named
Namibia tells her dad the tale of a
famous tragedy which took place
many decades earlier on the
opposite side of the world.
The Marriage Palace. This is
the place where people’s
destinies cross over into the
bureaucratic system. The most
significant events of a person’s
life, wedding, divorce, birth and
death form the everyday routine
of a registry office.
Dir: Miguel Silveira
Brazil 2006 8 mins
UK Premiere
UK Premiere
LEFT
PLEASANCE
Dir: Alexandre O. Philippe
Dir: Amy Gebhardt
MING D’OR
(MING OF GOLD)
Australia 2007 13 mins
Dir: Jennifer Devoldere
DoP: Jeff Pointer
Prod: Ben Commens
France 2006 14 mins 25 secs
Sound: Phil Hegel
Writer: Tim Dylan Lee
Music: Jon Hegel
DoP: Andrew McLeod
Script: Jennifer Devoldere
& Alexandre Coffre
An impressionistic short
film largely inspired by Andrew
Wyeth’s paintings, Christina’s
World and Overflow, Left centers
around the heartbreaking
separation between a woman
and the man she loves.
Les and Errol are two elderly
brothers living on their family
property of Pleasance. Their
existence is well-worn, a
functional marriage of needs
that neither questions.
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UK Premiere
DoP: Margaux Bonhomme
Editing: Sylvie Landra
For the first time of her life,
Ming, 16 years old, is in love.
And nothing will prevent her
from loving Paul...
UK Premiere
1hr 27mins
OUTONO (AUTUMN)
Dir: Pablo Lobato
EL CUARTO DEL FONDO
(THE GUEST ROOM)
Brazil 2007 21 mins 15 secs
Dir: Leticia Jorge & Ana Guevara
ProdCompany: Teia
Uruguay 2006 12 mins
Sound Track: O Grivo
Writer: Leticia Jorge
& Ana Guevara
Lead Actor: João das Neves
Three people move about the
same place without meeting each
other: the wanderer, the resident,
and his ex-wife.
UK Premiere
DEMAIN LA VEILLE
(WAITING FOR
YESTERDAY)
Dir: Julien Lecat
& Sylvain Pioutaz
DoP: Pedro Luque
Prod: Guillaume Colboc
Sound Dir: Daniel Yafalian
DoP: Eric Vallee
At the age of 14, Virginia lives
alone with Gladys, her 80-yearold great aunt. It’s Christmas Eve.
Editor: Isabelle Proust
Bob is a normal 30 year-old man.
He walks backwards, loses his
memory and his skills, like a good
citizen. But one day, he wakes
up realising that this world is
not ‘normal’.
UK Premiere
MACHINE CHILD
BLOCK
USO JUSTO
Dir: Jonathan van Tulleken
Dir: Simon Jaquemet
Dir: Coleman Miller
USA 2007 1 min 30 secs
Switzerland 2007 13 mins 30 secs
USA 2006 22 mins
Writer: Jonathan van Tulleken
DoP: Ralph Bätschmann
Writer: Coleman Miller
DoP: Jonathan van Tulleken
Music: Jürg Lindenberg
Prod: Rick Hansen
Voice Over: Kevin Spacey
A man on the run. In a bleak
landscape underneath thick
fog he flees from frightful
shadows, machines, and
searchlights that follow him
without mercy. He wants to go
into the mountains.
Uso Justo is at once a ridiculous
and hilarious experimental film,
a well-targeted send-up of avantgarde filmmaking.
A short Public Sevice
Announcement warning
people against being too
cruel to machines.
World Premiere
World Premiere
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Thu 22 Nov 16.30 Arnolfini Cinema
1hr 16mins
TUDI TUKAJ JE
SLOVENIJA
(THIS IS SLOVENIA)
LAMPA CU CACIULA
(THE TUBE WITH A HAT)
THE TRAINEE
Dir: Radu Jude
Singapore 2006 8 mins 15 secs
Slovenia 2007 1 min
Romania 2006 23 mins
Prod: Adriane Lee
Protagonist: Josko Joras
Prod: Ada Solomon
DoP: Haruld Goh
Prod: Sara Beks
& Gandalf Tatting
Writer: Florin Lazarescu
A trainee robber holds up a
late-night convienience store with
unexpected consequences.
Joško Joras is a man ‘between
two fires’. He lives in the disputed
border strip between Slovenia
and Croatia.
UK Premiere
Very early in the morning,
Marian, a 7 year-old boy
from a small and poor
Romanian village, wakes
up his father and persuades
him to go to the city to fix
their old TV set.
Dir: Craig Rosenthal
UK Premiere
KILKA PROSTYCH
SLOW (A FEW
SIMPLE WORDS)
ARKA (ARK)
KWIZ (QUIZ)
Dir: Grzegorz Jonkajtys
Poland 2007 8 mins
Belgium 2006 5 mins
Dir: Anna Kazejak
Prod: Claude Greens
Poland 2007 30 mins
Music: Paweł Blaszczak
& Adam Skorupa
DoP: Slawomir Berganski
Prod: Marcin Kobylecki
Cast: Agat
Prod Assistant:
Marta Staniszewska
Krystyna wants to take her
daughter to a casting for a girl’s
band. But car trouble forces her
to seek help from a man who she
hasn’t seen for a long time. Their
meeting will change their lives.
UK Premiere
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An unknown virus has
destroyed almost the entire
human population. Oblivious to
the true nature of the disease,
the only remaining survivors
escape to the sea. In great
ships, they set off in search of
uninhabited land. So begins the
exodus, led by one man …
Two middle-aged women
armed with mobile phones
throw themselves into a
merciless quiz. How far will
they go to avoid losing face?
UK Premiere
Thu 22 Nov 18.30 Arnolfini Cinema
1hr 34mins
AZRAA WA AHMAR
(RED & BLUE)
POZA CISZA
(BELOW THE SILENCE)
MAGIC PARIS
Dir: Mahmood Soliman
UN HOMBRE
TRANQUILO
(A QUIET MAN)
Dir: Piotr Ryczko
France 2006 20 mins
Egypt 2006 11 mins 30 secs
Dir: Arantzazu Gomez Bayon
Poland 2006 14 mins 52 secs
Prod: Emilie Tisné
Art Director: Aaser Saleh
Spain 2007 12 mins 20 secs
Adam: Marcin Sztabinski
DoP: Nicolas Guicheteau
Editor: Ahmad Abo Saada
Prod: Rafael Nieto Jiminez
Father: Wojciech Droszczynski
Camera: Mohammad Hamdy
Sound: Martin Qesku
Young Adam: Kacper Gasior
A young man and a girl are
having a secret love affair.
In a society that will never
support such an illegal
relationship, the two are faced
with a serious dilemma when
the bed falls as they are making
love and they run the risk of
being exposed.
Music: Mikel Gomez Bayon
Young Father: Robert Latusek
Guided by the voice of Estrella,
we will embark on a colorful
and exciting journey through
different episodes of her young
life: celebrating life, ritual and
culture, and the experience
and power of memory in the
construction of ‘realities’.
A frozen relationship between
a father and son takes on
new life when the son finds
a deeply buried secret in his
father’s apartment.
Kate is alone in Paris for the
week-end. In this unfamiliar
city she is going to meet a
man and his dog.
UK Premiere
UK Premiere
Dir: Alice Winocour
UK Premiere
HUNDEFUTTER
(DOGMEAT)
HEURES SUP’
(OVERTIME)
SECURITY
Dir: Till Kleinert
Dir: Mark Eacersall
France 2006 6 mins
Writer: Lars Henning
Prod: Anna de Paoli
& Christin Geigemüller
DoP: Fred Nony
DoP: Carol Burand
Prod: Axel Guyot
DoP: Martin Hanslmayr
Music: Franck Lebon
Music: Enis Rotthoff
In a park, two men are
discussing their life at the
office. But they’re not who we
think they are… Will they go on
toying with reality for long?
Becker works as a security
officer in a supermarket.
When he catches a young
Polish woman shoplifting,
his calm life is disturbed.
Instead of calling the police,
Becker lets the woman escape
through the backdoor.
World Premiere
UK Premiere
Raffi dares Chris to break into
the house of an old woman.
Seeing the sleeping lady, Chris
gets the bold idea to steal the
dentures right out of her mouth.
Dir: Lars Henning
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Sat 24 Nov 19.30 Arnolfini Cinema
1hr 33mins
Cert 18
LEBENSWANDEL
(SEE YOU AT HOME)
CIRCLES
Dir: Jay Rosenblatt
Dir: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
USA 2006 3 mins
Dir: Stefan Kornatz
Israel 2006 7 mins 57 secs
Ukraine 2006 20 mins
Poem: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Music: Bobby McFerrin
DoP: Valentyn Melnychenko
Voice: Garrison Keillor
DoP: Dominik Schunk
Editior: Natalia Akayomova
Afraid So is about fear and
anxiety. It is based on a poem
in which each line forms a
question, with the implied
response being “afraid so”.
Editing: Stefan Blau
Prod: Bezalel Academy of
Art & Design
ZHAKH (THE INCIDENT)
Sound: Natalia Serga
An elderly forester had
planned a peaceful day to
enjoy a relaxing warm bath
and listen to the radio…
AFRAID SO
UK Premiere
UK Premiere
Sound: Peter Senkel
Music: Jonas Siegel
Katharina (KAT, 15) contacts
strangers via Internet-Chat and
meets them for money. One day
one of her blind dates turns out to
someone she knows….
UK Premiere
LES COUILLUS
(HOME TEAM)
IKE (POND)
SHUTEYE HOTEL
Dir: Kohei Yoshino
Dir: Bill Plympton
Dir: Mirabelle Kirkland
Japan 2007 15 mins 5 secs
USA 2007 7 mins
France 2006 18 mins
CG: Kohei Yoshino
Prod/Editor: Biljana Labovic
DoP: Fred Nony
Actress: Shiori Kobara
Sound Designer: Greg Sextro
Prod: Philippe Braunstein
Music: Kenichiro Saisho
Music: Corey Jackson
One Saturday morning, eight
guys in sweatshirts gather for
a seminar, hoping to find new
solutions to the challenges they
face with their partners at home.
Pat, the instructor, certainly has
some original propositions…
A girl and her fellow salvage
objects in the ‘pond-world’.
One day, she hears one of the
objects make a sound…
A film noir murder mystery that
takes place in a sleazy hotel. As
cops investigate the gruesome
murders they become victims of
this evil force. What Jaws did to
swimming, Shuteye Hotel will do
for sleeping.
UK Premiere
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World Premiere
Dir: Jonathan Shohet
Structured around an insomniac’s
journey through the deserted
Jerusalem night, this film is an
abstract exploration of the lovehate relationship between man,
community and urban technology.
1hr 23mins
CKA3KA CAPbl
(SARAH’S TALE)
MONSIEUR
SORLIN ARCHITECTE
PERSONAL SPECTATOR
MAMMAL
Dir: Emmanuel Jespers
Dir: Astrid Rieger
Dir: Jacques Strang
Russian Federation 2006
Belgium 2006 14 mins 30 secs
France 2006 13 mins
5 mins 30 secs
DoP: Glynn Speeckaert
Prod: William Picot
Cast: Achim Schauffele,
Michaela Tschubenko
Script: Marat Magambetov
& Svetlana Filippova
Sound Engineer: Marc Engels
DoP: Nicholas Gaurin
Screenplay: Carole Frechette
and Emmanuel Jespers
Dir: Svetlana Filippova
Design: Svetlana Filippova
Camera: Pavel Kostomarov
The rule of the universe by Sarah,
a 6-year-old girl.
UK Premiere
Editor: Eric Armbruster
Patrick Sorlin, a successful
architect, is hit on the face with
a custard pie during a TV
interview. He then moves
between attraction and repulsion
for anything in his daily life that
reminds him of the incident.
UK Premiere
In a deserted service station,
a woman is accosted by a
handsome guy who offers her
a brand new and quick therapy
to cure her seemingly bland
existence: he will look at her for
5 minutes, until she starts to feel
that she exists.
UK Premiere
DoP: Mark Liedtke
Special Effects:
Stefan Ringelschwandtner
With a suprising narrative and
mythological images, Mammal
describes the symbiotic
relationship between a mother
and her son. Sensuality,
animalistic tendencies and
permanent attempts to escape
are one side, protective care and
fear of change are on the other.
UK Premiere
GRACELAND
PARZ (DUTY OF A SON)
Dir: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Dir: Temirbek Birnazarov
Thailand 2006 17 mins
Kyrgyzstan 2007 23 mins
L’ÉDUCATION
NAUTIQUE (THE
NAUTICAL EDUCATION)
Prod: Soros Sukhum
& Jetnipith Teerakulchanyut
Prod: Sadyk Sher-Niyaz
Dir: Christian Laurence
A young man comes back
home from prison. He turns over
a new leaf. But his old father dies.
He has to slaughter a horse to
bury his father in keeping with
Kyrgyz traditions.
Canada 2006 2 mins 30 secs
DoP: Ming Kai Leung
Editor: Lee Chatametikool
One night in Bangkok, Jon meets
a mysterious woman. Together,
they embark on a journey to the
foreign land - the human heart.
UK Premiere
DoP: Geneviève Perron
Editor: Christian Laurence
Music: Sébastien Schuller
You will be cold. You will be
scared. You will want to give up.
Only true heroes triumph.
UK Premiere
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BEST OF BRITISH 1
1hr 46mins
This year
we have
expanded
the UK
programmes
reflecting
the strength
and breadth
of filmmaking
currently
being made
across the
country.
There’s an
impressive
range of
styles and
emotions
on display.
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THE SICKIE
THE POSTMAN
Dir: Rupert Jones
Dir: Rupert Porter
UK 2006 13 mins
Prod: Matthieu de Braconier
& Derry Wilkinson
Writer: Rupert Porter
Co-Writer: Neil Hunter
DoP: Anthony Radcliffe
Douglas Knott, a busy office
manager, decides to throw
a sickie. Unfortunately, his
attempts to enjoy a day off
are sabotaged by the voice of
his conscience.
A dark tale of the bizarre events
of one beautiful summer’s day in
the English countryside. This is
the story of a boy who discovers
an aircrash survivor and uses the
situation to his own ends.
World Premiere
MY MOTHER
BADMOUTH
Dir: Elaine Wickham
Dir: Shanti Ramakuri
Writer: Elaine Wickham
DoP: Jamie Hammond
Prod: Jan Dunn
Prod: Shanti Ramakuri
DoP: Nic Morris
Writer: Shona Pollock
Composer: Clint Mansell
A retro-short set in 1988,
North London. A portrait of
a missing girl seen through
the eyes of those affected by
her disappearance.
Betty, 80, suffers from advanced
dementia. Her daughter, Janet,
has drawn the short straw, and
has the task of driving her mother
to a hospice on the Kent coast.
Partner
CHEAT NEUTRAL
TROUT
ME HEAD’S A SHED
Dir: Beth Stratford
Dir: Johnny Barrington
Dir: Marco van Belle
UK 2006 10 mins
UK 2006 8 mins
Starring: Alex Randall
& Christian Hunt
Prod: Anna Duffield
Writer: Alison Pennells
DoP: Manuel Alberto Claro
Prod: Nicola Bowen
Since the sixties, concentrations
of heartbreak in the atmosphere
have risen dramatically.
CheatNeutral.com offers a
unique market-based solution to
this essential problem of modern
life, allowing unfaithful lovers to
have their cheating ‘offset’ by a
global network of fidelity.
Prod Design: Moley Campbell
DoP: Fabian Wagner
Composer: William Threlfall
Tina leaves her schizophrenic
mother alone at home when
she goes to school, but what
awaits her in the classroom
could shatter their fragile
existence forever.
