GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 11 – 15 March 2015
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CONTENTS Director’s Introduction Credits Calendar Map and venue guide Tickets Delegate Information Awards Competitions Introduction Scottish Competition Jury Scottish Competition International Competition Jury International Competition Channel 4 Award Jury Channel 4 Award Shortlist Meet the Filmmakers Vertical Cinema Strange Electricity A Wall Is A Screen Daniel Wolfe: Music Video Masterclass Kevin B. Lee: Desktop Documentary Workshop Duane Hopkins In Conversation: Directing Actors Filming The List Symposium: Short Film (and) Criticism Anatomy of a Short Film Programme Jennifer Reeder Focus on Ukraine Let Glasgow Flourish Short Com with Greg Hemphill 12th Player Luminous Latitude: Artists’ Film Touring Programme The Skinny Short Film Award Family Shorts Short Stuff The Art School & Big Screen present 00:01:00 The Short Road to Features Panel: What Next? Ani Jam UWS Symposium: Creativity and Form Scalarama’s ‘I Want to Be a Cinema’ Lunch Short Com Comedy Come Together Index of Titles Index of Directors
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DIRECTOR’S INTRODUCTION
I was moved deeply by the following words written last summer by Olha Reiter, director of Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, Ukraine: “We’re tired to be afraid of the future and have no other choice than to be here and now. We live in the time of revolution, war and major changes. They are not conditional, not imaginary and it is not a movie.” For the most part, we in the West do not live under the threat of war. We rarely need to give much thought to the distinction between real life and movies. We experience Hollywood spectacle as weightless and without consequence. And yet we are all living through a time of major changes, small triumphs and big disappointments. We are all vulnerable to tragedy, to a heartache that renders the movies redundant, even obscene. By its nature, short film is not Hollywood spectacle. Short film can engage with reality with greater democracy, immediacy, sincerity, insight, imagination and empathy, unhindered by commercial constraints and expectations. That is why a festival like Wiz-Art continues to operate in a country under warfare. And that is why short film in all its diversity remains a thrilling, urgent form of creative expression. Short film is not a movie. Matt Lloyd GSFF Director di^pdlt peloq cfij cbpqfs^i OMNR
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CREDITS GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Director Matt Lloyd Coordinator Morvern Cunningham Assistant Sanne Jehoul Press Officer Ruth Marsh Driver Colin Campbell Submission Viewers Stuart Elliott Oriana Franceschi Sam Kenyon Paul Macgregor Gavin Reid Omiros Vazos GSFF15 Trailer Cara Connolly and Martin Clark Designer Emma Quinn Cover image Jane Carroll, taken from Clyde Film | 1985 | UK Vertical Cinema poster design Gavin Crosby Strange Electricity poster design Craig Gallacher Photographer Eoin Carey GUEST CURATORS Vertical Cinema Sonic Acts Strange Electricity Craig Gallacher Focus on Ukraine Olha Reiter, Zhanna Ozirna A Wall Is A Screen Sarah Adam, Peter Haueis, Sylvia Grom Short Com Chris Aitken Luminous Latitude Kim Knowles, Gareth Evans, Emmanuel Lefrant, Carolyn Mills, Richard Ashrowan, Alchemy Film & Arts Massive thanks to Glasgow Film communications, development, finance, festival, programming, front of house and volunteer teams for their considerable support in making GSFF15 happen. For a full list of credits, see the Glasgow Film Festival 2015 brochure. S
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CCA Programme Coordinator Alex Misick Technical Manager Kenny Christie Marketing & Communications Julie Cathcart, Lewis Camley Senior Duty Manager Alasdair Rothin Venue Coordinator for GSFF Alex Mackenzie THE ART SCHOOL Matt Robin, Kirsty Hendry THE BRIGGAIT Michelle Emery-Barker, David Cameron THE GLUE FACTORY Rob Morrison Technician for GSFF Mark Macgregor THANKS The GSFF volunteers; the staff of GFT; Francis McKee and the staff of CCA; Paul Smith and the staff of Saramago Cafe Bar; the staff of the Briggait; the staff of the Glue Factory; Jennifer Armitage at Creative Scotland; Sambrooke Scott and Carolyn Mills at Film Hub Scotland; Jennifer Reynolds at Glasgow Film Office; Susie Wright at Channel 4 Creative Diversity; Monir Mohammed at Mother India; Konrad Siller at Goethe Institut; Tim Blades at Stewart Brewing; Michael Dickson at Bar 91; the staff of Glasgow School of Art; Jennifer Reeder; Elly Camisa at Somesuch; Mhairi Brennan; Chris Leslie; Mitch Miller; Emily Munro; Alan McNabb at The Savoy Centre; Carolynne Sinclair Kidd; David Archibald; Susan Kemp; Tom McCarthy and Jamie Dunn at The Skinny; Rebecca Davis at Stellar Quines; Claudia Yusef and Arlen Barke at Scottish Film Talent Network; all at Scottish Documentary Institute; Nick Higgins and Peter Snowdon at University of the West of Scotland; Lauren Kerr and Nicole Anderson at Smudge Digital; Babs Tudor at CitizenM; Ben Rashleigh at Connect Solutions; James Rice at CMI; Rosie Crerar; Penelope Bartlett; John Canciani; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen; Hamburg International Short Film Festival; IndieCork Film Festival; Uppsala International Short Film Festival; Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur; Peter Jewell; all our filmmakers, speakers, performers, guests and jury members.
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13.30 – 15.00 Panel: What Next?
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11.00 – 13.00 Duane Hopkins In Conversation
13.30 – 15.00 Scottish 2 Dark Days
13.15 – 15.00 International 7 Past Historic
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15.30 – 17.15 Kevin B Lee Workshop
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15.45 – 17.15 Scottish 1 Parenthood
15.30 – 17.15 International 8 Field Studies
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19.30 – 21.15 Scottish 2 Dark Days
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21.30 – 23.00 Daniel Wolfe Masterclass
20.45 – 22.30 International 4 A Job Well Done
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21.15 – 23.00 Scottish 1 Parenthood
21.00 – 22.30 Jennifer Reeder
20.45 – 22.30 International 6 Trouble Brewing
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21.00 – 23.00 Vertical Cinema
Those Left Behind
20.45 – 22.30 International 2
19.30 – 21.15 Anatomy of a Short Film Programme
18.30 – 20.15 International 3 Sugar & Spice
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18.30 – 20.00 The Art School/ Big Screen: 00:01:00
19.15 – 20.45 The Skinny Short Film Award
19.00 – 20.45 Focus on Ukraine 1
18.30 – 20.15 International 5 Motion Sickness
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17.30 – 19.00 The Short Road to Features
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13.00 – 15.00 Let Glasgow Flourish 2
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11.30 – 12.45 Family Shorts
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14.00 – 18.00 Short Com Comedy Come Together
13.00 – 14.30 Scottish 3 Off the Path
11.00 – 12.30 Scottish 4 Help Me
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10.30 – 18.00 Symposium: Short Film (and) Criticism
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17.30 – 19.00 12th Player
Jennifer Reeder
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20.30 – 22.30 Award Winners
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21.15 – 23.00 Short Com with Greg Hemphill
20.45 – 22.30 International 8 Field Studies
20.30 – 02.00 Strange Electricity
19.30 – 21.00 A Wall is A Screen
19.15 – 21.00 Scottish 3 Off the Path
18.30 – 20.15 International 7 Past Historic 17.30 – 19.00 Luminous Latitude
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VENUES
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CCA (Festival Hub) 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD www.cca-glasgow.com, 0141 352 4900 Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB www.glasgowfilm.org, 0141 332 6535 The Art School: GSA Students’ Association 20 Scott Street, G3 6PE www.theartschool.co.uk, 0141 353 4530 citizenM 60 Renfrew Street, G2 3BW www.citizenm.com/societym, 0141 404 9489 The Briggait 141 Bridgegate, G1 5HZ 0141 553 5890 The Glue Factory (not shown on map) 15 Burns Street, G4 9SE www.thegluefactory.org UWS Creative Media Academy (not shown on map) Film City, 401 Govan Road, G51 2QJ www.uws.ac.uk, 0141 445 7244
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TICKETS STANDARD PRICE TICKETS £6 (£5 concessions) Some events are individually priced or free of charge – see listings for details. CERTIFICATION Films not certified by the BBFC are marked N/C and accompanied by an age recommendation i.e. N/C 15+ (suitable for ages 15 and older, no-one under 15 will be admitted).
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ONLINE From Wednesday 28 January tickets can be purchased from www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff. No booking fee. Tickets can be purchased online until one hour before the screening. IN ADVANCE From Wednesday 28 January you can purchase tickets for most events from Glasgow Film Theatre (12 Rose Street, G3 6RB). You can call Box Office on 0141 332 6535. Please note that there is a £1.50 transaction fee for telephone bookings. You can collect advance tickets from Glasgow Film Theatre up until 9pm the day before the performance. Please note that advance purchases can only be made online at www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff or at GFT.
DURING THE FESTIVAL Between Wednesday 11 March and Sunday 15 March, tickets for any GSFF event can be collected or purchased at the screening venue. Please see www.glasgowfilm.org for full terms and conditions.
Glasgow Short Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). A company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland No. 97369 with its registered office at 12 Rose Street Glasgow, G3 6RB. GFT is registered as a charity No. SC005932 with the office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. di^pdlt peloq cfij cbpqfs^i OMNR
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DELEGATE INFORMATION Delegate accreditation to GSFF15 is open to industry professionals, filmmakers and film students. Accreditation costs £45 full price, £35 for students. For more information or to apply for accreditation, please go to www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff. The GSFF Guest Desk is situated in the CCA foyer, and is open from 12.00 until 21.00 on Wednesday 11 March, and from 10.00 until 22.00 for the rest of the festival. Guests and delegates are welcome to attend any public screening or event, subject to availability. Collect tickets from the Guest Desk on the day of the screening. Please note that there is a limited guest allocation for each screening, and any unclaimed tickets will be returned to the box office for public sales one hour before the screening. After this time delegates are obliged to buy a public ticket. There are several delegate-only screenings of international and Scottish competition programmes – see Calendar (pages 8-9). No ticket required, just show your pass for entry. For entry to Strange Electricity (party only) at the Glue Factory, just show your pass on the door. No ticket required.
INTERNET ACCESS There is free wifi throughout CCA. Ask at the Box Office or Café for the password. VIDEOTHEQUE Guests and delegates are welcome to make use of the GSFF15 Videotheque, which can be found at Glasgow Film Theatre, upstairs in the Education Room. The digital on-demand Videotheque holds most of the films in the programme, as well as a wider range of Scottish short films produced in the last year. A booking system will operate at busy times, with a maximum viewing session of 2 hours. Opening hours are as follows: Wednesday 11 March 13.00 – 19.00 Thursday 12 March 10.00 – 21.00 Saturday 14 March 10.00 – 21.00 Friday 13 March 10.00 – 21.00 Sunday 15 March 10.00 – 20.00 Connect Solutions is proud to be once again partnering with GSFF to provide the digital Videotheque for 2015. The Videotheque is based on Connect Solutions’ innovative new FluidVid™ technology, which provides automated high speed and high reliability distribution of dynamic HD video across varied network and player environments. We love breaking boundaries in the video and film technology space, and we're up for any innovation challenge. We've created solutions for video libraries, video capture technology, video security and delivery, film production pipeline management – as well as other innovative solutions in health, government and enterprise. We’d love to talk video – get in touch: connectsolutions.eu connectsolutions.com.au NO
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COMPETITIONS
AWARDS BILL DOUGLAS AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM Named in honour of Scotland’s greatest filmmaker, this prize will be awarded to the film that best reflects the qualities found in the work of Bill Douglas: honesty, formal innovation and the supremacy of image and sound in cinematic storytelling. The award carries a cash prize of £1,200. 2014 winner: The Questioning I Zhu Rikun I China 2013 winner: Enraged Pigs (Porcos Raivosos) I Isabel Penoni, Leonardo Sette I Brazil INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE AWARD Decided by audience vote. 2014 winner: Butter Lamp (La lampe au beurre de yak) I Hu Wei I France/China 2013 winner: Fear of Flying I Conor Finnegan I Ireland SCOTTISH SHORT FILM AWARD The Scottish Short Film Award is sponsored by Mother India, and honours inspiration and innovation in new Scottish cinema. It carries a cash prize of £1,500. The winner of this award will also receive a nomination for the inaugural Critics’ Circle Short Film Award. Full details about the award will be released later in 2015. 2014 winner: Getting On I Ewan Stewart I UK 2013 winner: Pouters I Paul Fegan I UK SCOTTISH AUDIENCE AWARD Decided by audience vote, the winner of this award will receive a commission to make the 2016 festival trailer. 2014 winner: Exchange & Mart I Cara Connolly, Martin Clark I UK 2013 winner: I Am Tom Moody I Ainslie Henderson I UK CHANNEL 4 AWARD FOR INNOVATION IN STORYTELLING A shortlist of ten films drawn from the Scottish competition and from UK films within the international competition will compete for the Award of Innovation in Storytelling, supported by Channel 4’s Alpha Fund and worth £500.
AWARD WINNERS CCA THEATRE Sunday 15 March (20.30) 2h, N/C 15+ First chance to catch the prize-winning films of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2015. We will announce and screen the recipients of the jury awards, as well as the films voted the favourite of the audience in each competition. Also screening will be the results of the 48 hour Ani Jam animation challenge and the winning films in The Art School and Big Screens’ one minute short competition. NQ
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SCOTTISH AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS
This year, GSFF received 1,115 submissions. We attended Oberhausen, Hamburg, IndieCork, Uppsala and Winterthur short film festivals, where we saw a further 200 – 300 films. We have restored the international competition to eight programmes, however we have reduced the Scottish competition to four. In total, seventy films screen across both competitions. Therefore, the chances of a submitted film being selected are little better than 5%. We are supremely grateful to all filmmakers who against these odds submit their work to the festival. We say this many times, but it can always bear repeating: we are in awe of anyone who completes a film and puts it out into the world for strangers to judge. Furthermore, there are far more good films submitted than we have space to show, and so we inevitably turn down many very strong productions. A significant proportion of this year’s international competition comprises US productions or co-productions. Alongside our retrospective subject Jennifer Reeder and old favourites Don Hertzfeldt, Christopher Radcliff and Jeanette Bonds, we welcome two new films from last year’s featured Miami collective The Borscht Corporation, as well as new work by established artist filmmakers Jay Rosenblatt and Michael Robinson. This is a year of familiar faces across the competition, as we show new work by former festival guests and award-winners Adrian Sitaru, Caroline Sascha Cogez, Gunhild Enger and Cecilia Stenbom. di^pdlt peloq cfij cbpqfs^i OMNR
The Scottish competition features world premieres by the likes of Kate Burton, David Lumsden and Zam Salim alongside established titles that have toured internationally in the last year. We’re delighted to welcome back previous award winners Ewan Stewart, Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson with new works; Will and Ainslie’s BAFTA-nominated Monkey Love Experiments also screens in international competition. Animation is particularly strong this year, with films by Cat Bruce, Claire Lamond and Ross Hogg amongst others. From the names mentioned above it would appear that women are well represented in this year’s selection. In fact only twenty-one female directors and co-directors feature across both competitions. It’s not a terrible proportion, but it could be much better. We are careful to ensure that all submitted films are viewed ‘blind’ and our selection panel and juries have gender diversity. However we’re by no means complacent and will continue to address the disproportionate representation of male directors on screen. Above all, our interest lies in films that have both sincerity and originality, that try to find new ways to express something about the world and about cinema itself. We’re suspicious of the word ‘best’, but the films on the following pages are not only those that excited us the most, but also that we think speak to one another. They’ve been ordered in loosely thematic programmes, but we hope the dialogue spills out across the competition as a whole. Join the conversation! NR
SCOTTISH COMPETITION JURY WENDY GRIFFIN Wendy Griffin is a line producer and producer who has worked in the industry, mainly in Scotland, for over 20 years. She has line-produced films such as Festival, Red Road, Outcast and Donkeys, and television such as Pramface and more recently CBBC series Eve. She produced the documentary Funny Kinda Guy and the low budget feature Wasted and co-produced Not Another Happy Ending with Claire Mundell. She is presently developing other projects through her company Selkie Productions. KEVIN B. LEE Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, film critic and producer of nearly 200 video essays exploring film and media. He is Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor Keyframe and founding partner of dGenerate Films (a distribution company for independent Chinese cinema). He was supervising producer at Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. JORGE RIVERO Jorge Rivero studied cinema at University of Oviedo. He has made several short films, including Nenyure (2004), nominated for a Spanish Film Academy Goya Award and winner of the New Filmmaker Award at Gijon International Film Festival, amongst others. His next film La presa (2008) also won the New Filmmaker Award at Gijon and the Best Documentary Short Film Award at Con-Can in Tokyo. Jorge was director of Mieres Short Film Festival (1999–2011), and is currently programmer at Curtocircuito Santiago de Compostela International Short Film Festival and Aguilar de Campoo International Film Festival. Since 2011 he has co-edited Cortosfera, the first online Spanish-language magazine focused on the short film industry.
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SCOTTISH COMPETITION SCOTTISH COMPETITION 1:
PARENTHOOD CCA THEATRE Thursday 12 March (21.15)
SCOTTISH COMPETITION 2:
DARK DAYS CCA THEATRE Friday 13 March (19.30)
SCOTTISH COMPETITION 3:
OFF THE PATH CCA THEATRE Saturday 14 March (19.15)
SCOTTISH COMPETITION 4:
SOULMATES CCA THEATRE Sunday 15 March (15.15)
SCOTTISH COMPETITION 1: PARENTHOOD
Tracks
Sea Front
Cailleach
Scottish premiere | UK | 2014 | 12 min
UK | 2014 | 8 min
UK | 2014 | 14 min
Director/Writer: Claire Oakley
Director/Writer: Claire Lamond
Director: Rosie Reed Hillman
Producer: Emily Morgan
Producer: Claire Lamond
Cinematographer: Rob Hardy
Sound: Mattie Foulds Sound: Tom Lock Griffiths Music: Isobel Waller Bridge Editor: Chris Roebuck Cast: Gordon Brown, John Bell
Contact: info@clairelamond.com
Contact: cnoakley@gmail.com
Director filmography: One Last Push (2014), Seams and Embers (2012), All That Glisters (2012)
In the tradition of generations before him, Ed (15) is taken stalking by his father to make his first kill, but their relationship is tested when Ed doesn’t react as expected and their wider connection with Nature is brought into question.
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Cinematographer: Rosie Reed Hillman
Music: Karine Polwart Cast: Dale McQueen, Joe Hanton, Toni Middleton
Director filmography: Physics (2012), Beautiful Enough (2011)
Producer: Carol Cooke
Cinematographer: Claire Lamond
When you put a shell to your ear what do you hear? Connected by the sea between them, soldiers, friends, musicians fighting in the trenches in WWI reach out to those battling back home.
Sound: Diane Jardine Music: Acre Tarn Editor: Scott Dulson Contact: info@scottishdocinstitute.com
Morag is nearly 86. She lives alone in a house at the end of a track, looking out to sea on the Outer Hebrides. She was born in this house, life is simple and peaceful. This is a portrait of a woman as she contemplates the next chapter in her life; Morag shares her unique sense of independence, attitude to mortality and the connection she has to her wild, island home.
