Screening
Sat 23rd Jan Films Start: 5.00pm (Doors open
- 4.30pm)
Awards
Sun 24th Jan Prior to Flickerfest screening:
8.00pm (Doors open - 7.30pm)
Bangalow A&I Hall
Films Start: Sat 5.00pm
(Doors open - 4.30pm)
Tickets: $8/5 conc
(also
included in Flickerfest 3 day Festival Pass $35/30)
Running Time: nearly
2hrs with intermission
Session Rating: 15+
The 'Byron All Shorts' competition will celebrate
the film making talent in the Northern Rivers region and encourage audiences
to experience the many local stories that are produced in the region each
year.
This competitive local programme will screen on the
23rd January 5pm over the Australia Day long weekend 22nd- 24th of January
2010, alongside the Byron Flickerfest 3 day screening's of the best of
the worlds short films.
BYRON ALL SHORTS 2010 Programme:
(Official Selection)
AFTERSWELL
5min
Wri/Dir: Nigel Carboon
Prod: SAE
"For whatever we seek, like a you or a me, it is
always ourselves we find in the sea"
DREAMING
MAN 3min
Dir: Amber Wright
"The Dreaming Man is a comment on the ways in which
Western society continues to fail Aboriginal Australians. Inspired by Worimi/Biripi
Elder Gordon Syron’s painting, “The Dreaming Man” (2003), the film explores
the losses and dreams that many urban-based Indigenous people experience.
BOB
McTAVISH-A LIFE IN SHAPE (doco) 10m 23s
Wri/Dir: Kane Bloomfield
Prod: Gary Bloomfield
BoB McTavish, one of the legends of the Australian
longboard culture and a household name among the Australian surfing scene.
This is a small portrait of his life and times, from where surfing entered
his life to how surfing became it. Meticulously shot in Byron Bay and fused
with archival footage, and local music, Bob tells his story.
REASONS
TO BE CHEERFUL 1, 2 & 3 3m 50s
Wri: Amy Hoogenboom/Jake Jaquiss
Dir/Prod: Amy Hoogenboom
Inspired by the music of Ian Dury, one man shares
the three ways that enable him to maintain some kind of equilibrium in
his life.
WHERE
THERE IS LOVE, THERE IS LIFE (doco) 4m 19s
Wri/Dir/Prod: Brittini Nicholl
Brittini Nicholl talks about her battle with Crohn's
Disease & how she is still able to surf with an ileostomy bag.
PAINT THE TOWN 6m 18s
Wri/Dir/Prod: Michael Rogowski
The art is in the archetecture...Today’s technology
enables us to visualize how something could look, easily and cheaply. The
towns of the northern rivers are largely testaments to the Art Deco period.
Lismore in particular has many different styles from each of the decades
from the previous century.
MARDI
GRASS 14m 35s
Wri/Dir/Prod: Kierra Hopper
A observational documentary where thousands of tourists
flock each year to view and participate in what is now known as such an
intriguing and popular event today. Exclusive interviews with local residents,
tourists, journalist and festival volunteers. This documentary will captivate
you with its diversified cultural backgrounds, music, history, art, beliefs
and views on protesting the laws of marijuana.
DUPIN'S VALISE 2m 53s
Wri/Dir/Prod: Jon Liddell
The surrealistic & frightening adventures of
Augustus Dupin & his magical suitcase in the land of dreams.
MEMOIRS
OF A CRANE 8m 18s
Wri/Dir/Prod: Sachiko Kotaka
I am teaching an elderly German woman the art of
origami as a way of freeing myself of guilt that I still feel about the
war.
D-BAG
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (doco) 21min
Wri/Dir: Sharon Shostak
Prod: Andrew Polidano
Dangerous or adventageous? The bird-men of Byron
Shire attempt to launch their paragliders in a whole new way.
THE
REDEMPTION OF JOE FRAME 8m 58s
Wri/Dir: Ly deAngeles
Prod: Ly de Angeles/Joshua Rushton/Marion
Rushton
There’s a fine line between mysticism and madness
Joe Frame is the name people call him. It’s not
who he claims to be. He claims to be from another universe inhabited by
people that those in this world can’t see or hear. Consequently, in this
world, despite being a savant, he is considered mentally ill and spends
much of his life institutionalised.
SPLENDID@
SPLENDOUR (doco) 8min
Dir/Prod: Guy Mansfield
'Splendour in the Grass' 2009 - the hand picked
'Splendid' Arts Lab participants & provocateurs.
BROTHERLY
DEMISE 4m 30s
Wri: Vanessa Leske/hugh Salisbury
Dir: yr 11 - mullum High/ Hugh Salisbury
Prod: Vanessa Leske
A short film about sibling bullying & suicide.
WHERE
MANDRAKES GROW 10min
Wri/Dir: Even Hafnor
Prod: Olivia Feng
Based on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, "Where
Mandrakes Grow" is a
short film that addresses the absurdity and significance
of mundane conversation.
LASH
5m 26s
Wri/Dir: Elka Kerkhofs
Prod: Karen Maxwell
What if you live your whole life in one day and
that day is today?’ Celina confronts this question, as she relives past
lives in which she and her lover Olisa shared a forbidden love in the midst
of a hostile world.
Programme Running Time: approx 110min
See & support our local film-makers
alongside the best in the world at Flickerfest on the Australia Day weekend,
in the 2nd Annual BAS Short Film Comp.
The screening will be held at the Bangalow
A&i Hall in conjunction with the Flickerfest screenings, 23rd January,
Door: 4.30pm - Films: 5pm, $8/5 concession
We are very happy to have received nearly
60 films in our 2nd year, with filmmakers having just over 4 weeks opportunity
to enter; we have some great entries competing for nearly $5000 in prizes,
which includes in the Country Energy Best Short Film jury prize of
cash, Avid software, a Gaia Retreat & Spa Package, Dinner for 2 at
Utopia, Flickerfest Distribution Bureau consultation & Screenworks
membership and the Audience award voted by those in attendance consisting
of Gorilla software, Gaia Retreat & Spa packages & door prize,
Dinner for 2 at Fresca, Bangalow Chamber of Commerce cash prize, Flickerfest
Distribution Bureau consultation & Screenworks membership.
It is a sign of recognition to have Country
Energy as a partner for Byron All Shorts, and we look forward to the spark
& power they can bring to this special Short Film competition dedicated
to the Northern Rivers.
BYRON ALL SHORTS 2010 - Award Winners
Jury Award - Country Energy
Best Short Film goes to:
'The Redemption Of Joe Frame'
- Wri/Dir/CoProd: Ly de Angeles
Jury Award - Highly Commended
Short Film goes to:
'Bob McTavish-A Life In
Shape' - Wri/Dir: Kane Bloomfield
Audience Award - Best Short
Film goes to:
'The Dreaming Man' - Wri/Dir/Prod:
Amber Wright
Audience Award - 2nd by 1
vote goes to:
'The Redemption Of Joe Frame'
- ri/Dir/CoProd: Ly de Angeles
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