FRIENDLY FIRE
CHERRIES
Dir: Andrew Cumming
Dir: Tom Harper
UK 2006 14 mins
DoP: Camila Jimenez Villa
Prod: Lisa Williams
William: James Sturgeon
Writer: Fiona Kissane
Paul: John Milroy
DoP: Jakob Ihre
Two childhood friends meet up
in London for the first time in
three years, but an incident that
happened in Scotland still hangs
over their fragile friendship.
A class of rowdy teenage
schoolboys are oblivious to
their teachers attempts to
question them about the wider
world. But they are about to have
a lesson they will never forget.
World Premiere
Trout is a kooky tale of Alex
and Mari, highland lovers
living in a tiny caravan in the
West of Scotland.
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BEST OF BRITISH 2
Partner
1hr 29mins
Cert 18
HESITATION
DAD
THE SEAWATCHERS
Dir: Virginia Gilbert
Dir: Daniel Mulloy
Dir: Lizzie Oxby
WHAT DOES
YOUR DADDY DO?
UK 2006 7 mins
Dir: Martin Stitt
Prod: Julien Berlan
& Michelle Eastwood
Prod: Ohna Falby
UK 2006 15 mins
DoP: Jakob Ihre
Starring: Richard Leaf
& Sarah Cameron
Paul and Rebecca’s holiday
is rudely interrupted when a
small French boy tears through
the apartment complex. Paul’s
anger grows irrationally and
becomes focused on the boy, with
potentially tragic consequences.
Writer: Daniel Mulloy
Two lovers are lost at sea.
Composer: Miguel Mera
An elderly couple remain sexually
active later in life to the disgust of
their middle-aged son, but who is
it that has the problem?
UK Premiere
Editor: John Wilson A.C.E.
TREE
KING PONCE
WISH
DOG ALTOGETHER
Dir: Phil Dale
Dir: Sam Donovan
Dir: Matt Day
Dir: Paddy Considine
UK 2007 16 mins
Prod: Liz Chan
Prod: Rob Speranza
Prod: Anna Higgs
Prod: Diarmid Scrimshaw
DoP: Peter Ellmore
Writer: Clare Perry
DoP: Christopher Ross
DoP: Tom Townend
Composer: Simon Allen
DoP: Fabian Wagner
Editor: Jay Moss
Prod Design: Ursula Cleary
Drawn to the same place for very
different reasons, two strangers
wander a wood, each unaware
of the other, until their pathways
cross by an ancient Tree.
A film about teenage masculinity
and group acceptance. Robbo is
stuck between two worlds that
are destined to collide – his love
of ballroom dancing and his
laddish new school mates.
Two girls, two boys, a game
where nobody wins.
Joseph is plagued by a violence
and rage that’s driving him to self
destruction. As he falls further
into turmoil Joseph scours the
landscape in search of a single
grain of redemption that might
restore hope to his fractured life.
DoP: Duncan Telford
It takes brave men and women to
protect children, but at what cost?
World Premiere
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World Premiere
BEST OF BRITISH 3
Partner
1hr 34mins
HELL BENT
FOR LEATHER
SOFT
TRUE COLOURS
SCHOOLBOY
Dir: Simon Ellis
Dir: Barney Elliott
Dir: Claire Breton & Tim Smith
Dir: James Wood
UK 2006 14 mins
UK 2007 13 mins
Prod: Jane Hooks
Writer: Barney Elliott
Prod, Writer: Tim Smith
Original Book: Seb Hunter
DoP: Chris Ross
Actor (Seb’s Dad):
Tim McInnerny
Iain: Jonny Phillips
Prod: Eleanor Cook
& Barney Elliott
Scott: Matthew O’Shea
Editor: Klaus Heinecke
A father rediscovers his fear
of confrontation, at the worst
possible time.
A social drama about a loving
father with a propensity for
violence and his struggle to
earn his family’s trust.
Ed Fish is an ordinary teenager
doing his best to deal with school
life, until one day events he could
never have dreamt of, change his
life forever.
ELA
THE VISITOR
MASHED
THE MAKING OF PARTS
Dir: David Smith
Dir: Zam Salim
Dir: Daniel Elliott
UK 2006 3 mins
DoP: Liam Iandoli
Prod: Yvonne Bray
DoP: Simon Dennis
Prod: Samm Haillay
& Duane Hopkins
Sound: Ayush Ahuja
Writer: Dave Smith
Commissioned by the NSPCC
and Channel 4 and written by
Megan Elliot a 15 year old first
time writer.
Music: Chris White
How far would you go to
protect your family?
A group of girls’ drunken night
out threatens to end in tragedy.
Prod: Adam Penny
& Soledad Gatti-Pascual
A wild and affectionate
confessional memoir of teenage
immersion in the late 80’s world
of Heavy Metal. Adaptated from
the book by Seb Hunter.
World Premiere
We meet 8-year old Ela at a very
particular moment in her life: the
moment she experiences loss for
the first time.
World Premiere
World Premiere
DoP: Rein Kotov
Editor: Edd Mags
A man’s love and tenderness,
which he once shared with his
wife, is now slipping away from
him. As one sexual existence
ends, another is just beginning.
World Premiere
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EMERGING TALENT 1
Sun 25 No 11.45 Watershed Cinema 3
1hr 16mins
NABI
(THE BUTTERFLY)
AN
THE OCCUPANT
THE ITCH
POLLE (HORSIE)
Dir: Matthew Reay
Dir: Elise Simard
Dir: Joel Green
Dir: Sara Wahl
Dir: Hana Roh
Canada 2006 3 mins 26 secs
UK 2006 1 min 42 secs
Finland 2006 1 mins 37 secs
Australia 2007 3 mins
Writer, Animator:
Matthew Reay
Animation, Script, Music:
Elise Simard
Project Supervisor:
Phill Allen
Script, Animation, Sound:
Sara Wahl
AN lives in a city built
upon a heart. Each day
a steamboat docks and
guards take up their
positions to convert
the imprisoned workers
into the black liquid.
AN intervenes and begins
his journey into the
depths of the city.
Now that her travels are
drawing to a close, Romny
Ward reflects upon her
journey and faces her own
duty to go on.
Course Leader: Anargyros
How to survive as a horsie?
Our character finds
himself being followed
home by a small plainlooking man who starts
to tap him with a walking
stick. He can’t get rid of his
new unwelcome companion
no matter what he tries.
UK Premiere
DER
PROPELLERVOGEL
(THE
PROPELLERBIRD)
THE MYSTERY
OF PIG CITY
OPUS 23
THE MELTDOWN
Dir: Marco Morandi
Dir: Garth Jones
& Johnny Luu
Italy 2007 3 mins 50 secs
Dir: João Batista,
João Real & Pedro Almeida
Portugal 2006 1 mins 17 secs
Music: Dustin O’Halloran
Dir: Jan Locher
& Thomas Hinke
Videoclip for the song
Opus 23, from the sound
track of Sofia Coppola’s
Marie Antoinette.
A nuclear timing device
becomes unstable and a
nuclear fusion reactor is
on the verge of exploding.
Inside the device, the crew
in charge of monitoring the
countdown start to seek a
possible way out...
Music: Art Phillips
Sound: Ian Little
& Hana Roh
A beautiful illusory
butterfly seduces a
little faun into a dark
mysterious land, filled
with icy fluttering echoes.
UK Premiere
APNÉE
Dir: Claude Chabot
France 2006 4 mins
Music: Stéphane Scott
A photographer tries to
capture an embarrassing
moment in the life of
someone in the public eye.
He doesn’t realise that time
is working against him.
Germany 2006
4 mins 58 secs
Music: Carsten Raabe
In a wooded glade, three
little sparrows want to sing
their song but are constanly
interrupted by a strange
grey fellow with a backpack propeller.
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Animator: Garth Jones
& Johnny Luu
Musical Score:
Matt Davison
Cats are being
stolen by mysterious
mechanical arms for
nefarious purposes!
UK Premiere
International
Festival Premiere
New animation from around the world in this,
the first of two programmes presenting the
shortlist for the International Newcomer Award.
Programmed by Claire Jennings
1977
WHITE
CROW MOON
THE CLEANER
SEED
Dir: Peque Varela
Dir: Tan Wei Keong
Dir: Selina Cobley
Dir: Dustin Rees
Dir: Shu-Tsen Liu
Switzerland 2006
Prod: Gavin Humphries
Animator: Tan Wei Keong
Prod: Sueann Smith
2 mins 44 secs
Sound Design: Kris Young
DoP: Neus Ollé-Soronellas
Sound Designer: Loo Zihan
Animator: Selina Cobley
Supervisor:
Eileen Reynolds
Music: Leila Dunn
Sound Mix:
Wolf Ingo-Roemer
All Other Credits:
Shu-Tsen Liu
A flock of crows are
threatened by the
advancing shadows.
With the help of the
Raven Chief, they take
a piece of the sun and
use it to save themselves
from the darkness.
Prod: Gerd Gockell
Seed is a story about two
creatures’ lives that come
into conflict over a shining
seed, but then develop a
friendship and discover
how the seed is connected
to them both.
OSTOROZHNO,
DVERI
OTKRYVAJUTSIA
(MIND THE GAP!)
KNOW THE ENEMY
BANANAS
PUSHKIN
Dir: Martin Orton
& Greg Villalobos
Dir: Zach Parrish
Dir: Trevor Hardy
UK 2007 5 mins
UK 2006 3 mins
Sound Design: Jake Sedlar
Music: Jon Russell
Music: Girls of the
Golden West
Dir: Anastasia Zhuravleva
Animator: Aaron Lampert
Russian Federation 2006
Additional Animation:
Geoffrey Howell
5 mins 4 secs
Background Illustration:
Greg Villalobos
Writer, Animator:
Zach Parrish
Poor Mrs Dombilard,
her cat ‘Pushkin’ has
gone missing. Where is
her little darling?
A small town, a growing
knot, and a girl searching
for her identity.
World Premiere
A man, dissatisfied with a
white cube for a head, gives
it up in the name of selfimprovement, only to find
himself dealing with the
unpleasant consequences.
UK Premiere
HOW THE
WEST WAS WON
Dir: Rowena True
A satirical short portraying
a duel between the old and
the new America. Three
cowboys alone in the desert
awake to find their herd
is gone and something
sinister is approaching.
Animator: T.Molodova,
V.Kadukhin, K.Romanenko
& A.Zhuravlev
Sound: S.Trifonova
Music: V.Bazilevsky
The film is dedicated
to all the buttons lost
in the metro.
Prod Assistant:
Belen Bueso-Alberdi
A short animation narrated
by a real life bike thief and
produced in East London.
All Other Credits:
Dustin Rees
A love story
behind garbage.
UK Premiere
Bruce, a laboratory
monkey, really wants a
banana. But when he is
given a banana, he wants
more. The story explores
just how far Bruce will go to
satisfy his greedy desires.
Will she ever see
him again?
World Premiere
UK Premiere
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EMERGING TALENT 2
Sun 25 Nov 15.15 Watershed Cinema 3
1hr 21mins
MOTHER
SOLOMON GRUNDY
Dir: Christoph Steger
Dir: Chris Myers
& Ken Seward
THE GOAT
THAT ATE TIME
WHALE
Dir: Robert Wicksteed
LOS MECCANICOS
(THE MECHANICALS)
Dir: Lucinda Schreiber
Dir: Luca Pieracci
Animation:
Christoph Steger
Australia 2007
Music: Stuart Blakeledge
Italy 2007 1 min 49 secs
Animation Dir: Chris Myers
7 mins 15 secs
Music: Vasco Hexel
Art Dir: Ken Seward
Editing: James Littlemore
Character Design:
Davide d’Angelo
Voice: Angela Turner
Prod: Natalie Moore
Music: Martin Craft
An animated documentary
about a life dedicated to
the dead.
Solomon Grundy’s
life is a series of
whirlwind ceremonies
and rituals over which
he has no control.
Voice: Aden Young
A conservative suburbanite
struggles with an unwanted
visitor, only to discover
that the solution is easier
than he thought. However
in this world, if something
is too good to be true, it
probably is.
A goat with an appetite for
life realises that time is
dangerously delicious.
Story, 3D Animation:
Luca Pieracci
Sound Effects:
Luca Pieracci
& Simone di Giannantonio
Two robots, Enzo and
Ugo are watching TV
while Carmine takes care
of the home, disrupting the
other two…
World Premiere
BOTTEOUBATEAU
(BOTTOOBATOH)
WE ALL
FADE AWAY
SNIP, CRUNCH
Dir: Marina Rosset
Dir: Nisha Duggal
Switzerland 2007 3 mins
Sound Design: Barbara
“Baeng Baeng” Brunner
Music: Audio Estimations
All Credits:
Matthew Heimbecker
Music: Renaud Pedrazza
Sound Mix:
Wolf Ingo Römer
Three poor fishermen
have to live with a band
of terrible pirates and a
curious marine creature.
UK Premiere
A still image of tourists all
gazing at something we
cannot see. Over time, each
person is blacked out as
they are transformed into
birds that slowly fly off into
the distance.
World Premiere
Dir: Matthew Heimbecker
A pack of scissor
wolves hunt for their
paper sheep lunch.
THOU SHALT
ALWAYS KILL:
SCROOBIUS PIP V
DAN LE SAC
WEISS
Dir: Karen Penman
Sound: Tobias Böhm
One definition of space is
the absence of contact. But
gridlock is definitely death.
Animator: Karen Penman
& Liam Brazier
Composer: Scroobius Pip
& Dan Le Sac
A highly personal,
potentially controversial
but always spot-on blast
of commandments for a
better world.
World Premiere
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Dir: Florian Grolig
Germany 2007
5 mins 7 secs
UK Premiere
DREAMMAKER
Dir: Kim Robson
THE SEAGULL
OGLES WHILST
WE PASS BY
Dir: Eleanor Farnham
13 mins 50 secs
Prod: University Of Derby
Taking the audience
on a journey through
the seasons of a fullyrealised environment.
This film challenges
viewers to think carefully
about the mark they are
leaving on the planet.
Music, Sound:
Laura Callaghan
Screenplay:
Dominik Steffen
THE PHOENIX
EFFECT
DHARMA
DREAM EATER
YOUR CARBON
FOOTPRINT
Dir: Mitra Turani
Dir: Rasmus Møller
& Edda Kristindottir
Denmark 2007
4 mins 43 secs
Music: Ardavan Ghaffouri
As does a phoenix arise
from its own ashes, so
will new life be born out
of the grime created by
human kind.
Animation: Rasmus Møller
& Edda Kristindottir
Music: Alan Madsen
Sound: Thomas Ahlmark
A tiny witch flies around
on her vacuum cleaner
rescuing children from
their nightmares.
A visual melody of images
create a picture in which
we see the mundane as
beautiful, making the
viewer aware of what they
usually just pass by.
UK Premiere
Dir: Leszek Plichta
Germany 2007
Sound Design:
Michael Diehl
Music: David Christiansen
Once the dreammaker
made the most beautiful
dreams for people. Now
he lives solitary for only
one purpose, the creation
of a special dream - his
dream, until...
UK Premiere
FAT CHANCE
SHADOWS IN
THE DESERT
O PHAROS
(LIGHTHOUSE)
BLOW
Dir: Ben Jones
Dir: Ryoko Hatanaka
Dir: Elena Topouzoglou
Italy 2006 3 mins 10 secs
NCCA Programme Leader:
Anargyros Sarafopoulos,
Bournemouth Uni
Japan 2007 5 mins 39 secs
Greece 2007
All Credits:
Ryoko Hatanaka
4 mins 15 secs
All Credits:
Hermes Mangialardo
Major Project Sup:
Paula Callus
In a Japanese suburb silent
creatures emerge from
the unknown and isolated
world of heavy electric
wires and gigantic pylons.