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Our Father
World premiere | UK | 2014 | 9 min
UK | 2014 | 10 min
Directed By Tweedie
Director/Writer: Raisah Ahmed
Director/Writer: Artur Zaremba
UK | 2014 | 17 min
Producer: Karen O’Hare
Producer: Hannah Smith
Director/Writer : Duncan Cowles
Cinematographer: Iftekhar Gafar
Cinematographer: Tarek Shayne Tabet
Producer: Aisling Ahmed
Music: David Simpson Editor: Vilte Vaitkute Art Director: Sue Yin Lau Sound Recordist: Jack Coghill
Editor: Artur Zaremba Production Designer: Jason Orr
Sound Mixer: Ross Buchanan
Cast: Pierce Reid, Niall Greig Fulton, Sarah Barron, Sarah Higgins
Cast: Bernadette Gniady, Nick Ikunda
Contact: arturzaremba@live.com
Contact: contact@kohpro.co.uk Director filmography: Laces (2012)
Repressed emotions erupt on a quiet afternoon as Magda and Haris pack away the life they once shared. In a room of cardboard boxes, the memory of a lost box catalyses the conversation they've both been avoiding and forces them to face the loss of their son.
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Editor: Shaun Glowa
Music: Low Roar
Unable to find peace and connect with his mother, Lawrence seeks distraction from his demons by volunteering for an emotional support helpline. A desperate phone call from a suicidal man makes the boy face the past and pushes him to the breaking point.
Cast: Tweedie Fleming, Margaret Fleming Contact: duncan@scotdoc.com Director filmography: Radio Silence (2013), Soft Toffee (2012), The Lady with the Lamp (2011)
Making a film when you’re 87 is less than convenient. Examine the difficulties of communication between the generations, as Tweedie is encouraged to see the world differently through the lens of his grandson.
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Boat World premiere | UK | 2014 | 15 min
Director/Writer: David Lumsden Producer: Katie Crook Cinematographer: Krish Shrikumar Sound: Jack Coghill Music: Giles Lamb Editor: Toby Trueman Production Designer: Hatt Reiss VFX: David Miekle Cast: Jake Wilson, Owen Gorman Contact: katie@blueirisfilms.co.uk Director filmography: Turn your bloody phone off: the second batch (2013), Court (2012), Five minutes to five steps (2008)
The World is covered in water; Charles is restricted to his boat searching for a home he may never find. Plagued by memories, nightmares and hallucinations, will Charles ever find what he’s after?
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SCOTTISH COMPETITION 2: DARK DAYS
Sunsets & Silhouettes
Statue
UK | 2014 | 22 min
Director/Writer: Michelle Hannah
Director/Writer: Tim Courtney Producers: Tim Courtney, Bianca Herold Cinematographer: Fraser Denholm
UK | 2014 | 11 min
Producer: Michelle Hannah Sound: Craig Mulholland Music: Craig Mulholland Editor: Michelle Hannah
Sound: Neale Ross
Camera: Ingrida Danieliute
Music: Tim Courtney
Cast: Michelle Hannah
Editor: Tim Courtney
Contact: contact@michellehannah.net
Production Designers: Kieran McCruden, Craig McKenna
Statue is set within the University of Edinburgh’s Playfair Library, crossing genres of science fiction, pop music, architecture and performance. Based on the book Vermillion Sands by JG Ballard, the song is played out Kubrickian style by a lone androgynous figure, a hyper-fantastic post-human alter ego to the blind eyes of the marble masculine gaze. She is presented as a digital chanteuse mixed with Laurie Anderson by way of the Thin White Duke.
Cast: Julian Nicholson, Meg McNaughton, Danielle Farrow Contact: hello@timcourtney.co.uk Director filmography: The Longest Day (2013), An Artificial Light (2010), Emily (2009)
Bethany is an elderly woman, slowly dying in the calm solitude of her own home. Jessica struggles through a life of abuse as an ageing prostitute well past her prime. Their lives change by the arrival of Matthew, a stranger harbouring his own dark secrets.
Dropping Off Michael World premiere | UK | 2014 | 15 min Director: Zam Salim Writer: James Price Producer: Catriona MacInnes, Paddy Higson Cinematographer: James Blann Sound: Jonathan McGloone Music: Matthew Aldworth Editor: Mark Fraser (Trainee) Production Designer: Stacy McEvoy (Trainee) Production Manager: Emily Penn (Trainee) Production Co-ordinator: Irina Glinski (Trainee) 1st AD: Lewis Wardrop (Trainee) Cast: Michael McCardie, Brian McCardie, Maureen Carr, Kirsty Strain Contact: producer@jumpcutcrew.com Director filmography: Up There (2012), Mashed (2007), Is It Just Me (2007), Black And White: David Gillanders (2006), Laid Off (2006), Bad Brown Owl (2005), Original Bob (2004), Room For The Night (2003), Cold Light Of Day (2002), Kissing The Tarmac (2001)
Young Michael is taken out for his last day of freedom by his Uncle Duncan. Despite the fun line-up that his uncle has laid on for him, Michael cannot forget where he’s finally going that day. Produced as part of the JUMPCUT Summer Production Company, a training programme for young people aged 16-25. The programme was funded by Young Start and Channel 4's Alpha Fund. www.jumpcutcrew.com
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Misery Guts
UK | 2014 | 11 min
Monkey Love Experiments
Director: Jeppe Rohde Nielsen
UK | 2014 | 9 min
Writers: Donald Barthelme (story), Alan McIlrath, Jeppe Rohde Nielsen
Directors/Writers: Ainslie Henderson, Will Anderson
Director/Writer: Rory Alexander Stewart
Producers: Alan McIlrath, Jeppe Rohde Nielsen
Producer: Cameron Fraser Cinematographer: Ryan Suess
Cinematographer: Rory Alexander Stewart
Production Designers: Finlay Page, Johnny Lawrence
Sound: John Cobban
Editor: Rory Alexander Stewart
Music: Atzi, Jason Mraz
Art Director: Sean Christie
Editor: Neil Jack
Production Designer: Rory Alexander Stewart
Costume: Katy Christopher
Cast: Tobias Feltus
Cast: Billy Letford, Austin Hayden Schmit, Benjamin Rankine
Contact: mail@whiterobot.co.uk
Contact: gamefilmtheory@gmail.com
Two soldiers are stationed underground in a bunker, time is standing still and their hopes of being relieved begin to fade. As tensions mount they become isolated. Ike writes descriptions of natural forms on the walls whilst Shotwell screams in his sleep. Who will crack first?
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Director filmography: Ainslie Henderson: I Am Tom Moody (2012), It’s About Spending Time Together (2011). Will Anderson: Sweetie & Sunshine (2012), The Making of Longbird (2011)
Inspired by love, a misguided monkey believes he is destined for the moon. While man lands on the moon in 1969, a world famous psychologist experiments on primates to better understand the nature of love.
World premiere | UK | 2015 | 12 min
Producer: Rory Alexander Stewart
Cast: Julie Speers, Ainslie Henderson, Jenna O’Neill Contact: info@rorystewartfilms.co.uk Director filmography: Good Girl (2014), Wyld (2013), The Port (2013)
All Julie wants is a cat. All Jenna wants is her coke. All Tom wants is a friend. You can't make everyone happy.
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Vincent Black Lightning UK | 2014 | 5 min Director: Cat Bruce Producer: Cat Bruce Music: Richard Thompson, E. Robertson, E. MacPherson, H. Napier Contact: wee_cat@hotmail.com Director filmography: The Golden Bird (2011)
We follow the heart-warming yet tragic love story of Red Molly and James, in this short animated film. With music by Ewan Robertson, the song, Vincent Black Lightning, written by Richard Thompson, is about love, motorbikes and a redheaded girl.
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SCOTTISH COMPETITION 3: OFF THE PATH
As He Lay Falling
Scribbledub
Ceremony
UK premiere | UK | 2014 | 3 min
World premiere | UK | 2014 | 11 min
UK | 2014 | 19 min
Director/Writer: Ross Hogg
Director/Writer: Mario Cruzado
Director/Writer: Ian Waugh
Producer: Ross Hogg
Producer: Camille Mateos
Producers: Richard Warden, Jim Webster Cinematographer: Julian Schwanitz Sound: Douglas MacDougall Editor: Ian Waugh Production Designer: Martin Kelly Cast: Christopher Greco, Simone Lahbib, Bill Fellows, Raymond Mearns, Isabelle Jarrett Contact: film@ashelayfalling.com Director filmography: Strayed (2013), Leaves (2009), Nowhere No One (2007)
Forced to migrate for work, Georgios has travelled to Scotland from Greece. A ghost in a foreign land, he digs peat for food and board on Bronte and William’s rundown highland croft. Trapped within a forced intimacy, Georgios discovers the stark difference between his disappearance and dissolution.
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Sound: Robbie Gunn
Cinematographer: Andrew Begg
Music: Robbie Gunn
Sound: Ciaran MacGuire
Editor: Ross Hogg
Music: Rory Sutherland
Contact: ross@rosshogg.com
Editor: Michael McIlroy
Director filmography: Spectators (2013), The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (2013)
A film conversation using 16mm film and a projector. Scribbledub explores the dependent relationship between image and sound – the ‘scribble’ creates the ‘dub’, the ‘dub’ informs the ‘scribble’.
Production Designer: Ailean Stuart Cast: Shonagh Price, Juliet Cadzow Contact: m_cruzado@hotmail.com Director filmography: 0.25 (2013)
Eleanor is a detached flat inspector. She steals small objects that seem damaged or neglected from the flats she visits. In the last house, a woman is lying dead on a desk with tea spilled over her face. Eleanor decides to take care of the stranger in front her, uncovering a basic humanity she didn't know she had.
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Domestic Appliances
Only Make Believe
UK | 2014 | 3 min
World premiere | UK | 2014 | 12 min
Director/Writer: Martin Smith
Director/Writer: Lewis Firth Bolton
Director/Writer: Ronald Forbes
Producer: Sarah Drummond
Producer: Jared Taylor
Producer: Ronald Forbes
Cinematographer: David Liddell
Contact: lewis_firth_bolton@live.co.uk
Domestic Appliances is a stop-motion animation mixed with live action scenes. The marriage of techniques comes from the offbeat subject of the internal lives of household appliances we often use in the monotonous cycle of daily life. In its surreal subject matter the film hints at the absurdity of the value we give to objects that make our lives a little simpler, when we often neglect the much larger problems of others.
UK | 2014 | 14 min
Cinematographer: Ian Forbes
Sound: John Cobban
Assistant Director: Rose Hendry
Music: John Cobban, Martin Smith
Cast: Ian Stephen, Joyce Lindsay, Rhona McCallum, Jonathan Gall, Grant Melville
Editor: Martin Smith
Contact: ronnieforbes@blueyonder.co.uk Director filmography: Incident (1981 / 2014), Between Dreams (1975 / 2014), Behaviour Patterns (1977 / 2013), Joking Apart (2011), Happy Day (1979 / 2010), By Any Other Name (2009), Sonnet (1975 / 2006), The Illusionist (2005), She (1974), TV 74 (1974)
When Madge and Ellington are locked up with Betty and Phil in a war zone, life changes for everyone involved. The arrival of the new couple, with their regal appearance and manners is very unsettling. Who do they think they are? Who do WE think they are?
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Seagulls
Production Designer: Shona Paton Cast: Mikey Hoc, Kathleen McDermott, Connor Hamilton, Ali McBride, Mark Woolner Contact: scottishshorts@digicult.co.uk Director filmography: Liar (2013), Jimmy (2011), Tracks (2006), Accidents (2006)
When a young showman visits a new town he struggles to fit in. Seagulls follows Ryan as he attempts to bond with a group of local boys. The film explores the subtle differences in the lives of these teenage boys and how cultural bonds that are deeply ingrained are never far from the surface.
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Penismouse Myszochujek UK / Poland | 2014 | 6 min
Tapes From The Revolutionary
Director/Writer: Kristof Babaski
World premiere | UK | 2014 | 16 min
Producer: Anika Jarzynka
Director/Writer: Scott Willis
Sound: Keith Duncan
Producer: Alia Ghafar
Music: Lauren Sarah Hayes
Cinematographer: Scott Willis
Contact: anikajarzynka@outlook.com
Sound: Ali Murray
Myszochujek, a playfully racy animated film about censorship & control, was made in 1957 by little known Polish director, Kristof Babaski. Formally lost in the archives, The Polish Film Club have restored, remastered & released it in 2014 in HD.
Music: Josh Sabin Editor: Scott Willis Production Designer: Scott Willis Cast: Andy Anderson, Scott Willis Contact: willisfilm@hotmail.com Director filmography: Dear Peter (2014), Guide To Fetal Development (2014), E215. (2013), Our Nation’s Sons (2012), A Place Just On The Map (2012)
Andy, a self proclaimed communist revolutionary, documents his life on a Hi-8 camcorder. Who are these tapes for? Tapes From The Revolutionary is a humorous unconventional documentary that turns the lens on itself and examines the filmmaking process.
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SCOTTISH COMPETITION 4: SOULMATES
Wyld UK | 2013 | 14 min Director/Writer: Rory Alexander Stewart Producer: Paul Ryan Cinematographer: David Liddell Cast: Julie Speers, Jenna O’Neill, Gary McCormack Contact: info@rorystewartfilms.co.uk Director filmography: Misery Guts (2015), Good Girl (2014), The Port (2013)
Julie, a young barmaid, must decide between the responsibilities of her adult life and the intense, sometimes violent friendship of her youth when her old friend Jenna pays her an unexpected visit at work.
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A Wee Night In Happy Scottish premiere | 2014 | 14 min Birthday to Me Director/Writer: Stuart Edwards Producer: Stuart Edwards Cinematographer: Stuart Edwards Sound: Terry Peng Editor: Stuart Edwards
European premiere UK | 2014 | 14 min Director: Peter Mackie Burns Writer: Nico Mesinga Producer: Peter Mackie Burns
Colourist: Neil Allan
Cinematographer: George Cameron Geddes
Executive Producers: Noe Mendelle, Emma Davie
Editor: Conor Meechan
Cast: Chrissy McGregor, Bill Doherty Contact: stuedwards@blueyonder.co.uk Director filmography: Lost in Yokohama (2014), Jimmy (2014), Terra Firma (2013), Irving (2013), Error (2013)
In a small house in East Kilbride 95 year old Chrissy awaits the arrival of Bill, her 91 year old boyfriend. During this time we see their genuine affection for each other filled with humorous moments that occur as they go about their daily routine.
Associate Producer: Carolyn Macdonald Cast: Emily Beecham Contact: petermackieburns@hotmail.com Director filmography: Stronger, Come Closer (2011), Run (2005), Milk (2005), Honey
Lucy is thirty today and her life could be a bit better. So she chucks her boyfriend and drifts around drunk in East London trying to have a laugh and start up some fun conversations.
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Avocado Bear
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UK | 2014 | 5 min
World premiere | UK | 2014 | 17 min
Director/Writer: Thomas Fraser
Director/Writer: Kate Burton
Producer: Edinburgh College of Art
Producer: Kate Burton
World premiere | UK | 2014 | 10 min
Sound: Andrew Connor
Cinematographer: David Liddell
Director: Marisa Privitera Murdoch
Music: Emília Rovira Alegre
Sound: Alan Henry
Producer: Marisa Privitera Murdoch
Contact: thomasfraser86@hotmail.co.uk
Music: Allan McKeown
Cinematographer: Marisa Privitera Murdoch
A particularly over-ripe Avocado Bear experiences a hollow feeling when he suddenly finds himself without the precious stone set in his belly. However, a fresh encounter may uncover what he’s truly been missing all along...
Editor: Kate Burton Production Designer: Helena Ohman McCardle Cast: Joanne Thomson, Ben Clifford, Neil Davidson Contact: kateburton@me.com Director filmography: Ever Here I Be (2011), The Ice Plant (2007)
When Anna discovers an unwelcome intruder in her home she enlists the help of her mild mannered neighbour. Frank enters into Anna’s strange and chaotic world and finds himself well removed from his comfort zone. Amusingly awkward social challenges follow and an unlikely relationship is formed.
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Glasgow’s Grand Ole Opry
Editor: Marisa Privitera Murdoch Contact: marisa_privitera@yahoo.com Director filmography: Girl Singer Needed – the story behind God Help the Girl (2014)
A documentary about a group of elderly eccentrics who still dress up as cowboys and find solace in Scotland's oldest country & western club. With a cast of characters like Tennessee Lady and DJ Rowdy Roddy, we’re given an insight into this unique club and its charming members.
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What Happens After Six Scottish premiere | UK | 2014 | 24 min Director/Writer: Ewan Stewart Producer: Daniel Negret Cinematographer: Stewart MacGregor Sound: Jonas Jensen Music: David Pearce Editor: Sibila Estruch Production Designer: Abigail Joshi Cast: Neil McNulty, Michele Gallagher, Mary McCusker Contact: mail@ewanstewart.co.uk Director filmography: Release (2014), The Witch (2014), Getting On (2012), Dancer (2003)
Although she's been dead for six months, Martin's mother still watches his every move. It seems like he can't do anything right and his odd behaviour is getting worse. He just wants to get rid of her, but will a fish and a nutter like Michelle be the answer?
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY CHRISTOFFER OLOFSSON Christoffer Olofsson has been Programme Director of Uppsala International Short Film Festival in Sweden for fifteen years. He attended Stockholm University, Department of Film Studies before moving back to his hometown to study Art History and Aesthetics at Uppsala University. He is a member of the nomination committee for the Swedish National Film Awards in the categories for short film and documentary. He also freelances as a film critic and curator. OLHA REITER Olha Reiter was born in Lviv, western Ukraine. She is a short film festival director, film producer and executive director of Lviv Film Commission. After graduating from university where she developed a cinema club, she founded Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art in 2008. Olha is also an initiator of the bicycle-led pedal-generated event Rover Film Festival, yearly industry meetings Lviv Film Meetings and urban-initiative klaster.in.ua. DANIEL WOLFE Daniel Wolfe’s directorial debut was the short film 93 ’til Infinity. After signing to Partizan in 2006, Daniel made promos for The Horrors, Roisin Murphy, Duffy and Take That. In 2010 Daniel made a series of videos for Plan B’s triple-platinum selling album The Defamation of Strickland Banks, winning Best Director at UK Music Video Awards. He signed to Somesuch in 2010 and has directed commercials as well as promos for Chase & Status, Paolo Nutini and The Shoes. In 2013 Daniel made his debut feature film, Catch Me Daddy. It was accepted into the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, and has received several awards, most notably Golden Camera at Cannes.
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1:
HELP ME GFT CINEMA 3 Wednesday 11 March (18.30) Sunday 15 March (13.15)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2:
THOSE LEFT BEHIND GFT CINEMA 3 Wednesday 11 March (20.45) Sunday 15 March (15.30)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3:
SUGAR & SPICE GFT CINEMA 3 Thursday 12 March (13.15) Friday 13 March (18.30)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4:
A JOB WELL DONE GFT CINEMA 3 Thursday 12 March (15.30) Friday 13 March (20.45)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5:
MOTION SICKNESS GFT CINEMA 3 Thursday 12 March (18.30) Saturday 14 March (13.15)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6:
TROUBLE BREWING GFT CINEMA 3 Thursday 12 March (20.45) Saturday 14 March (15.30)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 7:
PAST HISTORIC GFT CINEMA 3 Friday 13 March (13.15) Saturday 14 March (18.30)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 8:
FIELD STUDIES GFT CINEMA 3 Friday 13 March (15.30) Saturday 14 March (20.45)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1: HELP ME
Lulu
The Incredibly Elastic Man
Rescue Grips Rettungsgriffe
Director: Caroline Sascha Cogez
Nieprawdopodobnie elastyczny człowiek
UK premiere | Austria | 2014 | 8 min
Writers: Caroline Sascha Cogez, Tone Mygind Rostbøll
UK premiere | Poland | 2013 | 5 min
UK premiere Denmark | 2014 | 45 min
Director/Writer: Nina Kreuzinger Producer: Nina Kreuzinger
Director/Writer: Karolina Specht Producer: Birgitte Skov Producer: Marcin Malatynski
Cinematographer: Walther K. Stoitzner
Cinematographer: Karolina Specht
Sound: Jasmin Hirtl, Roland Thurner
Sound: Marek Knaga, Wieslaw Nowak
Music: Nina Kreuzinger
Music: Mads Heldtberg Editor: Nanna Frank Møller
Editor: Karolina Specht
Cast: Malin Crepin, Andreas Dittmer, Jens Jørn Spottag
Animation: Karolina Specht
Cinematographer: Magnus Jønck Sound: Jakob Garfield
Editor: Jasmin Hirtl
Contact: marta.swiatek@kff.com.pl Contact: lulu@pashaparts.dk Director filmography: She Sings (2011), Show Stopper (2009), The Present (2008), Emmalou (2006), Les Amours Perdus (2005), mellem rum (2004), Bus (2003), Hi, my name is Candy (2001)
Lulu has an affair with Henrik. There’s no doubt in her mind. Henrik invites her on a vacation to his house in France. A new beginning perhaps. But the idyllic adventure is disrupted by an unexpected guest.
