Eat Our Shorts Running Order
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TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY |
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9.00-9.45 |
Registration/Coffee (Delegate Centre) |
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9.45-10.00 |
Introduction (NFT1) |
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10.00-11.15 |
PROGRAMME 1 |
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Central St Martins College of Art & Design |
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London College of Communications |
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London Film Academy |
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11.15-11.45 |
Programme 1 Discussion (John Roberts) |
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12.00-13.00 |
Lunch |
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13.00-14.15 |
PROGRAMME 2 |
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Goldsmiths College |
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University College for the Creative Arts Maidstone |
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Brighton Film School |
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Staffordshire University |
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14.15-14.45 |
Programme 2 Discussion (Larry Sider) |
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14.45-15.15 |
Break |
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15.15-16.30 |
PROGRAMME 3 |
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University of Westminster |
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University of the West of England |
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University of Glamorgan |
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16.30-17.00 |
Programme 3 Discussion (Antony Thomas) |
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17.30-23.00 |
Reception drinks (Benugo Bar) |
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WEDNESDAY 18 FEBRUARY |
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9.00-10.15 |
PROGRAMME 4 |
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London Film School |
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Royal College of Art |
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National Film & Television School |
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10.15-10.45 |
Programme 4 Discussion (Nikki Parrot) |
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10.45-11.15 |
Break |
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11.15-12.30 |
PROGRAMME 5 |
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University of Bedfordshire |
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University for the Creative Arts Farnham |
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London Metropolitan University |
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12.30-13.00 |
Programme 5 Discussion (Paul Watson) |
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13.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
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14.00-15.15 |
PROGRAMME 6 |
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Leeds Metropolitan University - Northern Film School |
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Canterbury Christ Church University |
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Napier University - Screen Academy Scotland |
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15.15-15.45 |
Programme 6 Discussion (Nik Powell) |
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15.45-16.00 |
Break |
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16.00-17.00 |
Industry Seminar
Breaking into Film and Television
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17.30-24.00 |
Party (Delegate Centre) |
18.00-19.30 |
NAHEMI AGM tbc (Green Room) |
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TOBEY
Writer: Sara Lazzaro
Tobey: Cameron McGarva
Mother: Jackie Haliday
Emily: Lucy Fenton
Vanessa: Gemma Chan
Sandra: Nikki Green
Louise: Nell Kinsky
Harry: Alex Papadakis
Run Time: 15 Minutes
Tobey is a warm, funny Scottish guy who detests his nights packing fish and his days in a depressing council block in East London. He decides to end it all. Stocking up with booze from the local shop-girl and prescription pills from his Mum’s cupboard, he sets out for one last, maybe mind-changing, visit to the three females in his life – his neurotic Australian Mum, his high-climbing sister and his cold-hearted girlfriend. No salvation there. But in the final few moments of his life, fate plays more tricks..
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THE WATCHER
Danny: Christopher Ashman
Becky: Roxanne Stutchbury
Nick: Oliver Gomm
Ralph: Duncan Wigman
Run Time: 8 Minutes
When Danny visits a therapist about his compulsive voyeurism, little does he realise that watching can be revealing and painful - and full of duplicity.
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HEURISTIC CHILD CARE
Director: Adam Carman
Run Time: 4 Minutes 30
A robot attempts to babysit a mischievous young boy with disastrous results.
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LILLY AND ERMINE
Director: Frances Lewtas
Run Time: 3 Minutes 20
An unsure encounter between a small girl and a stoat.
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RUNNING THE LINE
Director: Adeyemi Ogunfadebo
Run Time: 8 Minutes
Pride, togetherness and love, Sodiq dares to dream of a future.
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AKBULAK
Director: Tatiana Korol
Run Time: 11 Minutes 20
Eight years after moving from the Soviet Union to Germany, 17 year old Olga is sent by her parents to spend her holidays with her grandmother in a Russian village bordering Kazakhstan. She is no longer attached to the country where she was born and feels alienated by the strange surroundings and unsophisticated people. However when she meets her childhood friend Sasha she slowly begins to perceive the experience from another perspective.