Sound Design:
Thanassis Pagonis
A lonely overweight man
regularly indulges in
fantasies and daydreams
to make his life more
interesting.
Music: Celeste Friedman
A young girl lonely and
bored, dreams of another
life in a distant life.
Dir: Hermes Mangialardo
The God of War advances
on his course of death and
destruction. Who will be
able to stop him?
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CHILDREN’S JURY AWARD
1hr 4mins Cert PG
The
Children’s
Jury Award
is selected
from a
collection
of films
intended to
tickle the
visual senses
of young
teenagers.
Funny,
thoughtfull,
abstract,
anything but
ordinary,
they are
intended to
stimulate and
entertain the
increasingly
educated
tastes of our
young short
film fans. The
winner to
be awarded
the Cosgrove
Hall Films
Children’s
Jury Award
will be
announced
at Saturday’s
ceremony.
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HERZOG AND THE
MONSTERS
THE BATTLE OF
CABLE STREET
GEORG WÄCHST
(GEORGE GROWS)
Dir: Lesley Barnes
Dir: Yoav Segal
Dir: Martin Schmidt
UK 2006 4 mins
UK 2006 8 mins
Animator: Lesley Barnes
Prod: Kirsten McFie
& David Balfour
All Credits: Martin Schmidt
Original Music: Al Paxton
Little Herzog almost gets lost in
a forest full of monsters, or are
they letters? A graphic fairytale
about language and letters.
Lead Animator: Asaf Agranat
Danny enters the magical world
of his own sketchbook. He
experiences Mosley’s ‘blackshirt
fascists’ attempt to march
through the East End.
Little George is about one year
old when he experiences the
shock of his life.
International Festival Premiere
INSIGHT
HERBSTLAUB
(AUTUMN LEAVES)
FUGGY FUGGY
Dir: Salvador Simo Busom
Denmark 2007 6 mins 45 secs
Dir: Oliver Vogel
Animation, Sound, Editing:
Salvador Simo Busom
Germany 2007 3 mins
Writer: The Brothers McLeod
Music: Philip Noll
Layout: Bahadir Tosun,
Ferran Casas & Laia Alomar
Vocalists: Thomas Hinke,
Christoph Horch,
Tanja Krampfert
Animation: Greg McLeod
& Tracy Bartlett
Music: Frederic Chopin
A homeless woman who lives in
an alley meets a girl that looks at
her differently than other people.
UK Premiere
Life from the Viewpoint of a Point
– a Coming-of-Age-Road-Movie.
UK Premiere
Dir: The Brothers McLeod
Music: Gayle Ellett
& The Brothers McLeod
He who struggles but
endures will be a ninja.
Programmed by Mark Taylor, A Productions
PUFFING AWAY
Dir: Isaac King
FISCHE UND SCHIFFE
(FISH AND SHIPS)
A GENTLEMEN’S DUEL
OVER THE HILL
Dir/Writer: Peter Baynton
Dir: Axel Brötje
Dir: Francisco Ruiz
& Sean McNally
Canada 2006 3 mins
Animation: Isaac King
Music: Wagon Christ
(courtesy of Ninja Tune)
Realisation: Axel Brötje
Lighting, Compositing Sup:
Sebastien Chort
Prod: Margaret Milner Schmueck
& Ian Culbard
Our gremlins of energy
over-consumption hit a
hyperactive high.
Four characters are involved in a
shipping accident.
Music: Mathias Claus
UK Premiere
Animation Sup: Jean-Dominique
Fievet & Jason Taylor
Character Modeling Sup:
Laurent Pierlot
A seemingly innocent tea party
takes a turn for the dramatic
when two imperious aristocrats
suddenly find themselves
competing for the affections of
the same fair lady.
PALINGENESIA
WESTI
SNOWTIME
Dir: Yibi Hu
Dir: Madevi Dailly
Dir: Dana Dorian
UK 2007 3 mins
Prod: Qian Tian
Writer: Ben Westerman
Animator: Karin Mattsson
Animator: Yibi Hu
Big, strong and vulnerable.
Thirteen years old and six foot
two, Ben “Westi” Westerman
finds it hard to fit in to a world
where bigger is not always better,
but discovers that his size has its
advantages.
Writer : Dana Dorian
Sound, Edit: Qian Tian
Graphic Design: Yibi Hu
& Qian Tian
Our technology will finally
cornquer planet earth, and
ourselves. But maybe, evolution
will give life another chance.
The delightful Over the Hill Rest Home
helps old folk pass away the years in
a leisurely fashion. Life is rosy, though
rather slow, until one day three elderly
friends uncover a deadly secret that
changes their destiny forever.
Music: Joris De Man
Colin takes Cumberland for
a walk in a snowstorm. Colin
complains about the weather
while Cumberland does his best
to ignore him.
World Premiere
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ANIMATE AWARD
59 mins
In association with Whitechapel, London
Animate explores
the relationship
between animation
and the contemporary
visual arts, through
commissioning,
exhibition and
publishing. The
Animate Award
shortlist, selected
from submissions
to Encounters, is an
eclectic, international
programme of artists’
work that experiments
with form, technique
and content. The
Animate Award winner
will be announced
at Saturday’s
Awards Ceremony.
www.animateprojects.org
SUPREMATIST KAPITAL
OZYMANDIAS
Dir: Yin-Ju Chen &
James T. Hong
Dir: Dave Griffiths
USA 2006 5 mins
Editing, Sampling, Sound Design:
Dave Griffiths
Music: Laidbach, “Kapital”
Recut: Zuknuftsmusik
A symbolic history of capital.
UK Premiere
Ozymandias splices four
marked frames into a pulsating,
celebratory spotted dance
routine. Glimpses survive of
top-corner movie-action: hats
and hair-dos, curtains and
lampshades: an inventory of
life’s peripherals.
NIJUMAN NO BOREI
(200,000 PHANTOMS)
LUMPY DIVERSITY
Dir: Jean-Gabriel Périot
Iceland 2007 6 mins 54 secs
France 2007 10 mins
Original Soundtrack:
VEKTORMUSIK
Music: Current 93
Sound Editing: Xavier Thibault
Hiroshima, 1914 to 2006.
Dir: Anna Hallin
Lumpy Diversity works with
space that has no out-side like
in dreams, and where the idea of
resonance has been in focus; i.e.
that every object in the universe is
animated or otherwise vibrates.
58
LE GRAND CONTENT
THE WAY WE LIVE
LATENT SORROW
Dir: Clemens Kogler
& Karo Szmit
Dir: Nikolaus Jantsch
Dir: Shon Kim
Austria 2006 7 mins 40 secs
Austria 2007 4 mins
Music, Sound: Stefan Löwenstein
& Amir Abou-Roumie
DoP: Shon Kim
A film that confronts the
beauty and pleasures of life
with life’s difficulties.
Music: Shon Kim
Concept, Realisation:
Clemens Kogler & Karo Szmit
Voice: Andre Tschinder
Sound Design: Shon Kim
Moving Painting #7 to reach
coexistent point where abstract
and figure are equally fused.
ME + YOU -
CORNLAND
ENERGIE! (ENERGY!)
Dir: Michael Aubtin Madadi
Dir: Zhou Hongxiang
Dir: Thorsten Fleisch
China 2007 10 mins
Music: Michael Aubtin Madadi
The story of a relationship
between a battery and a toy.
When I was young, all those
people, emotions, things and
affairs in my mind.
Animation, Editing:
Thorsten Fleisch
Animate Commissions
Sat 24 Nov 17.30
(page 88).
World Premiere
An uncontrolled high
voltage discharge of 30,000 volts
exposes photographic paper
which is then arranged in time
to create new visual systems of
electron organisation.
Armed with the formal
vocabulary of presentation
management, Le Grand
Content puts the philosophical
potential of PowerPoint
presentations to the test.
Music: Jens Thiele
59
LATE LOUNGE
2hrs 7mins
Cert 18
Home of
the weird,
wonderful,
shocking
and
frightening.
Be warned
that one of
these films
made me
jump out
of my skin
and I’m still
wondering
about that
guy in the
fridge!
NIGHT OF THE
HELL HAMSTERS
NOIR TOTAL
Dir: Greg Butler
Dir: Paul Campion
France 2006 15 mins
Camera, Editor: Greg Butler
DoP: Sylvestre Dedise
Sound, Music: Joel Cox
DoP: Ben Robinson & Jono Smith
Music: Nicolas Deroo
Assistant Dir: Matt Simpson
Writer: Paul Campion, Hadyn
Green & Mike Roseingrave
Sound: Emmanue
A MOUSE FUNERAL
The mouse is dead but
the soldiers of the bathroom
have decided to give it a
right proper send off.
Music: Andrea Possee
A young couple unwittingly bring
about the end of the world at the
paws of the family hamsters.
THE DAWN CHORUS
Dir: Hope Dickson Leach
USA 2006 15 mins
Prod: Jennifer Westin
Writer: Hope Dickson Leach
DoP: Jarin Blaschke
It’s been seven years since the
plane crashed, but Bonnie and
Lloyd are still searching for their
parents in the wreckage.
Rudolf wakes up with a huge
hangover and finds a dead girl in
his bathtub. Not remembering
anything, he calls a friend to help
him get rid of the body, but soon
things don’t go as planned…
CHAIR FRAÎCHE
(FRESH BLOOD)
REZINA ŽIVLJENJA
(A SLICE OF LIFE)
Dir: Jean-Patrick Benes
& Allan Mauduit
Dir: Martin Turk
DoP: Radovan Čok
Cast: Audrey Nataf, Olivier Merle
& Garlan Le Martelot
Make-up Artist: Mirjam Kavč ič
Prod: Antoine Rein, Fabrice
Goldstein & Antoine Gandaubert.
Once upon a time, a young boy
fancied a shepherdess, the
shepherdess fancied some
mushrooms, but an ogre was
passing by…
UK Premiere
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Dir: Francois Jamin
Slovenia 2006 15 mins 30 secs
Editor: Janez Bricelj
Iztok and Mateja are a
couple going through a crisis
because of her jealousy. One day,
Iztok realises that a supposedly
vacant house is inhabited by a
strange creature.
CARNE
MAQUINA (ENGINE)
INDIGO
Dir: Miruna Boruzescu
Dir: Gabe Ibanez
Dir: Kimon Christodoulides
PIB & POG
‘PETER’S ROOM’
Romania 2006 8 mins 35 secs
Spain 2006 16 mins
Dir: Peter Peake
DoP: Ilija Zogovski
Screenplay: Ana Vazquez
Editor: Alexandru Belc
DoP: Alejandro Martínez
All Credits:
Kimon Christodoulides
Sound Designer: Mircea Kiraly
Music: Ibon Errazti
Writer: Peter Peake
Make Up, Special Effects:
Miruna Panaitescu
A girl discovers her new
nature through pain and
confusion and she finds a way
to achieve her lost harmony.
A lusting voyeur gets more than
he bargained for at the coin-op
peepshow in this music video.
A man, in a bathroom, a morning
which seems to be ordinary but
turns out to be different…
Prod: Helen Argo
Chancing upon a scrummy piece
of chocolate Pib learns the value
of chewing his food properly.
UK Premiere
THE FALL OF ADAM
PHOENIX TALONS
IS IT JUST ME
Dir: Gail Sneddon
Dir: Zam Salim
UK 2006 8 mins
Dir: Ray Wong
Prod: Ali Northcott
& Gail Sneddon
Chef, Voiceover:
Pattie La-Hai Wong
Prod: Zam Salim
Editor: Simon Adams
Music: Sacred Cow Killers
Executive Prod: John Archer,
Hopscotch Films
Original Score: Kevin Kerrigan
Editor: R Cowgirl
Camera: Ray Tallan
An urban regeneration of Adam’s
fall from grace.
A sequel and companion piece
to Dim Sum Deliverance,
Phoenix Talons expands upon
the attraction of eating chicken
feet, and also presents a newer,
superior recipe for chicken feet
with black bean and garlic.
Is It Just Me is a series of
short films that take a comic
look at the tiny anxieties that
shape our world.
3. Avoiding People
UK 2006 12 mins
1. Going in Public
2. Waiting for a Friend
4. Freaking Out in Shops
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DepicT! Showcase
Sat 24 Nov 13.00 Watershed Waterside 3
1hr
DepicT! - Watershed’s
unique competition which
challenges budding
filmmakers to create
90 seconds of cinematic
originality - has received
a record number of 428
entries this year.
Come along for this big screen premiere of the
ten super shorts which have been shortlisted to
win the main DepicT! ’07 prize of £2000, and join
us afterwards for a glass of bubbly and an informal
chat with the filmmakers.
Breather
Peter Snowdon
Finding Clarity
Kevin Bar’trum
UK
New Zealand
The Forgotten Comic
Moon Shot UK
David Handley & Simon Ball
James Harris
UK
UK
The DepicT! ’07 winner, who will be announced at
the Encounters Awards Ceremony, will be picked
by a panel of distinguished industry professionals
whose brief is to uncover originality, imagination,
and the ability to engage the audience with a
compelling idea in a mere 90 seconds. For list of
judges see page 30.
This year’s shortlisted films, alongside the DepicT!
all-time Top Ten, will be made available for
theatrical screenings across the UK through the
Digital Screen Network thanks to a partnership
with Arts Alliance Media.
Shooting People DepicT! ’07 Audience Award
Once again, we invite you to vote for your favourite
DepicT! film; just visit depict.org by Fri 23 Nov
to comment on the films and to cast your ballot.
The winner of the Shooting People DepicT! ’07
Audience Award will be announced at the Awards
Ceremony alongside the main DepicT! ’07 Award
and will not only receive a copy of the recently
published Get Your Short Film Funded, Made and
Seen along with Shooting People DVD releases
Best vs Best Vols. One and Two, but also a lifetime
membership to Shooting People.
62
Supported and managed by
Oops!
Operator
The Picnic
Trevor Hardy
Matthew Walker
David Gilbert
UK
UK
UK
Showdown at
Yohoko Valley
State of Nature
Joseph Pierce
The Tales of
Donkey the Whale
Theo Jamieson & Joseph Wallace
UK
Chris Corner & Dave Ezra
UK
UK
63
“It’s like Facebook for animation professionals.
A place where we can hire one another and
show each other our secrets and network
until we’re all fat and rich and happy”
Frank, Imagine online editor
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Guest
screenings
SUPER-8 CITIES
Wed 21 Nov 18.00 Arnolfini Cinema
1hr
Explore the
world with
this collection
of Super-8mm
documentaries,
showcasing:
Singapore,
Amsterdam,
Manchester,
Barcelona,
Weston-SuperMare and more.
The screening
will also feature
a special screening
of the award
winning 8mm
Lebanon war
diary Mr.N and
a sneak preview
of Citizen Super-8.
Super-8 Cities Producer: Nathan Coombs
68
DEAR N. Dir: Chantel Partamain
MANCHESTER:
HEART OF GLASS
Lebanon 2006 7 mins
Dir: Giles Perkins
Chantel’s film is a film diary/poem
of the loss she felt in the Israel/
Lebanon war of 2006. It has won
awards across the world.
SINGAPORE:
IDENTITY
AMSTERDAM:
PARADISE
Dir: Gavin Lim
Dir: Pelle Koornstra
Singapore 2007 3 mins
Netherlands 2007 5 mins
What is a Singaporean?
Gavin Lim’s film examines
the neuroses of growing up
in a tiger economy.
Should director Pelle Koornstra
move himself and his family to
the suburbs? Is Amsterdam his
hell or paradise?
Giles Perkins asks if
with Manchester’s rapid
modernisation the city still
has soul?