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This is a story of a man without shape. Given this ephemeral body he is forced to deal with the people, things and places that are constantly shaping him. Can one live completely detached from others, from reality? Who and what decides who we are in the end?
Contact: contact@ninakreuzinger.com Director filmography: Wo der Tod Teil der Landschaft ist (2013), News (2012), Durchgang (2012), Albern II (2011/12), Aus Druck (2011), Kreuzen (2011), Gewaltenteilung (2010), Wien, Hafen, Albern (2010), Norska (2010)
There are wounded, exhausted, unconscious people everywhere. Can the world be saved? Can we save each other? This found-footage work explores the concept of rescue, of the power/powerlessness of man in a world of technology and increasingly remote communication.
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Symphony No 42
Lifestyle International premiere Sweden | 2014 | 17 min
Hungary | 2013 | 10 min Director/Writer: Henrik Andersson Director/Writer: Réka Bucsi Producer: Henrik Andersson Producer: József Fülöp Sound: Péter Benjámin Lukács
Cinematographer: Gustav Danielsson
Music: Flóra Matisz
Sound: Gustaf Berger
Editors: Réka Bucsi, Judit Czakó
Music: Martin Hederos
Production Designer: Réka Bucsi
Editors: Henrik Andersson, Thomas Lagerman
Contact: rekabucsi@gmail.com
Production Designer: Katarina Elvén
Director filmography: Pocketworld (2012), Ron (2012), MOME MA (2011), Relish (2010), Mime Appétit (2009)
Costume & Make-up: Pia Aleborg
The film applies an unconventional narrative. It presents a subjective world through 47 scenes. Small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions of humans and nature.
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Cast: Saskia Husberg, Rafael Pettersson, Rasmus Lindgren, Emilie Strandberg, Jan-Erik Emretsson Contact: info@opticalrecordings.se Director filmography: Picknick (2010), Incidenten (2007), Weekend (2006), Tjörn (2002)
It's a sunny summer's day. Camilla and Teddy are getting the garden deck ready for a barbeque night with their friends Robert and Jenny. Together, the couples enjoy a perfect meal, until something trivial happens. Something that will have dire consequences.
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2: THOSE LEFT BEHIND
Jonathan’s Chest
Milky Brother Mleczny brat
Scottish premiere USA/France | 2014 | 14 min
UK premiere Poland/Armenia | 2014 | 30 min
Director/Writer: Christopher Radcliff
Director/Writer: Vahram Mkhitaryan
Producers: Autumn Tarleton, Lauren Wolkstein, Sébastien Aubert
Producer: Wajda Studio Cinematographer: Marcin Sauter
Missing Scottish premiere Tanzania/Uganda/USA | 2014 | 5 min Director: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine Writers: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Aida Mbowa
Cinematographer: Jeff Powers
Sound: Eduard Hakobyan
Sound: T Terressa Tate
Editor: Ziemowit Jaworski
Producers: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Aida Mbowa
Music: Saunder Jurriaans, Danny Bensi
Production Designer: Eduard Hakobyan
Cinematographer: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine
Editors: Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein
Sound: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine
Cast: Owen Campbell, Tobias Campbell, Birgit Huppuch
Cast: Lusine Avanesyan, Manuk Qishmishyan, Arthur Seyran, Mkrtchyan, Zhasmen Ghazaryan, Ani Khudabashyan, Mariam Khudabashyan
Contact: info@adastra-films.com
Contact: jtereszczuk@wajdastudio.pl
Director filmography: The Strange Ones (2011), Stranger (2009), Bonnie Rocks (2008), The Handmaid (2007), Something Else (2004), Mailman (2004)
Director filmography: Shepherd’s Song (2014)
Everything changes one night for Alex, when he is visited by a boy claiming to be his brother Jonathan – who disappeared years earlier.
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10-year-old Seto lives with his family in a little village and is looking forward to the birth of his sibling. Seto ties white handkerchiefs to the branches of a tree because he believes that this will hasten the baby’s arrival. Unfortunately, the newborn dies. The void is filled by a little lamb, breastfed by Seto’s mother.
Editor: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine Cast: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine Contact: info@bewareoftime.com Director filmography: Kuhani (2013), Beware of Time (2004)
An untimely death triggers memories and desires that haunt and soothe a grieving soul.
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Father Padre
A Single Body Un Seul Corps
Scottish premiere France/Argentina | 2013 | 12 min
UK premiere | France | 2014 | 19 min Director/Writer: Sotiris Dounoukos
Director: Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso Producer: Francois Pierre Cavel Writers: Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso, Patricio Plaza Producers: Dora Benousilio, Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso Cinematographers: Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso, Sergio Piñeyro Sound: Patricio Plaza, Alexandre Lormeau Music: Patricio Plaza, Lucas Nikotian Editors: Patricio Plaza, Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso Production Designer: Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso Contact: info@opusbou.com.ar Director filmography: The Employment (2008), Hello? (2007), The Bird and the Man (2006)
Argentina 1983. Day by day, the daughter of an elder military commander takes care of her bedridden father. The dictatorship has come to an end in Argentina, but not in this woman’s life.
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Cinematographer: Leo Arvanitis Sound: Milk Audio Athens Music: Antonio Gambale Editor: Angelos Angelidis Production Designer: Claire Vayse Cast: Mexianu Medenou, Garba Tounkara, Doudou Masta Contact: sotiris.dounoukos@gmail.com Director filmography: Paper and Sand (2006), Mona Lisa (2004), The Wall (2000)
Best friends and skilled abattoir workers David and Wani are saving up to open their own butchery, but before they can realise their dream the arrival of a new worker will test the bonds of their shared life.
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3: SUGAR & SPICE
The Dollhouse World premiere Canada | 2014 | 8 min Directors: Chad Galloway, Heather Benning Producers: Chad Galloway, Heather Benning Cinematographers: Chad Galloway, Heather Benning
Art Ar tă Scottish premiere Romania | 2014 | 19 min Director/Writer: Adrian Sitaru Producer: Anamaria Antoci
Editor: Thomas Sabinsky Contact: chad@chadgalloway.com, benningh@gmail.com
For decades, The Dollhouse stood in a frozen field in the Canadian Prairies. A match was lit and, in a moment, everything it held was lost forever. A document of the decommissioning of Heather Benning’s artwork, The Dollhouse.
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Je suis un dessin de princesse UK premiere | France | 2014 | 3 min Director/Writer: Gwenael Mulsant
Cinematographer: Adrian Sili teanu
Producer: Gwenael Mulsant
Sound: Florin Tăbăcaru
Cinematographer: Gwenael Mulsant
Editor: Andrei Gorgan
Sound: Gwenael Mulsant
Cast: Emanuel Parvu, Andrei Rus, Ioana Abur, Iulia Crisan
Editor: Gwenael Mulsant
Sound: Thomas Sabinsky Music: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
I’m a Princess Drawing
Contact: office@4prooffilm.ro Director filmography: Excursion (2014), Counterpart (2014), Domestic (2012), Chefu’ (2012), Best Intentions (2011), The Cage (2010), Lord (2009), Hooked (2008), Waves (2007)
After a casting session, two film directors agree that they have found the perfect 13-year-old girl to star in their new movie. Now they have to convince the girl’s reluctant mother to let her daughter play the role of a sexually abused child. What follows is a witty essay on proper parenting and on the abuses and sacrifices made in the name of great works of art.
Cast: Gwenael Mulsant, Louise Mulsant Contact: aupieddumur@hotmail.com
For a few months now, when I take my daughter to kindergarten, she asks me to draw her a princess. Then her friends started too. A bit like when I used to draw Cobra for my pals.
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Blood Below the Skin
The Dark, Krystle
UK premiere | USA | 2014 | 13 min
UK premiere | USA | 2015 | 32 min Director/Writer: Jennifer Reeder Producer: Steven Hudosh Cinematographer: Christopher Rejano Sound: Paul Hill Music: Jenne Lennon Editor: Mike Olenick Production Designer: Jennifer Reeder Cast: Jennifer Estlin, Kelsey Ashyby-Middleton, Marissa Castillo, Morgan Reesh Contact: thejenniferreeder@gmail.com Director filmography (selected): A Million Miles Away (2014), Girls Love Horses (2012), And I Will Rise If Only to Hold You Down (2012), Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep (2011), Seven Songs About Thunder (2010), Accidents at Home and How They Happen (2008), Claim (2007), The Heart and Other Small Shapes (2006), Tiny Plastic Rainbow (2003), A Room With the Walls Blasted to Shreds and Falling (2001), Hide Inside Me Tonight (2000), Johnny Take A Dive (1999), Natural Born Cocksuckers (1996), White Trash Girl (1995), You Little Heartbreaker (1993)
Scottish premiere USA | 2013 | 10 min
Director/Writer: Pilvi Takala Producer: Pilvi Takala Editor: Pilvi Takala Cast: Pilvi Takala Contact: distribution@av-arkki.fi Director filmography: The Committee (2014), Broad Sense (2012), Players (2010), Real Snow White (2009), The Angels (2008), The Announcer (2007), The Shining Shining (2007), Easy Rider (2006), Wallflower (2006), The Switch (2005), Women in Kahves (2005), Amusement Park (2001)
Drive with Care investigates the life of a teacher at an elite boarding school in the US. Utilising dry-humoured post-documentation of staged activity, Takala examines the boundaries within this particular community. Commissioned by Stina Krook Foundation / Amos Andersson Museum Kordelin Foundation, supported by Kordelin Foundation.
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This short narrative chronicles a week in the lives of three teenage girls from different social circles, who form a bond in the week leading up to the school dance. Countdown to prom night is actually countdown to irreversible change. Each girl seeks comfort within the walls of her bedroom where the music blasting from the turntable provides a magical synchronicity between them all.
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Director/Writer: Michael Robinson Producer: Michael Robinson Sound: Michael Robinson Editor: Michael Robinson Distributor: Video Data Bank Contact: info@vdb.org Director filmography: Circle in the Sand (2012), Line Describing Your Mom (2011), These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (2010), If There Be Thorns (2009), What A Fool Believes (2009), Hold Me Now (2008), Carol Anne is Dead (2008), All Through The Night (2008), Victory Over The Sun (2007), Light Is Waiting (2007), The General Returns From One Place To Another (2006), And We All Shine On (2006), you don’t bring me flowers (2005), Birds Of North America (2004), First Cousins (2004), Chiquitita And The Soft Escape (2003), Motel Flora (2003), Opening Ceremonies (2002), The War Of 1987 (2002), Tidal (2001), Carpenter (2001)
The cabin is on fire! Krystle can't stop crying, Alexis won't stop drinking, and the fabric of existence hangs in the balance, again and again and again.
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4: A JOB WELL DONE
Twilight Crepúsculo World premiere Cuba | 2014 | 37 min Director/Writer: Juan Pablo Daranas Molina Producers: Juan Pablo Daranas Molina, Liz Sandra Falcón García Cinematographer: Alejandro Menéndez Vega Sound: Denis Colina Editor: Juan Pablo Daranas Molina Production Designer: Erick Grass Associate Producer: Reinel García Pérez Cast: Monica Molinet, Kevin Serra, Annieye Cárdenas, Waldo Franco Contact: daranas@cubarte.cult.cu Director filmography: Four Doors (2015), Yunaisy (2014), The Premiere (2014), Yusniel (2014), Yoandry’s Diary (2013)
Alicia dreams of being an actress, but works as a clown in a mediocre traveling circus. Going on tour through a remote mountain community where there isn’t even electricity, she meets Abelito, a child with a skin illness that doesn’t allow him exposure to sunlight... PU
Cutaway
Kepler
Scottish premiere Canada | 2014 | 7 min
International premiere Greece | 2014 | 14 min
Director/Writer: Kazik Radwanski
Director/Writer: George Drivas
Producer: Dan Montgomery
Producer: Athanasios Polychronopoulos
Cinematographer: Nikolay Michaylov
Cinematographer: Claudio Bolivar
Editor: Ajla Odobasic
Sound: George Ramandanis
Contact: info@mdff.ca
Editor: Christos Gakis
Director filmography: Tower (2012), Green Crayons (2010), Out in that Deep Blue Sea (2009), Princess Margaret Blvd. (2008)
Cast: Nika Tavadze, Nino Koridze, Gia Burjanadze
Cutaway portrays a phase in the life of a single young man as he works as a labourer, pursues relationships with women, and comes to terms with a life-changing event. Told through close details of hands and objects, this film intimately portrays uncertainty and loss.
Contact: drivas@drivas.org Director filmography: Sequence Error (2011), Empirical Data (2009), Case Study (2007–2008), The Decision (2007), Beta Test (2006), Closed Circuit (2005), Business and Pleasure (2002), Am I just an ordinary processor? (2002), GPS: Global Positioning System (2001)
Kepler is a newly discovered planet with supposedly the same air and ground conditions as earth. It is a planet that could possibly support human life. Is Kepler a retro-futuristic fairy tale, a commentary on today’s politics of development or just a bad joke?
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Bath House Simhall
All The Pain In The World
Scottish premiere Sweden | 2014 | 15 min
Scottish premiere UK | 2013 | 12 min
Director: Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Director/Writer: Tommaso Pitta
Writers: Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Jerker Virdborg
Producer: Tommaso Pitta
Producer: Kalle Wettre Cast: Inga-Lill Fridberg, Johannes Nyholm, Carl Johan De Geer, Linnea Wikblad, Hugo CarlĂŠn Contact: theo.tsappos@sfi.se Director filmography: Tord and Tord (2010), En Natt i Moskva (2008)
Six animals meet at the swimming pool. The horse, the pool's manager, is a dedicated, conscientious friend of order. Over the years the premises have become her whole world. Two wolves come to the pool to bathe. Their relationship is hard to define, but one wolf constantly wields power over the other. Three mice also visit the pool, but they have a different agenda altogether...
Cinematographer: Tristan Chenais Sound: Marton Kristof Music: Huw Bunford Editor: Daniel Davies Production Designer: Daisy Bunyan Cast: Peter Faulkner, Cornelius Clark, Philippa George, Matt Mason Contact: tommipitta@gmail.com Director filmography: How I Didn’t Become A Piano Player (2014), Thank You For Coming (2012)
London. Christmas time. A man is desperately trying to save the life of a minuscule fish, but the situation spirals out of control... Based on the short story Tutto il dolore del mondo by Michele Mari.
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5: MOTION SICKNESS
Shipwreck
Xenos
UK premiere Netherlands | 2014 | 15 min
UK/Greece | 2013 | 12 min
Director/Writer: Morgan Knibbe
Director/Writer: Mahdi Fleifel Producer: Patrick Campbell
Producers: Morgan Knibbe, Jos de Putter
Cinematographer: Mahdi Fleifel
Cinematographer: Morgan Knibbe
Sound: Gunnar Oskarsson
Sound: Noah Pepper, Taco Drijfhout, Vincent Sinceretti
Editor: Michael Aaglund
Music: Carlos Dalla-Fiore
Contact: patrick@nakbafilmworks.com
Editor: Morgan Knibbe Contact: mork@workofmork.nl Director filmography: Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (2014), A Twist in the Fabric of Space (2012)
On 3 October 2013, a boat carrying 500 Eritrean refugees sank off the coast of the Italian island Lampedusa. 360 of them drowned. While survivor Abraham walks through a graveyard of shipwrecks remembering the experience, chaos breaks loose at the harbour when hundreds of coffins are loaded onto a military ship.
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Cast: Bassam ‘Abu Eyad’ Taha
Director filmography: Men In The Sun (2015) (in development), A World Not Ours (2012), Arafat & I (2008)
Xenos (Greek: ξένος, xénos): stranger, enemy, alien In 2010, Abu Eyad and other young Palestinian men from the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon travelled with smugglers through Syria and Turkey into Greece. They found themselves trapped in a country undergoing economic, political, and social collapse.
Biscayne World International premiere USA | 2014 | 11 min Directors: Michael Arcos, Marnie Ellen Writers: Alouishous San Gomma, Michael Arcos, Marnie Ellen Producers: Lucas Leyva, Jillian Mayer Cinematographers: Marnie Ellen, Michael Arcos, Julian Rodriguez Sound: Michael Arcos Music: Michael Arcos Editor: Michael Arcos Production Designers: Marnie Ellen, Alouishous San Gomma, Michael Arcos Animation: Marnie Ellen, Michael Arcos Cast: Alouishous San Gomma, Billy, Cy, Wes, Flaco Contact: contact@borschtcorp.com
South Florida native Ahol Sniffs Glue (Alouishious San Gomma) is known for soaring urban murals depicting expansive fields of drowsy eyes, reflecting his unique vision of life, labour and unrequited love of the mean streets of Miami. Biscayne World is Ahol’s first cinematic work with directors Michael Arcos and Marnie Ellen. di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
What I Forgot to Say UK premiere Germany | 2014 | 9 min
Subtotal Scottish premiere Norway | 2014 | 19 min Director/Writer: Gunhild Enger
Traveling Shots: NYC European premiere USA | 2014 | 16 min
Director/Writer: Patrick Buhr
Producer: Gudrun Austli
Director/Writer: Diane Nerwen
Producer: Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Cinematographer: Peter Ask
Producer: Diane Nerwen
Contact: b.patrick.b@gmx.de
A flaneur tries to explain what purposeless walking is about and how he became what he is. As time goes on he realises that he talks like he walks and reaches a conclusion.
Sound: Baard Haugan Ingebretsen, Andreas Lindberg Svensson
Sound: Diane Nerwen Editor: Diane Nerwen
Editor: VĂĽrin Andersen Contact: nerwen@earthlink.net Prop Master: Thomas Ă˜yjordbakken Costume & Make-up: Ida Wangen Camera: Kjetil Fodnes Cast: Leif Edlund, Hanne Tangen, Kurt Zickfeldt
Director filmography: Up On the Farm (2011), Open House (2009), FUH2 (2006), The Sexorcist: Revirginize (2005), The Thief of Bagspdad (2003), The Great Yoddish Love (2002), In the Blood (2000), Spank (1999), Under the Skin game (1996)
Contact: amb@nfi.no Director filmography: A Simpler Life (2013), Premature (2012), Passion (2008)
What is the true cost of a bargain? The story of an untraditional encounter between a Swedish salesman and a Norwegian couple on their monthly bargain hunting trip across the border between Norway and Sweden.