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RULE 2
Director: Joost Zoetebier
Producer: Riman Abuosba
Writer: George Gannon
1st AD: Paul Backhouse
2nd AD: Marina Ferreira, Jonny O’Donnell
DOP: Claudio Napoli
Camera operator: Esra Ozcelik
Run Time: 8 Minutes 50
Connection lost.
A young British soldier comes to terms with the impact of the war in the Middle East on himself and his family.
Dave is a young British soldier who is
sent to war in the Middle East. Using a webcam he is able to stay in touch with his mum and his girlfriend. The grim imagery of his new reality slowly consumes him, leading to a growing gap with his family and somber insights.
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TICKLED PINK
Director: John Paul Lancaster
Writer: Caroline Luna
Producer: Lubov Podgornaya
1st AD: Jamie Stanton
2nd AD: Maddie Duggan
DOP: Gary Scullion
Run Time: 9 Minutes
Laugh? I almost wet myself
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EYES ON THE PRIZE
Director: Omar Robert Hamilton
Producer: Carolina Luna
Writer: John Paul Lancaster
1st AD: David Mahoney
DOP: Santosh Kapse
Run Time: 7 Minutes 20
Saddle up for the funfair
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UNDEAD UNION: THE MAKING OF…
Director: Jamie Stanton
Producer: David Mahoney
Writer: Gary Scullion, Jamie Stanton
1st AD: Carolina Luna
2nd AD: Maddie Duggan
DOP: John Paul Lancaster
Some films are better left undead.
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COMING BACK
Director: Fyzal Boulifa
Producer: Mercy Liao
Run Time: 13 Minutes
Coming Back is a story about the uncertainty and fragility of adolescent identity, as it unravels in a relationship between Steve and Jake, two teen lovers.
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HOUSE OF GEISHA
Reo Shikada
Run Time: 3 Minutes
A music video for an imaginary Japanese pop group. The lyrics are about a girl who fantasizes about falling in love with Morrissey of the Smiths. The visuals complement the psychedelic sound of House of Geisha’s music.
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THE UPPER HAND
Writer: Dan Simpson
Run Time: 3 Minutes
Nake and Bale are two overly competitive friends. One morning Nake decides to make a sandwich, Bale copies him and feels compelled to add an extra layer of ingredients. A fierce rivalry commences over who can make the best sandwich.
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METAMORPHOSIS
Laura Fernandez Alvarez
Run Time: 5 Minutes
Metamorphosis is a work about self-transformation; how our mind sets the boundaries and then attempts to escape them. It investigates fear and self-doubt through the duality of a physical and mental inside and outside.
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THE KISS OF THE SUN
Director: Albert Trivino
Camera: Andy Edwards
Music: Victor Horvath/Mayumi Okano
Art Direction: Victor Horvath/Mayumi Okano/Fumitaka Mishima
Starring: Niki Stylianou
Run Time: 3 Minutes 10
The film was shot on super 8 (with in camera edits only) and transferred onto DVD. This was submitted to the Straight 8 festival and screened in London.
The film questions notions of narrative expectation and voyeurism.
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SET RACK 'N' ROLL
Director / Sound: Biancha Laukkanen
Tech / Creative Assistance- Suellen Cole
Run Time: 3 Minutes 20
The film was shot on super 8 (with in camera edits only) and transferred onto DVD. This was submitted to the Straight 8 festival and screened in London.
This film documents a hair salon.
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3 REC
Director: Nina Mosand
Camera: Matt Harvey
Story Bord / Actress: Dejonie Langellier
Run Time: 3 Minutes 10
The film was shot on super 8 (with in camera edits only) and transferred onto DVD. This was submitted to the Straight 8 festival and not screened in London. The festival organizers sent a long explanation as to why they felt they could not screen it.
The film’s exploration of racism, sexuality and horror aims to subvert the norms of standard Hollywood representations of such issues.