World Premiere
Super-8 Cities
BARCELONA:
A FRIDAY IN
BARCELONA
WESTON-SUPER-MARE:
GENIUS LOCI
EXETER:
EXETER
Dir: Sean Martin
Dir: Nathan Coombs
Dir: Albert Vandel
UK 2007 5 mins
UK 2007 5 mins
Spain 2007 7 mins
Sean Martin takes an elegiac take
on his home town, noting the
giants of history who have passed
through its sleepy streets.
Super-8 Cities Producer:
Nathan Coombs
Far from the picture postcard
image of Barcelona’s perfection,
this film shows the reality for the
workers of the city.
SEATTLE:
SEATTLE
World Premiere
Dir: Steve Hyde
NEW YORK:
HECTOR MANN’S
SONG 7
USA 2007 5 mins
Dir: Kiko Andraka
Impressions of the city resonating
from the legacy of the railroad.
Steve’s film is a digressive and
painterly portrait.
USA 2007 5 mins
A Colombian woman and
British husband move to Exeter
away from their metropolitan
life in London.
New York explored through
its eccentric landmarks,
cunning sound design and
dialectical montage.
World Premiere
69
SINGAPORE SHOWCASE
1hr 25 mins
Singapore, a state, city,
country, filled with
modern contradictions
inherent in any
cosmopolitan city. In
a special programme,
we turn our focus on
the rapidly growing
Singapore film scene,
showcasing an eclectic
mix of films from some
of the most exciting
filmmakers from the
country. We are also
delighted to welcome
back to Encounters
internationally
acclaimed shorts
and feature director
Royston Tan, who will be
discussing the practical
and aesthetic challenges
presented by the move
from shorts to feature
making in conversation
with Shane Meadows in
the ‘Where’s The Bunny
Ronnie?’ event.
70
MONKEY LOVE
SUPERDONG
Dir: Royston Tan
Dir: Pok Yue Weng
Music: YoshihiroTsukahara
& Hiroaki Muragishi
Writer: Pok Yue Weng
A meditation of love and
longing, this film is set in the
beautiful landscape of Hokkaido,
Japan. A young boy, whimsically
dressed in a monkey suit,
searches for lost love. Pensive,
lyrical and sparse, this film
embodies the characteristics of
a Japanese haiku.
What happens to toilet graffiti
when we’re not looking?
Prod: Ric Aw
UK Premiere
UK Premiere
FLAT DREAMS
LOCUST
Dir: Eva Tang
Dir: Victric Thng
Prod: Wai Thong Chow
& Bee Pin Tay
Writer, Prod: Victric Thng
DoP: Daniel Low
Writer: Eva Tang
Flat Dreams is about public
housing dwellers who try to
make sense of their worth in
their mundane lives.
UK Premiere
A momentary encounter
evokes both a sense of fondness
and bitterness of the heart.
Moving and lyrical, the film’s
Hong Kong backdrop heightens
the emotive narration.
UK Premiere
QUIETLY
WHITE
AUTOGRAPH BOOK
Dir: Jit Fong Oon
Dir: Tan Wei Keong
Dir: Wee Li Lin
Writer: Jit Fong Oon
Animator: Tan Wei Keong
Writer, Prod: Wee Li Lin
Prod: Jackie Stone
Sound Designer: Loo Zihan
Prod Manager: Chris Chen
Music: Sasha Gordon
Supervisor: Eileen Reynolds
Sound Recordist: Alan Chong
How does a pebble make waves?
Convinced that his family has
become ‘frogs in a well’, an
elderly grandfather leaves them
an important departing message.
This calm, peaceful film will
spark thoughts about the
wisdom of the aged and the
beauty of death.
A man, dissatisfied with a white
cube for a head, gives it up in the
name of self-improvement, only
to find himself dealing with the
unpleasant consequences.
A school girl’s autograph book is
an eclectic collection of poems
and truisms about friendship,
but here, it is also the cause of a
rift between two twelve year old
friends who must decide if their
friendship is one worth keeping.
UK Premiere
Also Screening in
Emerging Talent 1
UK Premiere
UK Premiere
KATONG FUGUE
AH MA
D.I.Y.
Dir: Boo Junfeng
Dir: Anthony Chen
Dir: Royston Tan
Prod: Lim Ting Li
Writer: Anthony Chen
Prod: Gary Goh
4:30
(Tan’s second feature)
Thur 22 Nov 16.30
(page 23)
Writer: Alfian Sa’at
Prod: Felicia Tan
& Joanne Cheong
Music: Rennie Gomes
A film adaptation of a short play
about a boy with a hidden life and
a mother desperately trying to
reach out.
UK Premiere
Ah Ma is lying in the hospital,
her life hanging by a thread. Her
family gathers by her deathbed
to send her off. Overwhelmed
by sadness, they struggle to find
their own way of coming to terms
with the impending end.
UK Premiere
Throughout the island, different
individuals are engaged in varying
day-to-day activities and are
caught up in their own thoughts;
but they are all connected. In
D.I.Y., the squeak of dirty plates,
the tap of a finger against a
seafood restaurant aquarium, the
thump of feet inside a cargo lift,
and many other disparate sounds,
all come together into a quirky
and funky piece of beat science, a
human – and humane – music.
(features Meadow’s
Where’s The Money Ronnie?)
Thu 22 Nov 20.30 & Sun 25 Nov 15.00
(page 74).
(Shane Meadows & Royston Tan
in Conversation)
Thu 22 Nov 14.30
(page 23)
UK Premiere
71
PREMIERE: BBC THREE
NEW FILM MAKERS AWARD 2007
1hr 12mins
Get your film on
the small screen…
Hundreds of film
makers entered this
year’s competition
to find the best new
comedy film makers
for BBC THREE. The
winning film - which
will be announced
tonight - will
be screened in a
primetime slot on
BBC THREE and the
film maker will
receive a cheque for
£5,000. Two runners
up will each receive
£2,500. All the
shortlisted films
will also be
screened on
online at
bbc.co.uk/newtalent.
72
THE CRUSADER
BIGBOY-74
Dir: Gerard Monaco
Dir: Thomas Marshall
UK 2005 7 mins
UK 2006 10 mins
Lee Philips tries to sue
Warner Bros over copyright.
Prod: Thomas Marshall
& Rozdoba Hallans
Suicidal Harry gets a
crash course in dogging
SURPRISE
FREE SPEECH
Dir: Ben Dodd
Dir: Chris & Ben Blaine
UK 2004 5 mins
Composer: John Rowcroft
Prod: Barrington Paul Robinson
A murder is not as it seems.
Starring: Danny Dyer
Bath-time dirty talk goes tits up.
FOSTER
GOODBYE
MR SNUGGLES
YOU’RE IN THERE LTD
Dir: Jonathan Newman
UK 2006 9 mins
Dir: Jonathan Hopkins
Prod: Jonathan Newman
Prod: Ian Erskine
A man remembers the day
he met his foster parents.
Prod: Rory Aitken
Composer: Ian Isles
Starring: James Fox
& Robert Hardy
Starring: Nick Moran
Two elderly painters encounter
a maniac, gun-toting clown.
Dir: Juliet Gale
A cross between ‘Moonlighting’
and ‘Beauty and the Geek’.
DERMO SLUCHAETSA
(SHIT HAPPENS)
SPECIAL PEOPLE
BATHTIME
Dir: Justin Edgar
Dir: Fiona Cairns
Dir: Rob Brown
UK 2005 12 mins
UK 2007 10 mins
Composer: Kim Humphrey
Prod: James Hunmell
Prod: Ed Kavanagh
Filmmaking on the verge of a
nervous breakdown.
Construction worker
Grant discovers his love of
girly bath bombs.
A landmine. A deserting
WW2 soldier. This is no
ordinary comedy.
73
CANON OF UK SHORT FILM
Thur 22 Nov 20.30 Arnolfini Cinema
Sun 25 Nov 15.00 Arnolfini Cinema
2hrs 16mins
“The idea of a canon
is partly intended to
stimulate a debate,
partly to raise the
profile of the genre
but also to present a
historical context to UK
short film. These ten
films demonstrate the
rich thread of creativity in
short film in this country,
from the groundbreaking
collaboration of music,
poetry and cinema in
Night Mail, through the
influential prototype pop
video of Strawberry Fields
to the playful poignant
urban reworking of
Shakespeare in Jomeo and
Ruliet. They also display the
breadth, variety, energy
and vision which the short
film can contain. For me
this canon represents a
benchmark to which all
filmmakers should aspire.”
Programmed by Mark Cosgrove, Creative Director
74
NIGHT MAIL
HELL UNLTD
Dir: Harry Watt & Basil Wright
Dir: Helen Biggar
& Norman McLaren
UK 1936 24 mins
Made as a documentary to
promote the services of the
royal mail, Night Mail brought
together Benjamin Britten’s
music and W.H. Auden’s poetry
to create a unique and justifiably
celebrated short film.
UK/Canada 1936 19 mins
STRAWBERRY
FIELDS FOREVER
BERLIN HORSE
Dir: Peter Goldman
UK 1970 8 mins
Berlin Horse presages much of
the art world’s fascination with
the moving image. Le Grice hand
painted a short strip of archive
footage, looped it and added an
ambient soundtrack courtesy of
Brian Eno. The result is lyrical,
hypnotic and magical.
The Beatles of course changed
the sound of popular music
bringing experimentation into
the studio and onto their albums.
They carried this sensibility into
what is widely seen as the first
pop promo.
Norman McLaren was another
alumni of John Grierson’s
legendary GPO Film Unit and this
film’s mixture of animation and
live action is as innovative today
as when first screened.
Dir: Malcolm Le Grice
CONVERSATION PIECES:
WAR STORY
I’M BRITISH BUT…
Dir: Gurinder Chadha
WHERE’S THE
MONEY RONNIE?
Dir: Peter Lord
UK/Canada 1989 28 mins
Dir: Shane Meadows
UK 1989 5 mins
Long before her international
success as a feature director,
Gurinder Chadha made this
short which revealed the rich
seam of multiculturalism and
the complexities behind the idea
of being British.
BLIGHT
GASMAN
JOMEO AND RULIET
Dir: John Smith
Dir: Lynne Ramsay
Dir: Alnoor Dewshi
UK 1997 14 mins
UK 1997 15 mins
UK 1999 4 mins
For my money John Smith
should be the patron saint of
short film. He works consistently
in the short form, makes films
which are visually outstanding,
socially engaged, creative and
playful. Blight is without doubt a
masterpiece.
Ramsay pulls together social
realism with dreamy lyricism
to forge a cinematic style
which catapulted her onto the
international filmmaking scene.
A reworking of Shakespeare’s
famous lovers to urban modern
London. A beautiful and inspiring
short film.
(Shane Meadows & Royston Tan
in Conversation)
Thu 22 Nov 14.30
(page 23).
Aardman Animations celebrated
award wining style and
techniques are clearly evident
in this early short. Working the
soundtrack of a real person story
– pre Creature Comforts - War
Story brilliantly – with warmth
and wit recreates his
war experience.
A pure example of filmmaking
on the run, no budget but lots of
energy and humour. Hilarious and
infectious this film announced a
major filmmaking talent.
75
OUT OF CONTROL: FREEFORM
FILMMAKING (IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC)
1hr 30mins
Cert 18
A selection
of music based
films from
the last two
years of the
Halloween
Short Film
Festival
where
filmmakers
have
approached
their subjects
with a loose
and relaxed
lo-fi feel,
like they’re
riffing and
jamming
with the
performers.
This mix of
true-life
documents
and made-up
porkies
is interspersed
by a number
of recent
music videos
that we like.
Music videos also being
screened during the programme:
KERFUFFLE Ladyfuzz
MOUTH TO ANUS Trencher
PURITY Metronomy
SIDE DISH Psapp
BRAIN Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid
1 STRING STRUNG Metronomy
MYSPACE PICTURE Beans on Toast
76
HOT KLUB
YEAR ZERO
SOLID STATE
Dir: Rebecca Closure
Dir: Steve Manford
Dir: Marek Steven
UK 2006 7 mins
UK 2005 10 mins
UK 2005 10 mins
In 1905 Queensland, banned from
male only pubs and bars, certain
Women met in secret every
full moon to talk politics and
drink. A hundred years later, the
centenary of this infamous club
takes place.
The true story of Manchester’s
Phase 4, made while director
Manford was reading about the
War of the Worlds! Featuring
situationist commentary from
Tony Wilson (RIP), Guy Garvey of
Elbow, and I Am Kloot.
So the band have a gig booked,
and with a few weeks to go
they’ve still not practised. Too
busy skateboarding or arguing. FUCK
10 THINGS WE
LEARNED AT SXSW
FUCK THE POLICE
Dir: Milena Lukic
UK 2005 3 mins
Dir: SeaBuzzard UK 2006 18 mins
UK 2005 18 mins
A loose filmed riff illustrating the
beat-style monologue attributed
to Disneyland park announcer
Jack Wagner (with a soundtrack
by Vivaldi) where we learn about
“one of the most interesting
words in the English language”.
Videomakers Sarah Sea and Fay
Milton hit the streets of Austin,
Texas for the annual South By
South West music jamboree and
run into The Noisettes, The Young
Knives, The Mystery Jets, Plan
B, and a whole host more bands.
This personal documentary gives
us an up-close look at one of the
world’s biggest music festivals. This live recording of The
Libertines playing at a Hackney
house party is a bittersweet
document of more innocent
times before Pete Doherty’s more
recent tabloid notoriety. Expect all
the hits before the police come!
Dir: Anne McCloy
EM MEDIA PRESENTS
HEARTLINES / SHARP NEW SHORTS
FROM ENGLAND’S EAST MIDLANDS
1hr 39mins Free
Sinister goings on at the
retirement home, a man
trapped in his future and
teenagers playing with fire...
fantasy and reality collide in
this collection of shorts from
the East Midlands of England.
This impressive programme includes films in
competition at Encounters – The Visitor and Over
The Hill (McLaren Award Winner – Edinburgh
International Film Festival (EIFF) 2007), plus other
acclaimed films which have recently received
international and UK premieres including Rebecca
(EIFF), The Imaginary Girl (Galway Film Fleadh)
and Daddy’s Girl (Rhode Island International Film
Festival). With so much to offer, you can’t afford to
miss a beat of this programme.
REBECCA
THE VISITOR
SHADOWLINE
Dir: Nick Whitfield
Prod: Mary Kearns
On a dilapidated boat Eddie
waits. He’s sure Rebecca
will come to him. But, with
another storm gathering on
the horizon, will she arrive
soon enough?
UKFC’s Digital Generation
Dir: David Smith
Prod: Yvonne Bray
A widower lives with his two
young sons in an isolated
farmhouse. Late one night his
younger brother arrives with
a dark secret. What does a
family man do?
Also screening in
Best of British 3
Dir: Dan Seagrave
Prod: Luke Dennis
& Rachel Dargavel
A weather beaten drifter
finds a notepad in an old coat.
It provides the clue to the
identity of a missing person
but the search soon drives the
man beyond reason.
THE
IMAGINARY GIRL
CIRCLE
A CHAAT
IN THE PARK
The featured shorts were produced in partnership
with the UK Film Council’s Digital Shorts and
EQUAL’s Identities project.
Executive Producers:
DV Shorts - Paul Welsh (EM Media)
& Rebecca Mark-Lawson (UK Film Council)
Production Company - Spool Films (Nottingham)
Equal Identities Project - Katy Green (EM Media)
Sales enquiries:
John Tobin - Head of Market Development
[email protected]
Press & media enquiries:
Emily Lappin - Head of Communications
[email protected]
Sally Hodgson - Communications Executive
[email protected]
Dir: Richard Porter
Prod: Margaret
Milner Schmueck
Amy is seven years old and
hides from her parents in a
world of make believe. One
afternoon, a visit from her
father forces her out with
disturbing consequences.
