Guest Programmes
Premiere Screening: Sunday 26 14.30 London Film Academy Weekday screenings: Monday 27 13.00 Stanza Tuesday 28 15.00 Stanza No Booking Thursday 30Required 15.00 Stanza Thursday 22 14:00 Curzon Soho Sunday 25 13:30 BAFTA Tuesday 27 16:00 Curzon Soho Wednesday 28 12:00 Curzon Soho All screenings are free last approx.90 min.
Shorts Film Festival stands alone as Australia’s only national film festival and competition entirely dedicated to championing the specialist art of storytelling through film. Founded by acclaimed Australian producer David Lightfoot, Shorts offers its filmmakers one of the country’s most lucrative and largest prize pools including a coveted first prize trip to Cannes Film Festival. Selected on the basis of outstanding storytelling in 20 minutes or less, this year’s program offers a showcase of the entries to the 2009 Shorts Film Festival. Previous Shorts winners have continued on to be awarded or nominated for the Australian Film Institute Awards and Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, among others, and have also gone on to work on Academy Award winning films. Shorts entries are judged by up to 50 respected practitioners across the film and media industries.
Jacob Dena Curtis (Darren Dale) 12m
The Cat Piano Eddie White & Ari Gibson (Jessica Brentnall) 8m
Work Ready Ross Guerin (Trent Byles) 14m
Four Erin White (Zyra McAuliffe) 18m
Reach Luke Randall 4m
My Uncle Bluey Britt Arthur (James Grandison) 17m
Gina, a young Aboriginal mother finds herself in a predicament when her husband Max returns home and learns the truth about baby Jacob.
Two couples with troubled marriages embark on a plan of enlivening their relationships and find that love doesn’t always work as it should. www.shortsfilmfestival.com
A city of singing cats is preyed upon by a shadowy figure intent on performing a twisted feline symphony.
A tiny robot is given the gift of life with only one limitation, the length of his power cable. When a curious bird appears at the workshop window, his lust to live outside of his reach may be his demise.
Intimidation, pressure and hard choices, Kylie, a young woman with Downs Syndrome faces them all.
‘My Uncle Bluey’ is a personal story about the things that tear families apart, what brings them back together, and how your family is your family. Always. 71