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FLiCKERFEST 2012 & BYRON ALL SHORTS 2012

FLiCKERFEST 2012 prestented by ING DIRECT
21st International Short Film Festival
Australia's only Academy®Accredited, & BAFTA recognised short film festival

20th - 22nd  January 2012 - A&i Hall, Bangalow
International 1 on Friday night
(with Opening Party pre-screening drinks/nibbles & music by Renee Searles - starts 7.30pm)
International 2 on Saturday night
Best Of Australian Shorts on Sunday night

Doors: 7.30pm each night - Films start: 8.30pm
Running Time: (approx 100min each) MA15+


Prices:
Friday: $20/17 conc includes Opening Night Party with Jameson whiskey, Coopers beer, Rosnay organic wine & Phoenix drinks
Sat or Sun: $15/12 conc (each night)
Festival Pass: $40/35 conc

“Bite Size Chunks Of Great Cinema”
Celebrating 21 years of short film excellence Flickerfest Australia’s leading short film festival will return to the Byron region for its 14th year in 2012 hosted by local organisers IQ Arts & Eco Centre, presenting another award winning programme of the best of Australia’s and the worlds short films, all screening at Bangalow A&I Hall from the 20th-22nd January. Flickerfest remains Australia’s only Academy®Accredited and BAFTA recognised short film festival ensuring that we continue to present a A-list class short film competition recognised amongst the best in the world.

A record 2200 entries were received for Flickerfest 2012, and a selection of the top 100 shorts were selected in official competition, all handpicked to represent the most innovative, creative and cutting edge short films being produced in the world today. This impressive and unprecedented number of contenders from all round the world confirms FLICKERFEST’s reputation as Australia’s largest and most respected short film competition.

Byron Shire is the first stop on our 37 venue National tour where we will be screening an entertaining, inspiring and award winning range of highlights many of which are world or Australian premieres, giving local Flickerfest audiences the first look at the hottest short films in the world today. For many films, the FLICKERFEST festival will serve as their world and/or Australian premiere whilst other films have already taken home some seriously prestigious prizes - the calibre of this year’s program is undeniable with several films screening at some of the world’s most prominent and revered film festivals including Sundance and Cannes.

International 1 programme highlights include two short films recently shortlisted for the 2012 Academy®Awards, the moving and humorous 'I Could Be Your Grandmother' (view trailer) from France and the intimate and heartfelt drama ‘Raju' (view trailer) from Germany following a couples journey to India to collect their adopted child. Also screening is 'The Palace' a moving political drama set in Cyprus recently awarded the MNC award for Best Australian Short film at Flickerfest 2012.

International 2 programme highlights include ‘Swimsuit 46’ from Belgium, winner of the Special Jury prize at Cannes 2011, Sundance winner ‘Brick Novax’s Diary’; ‘Steve’ from the UK a humorous story of two neighbours starring Colin Firth and Keira Knightly and the hilarious ‘Las Palmas’ from Sweden awarded the SAE Best Digital Production at Flickerfest 2012.

Best Of Australian Shorts programme provides a platform that showcases our amazing Australian filmmaking talents. Highlights include the hilarious ‘Fish & Chips’ a story about a young Pauline Hansen who goes on Chef Of The Universe to cook against Barry, Kim & Vlad, AACTA awarded animation ‘Nullarbor' (view trailer); the moving WA drama ‘Crosshairs’ & 'Cockatoo' a delightful comedy/drama starring Matilda Brown winner of the SMH award for Best Original Australian Screenplay at Flickerfest 2012.

Food & Drinks Available | BYO cushion for plastic chairs supplied (or bring your own special comfy one) | Arrive early for best comfort.

Tickets: Available at the door or,
Barebones Artspace (Bangalow-noBF) | Byron Music (+BF) | All Music and Vision (Ballina, Lismore.+BF)

21st FLiCKERFEST 2012 presented by ING DIRECT
  

Major Partners

Drinks & Food Partners
        


Byron Flickerfest, & Flickerlab are presented with the iQ Arts & Eco Centre, and is a fundraiser for iQ Inc.