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Traveling Shots: NYC moves through streets, alleys, bridges and subways on a remixed trip through the iconic movie city. Intercutting the past with the present, the real with the imagined, sounds and images from over 70 years of cinema merge into a kinetic city symphony.
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6: TROUBLE BREWING
Caravan UK premiere Australia | 2014 | 6 min Director/Writer: Keiran Watson-Bonnice Producer: Keiran Watson-Bonnice Cinematographer: Matt Wood Sound: Keiran Watson-Bonnice Music: Sun Araw Editor: Keiran Watson-Bonnice Production Designer: Keiran Watson-Bonnice
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Scottish premiere Norway | 2014 | 40 min
Producers: Pooya Razi, Simmer Sawhney
Director/Writer: Joern Utkilen Producers: Ruben Thorkildsen, Isak Eymundsson Cinematographers: Martin Radich, Julian Schwanitz
Sound Recordist: Miles Bennett
Sound: RJ McConnell
Co-Producer: Matt Wood
Music: John Lemke, Arvid Sletta
Cast: Theo Watson-Bonnice, Jonas Bonnice-Stevens, Dave McCaffery, Jamie Tatarczuk
Editor: Mirja Melberg
Contact: keiran@redlodgefilms.com Director filmography: Wild Will (2015), Genius (2003), Sao Paulo (2003), The Red Lodge (2001), The Duck Film (2000)
Set in the Australian bush, a 1970s caravan is parked on an empty lot. Inside, three-yearold Theo and his six-year-old cousin Jonas are searching for loot. The phone rings and an outgoing answering machine message gets their attention, “G’day, you’ve got Dave’s phone. I’m not here right now, please leave a message”. Filmed in an observational and improvised style, Caravan is a non-linear look at youthful consciousness. QO
UK premiere | Iran | 2014 | 18 min Director/Writer: Pooya Razi
Cinematographer: Amirhossein Shahnazi Sound: Javad Safari Music: Pedram Niksirat Editor: Pooya Razi Production Designer: Pooya Razi
Production Designer: Julie Lozach Asskildt
Cast: Marjan Razavi, Mina Poorkarimi, Amirhossein Shahnazi
Cast: Ole Johan Skjelbred, Heidi Goldmann, Anders Ravn-Nilsen, Maria Halseth, Adrian Williumsen
Contact: razi.pooya@gmail.com
Contact: amb@nfi.no Director filmography: Asylum (2011), Wind Over Lake (2011), Little Red Hoodie (2008), No Coke (2007), My New Job (2007), Size 5 (2005), Paper Anniversary (2004), Terrorist (2003), My Job III (2001), Paperclipmaker (2000), My Job II (2000), My Job (2000)
A young man's life in an apartment building gets invaded by public norms when a neighbour accuses him of leading an immoral lifestyle and demands that other residents intervene. Using real documented audio footage, the film explores the line between individual privacy and public noise.
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Parking UK premiere Bulgaria/UK | 2014 | 19 min
HallgrĂmur og Jeremy UK premiere | USA | 2014 | 3 min
Director/Writer: Ivaylo Minov Producer: Stela Pavlova
Director/Writer: Jeanette Bonds
Cinematographer: Orlin Ruevski
Producer: Jeanette Bonds
Sound: Kaloyan Dimitrov
Sound: Jeanette Bonds, Caleb Wood
Music: Kaloyan Dimitrov Editor: Alexander Etimov
Contact: jeanettebonds@gmail.com
Production Designer: Severina Stoyanova
Director filmography: Trusts & Estates (2014), Systematic Disease (2014), Laser Non Laser (2013), Limitations (2013), 14.7 PSI (2010)
Associate Procuders: Stephanie Bretherton, Orlin Ruevski, Christopher Bojilov Cast: Joreta Nikolova, Valentin Ganev, Stefan Valdobrev, Valentin Marinov-Pelo, Nina Boyanova
Two boys discover violence. One discovers regret.
Contact: liaminov@gmail.com Director filmography: Lunch Break (2012), The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2012), The Rabbit and the Woodcutter (2007)
Irina is under pressure. She has something very important to attend to, but she is running out of time. Rushing to do her groceries, she will have to put an end to a love affair‌ and survive a car accident. Bruised and slightly late, Irina finally gets home, where her husband anxiously awaits her return.
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 7: PAST HISTORIC
Mondial 2010 Scottish premiere Lebanon | 2014 | 19 min Director/Writer: Roy Dib Producer: Roy Dib Sound: Fadi Tabbal, Stephane Reeves (Tunefork Recording Studios)
The Journal of Fort Zeelandia Le Journal du Fort Zeelandia
Seven times a day we bemoan our lot and at night we get up to avoid dreaming
UK premiere | France | 2014 | 10 min
Editor: Roy Dib
Director/Writer: Kai-Chun Chiang
Cast: Abed Kobeissy, Ziad Chakaroun
Producer: Le Fresnoy, studio National des arts contemporains
Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und nachts stehen wir auf, um nicht zu träumen
Contact: roydeeb@gmail.com
Cinematographers: Kai-Chun Chiang, Julien Guillery
UK premiere Germany | 2014 | 18 min
Sound: Sébastien Cabour, Christian Cartier, Maxence Ciekawy
Director/Writer: Susann Maria Hempel
Mondial 2010 is a discussion of institutional borders in the modern day Middle East. It uses video as an apparatus to transgress boundaries that are inflicted on people in spite of them. It is a travel film in a trajectory that doesn’t allow travel, starring two male lovers in a setting where homosexuality is a punishable felony. It is a shift from the mainstream passive view of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict that places the victim/oppressor in the forefront of the produced imagery. Note: Relations between Israelis and Lebanese are governed by the 1943 Lebanese Criminal Code and the 1955 Lebanese AntiIsraeli Boycott Law, the former of which forbids any interaction with nationals of enemy states, and the latter of which specifies Israelis, making a trip for a Lebanese citizen to Israel (or Palestinian Territories) impossible.
Music: Chen Leiji
Producer: Susann Maria Hempel
Editors: Kai-Chun Chiang, Mathias Bouffier
Cinematographer: Berta Valín Escofet
Production Designer: Kai-Chun Chiang
Music: Susann Maria Hempel
Sound: Susann Maria Hempel
Animation: Kai-Chun Chiang
Editor: Susann Maria Hempel
Contact: kai-chun.chiang@live.fr
Production Designer: Susann Maria Hempel
Real images and animated paintings make up a fantastical, lyrical and rhythmic experience – superimposing images of wind turbines, dams and barriers in the modern day Netherlands, to explore the lost history of the Zeelandia fort from 17th century Taiwan.
Scenography: Susann Maria Hempel, Philipp Herlt Contact: s.m.hempel@gmx.de Director filmography: The Bit Rot (2012/13), The World in Stillness Clouded (2012), The Flies (The Birds II) (2010), The Man who didn’t want to cry (2009)
A cinematic devotional book. Based on interviews with an unemployable sufferer (and his fellows) living in the East German countryside, who lost his memory in 1989 and woke up into several nightmares. di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
The Pride of Strathmoor UK premiere USA/Iceland | 2014 | 9 min
Swimming in Your Skin Again
Director/Writer: Einar Baldvin
UK premiere USA | 2014 | 24 min
Producer: Einar Baldvin
Director/Writer: Terence Nance
Cinematographer: Einar Baldvin
Producers: Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Keisha Rae Witherspoon, Jonathan David Kane
Sound: Einar Baldvin Music: Atli Arnarson
Cinematographer: Shawn Peters
Editor: Einar Baldvin
Sound: Joel C. Hernandez
Production Designer: Einar Baldvin
Music: Norvis Jr.
Cast: Geoffrey Gould
Editor: Terence Nance
Contact: einarbaldvinanimation@gmail.com
Production Designer: Faren Humes
Director filmography: Baboon (2011), Catatonic (2009)
Extracts from the journal of Pastor John Deitman, Strathmoor, Georgia. June & July, 1927
Executive Producers: Lucas Leyva, Jillian Mayer Cast: Norvis Jr., Hadassah Amani, Genoa O’Brien, Vicky Lynn Washington-Nance Contact: contact@borschtcorp.com Director filmography: The Triptych (2013), An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2013)
A film about motherhood, banality, Miami, the water, the divine feminine, and how to sing in church in a way that calls forth your own adulthood. A man contemplates the state of his life in various locations in and around South Florida: a Catholic church, the swamp, in the backyard, by the water, in the streets, all during rituals. di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 8: FIELD STUDIES
System Scottish premiere UK | 2014 | 11 min
The Claustrum Monkey Love Scottish premiere Experiments USA | 2014 | 16 min
Director/Writer: Cecilia Stenbom
Director: Jay Rosenblatt
Producer: Gerry Maguire
Writer: Susanne Chassay
Cinematographer: Emma Dalesman Sound: Andy Ludbrook
Producer: Jay Rosenblatt
UK | 2014 | 9 min Directors/Writers: Ainslie Henderson, Will Anderson Producer: Cameron Fraser
Editor: Jay Rosenblatt Contact: jayr@jayrosenblattfilms.com
Cinematographer: Ryan Suess Sound: John Cobban
Music: Ziad Jabero Editor: Harry Jenkinson Production Designer: Kate Eccles Associate Producer: Mark Chapman Cast: Arabella Arnott, Georgina Wilkes, Aiste Gramantaite Contact: cecilia@stenbom.se Director filmography: In Waiting (2014), The Case (2013), How To Choose (2012)
System is set inside a shopping centre, the film follows two sisters; one anxious about her personal safety, the other concerned with the invisible threat of infection. The fictional screenplay is based on interviews with members of the public about their own experiences, routines and preferences in public space.
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Director filmography: Inquire Within (2012), The D Train (2011), The Darkness of Day (2009), Four Questions for a Rabbi (2008), Beginning Filmmaking (2008), I Just Wanted To Be Somebody (2006), Afraid So (2006), Phantom Limb (2005), I'm Charlie Chaplin (2005), I Like It a Lot (2004), I Used to Be a Filmmaker (2003), Friend Good (2003), Prayer (2002), Underground Zero (2002), Decidi! (2002), Worm (2001), Nine Lives: The Eternal Moment of Now (2001), King of the Jews (2000), RESTRICTED (1999), drop (1999), a pregnant moment (1999), Human Remains (1998), Period Piece (1996), The Smell of Burning Ants (1994), Short Of Breath (1990), Brain in the Desert (1990), Paris X 2 (1988), Blood Test (1985), Doubt (1981)
Based on actual psychoanalytic case studies, The Claustrum focuses on three women who are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.
Music: Atzi, Jason Mraz Editor: Neil Jack Cast: Tobias Feltus Contact: mail@whiterobot.co.uk Director filmography: Ainslie Henderson: I Am Tom Moody (2012), It’s About Spending Time Together (2011) Will Anderson: Sweetie & Sunshine (2012), The Making of Longbird (2011)
Inspired by love, a misguided monkey believes he is destined for the moon. While man lands on the moon in 1969, a world famous psychologist experiments on primates to better understand the nature of love.
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Radioactive UK premiere Japan | 2014 | 35 min
World of Tomorrow
Director: Atsushi Funahashi
European premiere USA | 2015 | 17 min
Producer: Yoshiko Hashimoto
Director/Writer: Don Hertzfeldt
Cinematographers: Atsushi Funahashi, Yutaka Yamazaki
Producer: Don Hertzfeldt
Sound: Tomoji Kuwaki Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto Editor: Atsushi Funahashi Executive Producer: Takashi Echigoya Cast: The People of Futaba, Fukushima; People of the greater Futaba area, Fukushima; Katsutaka Idogawa, Mayor of Futaba; Naoto Kan, former Prime Minister of Japan; Masami Yoshizawa, Ranch of Hope, Fukushima Contact: info@nuclearnation.jp Director filmography: Nuclear Nation II (2014), Cold Bloom (2012), Nuclear Nation (2012), Deep In The Valley (2009), Big River (2005), Echoes (2002)
Cinematographer: Don Hertzfeldt Sound: Don Hertzfeldt Editor: Don Hertzfeldt Cast: Julia Pott, Winona Mae Contact: bitterfilms@hotmail.com Director filmography: The Simpsons couch gag (2014), It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) (feature film version), It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011), Wisdom Teeth (2010), I Am So Proud of You (2008), Everything will be OK (2006), The Meaning of Life (2005), Rejected (2000), Billy's Balloon (1998), Lily and Jim (1997), Genre (1996), Ah, L'Amour (1995)
A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.
People from the town of Futaba are still dealing with the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered on March 11, 2011. The Fukushima prefectural government has delayed conducting exposure exams for all residents. The invisible threat of radiation is taking over in many parts of their lives. di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
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CHANNEL 4 AWARD JURY PENELOPE BARTLETT Penelope Bartlett is currently a programmer for Chicago International Film Festival, an associate programmer for Palm Springs International Film Festival, and a short film programming advisor for Aspen Shortfest. She previously worked for Tribeca Film Festival, as Education Officer for Glasgow Film Theatre and as co-director and programmer of Glasgow Short Film Festival. She has also curated diverse moving image programmes for a number of galleries and arts organisations. She studied Film & Television at University of Glasgow and has served as a panelist and juror at various film festivals and events. She recently associate produced Blood Below the Skin by Jennifer Reeder, which world premiered at the 2015 Berlinale. MARBELLE Once upon a time I lived in a world free from independent film, until stumbling upon Portishead’s To Kill a Dead Man on late night shorts showcase The Shooting Gallery. Years later, a lone trip to see Buffalo 66 had me in awe of a director’s ability to forge their own cinematic rules. Since then I've steeped myself in film – working as Features Editor of Showreel magazine, a Contributing Writer for Short of the Week, Editor of Shooting People’s Filmmakers Bulletin, and Co-Founder and Editor-inChief of Directors Notes since 2006. It's never been enough to just watch great work; a good film has to be shared, dissected and discussed. SUSIE WRIGHT Susie Wright is the newly appointed Channel 4 Nations and Regions Executive. Previously a Development Manager for the Creative Diversity Department, her role is to manage the key supplier relationships across the UK on behalf of Channel 4 and to enhance engagement between key stakeholders externally in the nations and internally within Channel 4. She works with a number of regional and national screen agencies to find new avenues and means for creative and financial collaboration. In addition, Susie is also the editorial lead for the Shooting Gallery, Channel 4’s late night new talent short film showcase, often working in partnership with the UK film festivals to identify and select the most promising new UK film-making talent for the strand. QU
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CHANNEL 4 AWARD FOR INNOVATION IN STORYTELLING The shortlisted films are: All the Pain in the World I Tommaso Pitta I International Competition 4 BB I Kate Burton I Scottish Competition 4 Boat I David Lumsden I Scottish Competition 1 Directed by Tweedie I Duncan Cowles I Scottish Competition 1 Misery Guts I Rory Alexander Stewart I Scottish Competition 2 Monkey Love Experiments I Ainslie Henderson, Will Anderson Scottish Competition 2 / International Competition 8 Our Father I Artur Zaremba I Scottish Competition 1 System I Cecilia Stenbom I International Competition 8 Tapes from the Revolutionary I Scott Willis I Scottish Competition 3 Tracks I Claire Oakley I Scottish Competition 1
jbbq=qeb=cfijj^hbop CCA CLUBROOM Sunday 15 March (17.30) 2h
All Scottish and International competition screenings will include brief Q&As with the filmmakers attending. However, once all the competition programmes have screened, but before the winners are announced, here’s your chance to participate in an informal discussion session with some of the filmmakers attending, led by festival director Matt Lloyd. Free entry
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EVENTS
VERTICAL CINEMA
THE BRIGGAIT Wednesday 11 March (Doors 20.30, event starts 21.00) 2h, N/C 15+
'You hear it everywhere: cinema is tipping over – its epic and dramatic forms are spilling over into television, avant-garde and experimental films have fled to the galleries, and all the images that once belonged to it are now available everywhere, anytime. At the Austrian Film Museum, we tend to refrain from such sweeping and simple-minded swan songs. For this very reason, we are honoured to participate in Vertical Cinema – a project committed to taking one step at a time. Instead of trying to tip cinema in its entirety into the digital netherworld, this project is content with just tipping the screen – observing how an artform changes if you respectfully chafe at its edges.'
Chrome Netherlands | 2013 | 8 min Director: Esther Urlus
Alexander Horwath, Director of the Austrian Film Museum
Bring Me The Head of Henri Chrétien! Austria | 2013 | 8 min Directors: Billy Roisz, Dieter Kovačič
Vertical Cinema is a series of ten newly commissioned large-scale, site-specific works by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers and audiovisual artists, presented on 35 mm celluloid and projected vertically with a custom-built projector in vertical cinemascope. The 90-minute programme premiered at Kontraste Dark As Light Festival 2013 and had its international premiere on 24 January 2014 at International Film Festival Rotterdam.
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The ten experimental films are screened live on a vertical monument. They are a unique blend of abstract cinema, structural experiments, found footage remixes, chemical film explorations and live laser action. The results of this challenging commission represent a provocation to expand the cinematic image onto a new axis. verticalcinema.org Tickets £8 RO
#43 Netherlands | 2013 | 11 min Director: Joost Rekveld Louver Germany, Austria | 2013 | 11 min Director: Björn Kämmerer V~ Austria | 2013 | 9 min Director: Manuel Knapp
Lunar Storm Netherlands | 2013 | 4 min Director: Rosa Menkman Deorbit Japan, Netherlands | 2013 | 18 min Director: Makino Takashi, Telcosystems Colterrain Austria | 2013 | 10 min Director: Tina Frank Pyramid Flare Austria | 2013 | 6 min Director: Johann Lurf Walzkörpersperre Netherlands | 2013 | 11 min Directors: Gert-Jan Prins, Martijn van Boven di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
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THE GLUE FACTORY Saturday 14 March (Doors for screening 20.00, starts 20.30. Doors for party 21.30, first act starts 22.00) 5h30m, 18+ Sähkö the Movie I Finland I 1995 I 44 min I Directed by Jimi Tenor
Sähkö the Movie documents Finnish ultra-minimalist techno label Sähkö Recordings in its mid-90s prime. Best known for their sparse, ultra-minimal sound, Sähkö’s early releases have become a benchmark in electronic music. This 16mm film, directed by label chief Jimi Tenor, shows Mika Vainio aka Ø, Pan(a)sonic, Hertsi and Tenor at work in the studio making tracks on their trademark custom-built analogue equipment, hand pressing limited edition vinyl releases and eardrum rupturing live performances. Keith McIvor aka JD Twitch makes a brief appearance when the film travels to Glasgow. Jimi and Twitch present a twentieth anniversary screening, followed by live sets by Jimi Tenor and Golden Teacher, and DJ sets by JD Twitch and Bake. Screening and party £12. Party only £8.