Dir: Mehul Desai
Prod: Carol Frankland
A doctor tries to persuade
an old lady, fiercely guarded
by her small granddaughter,
to go into hospital. As they
resist him the doctor finds
something to learn from both.
Dir: Steve Nijjar
Prod: Carol Frankland
A man, a woman, an arranged
date. Will they or won’t they do
their families proud and fall in
love the traditional way?
LIKE THIS?
TRY THIS
(features Meadow’s Where’s
The Money Ronnie?)
Thu 22 Nov 20.30 &
Sun 25 Nov 15.00
(page XX).
(Shane Meadows & Royston
Tan in Conversation) Thu 22
Nov 14.30 (page XX)
DREAMS DON’T
WALK STRAIGHT
Dir: Cheryl Marshall
Prod: Tina Pawlik
To the irritation of her
long-suffering husband,
Miss Myrtle Birtles believes
her dreams foretell disaster.
Indeed they might but could
things be even worse than
she predicts?
LADY MARGARET
DADDY’S GIRL
Dir: Deborah Haywood
Prod: Tina Pawlik
Joe and Danny pick-up flirty
fourteen year old Sadie and
take her to the woods. Sadie
gets scared and wants to go
home. Joe says that’s cool, but
only after she’s proved herself…
Also screening in
The UKFC’s Digital Generation
Dir: Marcella Forster
Prod: Yvonne Bray
Nine year old May’s
antics drive Mum and
Gran round the bend but
could her play reflect
something more serious?
OVER THE HILL
Dir/Writer: Peter Baynton
Prod: Margaret Milner
Schmueck & Ian Culbard
The delightful Over the Hill Rest
Home helps old folk pass away
the years in a leisurely fashion.
Life is rosy, though rather slow,
until one day three elderly friends
uncover a deadly secret that
changes their destiny forever.
Children’s Jury Award
77
NAHEMI STUDENT SHORTS
1hr 15mins
The National
Association
for Education
and the Moving
Image presents
a programme
of the latest
student work
produced
around the
country,
with awards
supported
by Kodak.
78
GECKO
PANIC
Dir: Theresa von Eltz
Dir: Megan Kieran
DoP: Kristjan-Jaak Nuudi
Sound, Editor, Choreographer:
Megan Kieran
Editor: Sergio Vega Borrego
Composer: Kylie Earl
A young boy tries to
reconcile his parents.
World Premiere
A choreographed dance
sequence which builds in
intensity, to a frenetic climax.
World Premiere
FATHER’S DAY
IMMEASURABLE
Dir: Tom Reynolds
Dir: Gergely Cziràki
UK 2007 12 mins
UK 2007 8 mins
Writer, Editor: Tom Reynolds
Prod: Tom Reynolds
& Penny Warner
Writer: Gergely Cziràki,
Andras Gerevich
& Edith Blaumann
Camera: Eifion Jones
Prod: Lærke Vindahl
On Father’s Day, a boy waits
for his dad to arrive. With
loyalties torn between father
and step-father, ha has to face
some difficult realities.
DoP: Keidrych Wasley
A short animated mediation
on meeting creation.
World Premiere
ISABELLA
WEREWOLF
NO STAR
Dir: Geoffrey Taylor
Dir: Louise Ridley
Dir: Christian Neuman
Writer: Geoffrey Taylor
All Credits: Louise Ridley
Prod: Patrick Hoffmann
Cast: Beatriz Simas,
Tiago Gambogi
On a bleak winter’s day a girl’s
journey turns treacherous when,
in the darkness of a wood, she is
confronted by a savage beast.
Writer: Frederic Castadot
& Christian Neuman
Ass Dir, Editor: Tom Reynolds
Isabella, a long way from home,
lonely and isolated, dreams of a
way out by bringing hope and life
into a place that is surrounded
by death.
World Premiere
DoP: Alex Aach & Las Helder
A road movie with a French
twist! The story of a girl who
desparately wants to become
a rock star.
World Premiere
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
TRAPPED
Dir: Joe Tucker
Dir: Rumbi Katedza
& Marcus Korhonen
UK 2007 11 mins
Writer: Joe Tucker
& Raphael Warner
Prod: Raphael Warner
DoP: Liam Landoli
Graham lives with his tyrannical
mother and their pet Jackdaw in a
Christian bookshop, on the seedy
outskirts of a decaying nowhere
town. He and his mother both love
God… but in very different ways.
Cast: Dani Brown
& Hannah Kimpton
Writer: Rumbi Katedza
& Marcus Korhonen
Hello! Is anybody there?
Somebody... please!
World Premiere
World Premiere
79
UK FILM COUNCIL’S
DIGITAL GENERATION
1hr 25mins
UK Film Council
presents Digital
Generation,
a programme of
outstanding short
films from the
Digital Shorts
and Digital Shorts
Plus short film
schemes. Made
in partnership
with the UK Film
Council’s New
Cinema Fund and
Strategic Partners
from across the
UK, Digital Shorts
and Digital Shorts
Plus enable
filmmakers
to make innovative
shorts using
digital technology.
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PERFECT TO BEGIN
BULB
Dir: Richard Lawson
Dir: Arlene Cullum
UK 2007 20 mins
UK 2007 10 mins
Writer: Richard Lawson
Writer: Arlene Cullum
Prod: Tina Gharavi
Prod: Sara Somerville
Reckless boyfriend, Nav,
attempts to impress new
girlfriend Lisa with a surprise
holiday. What Lisa thinks could
be the beginning of a great
weekend and bonding experience
for her new man and daughter,
soon descends into chaos.
As struggling artist Jill fights
her way home through a city
in electronic meltdown her
sculpture takes on a new life.
STUBBORN AND SPITE
MISSING
Dir: Lou Birks
Dir: Graham Eatough
UK 2007 3 mins
UK 2007 12 mins
Writer: Lou Birks
Writer: Graham Eatough
Prod: Emily Kyriakides
Prod: Kat Calton
Two disabled drivers fight
over a disabled parking bay with drastic consequences.
What happens to those left
behind when a loved one
disappears without warning or
explanation? Missing explores
the stories we tell ourselves
when we just don’t know.
BOOT POLISH
EDDIE PROCTOR
Dir: Aneel Ahmad
Dir: Susanna Wallin
UK 2007 15 mins
UK 2007 5 mins
Writer: Aneel Ahmad
Writer: Susanna Wallin
Prod: Kelly Broad
Prod: Nikki Weston
A shoeshine boy on the dusty
streets of Lahore dreams of
rescuing a beautiful courtesan.
Inside a suburban table tennis
centre a group of people kill their
time playing ping-pong. On one
winter’s evening Eddie Proctor
steps out of the game.
THE GIRLS
Dir: Sebastian Godwin
UK 2007 10 mins
Writer: Sebastian Godwin
Prod: Hugo Godwin
A father comes back home to
find his two young daughters
playing in the garden. As dusk
falls, the mood begins to darken.
81
CANADA CALLING
1hr 30mins
Since 1939,
the National
Film Board of
Canada has
produced an
astounding
catalogue
of worldrenowned
short films,
many of
which are
international
co-productions.
NFB animation
producer
Michael
Fukushima
presents some
notable NFB
co-ventures
with insight
into making
them happen.
Michael Fukushima
has been making films
since 1984. He joined the
National Film Board as a
director in 1990, and has
been an NFB producer
since 1997. Fukushima’s
credits as a producer
reflect the eclecticism
and diversity of his own
tastes, particularly around
abstract and slightly
off-centre animation.
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BOB’S BIRTHDAY
Dir: David Fine & Alison Snowden
THROUGH MY
THICK GLASSES
THE TRUE STORY
OF SAWNEY BEANE
Canada/UK 1993 12 mins 18 secs
Dir: Pjotr Sapegin
Dir: Elizabeth Hobbs
Prod: David Verrall (NFB)
Canada/Norway 2003
Canada/Scotland 2005
David Fine & Alison Snowden
(Snowden Fine Animation)
12 mins 31 secs
10 mins 39 secs
Prod: Marcel Jean (NFB)
& David Reiss-Andersen
(Pravda)
Prod: Michael Fukushima (NFB)
& Katja Anderson (Red Kite
Animation)
An old man tells his
granddaughter his personal
story of the Second World War;
a slightly tongue-in-cheek epic.
A telling of the life of legendary
Scottish cannibal, Sawney Beane,
that only a mother could love.
THE BOY WHO
SAW THE ICEBERG
THE DANISH POET
Dir: Georges Schwizgebel
Canada/Switzerland 2006
Dir: Paul Driessen
Canada/Norway 2006
3 mins 51 secs
Canada/The Netherlands 2000
14 mins 24 secs
Prod: Michèle Bélanger (NFB)
& Georges Schwizgebel
(Studio GDS)
8 mins 49 secs
Prod: Marcy Page
Prod: Marcy Page (NFB)
& Lise Fearnley (Mikrofilm As)
Using multi-layered split
screens, a playful and
poignant tale of a boy with
an over-active imagination.
A spell of bad weather, slippery
barn planks, a careless postman,
and hungry goats play important
roles in “life”. Oscar® winner.
Surprise birthday parties can
be risky. Especially when the
guest of honor is turning 40!
Oscar® winner.
JEU
With the viewer set down in
a landscape whose scenery
constantly morphs and mutates,
this helter-skelter world evokes
the chaos of modern life.
Dir: Torill Kove
CINEMA EXTREME
1hr 38mins
Cinema
Extreme was
created in 2002
by the UK Film
Council’s New
Cinema Fund
and Film4 to
encourage
and develop
filmmakers
with a
distinctive
directorial
voice.
Previously
commissioned
films include
Andrea
Arnold’s
Oscar®
winning Wasp
and Simon
Ellis’ Prix UIP
winning Soft.
NEW LOVE
ISLAND
Dir: Laurence Coriat
Dir: Matt Palmer
ALEX AND
HER ARSE TRUCK
UK 2007 20 mins
UK 2007 16 mins
Dir: Sean Conway
Writer: Laurence Coriat
Writer: Matt Palmer
& Steve Grohe
UK 2007 17 mins
New love is a story set in the
future. In a brave new world
built on rationality, it plunges
us into the irrational logic of
love and desire.
Prod: Rachel Robey & Al Clark
Prod: Samm Haillay
A maritime warden investigates
an unauthorised presence on a
private island.
A scooter riding zelophile
called Baby Shoes, his dogfart
nymphomaniac girlfriend Alex,
her black lover Nylon, a mentalist
named Poubelles and a pair of
drug dealing lesbians.
TERRA FIRMA
MUCH A DO ABOUT
A MINOR TING
UK 2007 28 mins
Dir: Jesse Lawrence
Writer: Johnny Barrington
UK 2007 25 mins
Prod: Anna Duffield
Writer: Jesse Lawrence &
Cristian Solimeno
Prod: Laerke Vindahl
Quentin is an entertainer onboard
a North Sea passenger ferry. He
has just split from his wife and
daughters and is living at sea
literally and emotionally.
Writer: Sean Conway
Prod: Kaleem Aftab
Rene returns to London to track
down his ex sweet heart. But why
is there a £150 price on his head? 83
60º NORTH BY 17º EAST:
SHORTS FROM SWEDEN
1hr 30mins
Showcasing
the playful
inventiveness
and formal
innovation of
the Swedish
short film that
has brought it
international
acclaim far
outshining
its feature
counterpart,
the Uppsala
International
Short Film
Festival
presents a
selection of the
best Swedish
short films of
recent years.
LINERBOARD
DU VAR DÄR MED
DIN POLARE FRANK
(YOU WERE
THERE WITH YOUR
FRIEND FRANK)
Dir: Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
& Ola Simonsson
EN NATTSAGA
(A NIGHT STORY)
Dir: Maja Lindström
Sweden 2005 13 mins
Once upon a time there was
a mother who was no longer
allowed to exist.
Sweden 2004 10 mins
TILLVÄXTSJUKAN
(RADICALIZED)
PEP TALK
Dir: Jens Jonsson
Sweden 2006 18 mins
Dir: Klara Swantesson
Sweden 2004 3 mins
Linerboard is a film about the
thin paper in between cardboard.
How fragile items need to be
properly protected.
Sweden 2006 8 mins
We all need a little bit of
appreciation sometimes.
Short Matters 2
(features classic award winning
short Never Like the First Time)
Sun 25 Nov 16.00
(page 90).
84
Dir: Ruben Östlund
Sweden 2005 8 mins
Mid summer’s eve and Martin
has spotted a high bridge that
he wants to jump off from.
Full of anticipation he brings
the gang along.
”My sister in law shows me a
magazine for teenagers from
1980. Under the heading “Wanted”
I read a letter by Annelie. 24
years have passed since Annelie
wrote the letter. Did she ever find
Jörgen? I decide to find her to get
some answers.”
After 33 years as a teacher Ulla
Britt is sent on sick leave, She
hasn’t been able to cope with the
pressure at work since then and
she has many thoughts on why.
SCEN NR: 6882
UR MITT LIV
(AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
SCENE NR 6882 FROM
MY LIFE)
Dir: Andrea Friberg
HUR MAN GÖR
(WHAT YOU DO)
Dir: Gunilla Heilborn,
Kim Hiorthøy & Marten Nilsson
Sweden 2007 30 mins
Besides an intense passion for
trees, they cannot agree on much,
least of all which tree is the best.
Tension escalates. What to do is
also a practical guide on what to
do with your model A1. Using 123
simple illustrations, it shows how
even the hopeless can
make a film.
THE AUDI CHANNEL
REEL TALENT AWARDS
1hr Free
The Audi Channel Reel
Talent Awards, created
and produced by The
Hospital Club, is the only
award scheme of its kind
that enables aspiring
filmmakers to turn their
script into a finished film.
Three winning teams,
chosen by a panel of
industry experts, were
awarded £10,000 each to
make a five-minute film
based on their submitted
scripts. Each script deals
with the theme “First”.
The winners attended
an intensive script
development course at
The Hospital Club run
by The Hospital Club
and leading filmmakers’
organization The Script
Factory. They
also received the full
support throughout
development and
production of awardwinning producers,
Intrepido, who acted as
executive producers on
the films.
HE SAID
FIRST
Dir: Suzi Ewing
Dir: Tinge Krishnan
UK 2007 6 mins
Writer: Suzi Ewing
& Line Langebek
Prod: Sacha Guttenstein
Prod: Rory Fry
Editor: Lewis Albrow
With Kerry Fox, Steven Elder
introducing Jonah Lees
Sophie, a teenager with learning
difficulties, is a talented pianist.
When her best friend Danko
enters her into a prestigious
composer competition she
discovers that the world is not
quite ready for her unorthodox
musical style.
In a bid to gain longed for
attention a son discovers his
father’s secret second family.
DoP: Catherine Derry
EL HOPPO!
Dir: Marcus Shepherd
Writer: Marcus Shepherd
Prod: Jonathan Taylor
One hot summer afternoon in a
remote Spanish village a stranger
arrives, the first man to hop
around the world.
85
B3 SHOWCASE
1hr 30mins
b3 Media presents Identities.tv:
a unique, UK-wide experimental
collaboration between emerging
artists, word, screen media and
sound design.
Identities.tv screens alongside B3’s latest Blank Slate digital
shorts films that selected filmmakers have subsequently
progressed to.