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WHO CARES
Director: Simon Bennett-Leyh
DP: George French
Editor & Special FX: Dan Rickard
Run Time: 10 Minutes 45
An elderly man enjoying his retirement pleasures of drinking, smoking and betting on the horses gets a letter from Social Services informing him that he is going to get a Home Help, and gets more than he bargained for.
Shot on S35mm Mitchell BNCR entirely in studio and using Green Screen for dream sequence and BG on open door shots.
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RED LETTER
Writer/Director: Edilberto Restino
Producer: Christianne van Wijk
Editor & Special FX: Daniel Rickard
DP: Edilberto Restino
Run Time: 10 Minutes
Shot entirely on location (Lewes becomes Paris 1940) using 2 Perf 35mm Caméflex giving 2.35 non-anamorphic.
The French resistance plan an assassination attempt on Hitler...
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POTATOES
Director: Dan Fryer
Director / Producer: Sami Goddard
Editing & Costume Design: Natalie Kirton
Set Design: Ilja Cernov
Run Time: 2 Minutes 30
Shot entirely in studio on a DSLR (Canon EOS 5D) producing 4k and cut on Avid.
Originally conceived as a spoof commercial for "Smash" this animation took a slightly different turn...
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A.T.M
Director & Editor: Dan Parkes
DP: Iain Gaffney
Asst Director & Lead Actress: Francesca Contento
Special FX: Oliver Moxley
Run Time: 2 Minutes
Shot on location and in studio on miniDV. Students were given a project which had to include 4 objects, viz: Money, a Gun, a Ball and a Coathanger. Their fertile imagination produced A.T.M..
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NOW SHOWING
Director: Thomas Evans
Writer: Stuart Readfern
Producers: George Downs, Stuart Readfern, Thomas Evans
Run Time: 5 Minutes 50
A reclusive cinema projectionist is having some trouble expressing his feelings for his fellow employee.
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MARKED
Producer/Director: Joy Ahmed
Run Time: 10 Minutes
A documentary examining the stereotyping, long term effects of knife crime in inner London.
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TROUBLE UNDER MY SKIN
Director: Robert Harper
Writer: Martin Clement
Producer: Janika Oberg
Director of Photography: Tomohiro Ichikawa
Editor: Ines Von Bonhorst
Run Time: 15 Minutes
A tense and dramatic short fiction film, written by Martin Clement and directed by Rob Harper.
William thought he had it all worked out. But when he is faced with the loss of everything he loves and holds dear, his emotional trauma is mirrored by a physical wound which threatens to engulf him and destroy his family.
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CHEQUERED FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
Director: Arni Magnusson
Producers: Marie Hession & Cey Sesiguzel
Camera: Laurens Scott
Editor: Marc Richardson
Run Time: 14 Minutes
This humorous and revealing documentary, directed by Arni Magnusson, charts the relationship between a father and his young son. Four times European Drag Racing Champion Andy Carter is determined that his son Albert will go one better and become a motor racing world champion, but it soon emerges that Albert is equally strong willed…
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MEE AND MY DAD
Director / Producer: Lorne Kramer
Associate Producer: Helen Bentley
Cinematographer: Becky Bell
Run Time: 27 Minutes
Lorne's sixty year old dad has decided to marry a twenty seven year old thai woman called Mee. This is the story of what happened when he went out to Thailand to ask his dad a few questions about the changing nature of their relationship.
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SYMBIOTICA
Film Maker: Jill Sutherland
Run Time: 9 Minutes 40
This is a visual journey that seeks the extraordinary in the everyday. It is an exploration of the relationships between humankind and nature, and the beauty and devastation in human creation.
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CHEYNE STOKING
Darren Darko
Run Time: 7 Minutes
A dark surreal reverie on the consequences of alcohol abuse in which David Evans is taken on a journey of repressed guilt and depression.
