2020
HEARTBREAKINS
(Qld 6.56)
Dir, Script & Prod – Zack van Prooije
Cast – Rejen Laine & Jeffery Bryant Jones.
Synopsis – An elderly man mistakes the burglar in his home for a removalist, and insists on helping with the heavy lifting.
BURGER BUDDIES
(US 9.21)
Dir, Script & Prod – Avery Christmas
Cast – Paul Bugallo, Angel Gonzales & Jen O’Brien ..
Synopsis – Two best friends are torn apart because of one’s prejudice of the others burger preference – can their friendship be saved?
THE TEST
(US 3.14)
Dir, Script & Prod – Rani Deighe Crowe
Cast – JR Peirce & Sonja Mata
Synopsis – A Guy finds a way to get the answers he needs for a test.
GOING UP
(Canada 12.06)
Dir, Script & Prod – Forman Howes
Cast – Rahial Kepinski, Logan Fenske & Lillian Doucet-Roche
Synopsis – The over-talkative and anxious Finn joins the hit-man, who is coming to kill him, on a ride to the sixth floor in the world’s slowest elevator.
THE LOVERS
(NSW 6.54)
Dir & co Script: Gareth Tilson
Prod & co Script: Lena Sandberg
Cast: Jason Stewart & Lena Sandberg
Synopsis: Elizabeth is at a cross-roads. Some heavy decisions are weighing on her, so she decides to consult a Tarot Reader. The answers she receives are more than she bargained for!
RAMSEY
(South Africa 11.00)
Dir, Script – Howard James Fyvie
Prods – Simon van Wyk, Luke Walton & Howard James Fyvie
Cast – Luke Waldron, Simon van Wyk, Luke Walton & Howard James Fyvie …
Synopsis – A funny sheep destined for greatness moves to the big city to become a comedian.
TRAGICALLY DEAF
(SA 2.22)
Dir – Maxx Corkindale
Script – Dave Wade & Paul Vagnarelli
Prods – Paul Vagnarelli & Maxx Corkindale
Cast – Paul Vagnarelli …
Synopsis – Paul is having a great day. He has a loving family, good job, and enjoys life to the fullest. It’s a pity that a documentary crew following him doesn’t seem to see that…
ACCIDENT
(Holland 6.40)
Dir – David Cocheret
Script – Paul de Vrijer
Producers – Styse Kuilman, Friso de Ronden
Cast – Anne van der Burg & Chiem Vreeken
Synopsis – Accidents escalate and pile up when a bickering young couple finds themselves within their wrecked car.
A LOW BUDGET FILM
(Brazil 13.00)
Dir & Script: Paulo Leiere
Cast: Marcello Airoldi, Ana Paula Dias, Lecio Rabello, Daniel Dottoi …
Synopsis – A film made for the scientists from the ‘Brazilian Institute of Alternative and Secondary Important Research’ to fight the lack of funding, the closure of the Institute and to keep their dreams alive.
FIRST DATE
(US 3.30)
Dir & Script– Shannon Plumb
Synopsis – What does modern love look like? In this 3 minute short Plumb explores the mixing of modern technology with silent film. Using texts as subtitles she also delves into the silent world of modern love where young people talk through their smart phones rather than to each other; rather than flirt with their eyes, they flirt with their texts. Rather than smiling they use an emoji to smile for them. The First Date is a silent one.
PLEDGE IT
(US 13.13)
Dir & Script – Rachael Sonnenberg
Prod – Sarah Levi Cast -Tatum Millet, Jani Danas, DJ Jaglois …
Synopsis –Public school children around the country say the pledge of allegiance every day, but for the second graders at Reileigh elementary allegiance was not such an easy sell. A filmmaker explores the comical chain of events that left classroom 3 C in utter ruin, turning morning meeting into morning anarchy.
GO FOR ALAYNA
(UK 15.00)
Dir – Madeleine Quarm
Script – Anna Castelaz
Prods – Arianne Smith & Anna Castelaz
Cast – Muki Zubis, Katrina Kleve …
Synopsis – When the lead actress on the set of a Basic Instinct reboot halts the production with a feminist protest, 3rd assistant director Alayna Preston must stop her, or lose a chance to make her own film.
CASH STASH
(France 14.59)
Dir & Script – Martin Darondeau & Enya Baroux
Prods – Nathalie Algazi, Marie Sonne-Jensen & Francois Drouot
Cast – Caterine Allegret, Husky Kihal, Phillippe Berodot, Phillippe du Janerand…
Synopsis – Jacques, 58, has had a stroke. When he wakes up at the hospital, two men claim, to be his long-time friends, to have robbed a tobacco bar with him, and, to be there to recover their share of the loot. According to them, Jacques is the only one who knows where the money is. However, Jacques does not remember anything. Is Jacques bluffing? Are these two men really his friends?
GAME NIGHT
(NSW 8.23)
Dir: Penelope Berkemeier
Script: Christopher Attrill Prods: Gita Irwin, Raphael Stephens & Alana Hicks
Cast: Jorja Gillis, Christopher Attrill, Cooper George Amai, Debbie Zukerman, Raphael Stephens & Alana Hicks.
Synopsis: Barbs are traded, relationships are tested, plastic pieces are thrown as three couples watch their game descend into farce. Hosts Martha and Gary are determined to host a fun games night for two other couples; the ubber-bubbly Olive and Steve and the fractious Matt and Jess as a way of staying calm in the bomb shelter while they wait for the apocalypse to pass.