FLICKERLAB BYRON BAY WORKSHOP 2012
Sponsored by SAE Institute & Supported by Screenworks

Saturday 21st January 2012
2.30pm-4.30pm
A & I Hall Bangalow (Station St)

Tickets only at the door (there will be plenty of seats available)

Direct from Sydney and our one-day intensive, taking place alongside our Flickerfest presented by ING DIRECT 2012 Byron Tour (20th -22nd Jan 2012 A and I Hall Bangalow), Flickerlab will present the latest trends, tips and skills that you need to develop your creative idea and turn it into a reality and to build a successful and sustainable career in the film industry. Flickerlab Byron will be bringing key industry practitioners to give you the most up to date insight into production and distribution routes for emerging filmmakers. Plug in for this intensive session and experience the knowledge and wisdom of our leading filmmaking experts as they take you on a journey through making your film idea a reality. This is a unique networking opportunity and a first-time chance to improve you knowledge and skills to achieve a successful and sustainable career in the film industry, presented by Australia’s leading short film festival.

Flickerfest is passionate about supporting Australian filmmakers and providing career development initiatives and Flickerlab will now further formalise this commitment assisting Australian short filmmakers to experience the latest industry expertise that will assist them in their craft. Flickerlab Byron will be bringing key industry practitioners to give you the most up to date insight into production and distribution routes for emerging filmmakers.

Panel: Emma Moroney (Supervising Producer from Movie Network Channel), Bronwyn Kidd( Flickerfest Director), Kathleen Drumm (Screen Australia), Nerida Moore (Screen NSW’s Senior Development and Production Executive) and Lisa Shaunessy (Chaotic Pictures)

Emma Moroney, Supervising Producer from Movie Network Channel. Emma is most recently responsible for acquisitions and management across Movie EXTRA Webfest an online competition offering filmmakers the opportunity to produce a 6 part web series in partnership with Screen Australia with 100,000 in investment offered to the winning series.

Bronwyn Kidd, Flickerfest Director, who is also in charge of Flickerfest short film distribution arm representing over 180 short films for sales across all platforms worldwide.

Kathleen Drumm, helms Screen Australia’s diverse marketing activities across theatrical and innovative distribution, business facilitation, professional development, online and offline promotion and screen culture.

Nerida Moore, Screen NSW’s Senior Development and Production Executive, Nerida assesses Development and Production Investment applications for feature film, documentary, television and multi-platform projects. Nerida also manages Slingshot, Screen NSW’s suite of professional development programs. Prior to Screen NSW, Nerida lectured in Media and Communications across production, script writing and screen theory, and worked as a freelance script consultant, script editor and script assessor.

Lisa Shaunessy, Independent producer, she was formerly the Creative Executive at Hugh Jackman’s Seed Productions, with feature credits as development executive that include Deception and X-Men Origins: Wolverine; as well as the television series An Aussie Goes Barmy, Bolly and Calypso for Fox 8. Now Head of Development & Production at Chaotic Pictures, a production company she established in 2009. At Chaotic Pictures, Lisa co-produced John Winter’s feature film, Black White & Sex, and is currently developing several features films and television series’.

Taking place over 2 hours Flickerlab will cover the following areas:
Making It Happen
Behind every film is the producer/s, an elaborate and all consuming role that varies dependent on the focus of the individual. From creative producers, to hands on line producers, to executives- no two producers share the same approach. What they do share is the ability to pursue the macro whilst manage the micro, creative and financial muscle, and inexhaustible energy, drive and commitment to realising the film- they are the first person on, and the last person off. This discussion will follow the processes of development, financing, production and distribution from these producers perspectives, and offer alternative, unique approaches to source funding, as well as innovative new approaches to production in the age of the trans media storyteller.

Market To Market – Conquer The World
Distribution, Festivals and Multi-platform distribution
From Market to Market will provide insightful and practical guidance on routes to getting your film seen and maximising promotion of your film. This will include traditional distribution and festival strategies, as well as the innovative new opportunities and potentials of multi-platform distribution.

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BYRON ALL SHORTS 2012
Northern Rivers Short Film Competition
presented w/

Screening: Sat 21st Jan Films Start: 5.00pm (Doors open - 4.30pm)
Awards: Sun 22nd Jan 8.00pm (Doors open - 7.30pm), just prior to Best Of Australian Shorts
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 $40/35)
Running Time: 105 mins (inc intermission)
Session Rating: MA15+

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 21st January 5pm alongside the Byron Flickerfest 3 day screening's of the best of the worlds short films.