MULAIGAL
FUREER
GOROR FUREER
WAITING FOR
DEPARTURE
Dir: Jaheda Choudury
& Samira Arhin-Acquaah
Dir: Joshua Idehen
Writer: Kutti Revathi
Editor: Maria E. Edokpayi
Sound Design: Divya R H
Editor: Shanaz Gulzar
Camera: Anand
Krishnamoorthi
Sound Design: Divya R H
Sound Design:
Roland Idehen
The showcase will include an exclusive preview of three
10 minute films from the award winning Blank Slate 2007
digital short film scheme. The screening will be followed by
a presentation on funding for Blank Slate and a Q&A with the
producers from Identities.tv and Blank Slate.
Dir: Abhirami
Arumbakkam
Identities.tv is a unique, UK-wide experimental pilot project
bringing together emerging artists working across spoken
word, screen based media and sound design to collaborate
to produce new work around themes of identity ranging from
Birth and childhood, Adolescence and coming of age, Adulthood
to Future visions and aspirations.
Now in its fifth year, Blank Slate is a unique, award-winning,
UK-wide digital short film scheme supporting the next
generation of filmmaking talent from the UK’s black and
minority ethnic communities. Blank Slate is produced by B3
Media in partnership with the UK Film Council New Cinema
Fund and Arts Council England.
B3 nurtures, develops and showcases creative talent –
filmmakers, visual artists, musicians – from communities
that are underrepresented by the mainstream.
‘Breasts are bubbles,
rising in wet marshlands’,
is how Kutty Revathy’s
controversial Tamil poem
‘Mulaigal’ (Breasts) begins.
Mulaigal uses the poem
as a backdrop to explore
the relationship that
Asian women enjoy
with their breasts.
Fureer Goror Fureer
uses spoken word and
expressionist imagery
to explore moments of
intimacy and beauty in
the physical journey
and spiritual growth
between mothers and
daughters, covering
intergenerational
relationships.
A man awakes, locked in
his flat, where strange
events frequently occur.
Meanwhile, his verysoon-to-be mother-in-law
enjoys an afternoon in a
park alone, her actions
influencing his life and
he influences her, both
of them awaiting.
CHANGES IN
CONCRETE
TRANSFORMER
RECITATION
THE PEN
SAY A PRAYER
Dir: Richard Ramchurn
& Samira Arhin-Acquaah
Dir: Kevin Logan
Dir: Lwimbo Kunda
Dir: Sarah Sayeed
Writer: Jarmain Patrick
Writer: Jarmain Patrick
Editor: Martin Smith
Writer: Samira
Arhin-Acquaah
Prod: Kevin Logan
Sound Design:
Greg Akehurst
Sound Design: Kevin Logan
Editor: Richard Ramchurn
Sound Design:
Gareth Bibby
Transformer focuses on
the effects of socialization
on people’s perceptions
of gender and the
fashioning of identity.
86
An audiovisual piece
examining spoken
word/oral traditions and
their relationship with text
based information and
belief systems, in particular
religious texts.
Jarmain never meant for
things to go down the way
they did. Now he is locked
up. Between the four
walls of his cell, Jarmain
is armed with no other
weapon than his pen.
Working with super8
from the 70s and
animation, Say a Prayer
is the story of an adult
woman who looks back to a
childhood memory. Sights
and sounds of Bangladesh,
a prayer is made for a
brother’s survival.
Dir: Richard Ramchurn
& Ali Gadema
Writer: Ali Gadema
& Jarmain Patrick
Sound Design: Dan Steele
A musical short film
using the language of
hip hop and spoken word
that portrays two central
characters walking down
the same road recording
the different stages of
their own life journeys.
NEW MUSIC SHORTS
BBC NEW MUSIC SHORTS ‘07
28 mins
BBC Film
Network,
New Talent
and Electric
Proms
challenged UK filmmakers
to submit ideas
for short
films inspired
by tracks
supplied
by some of the
UK’s leading
independent
record labels:
BAD IS AS BAD DOES
The Earlies
(679 Recordings)
DRY LIPS
Lightspeed Champion
(Domino)
FAREWELL FAREWELL
Gravenhurst
(Warp Records)
Dir: Jonny Madderson
Dir: Stephen Irwin
Dir: John Thole
UK 2007 5 mins 49 Sec
UK 2007 3 mins 54 sec
A satire on what happens behind
closed doors at a G8 summit on
world poverty. A live action black
comedy that is more about the
humour than the politics.
Champ faces his self doubts
about his ability to fly after his
lady love leaves him. A story with
a heart told in eloquent black and
white animation.
A man in a costume makes
his way to a party in a field,
where the party goers strangely
turn upon him…Surreal, absurd
and yet completely satisfying,
the idea also combines a very
different and unique experimental
filming technique.
SLIPPIN
Wiley
(Ninja Tune/Big Dada)
50 YEARS AND A FEW
PUSS KITTENS WISER
Twin Tub Twin
King Creosote
vs Tuung
(679 Recordings)
Ninja Tune, Domino, Warp
Records and 679 Recordings. Five ideas were chosen, the
filmmakers given a budget of
up to £5000 and the opportunity
to work with Warp Films to
produce the films.
The final films include songs
by Lightspeed Champion, Wiley,
King Creosote, Gravenhurst and
The Earlies.
This programme is a unique
chance to see the newly finished
films on the big screen.
You can also watch, rate and
comment on the films at the
BBC’s interactive showcase
for British filmmaking,
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/
newmusicshorts2007
The screening will be followed
by a short informal Q+A with
the filmmakers.
Dir: Jason Nwansi
Kids on a school trip to a museum
have a strange encounter. Thriller
meets Night at the Museum in
this funny, original take on a
grime video.
Dir: Anastasia Kirillova
& Matteo Manzini
The stories of couples who’ve
been together over 50 years
come together in this charming
and unsentimental film on how
relationships last. A unique and
ambitious short that blends
animation and documentary. 87
ANIMATE COMMISSIONS
1hr
A special
preview of
the latest
artists’ films
commissioned
by Animate, the
groundbreaking
project
established
by Arts Council
England and
Channel 4 to
support risk
taking and
experimental
animation works
for television.
Followed by a
Q&A with some
of the artists.
www.animate
projects.org
Animate Award
Fri 23 Nov 18.30
(page 58).
END OF THE STREET
THE LIFE SIZE
ZOETROPE
FLAT EARTH
Dir: Andy Martin
Dir: Mark Simon Hewis
Writer, Narrator: Ian McMillan
Narrator: Thane Bettany
Music: Robert Worby
Narrator: Chris McCalphy
Script: Steve Rushton
End of the Street takes the
original 19th Century Beaufort
Wind Force scale and conjures a
response. Incrementally turning
up the strangeness.
Prod: Katie Daniels
3D, Animatics: Cavan Convery
The Life Size Zoetrope is the
morose life story of one man,
told via a one-take live-action
shot of a human zoetrope
containing the film.
Flat Earth weaves material
found online, taking us on
an extraordinary seven-minute
journey around the world
as seen through the eyes
of web-bloggers.
TONGUE OF
THE HIDDEN
FRANCIS
MAGNETIC MOVIE
Dir: Let Me Feel Your Finger First
Dir: David Alexander Anderson
Dir: Semiconductor: Ruth
Jarman & Joe Gerhardt
Additional Animation:
Elroy Simmons
Calligrapher, Translator,
Narrator: Jila Peacock
Music Composer, Performer:
Anoosh Jahanshahi
The poet Hafez, ‘The Teller of
Secrets’, used the language of
human love and metaphor to
describe his intoxication with the
mysteries of the Universe.
88
Voices: Gary Mackay & Will Eaton
An account of the creation of a
9-year old ‘disturbed’ animated
character. As the draughtsman’s
hand goes to work and Francis
attains animated consciousness,
his behavior is observed and
assessed by a child psychologist.
Dir: Thomson & Craighead
Space Physicists: Janet
Luhmann, Bill Abbett,
David Brain & Stephen Mende
VLF Radio Recordings:
Stephen P McGreevy
Natural magnetic fields
are revealed as chaotic
ever-changing geometries
as scientists from NASA’s space
sciences laboratory excitedly
describe their discoveries.
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY
SHORT FILM NOMINEES – PRIX UIP WINNERS ON TOUR
SHORT MATTERS! 1
1hr 19mins
The Prix UIP is an
initiative by UIP and the
European Film Academy
in co-operation with
fourteen festivals
throughout Europe.
At each of these film
festivals, EFA and
UIP present a Prix
BY THE KISS
UIP which includes
a donation of €2,000
Dir: Yann Gonzalez
and an automatic
France 2006 5 mins
nomination in the
Night. Kisses. A ravished heart.
short film category
PRIX UIP VILA DO CONDE
of the European
Film Awards. Out
of the nominated
films, the EFA
members (currently
1,700 European film
professionals) select
the winner of the
European Film Academy
Short Film – Prix UIP,
an award which is
endowed with €10,000.
MEANDER
DELIVERY
FOR INTÉRIEUR
Dir: Till Nowak
Dir: Patrick Poubel
Germany 2005 9 mins
France 2005 10 mins
An old hermit lives in a
dark industrial city. One day
he receives a mysterious
package which gives him
undreamed-of power to
change his environment...
A story of a town over the sea,
a little boy and his eccentric
grandfather. The old man collects
sounds which he keeps in tins
as a way of saving memories.
He also dreams that one day
he will lift up into the air and fly
away. Only his grandson believes
it is possible.
PRIX UIP GHENT
PRIX UIP CRACOW
SRETAN PUT NEDIME
(GOOD LUCK NEDIM)
THE MAKING OF PARTS
BEFORE DAWN
Dir: Joke Liberge
Dir: Daniel Elliott
Dir: Bálint Kenyeres
Belgium 2005 14 mins
Dir: Marko Šantić
UK 2006 15 mins
Hungary 2005 13 mins
On a hot summer day, five
adolescents seek refreshment
near a river. Whilst we observe
their behaviour within the group,
the apparently calm day tends
to be disrupted. A poetic short
film, without dialogue, about a
seemingly harmless and
innocent day.
Slovenia 2006 13 mins
A man’s love and tenderness,
which he once shared with his
wife, is now slipping away from
him. As one sexual existence
ends, another is just beginning.
The end of the night. Wheat is
silently swaying on the hillside.
Some people rise, others are
threatening their freedom.
PRIX UIP ROTTERDAM
Upon arrival at the Slovenian
border Amir and Nedim come
across a young police officer who
is not allowed to let them through
because Nedim does not have a
proper visa for entering Slovenia.
Nedim is in the last stages of
cancer and does not want to die in
Germany but in his own country,
in Bosnia. Amir is determined not
to let his brother down.
PRIX UIP TAMPERE
PRIX UIP VENICE
Also screening in
Best of British 3
PRIX UIP SARAJEVO
89
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY
SHORT FILM NOMINEES – PRIX UIP WINNERS ON TOUR
SHORT MATTERS! 2
1hr 24mins
PISTACHE
VINCENT
SNIFFER
Dir: Valérie Pirson
Dir: Giulio Ricciarelli
Dir: Bobbie Peers
France 2004 9 mins
Norway 2006 10 mins
The re-transcription of the
confused thoughts of an
individual. “She” is trying to
understand what is needed
to feel good.
The story of 8 year-old Vincent’s
earnest yet absurd attempts to
make sense of the world.
In a society where everyone has
the ability to fly, the citizens
anchor themselves to the ground
via “gravitation boots”. Devoid of
sunlight and the open sky, the
members of the society go about
their routine without any hope
of personal gratification. One
day, however, a man decides he
has had enough and attempts to
challenge the status quo.
PRIX UIP VALLADOLID
PRIX UIP ANGERS
PRIX UIP GRIMSTAD
EL CERCO (THE FENCE)
Dir: Ricardo Íscar
& Nacho Martín
NEVER LIKE
THE FIRST TIME!
ZAKARIA
COMME UN AIR…
(IT’S IN THE AIR…)
Dir: Jonas Odell
Dir: Gianluca De Serio
& Massimiliano De Serio
Spain 2005 12 mins
Sweden 2006 15 mins
Italy 2005 15 mins
France 2005 9 mins
Every year thousands of tuna fish
migrate to the Mediterranean
Sea. Men chase them in a ritual of
blood and death: Three hundred
tuna fish are trapped into a ring
of nets. Images of nature abused
and overwhelmed.
Four people each get to tell the
story of their first time. These are
stories that range from comedy
to tragedy, stories from last year
or from the 1920’s, stories that
are remembered with nostalgia,
embarrassment or even horror.
Zakaria is working hard on
getting better at being Zakaria.
On his way to deliver a sealed
envelope, a messenger sees a
beautiful woman. As if under a
spell, he starts to sing…
PRIX UIP BERLIN
PRIX UIP CORK
Also screening in
90
PRIX UIP EDINBURGH
Dir: Yohann Gloaguen
PRIX UIP DRAMA
INFO
INDEX
1977
53
10 Things We Learned At Sxsw 76
50 Years And A Few Puss Kittens Wiser 87
A Chaat In The Park
77
A Gentlemen’s Duel
57
A Mouse Funeral 60
A Short Collection Of
Hilary Flamingo’s Dream Vocations 39
Afraid So
21 & 46
Ah Ma
71
Alex And Her Arse Truck 83
An
52
Apnée
52
Arka (Ark)
44
Autograph Book 71
Azraa Wa Ahmar (Red & Blue)
45
Bad Is As Bad Does 87
Badmouth
48
Bananas
53
Bathtime
73
Battle Of Cable Street (The)
56
Before Dawn 89
Berlin Horse
74
Beton
41
Bigboy-74
72
Blight
75
Block
43
Blow
55
BOb’s Birthday
82
Boot Polish 81
Botteoubateau (Bottoobatoh)
54
Boy Who Saw The Iceberg (The)
82
Bulb
80
By Modern Measure
40
By The Kiss 88
Carne
61
Chair Fraîche (Fresh Blood)
60
Changes In Concrete
86
Cheat Neutral
49
Checkpoint 41
Cherries
49
Circle
77
Circles
46
Cleaner (The)
53
Conservation Pieces: War Story
74
Comme Un Air…(It’s In The Air)
90
Cornland
59
Crow Moon
53
Crusader (The)
72
D.I.Y.
71
Dad
50
Daddy’s Girl
77
Danish Poet (The)
82
Dawn Chorus (The)
60
Delivery 89
Depict! Showcase
62 & 63
DEmain La Veille
(Waiting For Yesterday)
43
Den Blå Skon (The Blue Shoe)
41
Der Propellervogel
(The Propellerbird)
52
Dermo Sluchaetsa (Shit Happens) 73
Dharma Dream Eater
55
Dog Altogether 50
Dreammaker 55
Dreams Don’t Walk Straight 77
Dry Lips 87
Du Var Där Med Din Polare Frank (You
Were There With Your Friend Frank)84
East Cliff, West Bay
38
92
Eddie Proctor 81
El Cerco (The Fence)
40 & 90
El Cuarto Del Fondo (The Guest Room) 43
El Hoppo!
85
Ela
21 & 51
En Nattsaga (A Night Story)
84
End Of The Street
88
Energie! (Energy!)
