Flickerfest - Australia’s premier international short film festival
venues: The J, Nambour Civic Centre
date: 19th February 2010
time: 6.30pm bar for 7.30 pm start
price: $12 / $10 plus $3 BF
running time: approx 2 hours, incl intermission
age group: 15+, licensed event, all under 18s must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian
FLICKERFEST 2010 - 19th International Short Film Festival
Flickerfest returns to the J in Noosa by popular demand and visits Nambour Civic Centre for the first time on Friday 19 Feb 2010. The ‘Best of Australian Shorts’ has been specially curated for the National Tour from the 5 Australian programmes of films in competition in Bondi and these 9 Films with a total running time of 112 minutes really are the best!
Flickerfest will screen a selection of multi-award winning program of the Best Of Australian Shorts, including the 2 award winning shorts:.
Australia’s only Academy® Award accredited Short Film festival, with a record 1600 entries and 23 touring venues nationally. Flickerfest screens the most creative and inspirational shorts films from across the globe, many are Australian and World premieres. This not to be missed showcase of award winning Australian shorts includes the recent Australian Film Industry-AFI Award winners, The Cat Piano (AFI Award Best Animation) and Miracle Fish (AFI Award Best Film & Best Script).
After the ten day Sydney competition & festival, Flickerfest packs its little red suitcase and rolls out the show for the 23 venue National Tour! The films on the tour are the pick of the crop - all united by their excellence within the short film genre and represent the freshest trends in global cinema! Home delivered!
“We are thrilled with the response this year and have been overwhelmed with a record of over 1600 entries received from around the globe, Flickerfest continues to attract the latest in cutting edge and award-winning shorts from the world’s most exciting new filmmakers”, said Festival Director, Bronwyn Kidd. “This guarantees that the festival presents our Australian audiences with a short film competition amongst the best in the world.”
Total Running Time: 112 mins
Session Rating: M15+
Show Date: 19 Feb 2010
Best Of Australian Shorts (National Tour)
ZERO
Running Time: 13min
Year: 2009
Format: Video
Country: Australia
Synopsis:
In a world that judges people by their number ZERO faces constant prejudice and persecution. He walks a lonely path until a chance encounter changes his life forever: he meets a female zero. Together they prove that through determination courage and love... nothing can be truly something.
Director: Christopher Kezelos
Writer: Christopher Kezelos
Producer: Christine Kezelos
Awards: Winner Gold Award - Australian Cinematography Society 2009
Australian Premiere
RALPH
Running Time: 10min
Year: 2009
Format: Video
Country: Australia
Synopsis:
For Maddie it will take more than just dreaming about the Karate Kid to survive school, it will take a friend.
Director: Deborah Mailman
Writer: Deborah Mailman / Wayne Blair
Producer: Jessie Mangum
Festivals: Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival 2009
Awards: Best Short Film - IF Awards 2009
BOXER
Running Time: 12min
Year: 2008
Format: Video
Country: Australia
Synopsis:
With the speed and grace of a middle-aged man Gary navigates his golf buggy through a giant warehouse only to encounter a defiantly misplaced box. Gary’s desire to organise and neatly shelve the box leads him to discover that there is something in the box... and it’s alive.
Director: Michael Latham
Writer: Michael Latham
Producer: Lester Francois
Festivals: Accelerator Program - Melbourne Film Festival 2009
Awards: Nominated Best Short Film Dendy Awards - Sydney Film Festival 2009
MIRACLE FISH
Running Time: 18min
Year: 2009
Format: 35mm
Country: Australia
Synopsis:
8 year old Joe has a Birthday he will never forget. After friends tease him he sneaks off to the sick bay wishing everyone in the world would go away. He wakes up to find his dream may have become a reality.
Director: Luke Doolan
Writer: Luke Doolan
Producer: Drew Bailey
Festivals: Sundance Film Festival 2009
Awards: Winner Youth Jury Prize, LA Award - Aspen International Film Festival 2009; Dendy Award for Best Live Action Short 2009; Craft Award + SBS Television Award - St Kilda Film Festival 2009
CELESTIAL AVENUE
Running Time: 20min
Year: 2009
Format: Video
Country: Australia
Synopsis:
Kath has been looking for love in all the wrong places. Then she finds herself in Chinatown. In the middle of a less than successful blind date she overhears the soulful Cantonese singing of kitchen-hand Ah Gong. Kath is intrigued. But is there more to Ah Gong than meets the eye? Celestial Avenue is an offbeat tale, part karaoke video part cross-cultural comedy about love personal reinvention and a startled pigeon.
Director: Colin & Cameron Cairnes
Writer: Colin & Cameron Cairnes
Producer: Scott Alexander
Awards: Talent Assist Award - SPAA 2009; Grand Prize - Rhode Island International Film Festival
Australian Premiere
THE NOT-SO-GREAT EUGENE GREEN
Running Time: 13min
Year: 2009
Format: Video
Country: Australia
Synopsis:
Eugene Green is a strange elderly man with a simple dream: to entertain his world through the art of vocal sound effects. Unfortunately he has an annoyingly small repertoire.
Director: Michael Hill
Writer: Michael Hill / Jamie Messenga
Producer: Melanie Brunt
Festivals: Sydney Film Festival 2009; Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2009
Awards: Nominated for Best Animation Short - AFI Awards 2009
CROSSROAD
Running Time: 8min
Year: 2008
Format: Video
Country: Australia
Synopsis:
A nobody becomes a local hero when he rescues two kids from a car wreck.
Director: Maziar Lahooti
Writer: Michael Hoath
Producer: Maziar Lahooti
Festivals: Western Australian Screen Awards
TWO MEN
Running Time: 4min
Year: 2009
Format: Video
Country: Australia
Synopsis:
One man sees another man running towards him and ponders his motives.
Director: Dominic Allen
Writer: Dominic Allen
Producer: Dominic Allen
Awards: Australian Dendy Short Film Finalist 2009; Best Shorts Winner - MIFF 2009
FRANSWA SHARL
Running Time: 14min
Year: 2009
Format: 35mm
Country: Australia
Synopsis:
Twelve year old Greg has inherited his father’s competitive streak. On a family holiday to Fiji they have different ideas about where Greg should focus his talents. When his creative pursuits fail to amuse his father Greg sets out to win him back. Based on a true story.
Director: Hannah Hilliard
Writer: Greg Logan / Hannah Hilliard
Producer: Linda Micsko
World Premiere
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