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THE LOBSTER TRAP
Writer / Director / Actor:
Henry Darke
DOP: Aaron Reid
Camera Operator: Sam Wyndham
Editor: Sahil Gill
Run Time: 11 Minutes
A young man, Wesley, finds escape from his difficult life by going to sea for a day on a lobster boat.
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ALL DAY BREAKFAST
Writer / Director: Julian Kerridge
DOP: Christopher Stones
Camera Operator: Ewan Mulligan
Editor: Jonathan Entwistle
Run Time: 12 Minutes 20
Nineteen, washed up and pissed off, Daryl is going nowhere fast. His "not quite" girlfriend wants to get on Coronation Street! His mother does his head in and there's the boat! That big, daft, stuck boat........
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FLOWERPOTS
Director & Animator: Rafael Sommerhalder
Run Time: 5 Minutes
A short film about flowerpots and the power of human habits.
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FAR ENOUGH
Director & Animator: Veselina Dashinova
Run Time: 4 Minutes 10
One day I saw myself watching myself.
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THE SNOW GLOBE
Director & Animator: Jons Mellgren
Run Time: 3 Minutes 15
A middle aged pig is digging up a novelty snow globe. He buried it 30 years ago, when he was just a kid. A lot has happened since then. As he walks around the area where he grew up, his childhood memories are coming back to him.
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THE PRISON SHIP
Director & Animator: Russell Etheridge
Run Time: 4 Minutes 20
The behemoth of a ship is their world, a dark cannibalistic entity which controls their only destination. What hope is there for a prisoner aboard such a container?
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RED
Director & Animator: Comfort Arthur
Run Time: 3 Minutes 20
The animation is an autobiographical account of my childhood in which I reflect upon my childhood memories of growing up with my father until he left. The film is hand drawn animation with limited use of colours.
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LOOKING OUT
Director & Animator: Nikita Diakur
Run Time: 2 Minutes 30
Based on Franz Kafka's parable "Zerstreutes Hinausschaun", the film is a personal view on a sequence of open moments.
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CITYSCAPES
Director & Animator: Seong Jun Lee
Run Time: 2 Minutes 20
An animation based on a series of drawings which were made without looking at the paper in streets of London.
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OUTCASTS
Director: Ian Clark
Writers: Simon Brooke, Ian Clark & Megan Stuart Wallace
Run Time: 25 Minutes
A girl in love, a pop star in peril and a gang on the run… Somebody’s going to get burned.
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DENG IN BEIJING
A film made by :
Jingsi Li, Shumeng Dai, Jie Li and Yingshi Du.
Run Time: 25 Minutes
Ms Deng has worked in Beijing with her husband since 2000. Before, both of them were farmers living in the countryside. They want to earn more money in the big city to improve their quality of life. They have to face many difficulties such as poor living conditions, leaving their child behind and supporting an extended family.
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YELLOW
Lawrence Simpson
Run Time: 3 Minutes
Part of a series exploring the emotional symbolism of colours.
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ONE NICE PHOTO
Tom Senior
Run Time: 3 Minutes 50
My family rarely get together, so when it happens we always take a photo. As if dinner with nine people and the dog isn't memorable enough.
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BLACK GRAPES OF THE CHEST
Yui Hamagashita
Run Time: 2 Minutes
An experimental animation exploring the transience of human experience.
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OTHER CINEMA
Mark Turnock
Run Time: 2 Minutes 30
Silence speaks louder than words.
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ISLAND TO ISLA
Director: Jem Garrard
Producer: Tom Birmingham
Writer: Phil Lewis
Cinemtography: Billy Campbell
Production Design: Hannah Jinman
Sound: Gregory Boyle
Editor: David Trevail
Run Time: 12 Minutes 50
Postman Alasdair rows to the mainland everyday in order to collect letters for his Island and meet with Isla, the postwoman. One day he receives a letter announcing his redundancy. Only then does he realise what is important to him.
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FOR A FISTFUL OF POUNDS
Director: Ivan Roman Orgaz
Script: Ivan Roman Orgaz & Anthony Cannon
Camera: Manuel Lahuerta Boada
Editor: Ivan Roman Orgaz
Narrator: Richard Cryan
Run Time: 5 Minutes 45
What do you do when you let your friend down over twenty quid and he ends up a homeless tramp?