A WALL IS A SCREEN CCA TERRACE BAR (OUTSIDE) Saturday 14 March (19.30) 1h30m, N/C 15+
Originating in Hamburg, A Wall Is A Screen is a combination of guided city tour and film night. Participants walk through downtown and stop at bright walls where short films of various genres are shown. After the end of each film, the group continues on to the next wall and film. As a guided city tour the project brings residents to parts of their city they may have not been, or invites them to look on familiar walls with fresh eyes. As a film night, the project can have surprising effects. A film engages with its screening location. The location and passers-by seem to interact with the film, become part of it. Street noises seem to have an impact on the action of the plot. The selection of films for the individual event depends on the thematic focus. The archive of the Hamburg Short Film Agency – approximately 10,000 films – is at the team’s disposal, allowing each event to be uniquely tailored to its surroundings. Free unticketed event: meet outside CCA Terrace Bar, Scott Street. di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
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DANIEL WOLFE: MUSIC VIDEO MASTERCLASS CCA THEATRE Friday 13 March (21.30) 1h30m
Genius is an overused word, but Daniel Wolfe’s videos, such as Chase & Status’ Blind Faith and Paolo Nutini’s Iron Sky, come close. Each one a technically brilliant piece of visual storytelling, they elevate the songs to new emotional levels without overwhelming them. Daniel’s career in film began while travelling in Vietnam, with a job working on Anthony Minghella’s production of The Quiet American. Once back in London he directed a 20-minute short, 93 ’til Infinity. After signing to Partizan in 2006, Daniel went on to make promos for The Horrors, Roisin Murphy, Duffy and Take That. In 2010 Daniel started working on a series of videos for artist Plan B to accompany the triple-platinum selling album The Defamation of Strickland Banks. That year he won the prestigious Best Director award at UK Music Video Awards. He signed to Somesuch in 2010 and has since directed acclaimed commercials for brands including San Miguel, Cobra, Guinness, Tesco, Puma and HTC. He has also made music videos for Chase & Status and, most famously, The Shoes’ Time to Dance, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a hipster-slaying serial killer, became an instant YouTube sensation. In 2014 Daniel directed Iron Sky, a video for Paulo Nutini, which has since won two UK MVAs, two Cameraimage awards and a Grand Prix at Ciclope Festival. Don’t miss this chance to hear Daniel show and talk about his promo work, as well as his recent move into feature direction with the critically acclaimed Catch Me Daddy (GFF2015).
KEVIN B. LEE: DESKTOP DOCUMENTARY CCA THEATRE Friday 13 March (15.30) 1h45m
Desktop documentary is an emerging form of filmmaking developed at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This form of filmmaking treats the computer screen as both a camera lens and a canvas, tapping into its potential as an artistic medium. If the documentary genre is meant to capture life’s reality, then desktop recording acknowledges that computer screens and the internet are now a primary experience of our daily lives, as well as a primary repository of information. Desktop documentary seeks to both depict and question the ways we explore the world through the computer screen. Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, film critic and producer of nearly 200 video essays exploring film and media. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he created Transformers: The Premake, a critical investigation into the global big budget film industry, amateur video making, and the political economy of images. Kevin will outline his fresh approach to documentary in this vital workshop, presented in association with Scottish Documentary Institute.
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DUANE HOPKINS IN CONVERSATION: DIRECTING ACTORS CCA THEATRE Friday 13 March (11.00) 2h
Duane Hopkins' short films Field (2001) and Love Me Or Leave Me Alone (2003) won over 30 international awards including the Gold Hugo from Chicago, Best British Short at Edinburgh and the Prix UIP European Film Academy nomination. His debut feature film Better Things premiered at International Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival 2008, where it was nominated for the Camera D’Or. It was awarded the FIPRESCI critics' award in Stockholm and the SIGNIS award from the World Catholic Association for Communication amongst other distinctions. His second equally uncompromising feature Bypass (2014) premiered at Venice Film Festival in September. Duane has coaxed extraordinarily honest performances out of first time or untrained actors. Don’t miss this in-depth conversation in which Duane will discuss every aspect of directing actors and non-actors, from casting and rehearsing to shooting and editing performance.
FILMING THE LIST CCA THEATRE Sunday 15 March (13.00) 2h, N/C 15+ The List UK | 2014 | 49 min Director: Morag McKinnon
The List transforms the intimacy of live theatre directly onto the big screen. In 2013, theatre company Stellar Quines, in association with Screen Academy Scotland at Edinburgh Napier University, set out to discover how a mid scale theatre company can reach a larger audience in the cinema, something big players like the Met Opera have had conspicuous success with but which, until now, has been beyond the reach of Scottish theatre companies. Restaging their award-winning Edinburgh Festival Fringe production The List, Stellar Quines commissioned BAFTA-winning film director Morag McKinnon to work alongside stage director Muriel Romanes and actress Maureen Beattie to produce a cinema version of the play. Their aim was to create a filmed experience that didn’t compromise the live-ness and intimacy of the actor’s relationship with an audience. This screening of the film will be followed by a discussion between theatre and filmmakers about the opportunities for collaboration between these two art forms. Image of Maureen Beattie by Caroline Webster
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SYMPOSIUM: SHORT FILM (AND) CRITICISM CCA THEATRE Saturday 14 March (10.30) 7h30m
The GSFF15 symposium is devoted to film criticism in the context of short film: critical writing on short film, short film curation as a form of criticism, and short filmmaking as criticism. The symposium will examine how short film’s distribution in the digital sphere both invites different approaches to criticism and presents challenges to more traditional forms of criticism. With the exception of writing on avant-garde and artists' moving image work, there is currently limited long-form criticism of short film. However there are plenty of examples of short critical responses existing alongside films online. The very nature of short film allows a critic to easily compile, compare and contrast films online, just as a curator can quickly demonstrate an argument in putting together a programme of short films. The symposium will also examine the growing trend amongst critics and academics for producing video essays – short filmmaking itself as a new form of criticism – analysing visual style, editing, sound or other aspects of a single film or body of work in ways that the written word cannot. We are delighted that two pioneers in this field, Kevin B. Lee and Dr Catherine Grant (University of Sussex), will attend the symposium. 10.30 – 10.45 Welcome 10.45 – 12.15 Criticism on Short Film Chair: Dr David Archibald, University of Glasgow Speakers: Suzanne van der Lingen; MarBelle, Directors Notes; Professor Richard Raskin, Aarhus University; Jorge Rivero, Cortosfera 12.30 – 14.00 Short Film Curation as Criticism Chair: Susan Kemp, University of Edinburgh Speakers: Lizelle Bisschoff, Africa in Motion Film Festival, Isla Leaver-Yap, LUX Scotland, Christoffer Olofsson, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Laura Walde, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur Discussion will draw on the programme curated and presented by University of Edinburgh MSc Film, Exhibition and Curation students, Anatomy of a Film Programme (Friday 13 March) 14.00 – 15.00 Lunch 15.10 – 16.45 Short Film as Criticism Chair: Dr Ian Garwood, University of Glasgow Speakers: Dr Catherine Grant, University of Sussex, Kevin B. Lee 17.00 – 17.45 Screening: Transformers: The Premake Introduced by Kevin B. Lee, followed by Q&A chaired by Dr Pasquale Iannone, University of Edinburgh 18.00 – 19.30 Drinks The symposium is free to attend. To register for a place please email shorts@glasgowfilm.org. Presented by Glasgow Short Film Festival and University of Glasgow School of Culture & Creative Arts in association with University of Edinburgh: MSc Film, Exhibition & Curation and Scottish Media and Communications Association
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TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE USA | 2014 | 25 min Director: Kevin B. Lee
Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth instalment of the Transformers movie franchise directed by Michael Bay, was released June 27 2014. But well before the film was released, one could already access an immense trove of production footage on YouTube, recorded by amateurs in locations where the film was shot, such as Utah, Texas, Detroit, Chicago, Hong Kong and mainland China. Transformers: the Premake turns 355 YouTube videos into a critical investigation of the global big budget film industry, amateur video making, and the political economy of images. “In 2013 it happened that the new Transformers movie was filming in Chicago where I live, so I decided to observe what the production was doing in the city. I came away with dozens of hours of footage, and not just of the production, but of other spectators who were also busily filming on their phones and cameras. Later I noticed that many of these spectators were posting their videos on YouTube, revealing some remarkable details of the movie that I didn’t expect would be allowed to stay online. Some were even making money off their videos with ads. I also noticed that some videos were blocked. “I became fascinated with two different kinds of movie making: the gigantic global blockbuster production of Transformers on one hand, and the hundreds of little videos documenting the production on the other. I started to explore their relationship to each other and the economic, cultural and political factors that might inform their production and circulation. And then I started to wonder if this investigation could become a film in itself, as if I was in some way remaking my own version of Transformers. Then I realized that I wasn’t really ‘remaking’ Transformers, but ‘premaking’ it.” Kevin B. Lee
ANATOMY OF A SHORT FILM PROGRAMME CCA CINEMA Friday 13 March (19.30) 1h45m, N/C 15+
How do short film programmes shape the films they contain? Kickstarting the discussion on short film curation as criticism in Saturday’s symposium, students of Film, Exhibition and Curation at the University of Edinburgh present a programme of short films, alongside their analysis of every curatorial decision, considering their reasons for both selection and rejection. This dissection of curatorial creative processes aims to lay bare implications of criticism, contextualization and taste-making in short film curation. di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
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‘COMING-OF-AGE IS AN ONGOING PROCESS’ AN INTERVIEW WITH JENNIFER REEDER Artful, fantastic, challenging people and events occur in the states between New York and LA. Jennifer Reeder has made more than forty-five films and moving image works in the last twenty years, but now is undoubtedly her time. Debuting at Rotterdam last January, A Million Miles Away picked up awards across Europe before being embraced by the US indie establishment at this January’s Sundance. In its wake, GSFF’s focus on her work is just one of several retrospectives due to take place in 2015. It is particularly remarkable that Oberhausen, the festival that prides itself on its obtusely singular programming, is for once falling in line with many other festivals in celebrating the work of this crossover artist... or perhaps the rest of us have just caught up. GSFF will be the second festival after Berlin to feature Jennifer’s new film Blood Below the Skin in competition. For the focus programme we selected the four films that most clearly relate to this latest work – in tone, setting, character and motif. Whilst Reeder’s avowed aim is to make films she’s never seen before, these films – A Million Miles Away and the Forevering trilogy – draw on a milieu that is familiar to moviegoers the world over – that of the US high school, with its hierarchies and preoccupations: who said what to whom, who’s taking whom to the prom, and so on. Reeder uses the teen movie genre as shorthand to draw the viewer into the messy, uncomfortable world she wishes to explore, and which resembles our own lives far more closely. Reeder’s characters wear their flaws and vulnerabilities openly, as seeping, poorly plastered body wounds – a split earlobe, a broken nose or sliced fingertip. Inopportune uncontrollable bleeding is reflected in the emotions and desires that can burst forth at any moment, with tragi-comic results. For Reeder, we are all scared kids under the surface, doodling vulvas and making the same mistakes in life and love over and over again. Communication is the common theme of these films. A wife can predict her husband’s words, but cannot find the language to express her true feelings for him. Another husband uses language as a weapon against his therapist wife, who is constricted both
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professionally and personally by her extreme discomfort with certain words. Yet teenage girls communicate through secret languages of texting, tracing on each other’s back, even telepathy. Song is a unifier, whether the girl choirs of A Million Miles Away and Blood Below the Skin, belting out heartfelt renditions of Judas Priest and The Smiths as expressions of solidarity, or more tragically in a husband and wife duet of Foreigner’s Waiting For A Girl Like You. GSFF Director Matt Lloyd spoke to Jennifer in advance of the Glasgow showcase. All your work is set in the Midwest. Was it a conscious decision to work at a distance from the traditional filmmaking centres of LA and New York? What is it about Midwestern characters and stories that interests you? I grew up in Ohio and I live now in Indiana, so the Midwest has always been my home – it’s who I am. Artful, fantastic, challenging people and events occur in the states between New York and LA. I hope my films are proof of that. Since the beginning, I have been influenced by these middle states and all that sky and flatness – even more so by the people and their kind of everyday destructiveness and determination to cope. Certain socio-economic circumstances or cultural wastelands force people to make bad decisions. They linger in the wrong job or get themselves fired from the right one. They drop out of school, they date deadbeats, they can’t catch a break... They enter into a continuous laterally moving spiral. They are stuck, with not much to lose anyway. There is no external incentive to disrupt the spiral. It’s tense and endless, like the flatness of the Midwestern landscape itself. Your adult characters display the same traits, obsessions, fears and insecurities as the teenage characters. I am exactly as I was when I was 14 or so, but now I have children and a mortgage payment. Coming-of-age is an ongoing process. di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
Your recent films have drawn far more directly on conventions of narrative fiction than your earlier video work. What has prompted that shift? I would say that even in my earlier more abstract work, there was always a story. I define narrative storytelling conventionally, as an account, statement or anecdote with a linear plot and definitive conclusion. Each of the over forty-five films I have made examines an approach to narrative. They vary from my early experimental work, with abstract chains of events and no characters, to my recent work with classical story structure, motivated plots and realistic dialogue. My recent films are about women – adults and teenagers. I am committed to this voice and to producing unexpected narratives. I am trying to make films that I have never seen before. The unhurried pacing of the scripts and the awkward dialogue are purposeful and provide a meaningful counter to another type of story in which the pacing is predictable, the characters are blunt and the ending is satisfactory. Life is difficult and embarrassing and sad and lovely and lonely and I believe that the most effective contemporary filmmaking should reflect this striking complication. I‘m influenced by after school specials – those madefor-television dramas for adolescents and teenagers, that would be broadcast every month or so in an after-school time slot. They were popular primarily in the 80s. They’d present a crucial life lesson – touchy subjects like sexual development and experimentation. They were painfully stiff and melodramatic and I imagine were meant to inspire meaningful conversation between parents and children. Your work shares certain traits with that of another director of the Midwest – David Lynch. You both give your images a heightened, colour-saturated almost narcotic quality, and your work has a similar understated surrealism, barely-repressed emotion, the unhurried pace and intentionally awkward dialogue you just mentioned... Is Lynch an important influence on your work? Can you talk about other influences? Lynch is an influence as is Todd Haynes, Chantal Akerman, Lynne Ramsey, Andrea Arnold, Alice Munro, Debbie Harry... I could go on and on. I did not go to film school, I went to art school. I am influenced by color and texture and shapes as much as anything else. Art direction – the props, the set dressing, wardrobe, make-up – is very important to me. It supports the narrative and adds content. Think about the aprons, the cat sweatshirt, the coffee mugs, the nail polish... I try to inject artfulness into my films. I believe in beauty. I love your use of music. In particular And I Will Rise, if Only to Hold You Down is drenched in ambient music in a way that can be both intoxicating and overwhelming. For me, music is the soul of my films. It can inform both the plot and the emotional arc – it’s the element in my films that is both external and internal. I resist loading my films up with meaningless dialogue and instead use the score to give information about a di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
character’s motivation. The scores for both Seven Songs About Thunder and And I Will Rise, if Only to Hold You Down were composed by Ohio-based Casey Cooper who, along with his brother Jesse, is in a band called The Receiver. Their music melts me and it was very easy to work with Casey, to communicate to him how I wanted a scene to feel or to unfold via the score. The music drives the melodrama. My use – or sometimes, overuse – of the score is quite intentional, whereas for A Million Miles Away and Blood Below the Skin, I did not want the score to overwhelm the singing onscreen. The performed songs are crucial plot points that need no other musical distractions. These singing motifs reoccur in your films, not just the all girl choir, but also 80s torch songs repurposed and performed by individual characters. The chorale scenes in A Million Miles Away and Blood Below the Skin are about synchronicity. Whereas many other media forms pit women and girls against each other, I present them as unified – a real force in this world. I also think of the singing scenes as transcendental. They allow the audience a lingering moment to fully contemplate the surrounding narrative. In my opinion there are very few great films for teenage girls. Cinematically, they are grossly misrepresented. I hope my films get it right. Young women are beautifully challenging, magical and remarkable humans – my films are a celebration of this. I make the films for the grrrls and it is just a lovely extra if everyone else likes them as well. My films are certainly more ‘popular’ now than ever before and yet I feel firmly that I am making my most honest work so it’s a real win-win.
I am trying to make films that I have never seen before. You say you’re making films for teenage girls, but how do teenage girls, particularly in the Midwest, get to see your films? Is Cinema as you and I know it still a vital influence for kids born around the turn of the millennium? I do believe that films are still influential – maybe not short films unfortunately. Or at least teenagers and audiences in general have limited access to short films. Popular media, whether in music, movies or books, from what I can glean from observation, is still a form of religion for teenage girls. It’s evidenced in the popularity of the Twilight book series turned into movies, their soundtracks and so on. My films certainly aim to offer an alternative to something like the Twilight or Hunger Games franchise. But I see that girls still turn to a screen or literary hero or a voice singing on their iPod for guidance and comfort. ‘Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone, I hear you call my name, and it feels like home...’ How did you go about casting these films, particularly the young casts of A Million Miles Away and Blood Below the Skin? What form did rehearsals take? SN
All the girls in A Million Miles Away had some performing experiencing. We sent out calls to all the Chicago high schools, most of which have very vigorous music and theatre programs. Most of the girls did not know each other but they certainly all became good friends over the three days of shooting. We spent the first day with Jenne Lennon, who arranged the Judas Priest song and is a conductor for the Chicago Children’s Choir. She taught the song to the girls and rehearsed it over and over until they were ready to make a recording that they could sing back to on the following two days while filming. The dialogue is much heftier in Blood Below the Skin and so I rehearsed with those actors usually on the day of shooting while the crew was setting up. I communicated with them individually quite a bit prior to shooting – talked to them about their character and the tone of their scenes and the overall emotional arc and so on. I am a terrible actor and very uninteresting in front of the camera so I am truly inspired by and in awe of an actor’s ability to transform herself. With each film I get better at directing but mostly I am making it up as I go. For Blood Below the Skin I set out to make a fully functioning narrative, and that is a challenge. I went into production with what I thought was a very strong script – a clear plot, clear character arcs, a proper beginning, middle and end. This film is still very much of my voice of course. The biggest challenge for me with this tighter narrative was directing the actors through more dialogue than I have ever written – maintaining a certain emotional tension or texture through a conversation between characters. That tone can shift depending on the take used in the final cut. We cut and re-cut and re-cut all of the dialogue-heavy scenes multiple times to get the cadence and pathos right. It’s one thing while I’m writing it, it’s another when the camera is rolling and yet another while editing. With a less experimental narrative you cannot get away with fuzzy plot points and that process of eliminating the fuzzy at every step of production will take years off your life, but I LOVE the process! It’s like working a jigsaw puzzle made of jello – so many ways it could fit but only one way it should fit. Can you tell me a bit about the feature script that the Forevering trilogy grew from? Although all three films deal with communication in various ways, they seem quite distinct in terms of characters and setting. Why did you decide to make the shorts instead of the feature? The main two characters in the original Forevering script were the therapist from Seven Songs About Thunder (who is also the biological mother of Candice from And I Will Rise, if Only to Hold You Down, who is talked about but we do not see) and the sign language interpreter who appears in both Seven Songs and Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore I Weep. The main plot was about the relationship between these two women. The script overall was really terrible but parts were good and so I decided to take those good parts and make some shorts, rather than make a really terrible feature. These three films work well individually and
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also as a trilogy, but I never set out to make a proper trilogy of course – I just wanted to keep making films from the same source. I appreciate my ability to know when something I have written is shit. That feature script was shit. The feature script I am revising right now – which I have just received funding for from the US-based Creative Capital organization – is not shit!
Life is difficult and embarrassing and sad and lovely and lonely and I believe that the most effective contemporary filmmaking should reflect this striking complication. Congratulations on the Creative Capital award. Is this kind of grant quite rare in terms of feature filmmaking in the US? What kind of freedom does it allow you in comparison with more conventional, commercial forms of film financing? Indeed, this kind of funding is rare and coveted. I proposed exactly the film I want to make and I get to make that film. Creative Capital provides long-term support for the grantees in the form of ongoing mentorship and yearly retreats for alumni. They really care about the people they support and their investment is lasting and so so meaningful. I am enormously grateful for this award!
