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3rd of 5 Australian Film Programmes In Competition

Total Running Time: 104min
Session Rating: M15+
Show Date: Monday, January 11, 2010 at 9.00pm
Repeated On: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 4.30pm
Sponsored by: SAE Institute

SCARY THERAPY



Running Time: 4m30s
Year: 2009
Format: Video
Country: Autralia
Synopsis:

Scary Therapy is a short animated film featuring monologues of monsters visiting a life-coach. During the film we meet a vampire with first date nerves a zombie battling an addiction and a sexually confused swamp monster.

Director: Suren Perera
Writer: Stu Connolly / Doug Macleod
Producer: Donna Andrews / Stu Connolly
Festivals:

Animania Serbia 2009; Animest International Animation Festival 2009; Klik! Amsterdam Animation Festival 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

BIG TROUBLE LITTLE FISH



Running Time: 12min
Year: 2009
Format: Video
Country: Australia
Synopsis:

Habib is a security guard in a shopping centre in Western Sydney.It is the day of the Race Riots on Cronulla Beach. Is he a lover or a fighter?

Director: Fadia Abboud
Writer: Fadia Abboud
Producer: Rebecca Cubitt

Australian Premiere

YOUNG LOVE



Running Time: 7min
Year: 2008
Format: Video
Country: Australia
Synopsis:

Erno struggles to jog. He clutches his stomach with his right hand and winces with pain as he hobbles through a deserted farmland. His white socks are gathering mud with each step. It is clear that even though Erno is in torturous pain, it is not safe for him to stop.

Director: Ariel Kleiman
Writer: Ariel Kleiman
Producer: Benjamin Gilovitz / Sarah Cyngler
Festivals:

Sundance Film Festival 2010; Palm Springs International Short Film Festival 2009; Raindance Film Festival 2009; Brooklyn International Film Festival 2009

Australian Premiere

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

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

 

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