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REPTON BOXING CLUB
Director: Tom Williams
Producers: Thomas Penders & Asim Choudry
Camera & Editing: Tom Williams
Run Time: 4 Minutes 25
A short documentary portrait of a venerable Bethnal Green institution that has been positively changing young peoples’ lives for many years.
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WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?
Writer / Director / Editor: Sanja Mihaylovic
Run Time: 6 Minutes 40
An affectionate portrait of the film maker’s best friend who got sentenced to five years’ probation.
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HOUSEMATE
Writer / Producer / Director : Nicholas Behan
DoP: Fabio Dominquez
Sound: Alan Liang, John Evans & Khalil Reda
Editor: Momoko Abe
Run Time: 9 Minutes
Student nerds Tom (Joncie Elmore) and Steve (Stephen Quigley) want to meet women…badly. When a room in their digs becomes available they’re determined to kick-start their social life by finding the housemate of their dreams.
Have they got more than they bargained for when beautiful Amy (Lara Marsden) knocks at their door?
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MY BROTHER STEVEN
Director/Producer/DOP/Editor: Alex Childs
Run Time: 17 Minutes
On the whole Steven, aged 7, is a normal young boy who enjoys everything a boy his age would. He likes to play with his friends, enjoys school and is already a fanatical supporter of Sunderland AFC. However, sometimes he reacts differently to things that other children his age have little or no difficulty with - Steven is autistic.
Premiered at Leeds International Film Festival, Nov 2008
Nominated for Yorkshire Short Film Competition
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TALE OF TEETH
Director: James Marks
Producer: Layla Charlton
Writer: Christopher Sutcliffe
DOP: Long Tran
Editor: Kate Broughton
Run Time: 10 Minutes
The Tooth Fairy is in BIG trouble. He owes Santa money with three days to pay. With the deadline approaching, he is bullied into robbing the children of their teeth…directly from their tiny mouths. Can a chance encounter with eight year old Annabelle, make him change his mind or will she be waking up with more than just a coin under her pillow!
Premiered at Leeds International Film Festival, Nov 2008
Nominated for Yorkshire Short Film Competition
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for more information on this course please contact Natasha Kidd |
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Wrecked
Director: Alex Gardener
Producer: Ellen Homer
Run Time: 5 Minutes
Wrecked is a film that explores memory, loss and release. A car has crashed, a young girl waits, scrap yard workers observe, voices echo. Time passes...
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Everything is Okay!
Directed / Produced: Ben Rowley
Run time: 16 Minutes
Everything is okay explores the simultaneous narratives of three women, a man in a van and a bassoon. At times capricious and transcendental, the film explores the move from innocence to experience.
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THE PROBLEM WITH PETS
Director: Catriona Craig
Producer: Susan Wright
Writer: Frances O'Neill
Run Time: 13 Minutes
Monica is kingpin in her picture perfect world until Dr Dick, her mum's new friend, comes to stay for one disaster filled weekend. As Monica’s pets, Speedy the tortoise, Kevin the budgie and Brian Rabbit meet untimely and dramatic ends, Monica becomes convinced that Dr Dick is responsible. She recreates the crime scenes and decides that the only way to keep the other pets alive is to get rid of him.
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6:05 PM
Writer/Director: Chico Pereira (aka Arturo Delgado)
Run Time: 6 Minutes 50
After his day at work, Edward comes back home to find out that his family didn't wait for him at the dinner table.
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LEAVES (FEATURE TRAILER)
Director: Ian Waugh
Writers: Chris Dennis and Ian Waugh
Run Time: 3 Minutes
LEAVES is a disorientating psychological drama exploring the uncertainty of identity and perception. Arriving at an isolated farmhouse for a weekend holiday, David and Leah hope to fix their breaking relationship, but instead isolation in nature pushes them further apart.
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