And what is the project you’re making? As With Knives and Skin is an experimental feature film told through multiple characters during the aftermath of a young girl’s disappearance in a rural, racially diverse town in Ohio. It’s a deadpan glimpse into the lives of both teenagers and adults, all looking for love and validation, equally self-conscious and self-absorbed. In the aftermath of the disappearance, as secrets are revealed, it is the teenagers, rather than their parents, who rise above and come together as a means to heal and move forward, rebelling against a social structure that dictates their behavior. In the painful process of shedding adolescence, these unwitting feminists empower themselves and each other. Finally, what does short film mean to you? Do you think you will return to short filmmaking at any point? I will always make more short films. I am actually making two more shorts this year while I am in development for the feature – one short I am hoping will be a US-UK-Euro co-production. All forms of short film, whether docs, fiction or experimental work, require a different kind of engagement than feature length films. Audiences are willing to do more work with a short – they assume that what they are watching is out of context and they need to figure out for themselves what has happened before the first frame and what will happen after the last frame. Shorts have more freedom to experiment with the form. Features have the pressure to tie up all the threads where shorts can play it loose and still entirely pull an audience in. I don’t think that shorts should be thought of as a means to a feature – short films are people too. di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
CCA THEATRE Thursday 12 March (21.00) Sunday 15 March (18.00) 1h30m, N/C 15+
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Seven Songs About Thunder USA | 2010 | 20 min Director/Writer: Jennifer Reeder
When a young woman with remarkable and hilarious coping skills finds the dead body of a teenage girl in the woods, she is forced to reconcile her greatest fear – her fantastically failing life. This is a dark comedy about a mother, a daughter, a liar, and her therapist.
Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep USA | 2011 | 10 min Director/Writer: Jennifer Reeder
A professional sign language interpreter becomes very unprofessional as she suffers a sincere but hilarious emotional breakdown during a gathering for hearing impaired physics enthusiasts whose motto is “Let’s Get PhysicScal”.
And I Will Rise, If Only To Hold You Down USA | 2011 | 24 min Director/Writer: Jennifer Reeder
A couple (an amateur magician and a modern dance instructor) discusses their impending and badly-hatched plan to break up, while in a nearby room, their teenager daughter and her BFF prepare for the high school dance. Multiple secret crushes are revealed. This is a story about loving, being loved, a glowing in the dark and slow jams.
A Million Miles Away USA | 2014 | 28 min Director/Writer: Jennifer Reeder
Melancholy as a survival strategy in the American Midwest. An adult woman on the edge of failing and a pack of teenage girls simultaneously experience a supernatural version of coming-of-age, unravelling patiently to the infectious beat of an 80s era heavy metal anthem rearranged as a lamentation. di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
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FOCUS ON UKRAINE SHOOT FILMS, NOT GUNS
Since November 2013 Ukrainians have been experiencing many obstacles, complications, ups and downs. News from TV channels is not only heard, but lived. Revolution, deaths of peaceful protesters, Crimea occupied by Russian troops, war in the East of Ukraine, thousand of people killed, all this is documented by Babylon’13, the focus of the first programme. Videos from the epicentre of events, edited and published the same day as shot are not only pure documentaries, but evidence for criminal investigations. Short, raw and emotional, they capture the feeling of being present at these events. The second programme consists of six films. Ukrainian Lessons was shot in Donbas 2012, the territory where military actions now take part. The approach to storytelling is romantic, but at the same time uncovers the peculiarities of people’s character in Donbas. The Road Back is a poetic documentary by Oleksand Ratiy, one of my favourite films from the programme, painful to watch, but telling the story of the East of Ukraine from inside. Commemoration and The Beard are farewells to the village story of Ukrainians; animation The Gum was named the best Ukrainian film at Lviv International Short Film Festival 2014, and last but not least, the two minute film Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear serves as an important reminder for all of us. The programme’s title ‘Cry, but Shoot!’ is taken from a phrase by Ukraine’s most famous director Oleksandr Dovzhenko. It reflects the obstacles in the way of filmmaking, but at the same time the confidence and positive way of thinking of Ukrainian filmmakers. Olha Reiter
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FOCUS ON UKRAINE PROGRAMME 1: BABYLON‘13 CCA CINEMA Thursday 12 March (19.00) 1h45m, N/C 15+
Dignity 2013 | 1’23”
Before The Assault 2013 | 1’57”
In The Green Fields 2014 | 1’26”
Dreams and Actions 2013 | 0’36”
Kyiv, Stand Up! 2013 | 2’29”
Brick By Brick 2014 | 1’35”
Father’s Home 2013 | 5’34”
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2013 | 4’37”
To The Heroes Glory 2014 | 2’34”
Shame 2013 | 1’54” My Land 2013 | 3’58” Forbidden Movie 2013 | 3’17” Liberty of Death 2013 | 2’38” D-Moll in Kyiv City Hall 2013 | 1’19” Design and Civil Protest 2013 | 2’10” Night Watch 2013 | 1’36” Personal Anthem 2013 | 1’55” We Are 2013 | 2’37”
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Battle on Hrushevskoho #3 Burning 2014 | 0’50” Battle on Hrushevskoho #4 Solo 2014 | 2’14” After The Battle 2014 | 3’15” Noise 2014 | 2’35” In Hell 2014 | 3’09” Underground 2014 | 1’20” Honor Bright 2014 | 1’43” Myshko 2014 | 3’47”
Under Siege 2014 | 2’34” Terrorists 2014 | 1’02” Ashes 2014 | 2’16” The Past 2014 | 1’16” The Need 2014 | 2’57” Little Green Men 2014 | 4’32” Ukraine With You 2014 | 2’27” The Gun 2014 | 4’25” Sloviansk. Presentiment 2014 | 3’05” The Mobilized 2014 | 4’ 17” SR
FOCUS ON UKRAINE PROGRAMME 2: CRY, BUT SHOOT! CCA CINEMA Sunday 15 March (15.30) 1h45m, N/C 15+
THE GUM Ukraine | 2013 | 10 min Director: Olha Makarchuk The Gum is constantly neglected and forced to fit into the circumstances, though its only dream is to fly as careless as a bubble, revelling in freedom. It’s a day in the life of a bubblegum. Or maybe a day in your own life?
THE ROAD BACK Ukraine | 2012 | 11 min Director: Oleksandr Ratiy Winner in National Competition at Molodist Film Festival 2013. The story of a man who is born in the past century and millennium, in a city and state which are not on the map anymore. He comes back to a town in which there are only two maternity hospitals, two industrial plants and two cemeteries. What for / why?
COMMEMORATION Ukraine | 2012 | 24 min Director: Iryna Tsilyk A woman goes to the old homestead to complete the sale of her grandfather’s house. Suddenly she finds out answers to her life-long questions about the territory of her childhood.
OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR Ukraine | 2013 | 2 min Director: Maryna Dykukha Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear, they are deep and alive. What about there? What about here? Now? Let’s take a road to the world of the only sensible reality – the reality of feelings, states, emotions.
THE BEARD Ukraine | 2012 | 25 min Director: Dmytro Sukholytkyl-Sobchuk An old man’s daughter married a foreigner and moved abroad. Only his neighbour Gienyk remembers his name. Others call him ‘Beard’. Beard feeds hens, smokes cheap cigarettes, goes fishing as an ordinary villager. But nobody, not even Gienyk, knows what’s on his mind. His daughter visits him while passing by. He’s not at home. When he comes back, he finds his daughter on the threshold, ready to leave. The old man sees off his daughter with sadness. And then takes the gun. Everything’s going to change in a moment… The Beard will disappear.
UKRAINIAN LESSONS Ukraine | 2012 | 30 min Director: Ruslan Batytsky The appearance of a young teacher shakes a degraded mining town from its sleepy trance. When sparks of feeling ignite between her and a miner, the local youths, battered by the violence all around them, respond with animalistic aggression and rage. In the fight against otherness, evil takes on magnificent, baroque forms...
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LET GLASGOW FLOURISH
In 1985, a collective of young, mostly unemployed people living in and around Cranhill produced Clyde Film, a poetic history of the people of Glasgow told only in music and images, and set against scenes of failed regeneration. The film was funded by a Scottish Film Production grant raised on the strength of an earlier Super 8 project Glasgow 1984. The script was developed collectively, based on the poetry of local writer Freddy Anderson, and all production decisions were made on the basis of ‘collective decision-making, cooperation and sharing of ideas’. The aim was to create ‘a picture of [the] city’s past and the background to some of its fundamental problems’, dealing with the subject matter in an ‘emotive and poetic way’. GSFF is proud to mark the 30th anniversary of this quietly raging masterpiece with two special programmes. Clyde Film raises wide-ranging questions, but we have chosen to focus on the city’s cycle of renewal, which seems particularly relevant in the wake of the Commonwealth Games and their legacy programme for Glasgow’s poorest communities. The first programme features archive documentaries from the 1940s onwards, including the rarely seen BBC Scotland film This Is My Story (1967) produced by Finlay J Macdonald and featuring the poetry of Tom Wright. The second programme shows the varying responses of artists and local communities to the changes thrust upon them, and features new films by Chris Leslie and Myriam Thyes, alongside Clyde Film itself. With thanks to Alistair McCallum (Design is Central), Mhairi Brennan (BBC Scotland), Emily Munro (NLS Scottish Screen Archive) and Robin Macpherson. The following text has been reprinted with permission from Chris Leslie’s blog The Glasgow Renaissance, and provides a contemporary context for the two programmes.
The Never Ending Red Road 2014. What a year for Glasgow, and for the Red Road Flats. Spared from mass demolition for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games by a 17,000 strong petition, the people of Glasgow clearly felt blowing up a failed social housing scheme in front of an audience of millions to be in bad taste. Glasgow City Council and its respective partners thought it would be a great spectacle that would herald the rebirth of the city. In the end the plan was scrapped, but Glasgow 2014 and the Commonwealth Games partied on regardless... di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
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LET GLASGOW FLOURISH I returned to the Red Road demolition site late December 2014 for a tour of this post-apocalyptic wasteland. I was particularly keen to revisit the Red Road underground bingo hall and bar that I documented in 2011– 2012 – but even the ‘underground’ was unable to escape the carnage at ground level. Only the entrance to the bingo hall remained intact and The Brig Bar had disappeared completely under a mound of concrete, steel and debris. It was beginning to feel like the end of Red Road as I knew it. The empty flats that make up Red Road are all wrapped in a red mesh cladding – like a thin transparent red skin over its skeletal structure. For the past three years this has been the way Red Road has looked and no one really seems to take much notice of the flats anymore. If you ask a lot of Glaswegians, most seem surprised to find they are still there at all. Two previous demolitions, in 2011 and 2012, of two of the blocks seems to have satisfied them that Red Road is gone completely. Perhaps people forgot that there were eight blocks in total and this was once home to over 4,700 people – a small town. Being in the north of the city, far from the glances of passing tourists and the rest of the city, the Red Road flats are effectively hidden away. However, it is almost as if someone wants these buildings to remain in their current partially disintegrated state to remind Glaswegians of how lucky we are to be on the cusp of this latest round of regeneration. It is almost as if we need a constant reminder of the old in order to justify the rebirth of our beloved city. Amongst the debris and empty red mesh wrapped skyscrapers one block, 33 Petershill Drive, remains full of residents. It is, in fact, full to the point of bursting, even as it awaits its final death-blow. Its residents are all newly arrived asylum seekers and the block is supposed to be a temporary place of accommodation until they are either deported or sent on to other areas of Glasgow for rehousing. Anyone who understands the asylum process in the UK will know that temporary accommodation can mean anything from two weeks to eight months. All the residents of 33 Petershill Drive were supposed to have been evicted by December 2014 so that demolition preparation could begin on this last block. Plans to rehouse these families were halted when local residents, near the potential temporary accommodation on an industrial estate on Balmore Road, objected. No one, it seems, had told the angry locals about the proposals. But then, no one had given the asylum seekers any advance notice either. Posters depicting aeroplanes and suitcases were put up in the flats, giving orders to pack bags. Later, the asylum seekers were told to unpack and stay where they are. Several hundred souls are crammed into Petershill Drive – with this last block at full capacity, there are reports of families having to share apartments. Their lives are fraught with anxiety; their destiny lies in someone else’s hands as their ‘temporary’ home disintegrates from the inside. Residents complain of damp, sporadic hot water and the stink from the blocked drains on the ground floor foyer, still unattended after several months. However, it does not make sense to undertake repairs on a condemned building when the clock is ticking. When Red Road was first constructed in 1967 it was seen as the utopian answer to the city’s pressing housing shortage and the clearance of the worst slums in Western Europe. Its first residents were given central heating, double-glazing, indoor toilets and mixer taps. One Conservative councillor even claimed the flats were ‘too good’ for the working class. Nearly fifty years later and, for its current residents, these utopian dreams are now a dystopian nightmare. As its last residents face an uncertain future, the surrounding empty blocks stand, draped in red, stubbornly holding on before they disappear from Glasgow’s skyline forever. Chris Leslie, January 2015 SU
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LET GLASGOW FLOURISH PROGRAMME 1: BEST LAID SCHEMES CCA CINEMA Saturday 14 March (15.15) 1h45m, N/C 15+
Glasgow Today and Tomorrow | UK | 1949 | 8 min | Director: Erica Masters | Scottish Screen Archive Progress Report | UK | 1946 | 10 min | Scottish Screen Archive Mungo’s Medals | UK | c1961 | 19 min | Director: John C. Elder | Scottish Screen Archive Clyde Valley: Glasgow Rebuilds | UK | 1966 | 20 min With thanks to BBC Scotland and the National Film & TV Archive Social Problems | UK | c1965 | 13 min | Scottish Screen Archive With thanks to the University of Strathclyde This is My Story | UK | 1967 | 15 min | Director: Finlay J Macdonald | With thanks to BBC Scotland
PROGRAMME 2: THE GAME’S A BOGEY GFT CINEMA 2 Sunday 15 March (13.00) 2h, N/C 15+
Let Glasgow Flourish | UK | 1956 | 16 min | Dawn Cine Group | Scottish Screen Archive KH-4 | UK | 1969 | 13 min | Director: Jon Schorstein | Scottish Screen Archive Lights Out – The last residents of Glasgow’s Twin Towers World premiere | UK | 2015 | 8 min | Director: Chris Leslie | Contact: chris@chrisleslie.co.uk Apotheosis of Glasgow High-Rises UK premiere | Germany | 2014 | 6 min | Director/Writer: Myriam Thyes | Contact: myriam@thyes.com Clyde Film | UK | 1985 | 31 min Directors: Ian Venart, Charlie Tracy, Ian Miller, Mandy Merrick, Alistair McCallum, Ken Currie Scottish Screen Archive di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
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SHORT COM WITH GREG HEMPHILL
CCA THEATRE Saturday 14 March (21.15) 1h45m, N/C 15+ Cast: Robert Myles, Niki Bierton, Ian Myles Contact: darren.g.westwood@gmail.com
A House For A Baby UK | 2014 | 6 min Director: Exploding Heads
Anthony, Mark and Ben live in a peculiar, magical house. It’s a character in its own right and, whether they like it not, it’s really going to mess with their heads.
Bad Rabbit World premiere | UK | 2015 | 6 min Directors: Chris James, Stuart Laws Writer: Chris James Producer: Stuart Laws Cinematographer: Anton McCrae Sound: Simon Wood Music: Al Clayton Editor: Stuart Laws Cast: Ali Brice, Katie Davison, Neil Dagley, David Bussell
Director filmography: M is for Missing (2014), Katharina the Curst (2013), 6 Feet Under (2013), Extraction (2012), Help (2012), Hold (2012), A Decision (2011), Vamped (2008), Bobbins (2008), Egg (2008), Mr Tremendous (2007), The Bestest Most Awesomist Film in the World Ever (2007), Absolution (2007), Invader C.H.I.P.S. (2006), Just Pete (2006)
Oliver is an unusual man who enjoys talking to people on the phone. However, he has a very unusual and dark sense of humour.
Contact: stu@turtlecanyonmedia.com
Trev UK | 2014 | 0’12” Directors/Writers: Chris Bethell, Rob Millard Producers: Chris Bethell, Rob Millard Contact: robthecartoonman@gmail.com
Director filmography: Access To Work (2015), Left A Jar (2013), Over To You At 2 (2013), Chubby Bunny (2012), Voices (2008)
Always out of the limelight and having to adhere to every whim of your master is a rabbit's worst nightmare. Is there anything, anyone that can help rescue his meaningless existence?
A sad little story about a little fella named Trev, who meets a sticky end.
Once Upon A Time In The Shed UK | 2013 | 7 min Director/Writer: Barnaby Dixon Producer: Barnaby Dixon Cinematographer: Barnaby Dixon Sound: Matt Loveridge Music: Matt Loveridge Editor: Barnaby Dixon
Binky
Production Designer: Barnaby Dixon
UK | 2013 | 1 min
Assistant Sound Recordist: Josh Randall
Asshole
Director/Writer: Darren Westwood
Producer: Conor Finnegan Sound: David Kamp Music: David Kamp
Music: Tommy Robin
Scottish premiere | Ireland | 2013 | 2 min Producer: Darren Westwood Cinematographer: Drew Perry Director/Writer: Conor Finnegan
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Sound: Luke Pietnik Editors: Darren Westwood, Robert Myles
Contact: dixonbarnaby@gmail.com
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Lipo Candle Scottish premiere | UK | 2014 | 2 min Director: Susannah Hewlett Writers: Susannah Hewlett, James Anthony Producer: Susannah Hewlett Cinematographer: Tim Brunsden Sound: Simon Keep Editor: Tim Brunsden Graphics: Steve Nice Cast: Susannah Hewlett, Tom Meeten, Phoebe Weir, Guy Weir, Simon Baxter (voice-over) Contact: info@susannahhewlett.com
Director filmography: Chris Titmas sponsors Lily and Mim (2014), VSS Pre-emptive Christmas Strike (2012), Snack Saver (2011), Brush (2011), Omni Clam (2011), Frugal Fruit (2011), Barbara and Yogashwara’s Safe Space (2010), Lorraine and Alan’s Straightening Salon (2009), A Columbia Tale (2003), Celebrity Wedding of the Year sponsored by Burgundy Leisure (2001)
Parents, seeking perfection in their children, turn to the latest invention from the Recession Busting Products range by spurious shopping channel VSS.
Milk! Scottish premiere | UK | 2014 | 10 min Director: Ben Mallaby Writers: Paul F Taylor, Toby Williams Producer: Ben Mallaby di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
Cinematographer: Alex Nevill Sound: Carlos Zaghis Music: Toby Williams 1st AD: Lex Beckett Cast: Toby Williams, Paul F Taylor Contact: ben@mallaby.co.uk Director filmography: Guy and Doll (2015), Timeholes (2013), Battlecock (2013), Island Queen (2012), Borderlands (2012), Angel (2012), Pvt. Craine (2011), Vienna (2010)
Missing Dog
World premiere | UK | 2014 | 3 min Directors: Michael Wray, Kiri Pritchard Mclean Writer: Geins Family Gift Shop Raymond and Timothy have run Producer: Michael Wray out of milk, so they conceive of a Cast: Kat Hughes, Edward Easton, plan that is genius in its simplicity. James Meehan, Oz They’ll make their own milk! But Contact: how do you make milk? info@geinsfamilygiftshop.co.uk Director filmography: Michael Wray: The Queens Return (2014), Jack The Ripper (2014), You Think Darkness Is Your Ally (2014), The Power Of Thought (2014), New Roots (2014), Framed (2013) Kiri Pritchard Mclean: Clouds (2014), Number 1 (2014), Salvation (2014), Jack The Ripper (2014), You Scottish Premiere | UK | 2014 | 2 min Think Darkness Is Your Ally (2014), The Power Of Thought (2014) Directors: The Turner Brothers
Couple Trouble
Writer: Steve Whiteley Producer: Steve Whiteley Cinematographers: The Turner Brothers Sound: Patrick Turner Music: Patrick Turner Editors: The Turner Brothers Cast: Anne Heasell, Sam Briggs, Steve Whiteley Contact: steve@offkeycreatives.com Director filmography: How To Avoid Charity Workers (2014), Dinner Cancellation Goes Wrong (2014), Jason Statham’s Shopping Channel (2014), When Armed Robbery Goes Wrong (2014), When First Dates Go Wrong (2014), The Worst Bouncers Ever (2014), When Friends Stop Drinking (2014), If Men Had Periods (2014), Impress Mum (2014)
An arguing couple become so embroiled in their heated exchange of words, that they completely ignore the poor mugger attempting to rob them.