Finalists selected for competition in Byron All Shorts are:

THE DUDE: 40sec
Dir/Wri/Prod: Bibi Bradbury & Jack Cawthorn (Year 11 Mullum High)
A claymation busker






DREAM: 3min
Dir/Wri/Prod: Rhea Morrow (Year 12 Mullum High)
An experimental montage about the concept of a dream






RIDE ON: 5:07min
Dir: O. Buckworth / Prod: Tim Stokes
An integration of music, songwriting, film, animation & dance






WINGS: 13:02min
Dir: Ly de Angeles & Victoria Sullivan / Wri: Ly de Angeles / Prod: Alex Tinley &, Ly de Angeles / DoP: Paul J Warren / Prod Design: Maggie Schreiber / Edit: Stefan van Jaarlsvelt / Sound Design: Tom Armstrong
The angel of death is the most misunderstood of all angels.
He attends sessions with a psychiatrist, seemingly depressed.
While still carrying out his eternal duties of attending death and helping souls with afterlife options he also dabbles in the odd cause of death.
Eventually he presents a radical solution to the psychiatrist: the surgical removal of his wings is the only way, he informs her, that he can have a ‘normal’ life.
In reality he gains great pleasure from his work and the reality is that the psychiatrist is on life support after a car accident and he is simply waiting for her.
The story was always all about her and the angel has been honest from the beginning.

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED: 3min
Dir/Wri/Prod: Richard Atkinson & Daniel Mason
A video of how the revolution will be televised






SAYONARA: 7:20min
Dir/Wri/Prod: Caroline Fisher
Bitter sweet drama depicting a day in a life of a traditional Japanese man






iQ-Flickerfest Jury Award for Best Short Film
THE COTTAGE: 12:44min
Dir: Lorraine Bell / Prod: Rani Willis
A doco highlighting the role of the Fletcher St Cottage plays in the lives of the underprivileged & the broader community





iQ-Flickerfest Special Mention of the Jury
FACE VALUE: 1:54min
Dir/Wri/Prod: Ellie Alford & Colin Mathers
A film about the potential dangers of internet predators





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SEEKERS OF THE SUN: 4:36min
Dir/Wri/Prod: Louise Kahj / Edit: Brendan Shoebridge
Music video clip about coal seam gas mining with actors playing out work scenario






SAE Emerging Talent Award
ZOMBIE TACO: 5:26min
Dir/Wri/Prod: Max Quinn, Callan Brunsdon, Scott Sowter
A music video about the Zombie Taco






TEAHUPOO UNCUT: 9min
Dir/Prod: Simon Saffigna
The biggest, heaviest, scariest surfing session at Teahupoo Hawaii






THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX: 1min
Dir: Stefan van Jaarsveld / Prod: Sai Frame
Think Outside the Box asks the audience to think again about their daily use of packaging, plastics and other non-recyclables. The consequences can be dire - "pay for the product... not for the packaging!"




HEAD FOR THE HILLS: 8:44min
Dir/Wri/Prod: Wendy Andrews
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love, it will not lead you astray” ....a film that embodies THE WORDS OF 13th century sufi poet Rumi'





Essential Energy Audience Award
SHALL WE DANCE- The Tommy Franklin Story: 18:57min
Dir: Kurt Mayes / Prod: Kurt Mayes & Travis Hanley
A doco about Byron Bay’s own “Dancing Man” Tommy Franklin

Films Total Running Time 92:45min

The jury for the Byron All Shorts competition is Emma Moroney (Supervising Producer from Movie Network Channel), Nerida Moore (Screen NSW’s Senior Development and Production Executive), Lisa Shaunessy (Independent producer, she was formerly the Creative Executive at Hugh Jackman’s Seed Productions) & Bronwyn Kidd (Documentary maker and Flickerfest Director)

BYRON ALL SHORTS Film Festival Partners
Cash Prize Partners
&          
Flickerfest & iQ - Jury Award for Best Short Film                Essential Energy - Audience Award for Best Short Film


Creative Media Partner & Emerging Talent Prize Partner

SAE Institute


Industry Prize Partners
            
  Avid Software            Jungle Software          In Your Face    Manage Your Film      Screenworks


Media Partners
                          
         Northern Star                          Byron Shire News                  APN


      Byron Echo             Tweed Echo           Echonetdaily       BayFM 


Restaurant Prize Partner
  
Italian At The Pacific

Byron All Shorts is presented with the iQ Arts & Eco Centre, and is a fundraiser for iQ Inc.
See & support our local film-makers alongside the best in the world.