59
Fall Of Adam (The)
61
Farewell Farewell 87
Fat Chance 55
Father’s Day
78
First 85
Fische Und Schiffe (Fish And Ships) 57
Flat Dreams
70
Flat Earth
88
For Intérieur 89
For The Love Of God
79
Foster
73
Francis
88
Free Speech 72
Friendly Fire
49
Fuck 76
Fuck The Police 76
Fuggy Fuggy
56
Fureer Goror Fureer
86
Gasman
75
Gecko 78
Georg Wächst (George Grows)
56
Girls (The)
81
Goat That Ate Time (The)
54
Goodbye Mr Snuggles
73
Graceland
47
Grajdanskoe Sostoanie (Civil Status) 42
He Said 85
Hedgewitch
38
Hell Bent For Leather
51
Hell Unltd 74
Herzog And The Monsters
56
Hesitation
50
Herbstlaub (Autumn Leaves)
56
Heures Sup’ (Overtime)
45
Honk
38
Horizon Of Exile
39
Hot Klub 76
How The West Was Won 53
Hundefutter (Dogmeat)
21 & 45
Hur Man Gör (What You Do)
84
I’m British But…
75
Ike (Pond)
46
Imaginary Girl (The)
77
Immeasurable
78
Indigo
61
Insight
56
Is It Just Me
61
Isabella
79
Island
83
Itch (The)
52
Jeu 82
Jomeo And Ruliet
75
Katong Fugue
71
Kilka Prostych Slow
(A Few Simple Words)
44
King Ponce
50
Know The Enemy
53
Kwiz (Quiz)
21 & 44
Lady Margaret
77
Lampa Cu Caciula (The Tube With A Hat)44
Latent Sorrow
59
Le Grand Content
59
Lebenswandel (See You At Home) 46
L’éducation Nautique
(The Nautical Education)
47
Left
42
Les Couillus (Home Team)
46
Life-Size Zoetrope (The)
88
Linerboard
84
Locust
70
Los Meccanicos (The Mechanicals) 54
Lumpy Diversity
58
Machine Child
43
Magic Paris
45
Magnetic Movie
88
Making Of Parts (The) 51 & 89
Mammal
47
Maquina (Engine)
61
Mashed
51
Matar EL Tiempu (Killing Time)
42
Me + You
59
Me Head’s A Shed
49
Meander 89
Meltdown (The)
52
Ming D’or (Ming Of Gold)
42
Missing 80
Monkey Love 70
Monsieur Sorlin Architecte
21 & 47
Mother
54
Much A Do About A Minor Ting 83
Mulaigal
86
My Mother
48
Mystery Of Pig City (The)
52
Nabi (The Butterfly)
52
Namibia, Brasil
42
Never Like The First Time!
90
New Love 83
Night Mail
74
Night Of The Hell Hamsters
60
Nijuman No Borei
(200,000 Phantoms)
58
No Star
79
Noir Total
60
Nostalgia
41
O Pharos (Lighthouse)
55
OccUpant (The)
52
One Week Later 39
Opus 23
52
Ostorozhno, Dveri Otkryvajutsia
(Mind The Gap!)
53
Outono (Autumn)
43
Over The Hill
57 & 77
Ozymandias
58
Palingenesia
57
Panic 78
Partus
40
Parz (Duty Of A Son)
47
Pearce Sisters (The)
21 & 38
Pen (The) 86
Pep Talk
84
Perfect To Begin 80
Persepolis
22
Personal Spectator
47
Phantomschmerz (Phantom Pain) 40
Phoenix Effect (The)
55
Phoenix Talons
61
Pib & Pog ‘Peter’s Room’ 61
Pistache
90
Pleasance
42
Polle (Horsie)
21 & 52
Postman (The)
48
Poza Cisza (Below ThE Silence)
45
Puffing Away
21 & 57
Pushkin
53
Quietly
71
Rebecca
77
Recitation
86
Rezina Življenja (A Slice Of Life)
60
River (The)
39
Road Movie 41
Say A Prayer
86
Scen Nr: 6882 Ur Mitt Liv (Autobiographical
Scene Nr 6882 From My Life)
84
Schoolboy
51
Seagull Ogles Whilst We Pass By (The)55
Seawatchers (The)
50
Security
45
Seed
53
Shadowline
77
Shadows In The Desert
55
Shuteye Hotel
21 & 46
Sickie (The) 48
Slippin
87
Sniffer
90
Snip, Crunch
54
Snowtime
57
Soft
51
Solid State 76
Solomon Grundy
54
Souljah
81
Special People 73
Sretan Put Nedime (Good Luck Nedim)89
Strawberry Fields Forver
74
Stubborn And Spite
80
Superdong
70
Super-8 Cities
68 & 69
Suprematist Kapital
58
Surprise
72
Terra Firma
83
Thou Shalt Always Kill:
Scroobius Pip V Dan Le Sac
54
Through My Thick Glasses 82
Tillväxtsjukan (Radicalized)
84
Tongue Of The Hidden (The)
88
Trainee (The)
44
Transformer
86
Trapped
79
Tree
50
Trout
49
True Colours
51
True Story Of Sawney Beane (The) 82
Tudi Tukaj Je Slovenija
(This Is Slovenia)
44
Un Hombre TRanquilo (A Quiet Man) 45
Uso Justo
43
Vincent
90
Visitor (The)
77
Waiting For Departure
86
Way We Live (The) 59
We All Fade Away
54
Weiss 54
Werewolf 79
Westi
57
Whale 54
What Does Your Daddy Do? 50
Where’s The Money Ronnie? 75
White
53 & 71
Wish
50
Year Zero 76
You’re In There Ltd
73
Young Offender
39
Your Carbon Footprint
55
Zakaria
90
Zhakh (The Incident)
46
CKA3KA CAPbl (Sarah’s Tale)
47
FILM CONTACTs
1977
Dir: Peque Varela Contact: Hemant Sharda
(National Film & Television School)
T: +44 (0) 1494 731 457 E: [email protected]
Distributor: Hemant Sharda NFTS
T: +44 (0) 1494 731 457
A Gentlemen’s Duel
Dir: Francisco Ruiz & Sean McNally
Contact: Debbie Yu (Blur Studio, Inc)
T: +1 310 581 8848 E: [email protected]
Distributor: Debbie Yu Blur Studio, Inc.
T: +1 310 581 8848
A Mouse Funeral
Dir: Greg Butler Contact: Greg Butler (L.C.C.)
T: +44 (0)7932 756 154
Distributor: Greg Butler
A Short Collection of
Hilary Flamingo’s Dream Vocations
Dir: Harriet Fleuriot Contact: Marina Traversari
(Calling The Shots) T: +44 (0) 117 930 0141
Afraid So
Dir: Jay Rosenblatt Contact: Jay Rosenblatt
AN
Dir: Matthew Reay Contact: Gerri Stafford
(Canterbury Christ Church University)
T: +44 (0) 122 778 2785
Distributor: Gerri Stafford Canterbury Christ
Church University T: +44 (0) 1227 782 785
Animate Comissions
Contact: Abigail Addison T: +44 (0) 207 407 3944
Apnée
Dir: Claude Chabot Contact: Christine Gicquel
(Autour de Minuit) T: +33 1 42 81 17 28
Distributor: Christine Gicquel Autour de Minuit
T: +33 1 42 81 17 28
Arka (Ark)
Dir: Grzegorz Jonkajtys Contact: Marta
Staniszewska T: +48 228 446 474
Azraa Wa Ahmar (Red & Blue)
Dir: Mahmood Soliman
Contact: Mahmood Soliman
T: +20 10 68 60 245 E: [email protected]
Distributor: Mahmood Soliman
Badmouth
B3 Showcase
Contact: Marc Boothe
Beton
Dir: Ariel Belinco & Michael Faust
Contact: Boaz Maori (Bezalel Academy)
T: +972 2 5893 340
Distributor: Boaz Maori bezalel academy
for art and design T: +972 2 5893340
Block
Dir: Simon Jaquemet
Contact: Lily Ott (Das Kollektiv)
T: +41 438115050 E: [email protected]
Distributor: Stefan Zuber & Min Li Marti Das
Kollektiv GmbH T: +41 43 811 50 50
Blow
Dir: Hermes Mangialardo
Contact: Hermes Mangialardo (Plasmedia)
Botteoubateau (Bottoobatoh)
Dir: Marina Rosset Contact: Marina Rosset
By Modern Measure
Dir: Matthew Lessner
Contact: Matthew Lessner (Monte Lomax)
Canada Calling
Contact: Michael Fukushima
Carne
Dir: Miruna Boruzescu
Contact: Miruna Boruzescu
Chair fraîche (Fresh Blood)
Dir: Jean-Patrick Benes & Allan Mauduit
Contact: Alwine Deleule (Kare Productions)
T: +33 1 58 53 55 00 E: [email protected]
Cheat Neutral
Dir: Beth Stratford Contact: Beth Stratford
Checkpoint
Dir: Ben Phelps
Contact: Ben Phelps (Checkpoint Films)
T: + 61 4131 131 788 E: [email protected]
Cherries
Dir: Tom Harper
Contact: Lisa Williams (Free Range Films)
Dir: Shanti Ramakuri
Contact: Shanti Ramakuri (Shush Productions)
T: +44 (0) 207 263 2637
Cinema Extreme
Bananas
Circles
Dir: Zach Parrish Contact: Shannon Farney
(Savannah College of Art and Design)
Battle of Cable Street, The
Dir: Yoav Segal Contact: Yoav Segal (Cable Street
Productions) T: +44 (0) 7813 139 515
Distributor: Yoav Segal Cabel Street Productions
BBC New Music Shorts
Contact: Claire Cook
BBC Three New Filmmakers Award
Contact: Shirley Rush
Contact: Rebecca Mark-Lawson
T: +44 (0)114 249 2203
Dir: Jonathan Shohet Contact: Boaz Maori
(Bezalel Academy) T: +972 2 5893 340
Distributor: Boaz Maori Bezalel Academy
of Art & Design E: [email protected]
Cleaner, The
Dir: Dustin Rees Contact: Dustin Rees
Cornland
Dir: Zhou Hongxiang Contact: Zhou Hongxiang
Crow Moon
Dir: Selina Cobley Contact: Gaia Meucci (Red Kite
Animations) T: +44 (0)131 554 0060
Distributor: Sueann Smith Red Kite Animation
T: +44 (0)131 554 0060
Dad
Dir: Daniel Mulloy
Contact: Jim Tracy (Sister Films)
T: +44 (0)7813 389 889
Dawn Chorus, The
Dir: Hope Dickson Leach Contact: Hope Dickson
Leach (Columbia University)
T: +44 (0) 7963 350 646
Distributor: Hope Dickson Leach
T: +44 (0) 7963 350 646
Demain La Veille (Waiting for Yesterday)
Dir: Julien Lecat & Sylvain Pioutaz
Contact: Julien Lecat
Den Blå Skon (The Blue Shoe)
Dir: Magnus Fredriksson
Contact: Håkan Rudehill (Arktisk Cirkus)
Distributor: Håkan Rudehill Arktisk Cirkus
DepicT!
Contact: Maddy Probst
T: +44 (0)117 927 5120 E: [email protected]
Der Propellervogel (The Propellerbird)
Dir: Jan Locher & Thomas Hinke
Contact: Jan Locher
T: +49 (0)7141 2980807 E: [email protected]
Dharma Dream Eater
Dir: Rasmus Møller & Edda Kristindottir
Contact: Louise Bergholt Soerensen
(The Animation Workshop)
Dog Altogether
Dir: Paddy Considine
Contact: Kalina Jones (Warp Films)
T: +44 (0)114 213 0334 E: [email protected]
Dreammaker
Dir: Leszek Plichta Contact: Tobias Klose
(Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Institute of
Anim) T: +49 7141 969 860
Distributor: Tobias Klose Filmakademie
Baden-Wuerttemberg GmbH T: +49 7141 969 860
East Cliff, West Bay
Dir: Tom Williams Contact: Tom Williams
El cerco (The Fence)
Dir: Richardo Iscar & Nacho Mar_in
Contact: Homer Etminani (CECC)
T: 0034934364713 E: [email protected]
El Cuarto Del Fondo (The Guest Room)
Dir: Leticia Jorge & Ana Guevara
Contact: Leticia Jorge
T: +598 2 4117539 E: [email protected]
Ela
Contact: Gavin Humphries (Quark Films)
T: E: [email protected]
Distributor: Hemant Sharda National
Film and TV School E: [email protected]
EM Media
Contact: Sally Hodgson T: +44 (0) 115 934 9090
Energie! (Energy!)
