Nick Matthews Nicole Gulasekharam, left, and Briony Kent star in the short film “The Kiss”
If done well, film festival shorts can be the cinematic equivalent of the perfect amuse-bouche or Alice Munro tale. Tiny, flavorful and able to leave you with an impression long after you’ve finished, the ideal short packs a lot into a running time that can be fewer than 15 minutes.
For this year’s Tribeca Film Festival that begins tomorrow evening, programming staff whittled down...
If done well, film festival shorts can be the cinematic equivalent of the perfect amuse-bouche or Alice Munro tale. Tiny, flavorful and able to leave you with an impression long after you’ve finished, the ideal short packs a lot into a running time that can be fewer than 15 minutes.
For this year’s Tribeca Film Festival that begins tomorrow evening, programming staff whittled down...
- 4/19/2011
- by Julie Steinberg
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
A total of six Australian feature films and one short will be heading to the 15th Pusan International Film Festival, which will be held from October 7 to 15.
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World Cinema
Dreamland
Production Company: Bunya Productions
Producer: David Jowsey
Director/Writer: Ivan Sen
Sales: Bunya Productions
Australian Distributor: PackScreen in association with Bunya Productions
Cast: Daniel Roberts, Tasma Walton
Synopsis: Dan Freeman, an obsessive UFO hunter, roams the Nevada desert around the border of Area 51 searching the skies for contact. But alone in the desert he awakens to a bigger mystery.
Oranges and Sunshine
Production Companies: See-Saw Films & Sixteen Films
Producers: Emile Sherman, Camilla Bray, Iain Canning
Director: Jim Loach
Writer: Rona Munro
Sales: Icon Entertainment
Australian Distributor: Icon Film Distribution
Cast: Emily Watson, David Wenham, Hugo Weaving
Synopsis: The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the organised deportation of children from the UK.
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World Cinema
Dreamland
Production Company: Bunya Productions
Producer: David Jowsey
Director/Writer: Ivan Sen
Sales: Bunya Productions
Australian Distributor: PackScreen in association with Bunya Productions
Cast: Daniel Roberts, Tasma Walton
Synopsis: Dan Freeman, an obsessive UFO hunter, roams the Nevada desert around the border of Area 51 searching the skies for contact. But alone in the desert he awakens to a bigger mystery.
Oranges and Sunshine
Production Companies: See-Saw Films & Sixteen Films
Producers: Emile Sherman, Camilla Bray, Iain Canning
Director: Jim Loach
Writer: Rona Munro
Sales: Icon Entertainment
Australian Distributor: Icon Film Distribution
Cast: Emily Watson, David Wenham, Hugo Weaving
Synopsis: The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the organised deportation of children from the UK.
- 9/15/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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