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an Arakwal, Flickerfest, iQ presentation
4th Annual Arakwal Naidoc Film Screening
'HERE I AM' (M) 91 min
Byron Region Premiere of Brand New Feature Film

Wednesday 6th July, 2011
Door: 6pm / Film: 6.30pm
Byron Community Centre
Tix: $10 full / $8 conc (only @ door)

* Arakwal Welcome To Country
* Intro & Q&A after film w/ Shai Pittman (leading actress)

Refreshments after screening
(event supported by ICC & BSC)

HERE I AM
Wri/Dir: Beck Cole
Prod: Kath Shelper
DoP: Warwick Thornton
Starring: Prof Macia Langton, AM / Shai Pittman

View Trailer at: www.hereiamfilm.com

Synopsis: Karen is a beautiful young woman with a dark past, but she’s got potential and she knows it. Fresh out of prison, she fnds herself on the streets with a burning desire to turn her life around but no one to call for help. Eventually she fnds a haven at a shelter for women like herself. With the support of her new community of friends, Karen begins the journey of reconnecting with her estranged mother and her young daughter, and she is soon propelled to face the most diffcult truths of her life. But she’s determined to never give up. Set and shot in and around Port Adelaide, Here I Am is a moving and hopeful story about the strength and resilience of women.


"HERE I AM" Premiered earlier this year to a standing ovation at the Adelaide Film Festival


Rolling Stone (Ed Gibbs)
Four Stars ****
[Shai] Pittman boasts an undeniable screen presence, with her co-stars uniformly excellent … Some of the scenes in the women’s house are great fun, plus there’s an imaginative, edgy soundtrack … Smart, subtle and engaging.


Shai Pittman (Leading Actress - 'Karen') will be Introducing the film, w/ Q&A after screening:
Shai started her acting career at the age of seven as a featured extra on a run-away bus in an episode of Police Rescue. She’s still got an on-set photo of her with Gary Sweet. In between she has featured as Cathy Freeman’s body double in an Earth Hour commercial, posed as an athlete on the billboards and postage stamps celebrating the Athens Olympics and played a supporting role in an episode of All Saints. Her most significant work is playing opposite Chris Haywood in an AFTRS short film, the celebrated two-hander Fuse in 2005. Shai, a Blacktown girl, is a water baby and loves diving for abalone with her Yuin family and friends on the South Coast of NSW.

Beck Cole – writer & director:
Hope and Forgiveness
For the past five years a character named Karen has lived in my head – she is in her mid" twenties, is a daughter and a mother and has just been released from prison. Yet the film is not about prison and I’ve never wanted it to be. It is a film about a young woman who has made mistakes and is in a very fragile place – on the outside, unwanted, alone and trying in her own way to make the right choices.
Here I Am has been a long journey for me but the reason for wanting to tell this story has always been the same – I strongly wanted to make a film about a family of women on the brink of no return. A family that had suffered loss, grief, anger and resentment but was glued together by love – and in this story love is a child.
I started writing the script soon after I’d had my first daughter. So I was drawn to making a film about mothers and their children. And I also thought that I wanted to deal with some of the difficulties that women have and experience throughout life – particularly women that live an underprivileged sort of life. And I wanted to create a story with a character that showed the difficult side of life but also a journey toward hope and the possibilities of a brighter future.
There are also many reasons why I needed to tell this story: politically I am concerned about the disproportionate number of Aboriginal people incarcerated in our country; personally I continue to consider my own life as an Aboriginal woman and my role as a mother; and creatively I am driven to create interesting roles and characters for Aboriginal women to play in a story that speaks beyond the realms of race and hopefully resonates with us all as people capable and worthy of love and forgiveness.

Kath Shelper – producer:
Humour, Friendship and the Third Wheel
Beck and I have been working together on this film during the past five years – intensively in production for the last year and intermittently developing the script prior to that. Whilst the various permutations of the story have changed over the years, there has always been the central character of Karen as the strong protagonist. Beck’s previous two short dramas (Flat and Plains Empty) have also featured strong female characters in isolation. Without dipping into amateur psychology, it’s not hard to see her fascination with the place of women in the world and I’m sure this is a theme she will continue to pursue.
We share a great friendship as well as a working relationship, both of which have developed over the past seven or so years we have been a team – along with our third wheel Warwick
Thornton (cinematographer, husband, collaborator, drinking partner). Together we have a terrible sense of humour, which often gets us into trouble. Laughing has got us through many trying times and I hope that audiences can appreciate the humour and joy in the film.
To my knowledge, this is the first feature film that has concentrated on urban Aboriginal women in a contemporary setting. Most films that have come before have been about blokes, set in the past or set in the regions. Here I Am is a rare insight into a world of women most people know little about, but which has a universality about it by the fact that they are all just getting on with their lives in the best way that they know how, hoping for a better future. And in some cases getting it.

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