Dir: Thorsten Fleisch Contact: Thorsten Fleisch
93
FILM CONTACTs
Fall of Adam, The
Herbstlaub (Autumn Leaves)
Dir: Gail Sneddon
Contact: Lucy Monaghan (South East Dance)
T: +44 (0) 127 369 6844
Distributor: Charlotte Miles South East Dance
T: +44 (0) 1273 696 844
Dir: Oliver Vogel Contact: Tobias Klose
(Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Institute of
Anim) T: +49 7141 969 860
Distributor: Tobias Klose Filmakademie
Baden-Wuerttemberg GmbH T: +49 7141 969 860
Fat Chance
Herzog and the Monsters
Dir: Ben Jones
Contact: Anargyros Sarafopoulos
(NCCA Bournemouth University)
T: +44 (0) 1202 965 639
Father’s Day
Dir: Tom Reynolds Contact: Tom Reynolds
T: +44 (0) 7969 956 932
Fische und Schiffe (Fish and Ships)
Dir: Axel Brötje Contact: Axel Brötje
Distributor: Axel Brötje
For The Love of God
Dir: Joe Tucker Contact: Hemant Sharda
T: +44 (0) 1494 731 457
Friendly Fire
Dir: Andrew Cumming Contact: Hemant Sharda
Fuggy Fuggy
Dir: The Brothers McLeod
Contact: Greg Mcleod (The Brothers McLeod)
T: +44 (0) 777 580 5999
Gecko
Dir: Theresa von Eltz
Contact: Hemant Sharda (National Film &
Television School)
Georg wächst (George Grows)
Dir: Martin Schmidt Contact: Martin Schmidt
(Kunsthochschule Kassel)
Distributor: Martin Schmidt T: +49 561 2077859
Dir: Lesley Barnes
Contact: Lesley Barnes
Hesitation
Dir: Virginia Gilbert Contact: Michelle Eastwood
(Frigid Films Ltd.) T: +44 (0) 7734 824 618
Heures Sup’ (Overtime)
Dir: Mark Eacersall
Contact: Jean-Yves Roan (Avalon Films)
Honk
Dir: Barry Hecker Contact: Barry Hecker
T: +44 (0) 117 377 6012
Horizon of Exile
Dir: Isabel Rocamora Contact: Isabel Rocamora
T: +44 (0) 794 959 4303
Distributor: Isabel Rocamora
How The West Was Won
Dir: Rowena True Contact: Jane Colling (Royal
College of Art, Animation Dept)
Distributor: Dawn Sharpless Dazzle
Hundefutter (Dogmeat)
Dir: Till Kleinert
Contact: Linus de Paoli
(German Film & Televisionakademy Berlin)
Distributor: Jana Wolff Deutsche Film- und
Fernsehakademie Berlin T: +49 30 2 57 59 0
Ike (Pond)
Dir: Kohei Yoshino Contact: Kohei Yoshino
(Dentsu) T: +81 (0) 90 3992 8730
Immeasurable
Dir: Gergely Cziràki Contact: Hemant Sharda
Goat That Ate Time, The
Dir: Lucinda Schreiber Contact: Lucinda Schreiber T: +44 (0) 1494 731 457
Distributor: Lucinda Schreiber Ponymikado Films Indigo
Dir: Kimon Christodoulides Contact: Kimon
Christodoulides T: +44 (0) 795 157 6126
Graceland
Dir: Anocha Suwichakornpong Contact: Anocha
Insight
Suwichakornpong (Electric Eel Films)
Dir: Salvador Simo Busom
T: +66 89 7289411 E: A. Suwichakornpong
Contact: Louise Bergholt Soerensen
Grajdanskoe sostoanie (Civil Status)
(The Animation Workshop)
Dir: Alina Rudnitskaya Contact: Alina Rudnitskaya T: +45 87 255 400 E: [email protected]
(St.Petersburg Film Documentary Studio)
Is It Just Me
Dir: Zam Salim Contact: Zam Salim
Hedgewitch
Dir: Liz Banks Contact: Liz Banks
Isabella
Dir: Geoffrey Taylor Contact: Geoff Taylor (Wide
Hell Bent for Leather
Eyed Films) T: +44 (0)797 481 6807
Dir: James Wood Contact: Marie Schuller
(Connected Pictures) T: +44 (0) 207 5801 420
Distributor: Geoffrey Taylor Wide Eyed
Productions T: +44 (0) 797 481 6807
Distributor: Adam Penny Connected Pictures
T: +44 (0) 207 580 1420
94
Itch, The
Dir: Joel Green Contact: Anargyros Sarafopoulos
(NCCA Bournemouth University)
T: +44 (0) 1202 965 639
Kilka prostych slow (A Few Simple Words)
Dir: Anna Kazejak
Contact: Anna Kazejak
(Polish National Film School)
Distributor: Andrzej Bednarek Polish National
Film School T: +48 426 345 820
King Ponce
Dir: Sam Donovan Contact: Sam Donovan
T: +44 (0) 7815 054 631
Know The Enemy
Dir: Martin Orton & Greg Villalobos
Contact: Belen Bueso-Alberdi (Bold Creative)
T: +44 (0) 207 739 2738
Kwiz (Quiz)
Contact: Nathalie Meyer (La Big Family)
T: + 32 2 538 3158
Lampa cu caciula (The Tube With a Hat)
Dir: Radu Jude Contact: Ioana Draghici
Latent Sorrow
Dir: Shon Kim Contact: Shon Kim
Le Grand Content
Dir: Clemens Kogler & Karo Szmit
Contact: Michaela Grill (sixpackfilm)
Distributor: Michaela Grill Sixpackfilm
Lebenswandel (See You At Home)
Dir: Stefan Kornatz
Contact: Stefan Kornatz (Silencio Film)
T: +49 30 28 598 959
Distributor: Stefan Kornatz silencio film
T: +49 30 28 598 959
L’éducation nautique (The Nautical Education)
Dir: Christian Laurence
Contact: Geneviève Perron
T: +1 514-219-6616 E: [email protected]
Distributor: Geneviève Perron T: +1 514 219 6616
Left
Dir: Alexandre O. Philippe
Contact: Alexandre Philippe (New Moment Films)
T: +1 720 227 1465
Distributor: Catherine A. Ostrander New Moment
Films T: +1 303 819 6369
Les Couillus (Home Team)
Dir: Mirabelle Kirkland
Contact: Jean-Yves Roan (Avalon Films)
Los Meccanicos (The Mechanicals)
Dir: Luca Pieracci
Contact: Luca Pieracci (Luca’s Videoart)
Lumpy Diversity
Dir: Anna Hallin Contact: Anna Hallin
Machine Child
Namibia, Brasil
Magic Paris
Night of the Hell Hamsters
Dir: Jonathan van Tulleken Contact: Jonathan van Dir: Miguel Silveira
Tulleken (Teddy Hall Films)
Contact: Andrew Eick (Baixo Santa do Alto Gloria)
T: +1 708-601-3739 E: [email protected]
Dir: Alice Winocour Contact: Isabelle Madelaine
(Dharamasala) T: +33 1 41122041
Distributor: Emilie Tisne T: +33 1 41122041
Dir: Paul Campion Contact: Elisabeth Pinto
(Nimble Pictures) T: +44 (0) 207 274 1384
Nijuman no borei (200,000 Phantoms)
Dir: Daniel Elliott
Contact: Daniel Elliott T: +44 (0) 191 440 5899
Dir: Jean-Gabriel Périot
Contact: Jean-Gabriel Périot
Distributor: Heure exquise heure Exquise
Mammal
No Star
Maquina (Engine)
Noir Total
Making of Parts, The
Dir: Astrid Rieger Contact: Astrid Rieger
Distributor: Astrid Rieger
Dir: Gabe Ibanez
Contact: Txema Munoz (Kimuak)
Distributor: Txema Munoz kimak
Mashed
Dir: Zam Salim Contact: Zam Salim
Matar el Tiempu (Killing Time)
Dir: Santos Hevia
Contact: Santos Hevia (Big Ye Ho)
Distributor: Santos Hevia Big Ye Ho
me + you
Dir: Michael Aubtin Madadi
Contact: Michael Madadi
Me Head’s a Shed
Dir: Marco van Belle Contact: Marco van Belle
Distributor: Marco van Belle
Meltdown, The
Dir: João Batista, João Real & Pedro Almeida
Contact: Manuel Veiga
(Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian CAM)
Ming d’Or (Ming of Gold)
Dir: Jennifer Devoldere Contact: Céline Laumord
Monsieur Sorlin Architecte
Dir: Jacques Strang Contact: Picot William
(Finalement) T: +33 1 48510299
Distributor: William Picot Finalement
T: +33 1 4851 0299
Mother
Dir: Christoph Steger Contact: Jane Colling
(Royal College of Art, Animation Dept)
Distributor: Dawn Sharpless Dazzle
My Mother
Dir: Christian Neuman
Contact: Chrissy Bright (London Film School)
Dir: Francois Jamin
Contact: Francois Jamin
T: +33 (0) 663033027 E: [email protected]
Distributor: Francois Jamin
Nostalgia
Dir: Gaute Hesthagen
Contact: Arna Bersaas (Norwegian Film Institute)
Occupant, The
Dir: Temirbek Birnazarov
Contact: Bakytbek Turdubaev (Aitysh Film)
Pearce Sisters, The
Dir: Luis Cook Contact: Kieran Argo (Aardman
Animation)
Distributor: Aardman Animations
Personal Spectator
Dir: Emmanuel Jespers
Contact: Emmanuel Jespers (Ezechiel 47-9)
T: +32 2-511 48 06 E: [email protected]
Phantomschmerz (Phantom Pain)
Dir: Alexandre Powelz
Contact: Alexandre Powelz (Salonfilm)
Distributor: Alexander Seib Salonfilm
Phoenix Effect, The
O Pharos (Lighthouse)
Phoenix Talons
One Week Later
Pib & Pog ‘Peter’s Room’
Dir: Elena Topouzoglou
Contact: Elena Topouzoglou
Dir: Peter Snelling
Contact: Mandy Rathbone (PVA MediaLab)
Distributor: Mandy Rathbone PVA MediaLab
Opus 23
Dir: Marco Morandi Contact: Marco Morandi
Ostorozhno, dveri otkryvajutsia
(or Mind the Gap!)
Dir: Ray Wong Contact: Ray Wong
T: +44 (0) 7896 222 725
Dir: Peter Peake
Contact: Kieran Argo (Aardman Animation)
Distributor: Kieran Argo Aardman Animations
Pleasance
Dir: Amy Gebhardt Contact: Megan Parker
(AFTRS) T: +61 2 9805 6611
Distributor: Megan Parker AFTRS
Dir: Anastasia Zhuravleva
Contact: Anastasia Zhuravleva
Polle (Horsie)
Out of Control
Postman, The
Contact: Philip Illson
E: [email protected] T: +44 07880 647 189
Outono (Autumn)
Dir: Pablo Lobato Contact: Pablo Lobato (Teia)
Distributor: Pablo Lobato Teia
Over The Hill
Dir: Peter BayntonContact: Peter Baynton
T: +44 (0) 786 223 7825
Ozymandias
Mystery of Pig City, The
Dir: Yibi Hu Contact: Yibi Hu
Dir: Hana Roh Contact: Hana Roh
Parz (Duty of a Son)
Dir: Mitra Turani Contact: Mitra Turani (TVU)
T: +44 (0) 794 646 8444
Dir: Dave Griffiths Contact: Dave Griffiths
Nabi (The Butterfly)
Dir: Mikkel Munch-Fals
Contact: Louise Bendixen
(Danish Film Institute / Film Workshop)
Distributor: Flemming Hemme Zentropa
Productions2 T: +45 36 868 711
Dir: Elise Simard Contact: Elise Simard
Dir: Elaine Wickham
Contact: Jan Dunn (Medb Films Ltd)
Dir: Garth Jones & Johnny Luu
Contact: Garth Jones
Partus
Palingenesia
Panic
Dir: Megan Kieran Contact: Jane Stobart
Dir: Sara Wahl Contact: Sara Wahl
Dir: Rupert Porter
Contact: Rupert Porter (Double Negative)
T: +44 (0) 7811 267 030
Poza Cisza (Below The Silence)
Dir: Piotr RyczkoContact: Piotr Ryczko
T: 48 696750699 E: [email protected]
Distributor: Piotr Ryczko T: +48 696750699
Puffing Away
Dir: Isaac King Contact: Isaac King (Head Gear
Animation) T: +1 416 408 2020
Pushkin
Dir: Trevor Hardy Contact: Trevor Hardy
(Fool Hardy Films) T: +44 (0) 1903 600 484
Rezina _ivljenja (A Slice of Life)
Dir: Martin TurkContact: Martin Turk
Distributor: Nerina Kocjancic Slovenian Film
Foundation T: +386 12324200
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FILM CONTACTs
River, The
Solomon Grundy
We All Fade Away
Road Movie
Super-8 Cities
Weiss
Schoolboy
Suprematist Kapital
Werewolf
Security
The Audi Reel Talent Award
Westi
Dir: Adam Laity Contact: Adam Laity (Black Cat
Films) T: +44 (0) 117 330 1229
Dir: Siv Aksnes & Niels Peter Haerem
Contact: Arna Bersaas (Norwegian Film Institute)
Dir: Chris Myers & Ken Seward Contact: Shannon
Farney (Savannah College of Art and Design)
Contact: Nathan Coombs
T: +44 (0)796 7623525
Dir: Claire Breton & Tim Smith
Dir: Yin-Ju Chen & James T. Hong
Contact: Tim Smith (Fourmost Films)
Contact: Yin-Ju Chen (Zukunftsmusik Production)
T: +44 (0) 783 818 2900 E: [email protected] T: +1 415 641 1673 E: [email protected]
Dir: Lars Henning Contact: Nicolas Reichelt
(Wrong Directions Filmproduktion) T: +49 (0)40 4696 1507 E: [email protected]
Distributor: Anne Schricker / Ingo Grell KFA
Kurzfilmagentur Hamburg
Seed
Dir: Shu-Tsen Liu Contact: Shannon Farney
(Savannah College of Art and Design)
Seagull Ogles Whilst We Pass By, The
Dir: Eleanor Farnham Contact: Eleanor Farnham
T: +44 (0) 773 903 8171
Seawatchers, The
Dir: Lizzie Oxby Contact: Lizzie Oxby
Distributor: Lizzie Oxby +44 (0) 207 252 4571 T:
Shadows in the Desert
Dir: Ryoko Hatanaka Contact: Ryoko Hatanaka
Shorts from Sweden
Contact: Christoffer Olofsson
Short Matters 1 & 2
Contact: Karen Rais-Nordentoft
Sickie, The
Dir: Rupert Jones Contact: Matthieu de Braconier
(The Bureau Film Company) T: +44 (0) 207 580
8182 E: [email protected]
Distributor: Matthieu de Braconier The Bureau
Film Company T: +44 (0) 207 580 8182
Singapore Showcase
Contact: Dan Prichard T: +65 6470 7147
Shuteye Hotel
Dir: Bill Plympton Contact: Bill Plympton
Distributor: Sydney Neter SND films
Snip, Crunch
Dir: Matthew Heimbecker Contact: Shannon
Farney (Savannah College of Art and Design)
Snowtime
Dir: Dana Dorian Contact: Dana Dorian (Axis
Animation) T: +44 (0) 141 572 2802
Distributor: Dana Dorian Axis Animation
T: +44 (0) 141 572 2802
Soft
Dir: Simon Ellis Contact: Simon Ellis (Bub)
T: +44 (0) 115 8411258
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Contact: Jen Angel E: [email protected]
Dir: Nisha Duggal Contact: Nisha Duggal
T: +44 (0) 208 2792648
Dir: Florian Grolig Contact: Florian Grolig
(Kunsthochschule Kassel) T: +49 (0) 561 4307647
Dir: Louise Ridley Contact: Andrew Visser
(University College For The Creative Arts)
Dir: Madevi Dailly Contact: Jason Hall (Teebster
Productions) T: +44 (0) 131 228 2046
E: [email protected] Distributor: Jason Hall
Dir: Karen Penman Contact: Karen Penman
Teebster Productions T: +44 (0) 7782 658 707
(Littlenobody Productions) T: +44 (0) 798 093 7372 E: +44 (0) 7782 658 707
Thou Shalt Always Kill: Scroobius Pip V Dan Le Sac
Trainee, The
Dir: Craig Rosenthal Contact: Craig Rosenthal (88
Waving Cats) T: +65 9004 0137
Distributor: Craig Rosenthal 88 Waving Cats
T: +65 9004 0137
Trapped
Dir: Rumbi Katedza & Marcus Korhonen
Contact: Rumbi Katedza (Goldsmiths College)
T: +44 (0) 7796 696 953
Tree
Dir: Phil Dale Contact: Ryan Smith (Slinky
Pictures) T: +44 (0) 207 247 6444
Distributor: Ryan Smith Slinky Pictures
Trout
Contact: Anna Duffield (Sigma Films)
True Colours
Dir: Barney Elliott Contact: Barney Elliott
Distributor: Barney Elliott T: +1 646 379 6306
Tudi Tukaj je Slovenija (This is Slovenia)
Dir: Michael Frank Contact: Michael Frank
T: +386 4014 1187
UK Film Council’s Digital Generation
Contact: Rebecca Mark-LawsonT: +44 (0) 114 249
2203 E: [email protected]
Un Hombre Tranquilo (A Quiet Man)
Dir: Arantzazu Gomez Bayon Contact: Arantzazu
Gomez Bayon (Madremedia) T: +34 942 260 174
Distributor: Rafael Nieto Jimenez Rafael Nieto
Producciones T: +34 91 517 0514
Uso Justo
Dir: Coleman Miller Contact: Coleman Miller
Visitor, The
Dir: David Smith Contact: Dave Smith
T: +44 (0) 7905 614 997
Distributor: Paul Welsh EM Media
T: +44 (0) 1159 349 090
Way We Live, The
Dir: Nikolaus Jantsch Contact: Nikolaus Jantsch
Whale
Dir: Robert Wicksteed Contact: Rob Wicksteed
What Does Your Daddy Do?
Dir: Martin Stitt Contact: Julia Kunze (Sprig
Productions) T: +44 (0) 208 7721 377
Distributor: Luke Thornton Future Shorts
White
Dir: Tan Wei Keong Contact: Dan Prichard (British
Council) T: + 65 6470 7147
Distributor: Tan Wei Keong T: +65 92 258 480
Wish
Dir: Matt Day Contact: Anna Higgs (Quark Films)
Distributor: Anna Higgs Quark Films
Young Offender
Dir: Isabel Anderton Contact: Isabel Anderton
T: +44 (0) 207 439 2412
Your Carbon Footprint
Dir: Kim Robson Contact: Kim Robson
T: +44 (0) 130 253 3372
Distributor: Tracy Tomlinson University Of Derby
Zhakh (The Incident)
Dir: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Contact: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
(Ministry of culture and tourism of Ukraine)
T: +7(812) 370 90 01
Distributor: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy Ministry of
culture and tourism of Ukraine
T: +7(812) 993 80 44 E: [email protected]
CKA3KA CAPbl (Sarah’s Tale)
Dir: Svetlana Filippova
Contact: Svetlana Filippova (Studio DECEMBER)
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Encounters Consultants
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Arilda Tymko Jury Facilitator (South West Screen)
Encounters Festivals Board, Advisors & Working Group
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Paul Appleby (BBC)
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