A young woman is looking for her lost dog. Unfortunately, she finds it.
Writers Block UK | 2013 | 5 min Directors/Writers: Tom Gran, Martin Woolley Producer: Wonky Films Sound: Iwan Vaughan Music: Paul Burke, Dan Pugsley Animation: Todd Setter, Tom Gran, Iwan Vaughan Contact: info@wonkyfilms.com
In a prison for criminally poor writers, a gang of cons get a hold of the script to their own lives and attempt to re-write it in order to make their escape. TN
Cast: Hal Branson, Sean McKenna, Patrick Low, Gary Kitching Contact: thehotgulp@gmail.com
Santageddon Scottish premiere | UK | 2014 | 15 min Director/Writer: Matthew Highton Producer: Stuart Laws Cinematographer: Stuart Laws Sound: Stuart Laws Music: Al Clayton Editor: Stuart Laws
Seabastards is set in the remote, fictional, northern coastal town of Roddigan’s Cusp. A small town that time appears to have forgotten, or at least temporarily misplaced. The townsfolk are the heart of this fishing village, once voted ‘Britain’s Friendliest Port’, but sadly the industry is in decline and so is the friendliness. Luckily tourism is on the up and the locals are slowly adapting to visitors.
Cast: Reno Wilson, Alex Désert
Green Scottish premiere | UK | 2014 | 4 min Director/Writer: Sami Abusamra Producer: Sami Abusamra Cinematographer: Joseph Patrick
Cast: Alistair Donegan, Tom Lorcan, David Newman Contact: samiabusamra@gmail.com
Producer: Hot Gulp Cinematographer: Alan Fentiman Editor: Hot Gulp Production Designer: Sherilyn Oliphant
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Sound: Tea & Cheese
Contact: info@teaandcheese.com
Sound: Guy Fixsen
Director/Writer: Hot Gulp (Hal Branson, Sean McKenna, Patrick Low)
Producers: Tea & Cheese Cinematographer: Liam Tate
Production Designers: Tea & Cheese
Editor: Sami Abusamra
Scottish premiere | UK | 2014 | 7 min
Directors/Writers: Tea & Cheese (Liam Tate & Jamie Stanton)
Editors: Tea & Cheese
Contact: info@turtlecanyonmedia.com
Seabastards
Scottish premiere | UK | 2015 | 13 min
Music: Liam Tate
Cast: John Kearns, Gemma Whelan, Joz Norris, Bec Hill, Nick Helm
All Kung Fu is life and death especially at Christmas. Twas the night before Christmas and all was calm, in an abandoned department store that was once the site of untold festive atrocities. Will our intrepid band of heroes survive the night and get to see another Christmas?
Isaac and Quincy
Director filmography: n00bs: Man Retreat (2014), The Royal 8-Bit Jubblies (2013), ASSANGENATOR (2013), Homosexual Activity (2012), Chinese Electronics Factory Worker: THE GAME! (2012), 8-Bit Waterslide in Read Life! (2009)
Fast-paced action-packed comedy cartoon in which two badass cops with oversized afros shoot their way to justice… one innocent bystander at a time.
Director filmography: The Dog The Dick and The Deep Blue Sea (2015), Love Me Tinder (2014), It Won't Be You (2013), The Tit And The Boob (2013), First Contact (2012), Love Nest (2011)
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CCA THEATRE Sunday 15 March (17.30) 1h30m, N/C 15+
12TH PLAYER
Twelfth Man
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Border Patrol
World premiere | UK | 2014 | 6 min
UK premiere | Iran | 2014 | 1 min
Director: Duane Hopkins
Director/Writer: Saman Hosseinpuor
Scottish premiere Germany/UK | 2013 | 15 min
Producer: Samm Haillay
Director/Writer: Peter Baumann
Editors: Michael Gardiner, John Minton
Producer: Saman Hosseinpuor
Producer: Nishad Chaughule
Cinematographer: Zanyar Lotfi
Cinematographer: Justin Litton
Contact: office@thirdfilms.co.uk
Sound: Zanyar Tahmasebi
Sound: Christian Wieland
Director filmography: Bypass (2014), Cigarette at Night (2011), Better Things (2008), Love Me or Leave Me Alone (2003), Field (2001)
Editor: Saman Hosseinpuor
Music: Andreas Christian Wimmer
In February 2014 thousands of Newcastle and Sunderland supporters faced off during lunchtime prior to the second derby match of the season. The film focuses on the minutes before the game and shows the angst, antagonism and rivalry between opposing fans, but also togetherness – the football supporter being a part of a group.
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Production Designer: Saman Hosseinpuor Photographer: Teymuor Ghaderi Cast: Mohammad Panahi, Payman Azizipuor Contact: hpsaman@gmail.com
A boy is watching a soccer game on TV and gets so excited he forgets he’s in the middle of a haircut. Oops!
Editor: James Gover Cast: Wolfgang Fischer, Leo Reisinger, Seppi Scholler, Till Butterbach, Ulla Geiger Contact: markus@augohr.de
Carl, a young eager border cop, is anxious to finish work so he can watch the big football match against Austria. His plans are thwarted by the discovery of a suicide victim in the woods near the Austrian border. Carl’s wily partner Franz decided to have a bit of fun with his younger colleague, and sets about instructing him in making the body the Austrians’ problem. It all seems to work out well, except maybe the Austrians have seen this body before.
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Sivan
Size 5
Israel | 2010 | 13 min
UK | 2005 | 7 min
Football Nogomet
Director: Zohar Elefant
Director/Writer: Joern Utkilen
Croatia | 2011 | 15 min
Producer: Zohar Elefant
Producer: Jeorge Elkin
Director/Writer: Ana Husman
Cinematographer: Zohar Elefant
Cinematographer: Martin Radich
Producer: Ana Husman
Contact: zelefant@gmail.com
Music: Arvid Sletta
Cinematographer: Ivan Slipcevic
This minimalist experimental short is the opposite of a sports documentary. Instead of photographing the field or the athletes, the film inverts our gaze, focusing exclusively on the animated, wide-eyed face of the eponymous Israeli soccer fan as she watches a live Hapoel game in a Tel Aviv stadium. The game is only visible as a reflection on Sivan’s alternately tortured and ecstatic face. In its portrayal of a single viewer’s performative singing, chanting, screaming, mocking, pleading, phone-talking, weeping, and praying, this funny, noisy film manages to move beyond sports to touch lightly on issues of spectatorship, politics, history, religion, and family in contemporary Israel.
Editor: Mirja Melberg
Sound: Tomislav Domes
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Cast: Arron Usher, Katrina Bryan, Neil Wykes, Helen McAlpine Contact: joern.utkilen@gmail.com Director filmography: Earth Over Wind (2014), Wind Over Lake (2011), Asylum (2011), Little Red Hoodie (2008), No Coke (2007), My New Job (2006), Paper Anniversary (2004), Terrorist (2003), My Job III (2001), Paperclipmaker (2000), My Job II (2000), My Job (1999)
A young man is unhappy with his newly bought football and returns to the shop where he bought it to complain.
Editor: Iva Kraljevic Contact: info@bonobostudio.hr Director filmography: Postcards (2013), Lunch (2008), The Market (2006), Home (2003), Merspajz (2003), Daily Progress (1999)
While investigating the boundaries between commitment and sincere enthusiasm of football commentators and the technique of using the voice, this film is a reconstruction of the goal called the ‘Hand of God’ which Diego Armando Maradona scored during the match between Argentina and England at the World Cup in Mexico 1986.
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Short Film About Life
Geral
Spectators
Scottish premiere Brazil | 2010 | 15 min
UK | 2013 | 4 min
Isfilma Par Dzivi
Director/Writer: Anna Azevedo
UK premiere | Latvia | 2014 | 2 min
Producer: Anna Azevedo
Director/Writer: Laila Pakalnina
Cinematographers: Anna Azevedo, Batman Zavareze
Producer: Laila Pakalnina Cinematographer: Uldis Jancis Sound: Anrijs Krenbergs
Sound: Vinicius Leal, Jesse Marmo
Editor: Kaspar Kallas
Editor: Eva Randolph
Contact: laila.pakalnina@inbox.lv
Contact: info@hybrazilfilmes.com
Director filmography: Hotel and a Ball (2014), The Chimney (2013), Forty Two (2013), Pizzas (2012), Snow Crazy (2012), 33 Animals of Santa Claus (2011), On Rubiks’ Road (2010), Klusums (2009), Stones (2008), Three Men and Fish Pond (2008), Fire (2007), The Hostage (2006), Silence (2006), Water (2006), Theodore (2006), Dream Land (2004), The Bus (2004), It’ll Be Fine (2004), The Python (2003), Martins (2002), Papa Gena (2001), Wake up (2000), The Shoe (1998), The Oak (1997), Ubans (1995), The Mail (1995), The Ferry (1994), The Church (1993), Anna’s Christmas (1992), The Pilgrimage (1991), The Linen (1991), The Dome (1991), The Choice (1990), And (1988)
Director filmography: Nhanderu (2015), Beirut’s Project (2015), Autumn (2014), An errant (2010), Dreznica (2008), The book-man (2006), BelinBall (2006), Kitchen Beat (2004), Rio de Jano (2003)
Maracanã Stadium: close proximity to the field produces a particular breed of club supporter. A rollercoaster of ecstasy and drama, violence and passion.
Director: Ross Hogg Producer: Ross Hogg Sound: Ross Hogg, Dream and Machine by Sun Dogs Contact: ross@rosshogg.com Director filmography: Scribbledub (2014), The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (2013)
An observational animation that inverts the expected focus of a football match, turning attention to those on the periphery. The film investigates social interaction and human behaviour, revealing the diversity of character found among football spectators, which can often become obscured by the mass.
Life is happening now.
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LUMINOUS LATITUDE: ARTISTS’ FILM TOURING PROGRAMME
CCA CINEMA Saturday 14 March (17.30) 1h30m, N/C 15+
Pigment
UK | 2014 | 2 min
Spam Mush Dust
Director: Sam Spreckley
UK | 2013 | 11 min
Director: Julie Brook
Dandelions in general have always fascinated me, when they begin to pop up in the fields and sides of the road, I’m often left contemplating their history, their general presence and individual reactions to them. Are they a pest? A plant grown from dog’s piss and car fumes? Are they a medicine? A salad? Are they beautiful? (I think so.) A very curious plant indeed. With this single channel concept I wanted to play with a number of thoughts, this idea of the clock, or clocks and time, to create a sequence in a rhythm, albeit a rhythm of destruction and also perhaps to explore this ‘destruction’, the intervention of nature by man, the simple urge to destroy something beautiful, to watch the world burn, even on this small scale.
Director: Beagles & Ramsay
Time
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UK | 2013 | 8 min
Over the years Julie Brook has consistently used raw pigment This is Beagle & Ramsay’s first in her drawing and sculptural stop motion animation, but the work. In Namibia she was use of self-portraiture and introduced to the way in which doppelgangers has been an the Himba women use red important element of their pigment rubbed onto their skin. work for a number of years. This has both an aesthetic and Their presence has always protective value for them. been a performed presence; using doppelgangers has been Through an unexpected meeting with three Himba a way to speak through multiple personae. The various women in Otjize, she was able to collect the red pigment with scenes in this video feature them. They use the same 1:6 scale Beagle & Ramsay avatars and model versions of techniques of crushing and grinding the pigment. Julie uses our past works. Each of the it dry, whilst the women mix it short tableaux take place within scale model versions of with animal fat and aromatic the studio and the gallery, but plants. the entire work is shot through with dust laden lethargy, inaction and impotence.
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Sorrows
Graminoids
UK | 2013 | 5 min
UK | 2014 | 6 min
Director: Alastair Cook
Directors: Demelza Kooij, Lars Koens
Sorrows was conceived as a way of writing micro poems to inform the filmmaking process. The novelist W. G. Sebald brought the term micro poem into usage, in reference to the poems of about 20 words in length that made up his 2004 work Unrecounted. Sebald’s words are in the mind of our female protagonist, though she has her own: “I am lost. Lost in this haar. My name. I have lost my name, my given name. But I am told that I am beautiful.”
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Graminoids is a lilting paean to the manifold strains of native grass that cultivate upon Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh. Frenetic movement and textures dominate the frame, and the synergy between sound, locomotion, and image creates a hypnotic sensory panorama.
Exquisite Corpse UK | 2014 | 5 min Director: Ethel Maude
The Surrealists’ game of Exquisite Corpse originally involved a piece of paper, with concertina folds, onto which each member of a group draws a body part, without being able to see what others have drawn on the paper. The individual composite parts come together as a whole as the paper is unfolded at the end. Here members of the artist collective Ethel Maude created an experimental video work adapting the rules of the game. Contributors worked in a chain providing their final three seconds to the next participant, who then responded and handed on their final three seconds. Once the film was assembled a soundtrack was created for the whole piece.
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What are you driving at?
Colour Etude
Together Apart
UK | 2014 | 6 min
UK | 2013 | 10 min
UK | 2013 | 4 min
Director: Lucas Battich
Director: Matt Hulse
Director: Rob Kennedy
This film is a study of signal corruption in digital media, where unexpected digital colour patterns are generated by chance interventions on several video files. This is accomplished by acting directly with the raw data of video files on text- and sound-editing softwares. The unforeseen malfunction generated is later intentionally manipulated, edited and controlled. The sound composition mirrors and furthers this exploration, involving both intentional and chance elements.
The outcome of a year-long artist’s residency hosted by the Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability (ACES) at The University of Aberdeen (UoA) and funded by Creative Scotland and UoA. The residency brought together artists, natural and social scientists to examine the complexity of conflicts that arise from our use of the environment. The screenplay was developed collaboratively by artist filmmaker Matt Hulse and Professor of Geography Bill Adams. US documentary director Elizabeth Lawrence provides the narration.
Roundabout was one of a range of government sponsored promotional film series produced by Central Office of Information between 1962–74, designed to promote Britain’s position as a progressive industrial and cultural world leader. Commissioned as part of the group exhibition ‘House Style’ (at Tramway, Glasgow) that looked broadly at the cultural inheritance of these promotional films. What are you driving at? fuses archive footage of dated and now seemingly crude, physical manufacturing processes in plastics, beauty products and fashion, with images of a nebulous and fluid contemporary production ‘flow’, that has come to represent a more abstracted relationship to current industrial design and manufacture.
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Inchcape
UK | 2013 | 3 min
The Lion and the Unicorn
Director: Scott Willis
UK | 2012 | 12 min
Director: Karel Dolak
E215 is a intimate meditative insight into the director’s grandmother as she reflects on her old age and health. The film is poetic, highlighting that beauty can still be obtained from unlikely places. An optimistic perspective on ageing. A collaboration between young and old.
Director: Rachel Maclean
Director filmography: My Name Was Jane (2013)
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Commissioned by The Edinburgh Printmakers for ‘Reflective Histories’, a group show at Traquair House in the Scottish Borders.
UK | 2014 | 2 min
A Haunting Reef. A Nautical Nightmare.
A short film inspired by the heraldic symbols found on the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom, the lion (representing England) and the unicorn (representing Scotland). The piece uses representations of both alliance and opposition to explore national identity within the context of the referendum on Scottish independence.
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THE SKINNY SHORT FILM AWARD
Good Girl
Down the Line
UK | 2014 | 15 min
UK | 2013 | 8 min
Director/Writer: Rory Alexander Stewart Producer: Rory Alexander Stewart
CCA THEATRE Thursday 12 March (19.15) 1h30m, N/C 15+
Let’s Make A Porno
Director/Writer: James Ewen
UK | 2014 | 11 min
Producers: Stuart Condy, Sara Forbes
Director/Writer: Keir Siewert
Cinematographer: Duncan Cowles
Producer: Keir Siewert, Alix Austin, Shane Quigley Murphy
Cast: Julie Speers, Ainslie Henderson, Jenna O’Neill, Gillian Stewart
Sound: Matt Kravitz
Sound: Louise Dawson
Editor: Cem Ibrahim
Contact: info@rorystewartfilms.co.uk
Cast: Ross Robertson, David Robertson
Music: The OK Social Club – “She Said, You Said”
Director filmography: Misery Guts (2015), Wyld (2013), The Port (2013)
Contact: jamesewen@hotmail.co.uk
Julie only has one friend, her dog Tully. Julie guides us through their special bond that has driven away her family, friends and perhaps her sanity.
Youngsters in Shetland are choosing a life in the oil industry, despite the fishing being in their blood. If this continues, Shetland will lose a vital way of life. However, young fisherman Ross isn’t prepared to let this be the end. His persistence and courage shows that even in the darkest of times, there is hope.
Editor: Keir Siewert Cast: Shane Quigley Murphy, Alix Austin, John McTurtrie, Daniel Lien, Thomas Kinch, Nicki MacDonald, Lawrence Libor Contact: breakingpointflix@hotmail.com Director filmography: Jessie Functions (2015), JC’s Honey Trap, Let’s Have a Threesome (2014), Wasteland 26: Six Tales of Generation Y, Jess and Tess Solve Shit (2014), Interview (2013), #conniesflat (2013), Moscow (2013)
Ever watch a pornographic film and think you could do better? Well it might be harder then it looks. A young couple decide they have the know-how and smarts to out-do the competition, however things quickly spiral out of control as creative disagreements rage and the budget keeps ballooning. UM
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Game UK | 2014 | 11 min Director: Jeppe Rohde Nielsen Writers: Donald Barthelme (story), Alan McIlrath, Jeppe Rohde Nielsen Producers: Alan McIlrath, Jeppe Rohde Nielsen Production Designers: Finlay Page, Johnny Lawrence Art Director: Sean Christie Costume: Katy Christopher Cast: Billy Letford, Austin Hayden Schmit, Benjamin Rankine Contact: gamefilmtheory@gmail.com
Two soldiers are stationed underground in a bunker, time is standing still and their hopes of being relieved begin to fade. As tensions mount they become isolated. Ike writes descriptions of natural forms on the walls whilst Shotwell screams in his sleep. Who will crack first?
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The Things That Are Important To Us UK | 2013 | 11 min Directors: Mr & Mrs Poet
Misery Guts World premiere | UK | 2015 | 12 min Director/Writer: Rory Alexander Stewart Producer: Rory Alexander Stewart Cinematographer: Rory Alexander Stewart
Writer: Frances Poet
Editor: Rory Alexander Stewart
Producers: Mr & Mrs Poet
Production Designer: Rory Alexander Stewart
Cinematographer: Richard Poet Editor: Richard Poet Cast: Charlene Boyd, Gareth Glen, Robin Laing, Rosalind Sydney Contact: richard@littleviking.co.uk
Gary and his new girlfriend, Claire, are visiting Gary’s ex-wife, Julie, and her partner for dinner. Gary and Julie have a young son together and congratulate themselves on behaving like adults and putting Adam first. But as the canapés are served, the cracks appear in this civilised party and the champagne saucer is not the only thing that looks set to be smashed.
