What to expect
Over The Fence screens the bold-est, wild-est and most extraordinary range of Australian short comedy films.

OTF
Audience's Comments 2006 and Very Best of...

Every screening we give the audience an opportunity vote and to comment on the Festival.

Here is some of their feedback from around Australia: (by age, gender and venue)

  • It was great to watch (15 f)
  • Great selection - worked well with the local film. A real event. (Mansfield 34 m)
  • Thanks for helping the Mansfield kids to make Bling! (Mansfield 45 f)
    These are some of the greatest short films I have seen. (Mansfield 43 m)
  • A great laugh. I had fun (Mansfield 15 f)
  • Awesome very funny (Mansfield 15 f)
  • Some really good ideas, possibilities. The view points were hard to grab on some. Hilarious. (Port Hedland m 20)
  • I loved all of them A Lot!! (Port Hedland f16)
  • Entertaining (Port Hedland f56)
  • Where was the humour? More depressing than anything. Going home to OD on Pills. (Port Hedland f28)
  • A lot missed the mark, depressing. Maybe the films got mixed up with a serious film festival. (Port Hedland m26)
  • Powerfully subtle, unsettlingly realistic, creative boundaries are bounding toward another realm of OZ funny-funny-ha-has!! (Newman m23)
  • Enjoyed the variety of movies in the collection. (Newman f28)
  • -Offer a couple of showing times to allow more people to see it. (Newman f16)
  • Absolutely great, some brilliant and sometimes “different” humour. Some great Aussie talent and Aussie humour. (Newman m39)
  • F**KEN BRILLIANT (Newman f25)
  • Advertise more widely. Provide alcohol (Newman m19)
  • Bloody great! (Newman f23)
  • WOW! This was so funny! I love the poetry ones and it was so hard to choose a favorite, the ‘ipatch ad‘ was HILARIOUS. (Tom Price f15)
  • Not funny Jan!! (Tom Pricef28)
  • Better publicity in Tom Price. (Tom Price f24)
  • Very Funny (Tom Price m47)
  • Advertise more I heard nothing until I saw a sign today! LOVED IT! (Tom Price f15)
  • It was really good. It was very entertaining (Parburdoo f15)
  • Loved it! Thank you very much for coming. (Parburdoo f34)
  • There was so many Good ones, enjoyable (Parburdoo m54)
  • It was good but need more films. (Parburdoo f15)
  • Need broader advertising. (Parburdoo f53)
  • More advertising in town& further in advance. Too many alternative films. (Parburdoo m31)
  • What a wonderful event. Would love to see more. Love this venue very much (56 f Piccadilly)
  • Fascinating, Funny and Bizarre. LOVED IT! Thanks (40 f Piccadilly)
  • Some Brillian ideas, great acting. (24 m Piccadilly)
  • Great laugh & some sad. Enjoyed immensley (29 Piccadilly)  
  • Very funny, sad, moving, Bizarre! (19 f Piccadilly)
  • Loved the Festival! (20 f Moonlight Perth)
  • It was cool (34 m Moonlight Perth)
  • 1/ good message, smooth 2/ Aussie Humour 3/ Political (30 f Moonlight Perth)
  • All's supa cool (27 f Moonlight Perth)
  • Rock hard was great all the way thru, good scenery and funnyn story (20 m Moonlight Perth)I like to sleep like a maniac sometimes, so going "menerk" makes a lot of sense. (30 f Moonlight Perth)
  • V good. Will definitely be back next year. (28 m Canberra)
  • The ads were fantastic. Very good and enjoyable. Very good
  •      program. Well done! 943 f Canberra)
  • More films! (Easier said than done I know) (27 m Canberra)
  • WooHoo! I loved it. (25 m Canberra)
  • Excellent films. Great Talent. (54 f Canberra)
  • It was good to see the quality and the sort of films that go into a festival like this one. I think it would be good to enter a film myself. (17 m Canberra)
  • A great idea we enjoyed it. (34 f Casino)
  • Aussie films are safe in these people’s hands. (47 m Casino)
  • A pleasure to watch the ads!!! Great movies – hard to pick 3 only.
  •     (50 f Casino)
  • Very entertaining & unique films. Have not seen many short film festivals before – it was an “Adventure’! (41 f Melbourne)
  • Some more indie films – lower budgets. Great night out, great service. (27 m Melbourne)
  • Excellent! Really enjoyable. (33 f Melbourne)
  • Well done!! Was original + fabulous. (24 f Melbourne)
  • Sincerely congratulations. (54 m Melbourne)

Great laugh & some sad