Cast: Julie Speers, Ainslie Henderson, Jenna O’Neill Contact: info@rorystewartfilms.co.uk Director filmography: Good Girl (2014), Wyld (2013), The Port (2013)
All Julie wants is a cat. All Jenna wants is her coke. All Tom wants is a friend. You can’t make everyone happy.
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CCA THEATRE Sunday 15 March (11.30) 1h15m, N/C 5+
FAMILY SHORTS
Zebra
Avocado Bear
Frenemy
Germany | 2013 | 3 min
UK | 2014 | 5 min
Scottish premiere Germany | 2014 | 6 min
Director/Writer: Julia Ocker
Director/Writer: Thomas Fraser
Producer: Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Producer: Edinburgh College of Art
Sound: Christian Heck
Sound: Andrew Connor
Music: Christian Heck
Music: EmĂlia Rovira Alegre
Editor: Benjamin Manns
Contact: thomasfraser86@hotmail.co.uk
Animation: Julia Ocker Contact: studio@filmbilder.de
One day a zebra ran into a tree.
A particularly over-ripe avocado bear experiences a hollow feeling when he suddenly finds himself without the precious stone set in his belly. However, a fresh encounter may uncover what he’s truly been missing all along...
Director/Writer: Vera Lalyko Producer: Vera Lalyko Sound: Boris Goltz Music: Xaver Fischer Production Designer: Heinz Brasch Animation: Vera Lalyko, Urte Zintler Special Effects: Heinz Brasch Contact: vera@toonsisters.de Director filmography: Sauna Tango (2010), Promenade (2005), Window with a View (2001), The Supercrooks (1998)
A cat and dog are just about poised to get one over on one other. A mysterious incident occurs which results in them swapping voices. All attempts to reverse are in vain. Finally enemies become friends.
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Drifting Cloud 浮雲
Hidden Talent Grump Skriveni Talent UK premiere
UK premiere Japan | 2014 | 7 min
Croatia | 2014 | 6 min
Director/Writer: Yuta Sukegawa
Writer: Rosalia Ovčar
France | 2014 | 4 min Director: Miran Miošić
Producer: Yuta Sukegawa
Producer: Vinko Brešan
Sound: Masumi Takino
Sound: Hrvoje Štefotić
Music: Makoto Tanaka Contact: sukegawa0120@gmail.com Director filmography: The Light (2010)
A lost cloud wanders in the sky while repeatedly meeting and parting from newfound friends.
Music: Georges Bizet, Antonin Dvorzak Editor: Miran Miošić Contact: zagrebfilm@zagrebfilm.hr
The Feline City has a cheerful, sociable and songful small cat, Bjelobrk, but his ‘musical’ meowing is a nightmare for all around him because he can’t sing. That does not prevent him from constant and disastrous singing. His family and his teacher at school are trying to explain this to little Bjelobrk, but he understands their benevolence as approval.
Director/Writer: Lise Cordellier Producer: Ecole Pivaut Sound: Anaïs Khout Music: Nicolas Léonard Contact: lise.cordellier@gmail.com
Oscar is a very brave 9-year-old boy. Encouraged by his two sisters Lucille and Garance, he begins a new adventure. What can he do to save their house from falling down the cliff? Thanks to Josette the seagull, he may have found a solution.
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The Elephant Ninetynine New Species and the Bicycle UK premiere | Austria | 2013 | 5 min Scottish premiere Czech Republic | 2013 | 7 min Director/Writer: Andreas Widder Le Vélo de Director/Writer: Kateřina Producer: Patrick Wagesreiter L’éléphant Karhánková Scottish premiere France/Belgium | 2014 | 9 min Director/Writer: Olesya Shchukina Producer: Corinne Destombes Cinematographer: David Toutevoix Sound: Philippe Fontaine Music: Yan Volsy Editor: Hervé Guichard Production Designer: Solenne Blanc
Cinematographer: Michaela Wiesinger Sound: Christopher Lindner Music: Christopher Lindner Editor: Andreas Widder Production Designer: Patrick Wagesreiter Contact: mail@patrickwagesreiter.at Director filmography: Unrest 1000 (2012), Freedom on Planet Earth (2011)
Contact: j.mourlam@folimage.fr Director filmography: Sea Legs (2012), The Red Heels (2011), Semolina Porridge (2007)
An elephant works as a street cleaner. One day, he sees a big billboard advertising a bicycle. It seems the perfect size for him! This is the moment the elephant's life changes: he has to get this bicycle, whatever the cost.
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The daily routine of the monster, the powerful sovereign in this universe, is only to make his way to the feeding ground in order to appease his hunger. Since the path is associated with several obstacles, the monster is dependent on the little imps who prepare the way for him. Conversely the imps are dependent on the monster to finally get a bit of food that is far too little for all ninety-nine, but enough to survive.
Producer: FAMU Sound: Jiří Gráf Music: Ivan Doležálek Editor: Blanka Klímová Production Designer: Tereza Papalová Contact: vera.hoffmannova@famu.cz, katerinakarhankova@email.cz Director filmography: Tonny and Mr. Illness (2014), Keep pace (2010), Hot night (2010), Present (2009), Post etude (2009)
This is a story about three kids who find a mysterious bone and their journey in trying to find the creature the bone belongs to.
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Silent Cartoon Away The Little Scottish premiere Fuga Animada Cousteau USA | 2014 | 3 min Maly Cousteau Directors: Limbert Fabian, Scottish premiere
Brazil | 2013 | 4 min
Director/Writer: Augusto Bicalho Roque Producer: Augusto Bicalho Roque Cinematographer: Augusto Bicalho Roque Sound: Augusto Bicalho Roque Music: Akashic Records
Scottish premiere Czech Republic | 2013 | 8 min Director/Writer: Jakub Kouřil
Producers: Angus McGilpin, Vince Voron
Producer: Bara Prikaska
Sound: Steve Boedekker
Sound: Vladimir Chorvatovic
Music: John Hunter
Music: Marek Gabriel Hruska
Editor: Calvin O’Neal Jr.
Editor: Roman Tesacek
Production Designers: Limbert Fabian, Brandon Oldenburg
Contact: kouril.kuba@gmail.com
Editor: Augusto Bicalho Roque Production Designer: Augusto Bicalho Roque Contact: gutroque@hotmail.com
An animated character is tortured by his creator to the point the creature rebels and escapes from the drawing table. The human manages to bring the character back but only to discover that he can no longer eliminate his creation.
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Brandon Oldenburg
A little boy longs for deep-sea adventures in a snow-covered city. An homage to Jacques Cousteau.
Contact: marketing@moonbotstudios.com Director filmography: The Scarecrow (2013), The Raven (2013)
Two street performers dream of bringing their Picture and Sound Show to life. When they discover a magical contraption inside an old theatre, they embark on a cinematic adventure of sight and sound, traveling through movie history to find the audience they always wanted.
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SHORT STUFF CCA THEATRE Thursday 12 March (11.00) 1h15m, N/C 12+
The ever-popular Short Stuff returns for an hour and a bit of highlights from across the GSFF15 programme, especially chosen for parents and babies. The selection will remain a secret until the curtains open, but we guarantee entertaining and thought-provoking drama, documentary and animation from around the world. No extreme content or sudden loud noises, and the lights will remain on low to allow easy movement during the screening. Babies must be 18 months or younger (and go free, obviously!)
THE ART SCHOOL & BIG SCREEN PRESENT: 00:01:00 THE ART SCHOOL Thursday 12 March (18.30) 1h30m, N/C 15+
There are movements over at The Art School... a great mass of students gather together to show off their one-minute transitions! The Art School and Big Screen, GSA's film society, invite you to step into the chrysalis of the Assembly Hall and journey with us through a non-stop barrage of student-made ultra-shorts. Help us choose the favourites to be shown at the GSFF15 Award Winners screening on Sunday 15th of March. See you there caterpillars! Free entry, no ticket required.
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INDUSTRY EVENTS
THE SHORT ROAD TO FEATURES CCA CINEMA Friday 13 March, 17.30 1h30m, N/C 15+
Short films are often an important stepping stone to feature filmmaking. The team behind Scottish Film Talent Network presents some of their favourite ‘career-making’ shorts, followed by a discussion on what made them stand out. Supported by Creative Scotland and Creative Skillset, and in partnership with the BFI NET.WORK, SFTN was established to nurture new and emerging filmmakers across Scotland. This new initiative aims to provide a ladder of progression from shorts to first feature. www.scottishfilmtalent.com
Emotional Fusebox | UK | 2014 | 14 min | Director: Rachel Tunnard Cubs | UK | 2006 | 10 min | Director: Tom Harper Off Season | USA | 2009 | 12 min | Director: Jonathan van Tulleken Rebecca | UK | 2007 | 13 min | Director: Nick Whitfield Free entry, tickets available on the day from CCA box office.
PANEL: WHAT NEXT? CCA THEATRE Friday 13 March (13.30) 1h30m
So you’ve made a short. Good work. Now what? There’s no clear path to success (whether that’s untold riches, critical acclaim or just the chance to make another one). This panel brings together several industry experts to present the various opportunities for short filmmakers and help you decide what next step is best for you and your film: festival screenings, online distribution, sales, broadcast and/or further commissions. A rare opportunity to corner the powerbrokers! Speakers will include Victoria Mackenzie, Distrify Media; Katie McCullough, Festival Formula; Susie Wright, Channel 4; Simon Young, Shorts International; Claudia Yusef, Scottish Film Talent Network. UU
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ANI JAM CITIZENM Kick-off Friday 13 March (18.30) All weekend, N/C 15+
The Ani Jam is a 48-hour animation competition held over a whirlwind weekend in which animators and creatives are invited to produce an animated film. The concept is easy; teams between 2 and 10 people create an animated film between 30-90 seconds long, based around a particular theme. 48 hours to produce an animation from start to finish? Seems ridiculous? Come join us and find out! Entry for a team of up to 10 is £75. To register your team, go to www.theanijam.com.
UWS CREATIVE MEDIA ACADEMY MA PROGRAMME LAUNCH AND SYMPOSIUM: CREATIVITY AND FORM FILM CITY Thursday 12 March (09.30) 7h30m
Please join colleagues and industry practitioners from the University of the West of Scotland's Creative Media Academy for a free one day symposium on the question of 'Creativity and Form' at the UWS seminar space in Film City Glasgow to mark the launch of two new Masters programmes in Filmmaking and Screenwriting. The path from short to feature is the royal road most filmmakers eventually take. But how do you make the transition from capturing a short fragment of life, to developing character and narrative over an hour and a half? In this one-day symposium invited filmmakers Duane Hopkins (Better Things, Bypass), and Shalimar Preuss (Ma Belle Gosse) discuss their experience of working across shorts and features, with contributions from Creative Media Academy documentarians Professor Nick Higgins, Peter Snowdon, and producer and MA screenwriting tutor Paul Welsh. Free entry. For more information or to register please go to www.uws.ac.uk/creativityandform2015
SCALARAMA ‘I WANT TO BE A CINEMA’ LUNCH CCA CLUBROOM Sunday 15 March (12.00) 3h
With nearly 500 screenings last year, Scalarama is the UK’s biggest alternative film season celebrating cinema every September. Come along to this special session to find out more about the season opportunities and how to put on a screening as part of the Scottish Scaledonia regional group. The afternoon will feature ‘everything you wanted to know about Scalarama, but were afraid to ask’, an overview of last year’s Scaledonia, discussion about this year’s season, plus a special Film Jam mini-screening event from six Scottish exhibitors. And we’re even throwing in a free lunch! Free to attend, please register in advance at www.eventbrite.co.uk. di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
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SHORT COM COMEDY COME TOGETHER CITIZENM Saturday 14 March (14.00) 4h
Sitting on a funny short script but you’re not sure who to make it with? Short Com presents its first ever industry and networking day with the aim of stimulating productivity in comedy filmmaking in Scotland. To start the day, Short Com will be screening animation and international shorts programmes, which will be followed by panel talks from some key industry gatekeepers in TV, Film and Radio, discussing what they are looking for in content and in emerging talent. Other key guests will be some of the successful entrants to Short Com’s GSFF15 programme, who will talk about their road to making successful independent comedy shorts, that have seen them earning BAFTA nominations, major viral successes and working with big-name talent. Katie McCullough from Festival Formula will be offering advice on film distribution strategies. Screening: 14.15 Industry Panel: 15.30 Filmmaker Panel: 16.45 As numbers are limited, delegates will be selected based upon previous work in comedy and film. We are looking for a good mix of filmmaking talent, producers, performers and writers looking to collaborate with other creatives to make comedy film content. Free to guests and delegates. Please register your interest at the GSFF Guest Desk.
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INDEX
INDEX BY TITLE #43 1-0 After The Battle All the Pain in the World And I Will Rise, If Only To Hold You Down Apotheosis of Glasgow High-Rises Art As He Lay Falling Ashes Asshole Avocado Bear Bad Rabbit Bath House Battle on Hrushevskoho #3 Burning Battle on Hrushevskoho #4 Solo BB Before The Assault Binky Biscayne World Blood Below the Skin Boat Border Patrol Brick By Brick Bring Me The Head of Henri Chrétien! Cailleach Caravan Cartoon Away Ceremony Chrome The Claustrum Clyde Film Clyde Valley: Glasgow Rebuilds Colour Etude Colterrain Commemoration Couple Trouble Cubs Cutaway D-Moll in Kyiv City Hall The Dark, Krystle Deorbit Design and Civil Protest Dignity Directed By Tweedie The Dollhouse Domestic Appliances Down the Line Dreams and Actions
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52 73 65 39 63 69 36 24 65 70 28, 82 70 39 65 65 28 65 70 40 37 20 73 65 52 18 42 85 24 52 46 69 69 78 52 66 71 88 38 65 37 52 65 65 19 36 25 80 65
Drifting Cloud Drive With Care Dropping Off Michael E215 Earth Over Wind The Elephant and the Bicycle Emotional Fusebox Exquisite Corpse Father Father’s Home Football Forbidden Movie Frenemy Game Geral Glasgow’s Grand Ole Opry Glasgow Today and Tomorrow Good Girl The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Graminoids Green Grump The Gum The Gun Hallgrímur og Jeremy Happy Birthday To Me Hidden Talent Honor Bright A House For A Baby I’m a Princess Drawing In Hell In The Green Fields Inchcape The Incredibly Elastic Man Isaac and Quincy Jonathan’s Chest The Journal of Fort Zeelandia Kepler KH-4 Kyiv, Stand Up! Let Glasgow Flourish Let’s Make A Porno Liberty of Death Lifestyle Lights Out – The last residents of Glasgow’s Twin Towers The Lion and the Unicorn Lipo Candle The List
83 37 21 79 42 84 88 77 35 65 74 65 82 22, 81 75 28 69 80 65 77 72 83 66 65 43 27 83 65 70 36 65 65 79 32 72 34 44 38 69 65 69 80 65 33 69 79 71 55
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The Little Cousteau Little Green Men Louver Lulu Lunar Storm Magda Milk! Milky Brother A Million Miles Away Misery Guts Missing Missing Dog The Mobilized Mondial 2010 Monkey Love Experiments Mungo’s Medals My Land Myshko The Need New Species Night Watch Ninetynine Noise The Noise Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear Off Season Once Upon A Time In The Shed Only Make Believe Our Father Parking The Past Penismouse Personal Anthem Pigment The Pride of Strathmoor Progress Report Pyramid Flare Radioactive Rebecca Rescue Grips The Road Back Sähkö the Movie Santageddon Scribbledub Sea Front Seabastards Seagulls Seven Songs About Thunder Seven times a day we bemoan our lot and at night we get up to avoid dreaming di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
85 65 52 32 52 19 71 34 63 22, 81 34 71 65 44 22, 46 69 65 65 65 84 65 84 65 42 66 88 70 25 19 43 65 26 65 76 45 69 52 47 88 32 66 53 72 24 18 72 25 63 44
Shame Shipwreck Short Film About Life Silent A Single Body Sivan Size 5 Sloviansk. Presentiment Social Problems Sorrows Spam Mush Dust Spectators Statue Subtotal Sunsets & Silhouettes Swimming in Your Skin Again Symphony No 42 System Tapes From The Revolutionary Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep Terrorists The Beard The Things That Are Important To Us This is My Story Time To The Heroes Glory Together Apart Tracks Transformers: The Premake Traveling Shots: NYC Trev Twelfth Man Twilight Ukraine With You Ukrainian Lessons Under Siege Underground V~ Vincent Black Lightning Walzkörpersperre We Are A Wee Night In What are you driving at? What Happens After Six What I Forgot to Say World of Tomorrow Writers Block Wyld Xenos Zebra
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INDEX BY DIRECTOR Sami Abusamra
72
Marnie Ellen
Raisah Ahmed
19
Gunhild Enger
41
James Ewen
80
Will Anderson
22, 46
40
Henrik Andersson
33
Exploding Heads
70
Michael Arcos
40
Limbert Fabian
85
Anna Azevedo
75
Conor Finnegan
70
Kristof Babaski
26
Mahdi Fleifel
40
Babylon’13
65
Ronald Forbes
25
Einar Baldvin
45
Tina Frank
Lucas Battich
78
Thomas Fraser
Ruslan Batytsky
66
Atsushi Funahashi
47
Peter Baumann
73
Chad Galloway
36
Beagles & Ramsay
76
Tom Gran
71
Heather Benning
36
Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso
35
Chris Bethell
70
Michelle Hannah
21
Lewis Firth Bolton
25
Tom Harper
88
Jeanette Bonds
43
Susann Maria Hempel
44
Martijn van Boven
52
Ainslie Henderson
Hal Branson
72
Don Hertzfeldt
47
Julie Brook
76
Susannah Hewlett
71
Cat Bruce
23
Matthew Highton
72
Réka Bucsi
33
Rosie Reed Hillman
18
Patrick Buhr
41
Ross Hogg
24, 75
Peter Mackie Burns
27
Duane Hopkins
55, 73
Kate Burton
28
Saman Hosseinpuor
73
Kai-Chun Chiang
44
Hot Gulp
72
Caroline Sascha Cogez
32
Matt Hulse
78
Alastair Cook
77
Ana Husman
74
Lise Cordellier
83
Chris James
70
Tim Courtney
21
Björn Kämmerer
52
Duncan Cowles
19
Kateřina Karhánková
84
Mario Cruzado
24
Rob Kennedy
78
Ken Currie
69
Manuel Knapp
52
Dawn Cine Group
69
Morgan Knibbe
40
Roy Dib
44
Lars Koens
77
Barnaby Dixon
70
Demelza Kooij
77
Karel Dolak
79
Jakub Kouřil
85
Sotiris Dounoukos
35
Dieter Kovačič
52
George Drivas
38
Nina Kreuzinger
32
Maryna Dykukha
66
Vera Lalyko
82
Stuart Edwards
27
Claire Lamond
18
John C. Elder
69
Stuart Laws
70
Zohar Elefant
74
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52 28, 82
22, 46
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Kevin B. Lee
54, 57
Michael Robinson
37
Chris Leslie
69
Billy Roisz
52
Niki Lindroth von Bahr
39
Augusto Bicalho Roque
85
Patrick Low
72
Jay Rosenblatt
46
David Lumsden
20
Zam Salim
21
Johann Lurf
52
Jon Schorstein
69
Finlay J Macdonald
69
Olesya Shchukina
84
Rachel Maclean
79
Keir Siewert
80
Olha Makarchuk
66
Adrian Sitaru
36
Ben Mallaby
71
Martin Smith
25
Erica Masters
69
Karolina Specht
32
Ethel Maude
77
Sam Spreckley
76
Alistair McCallum
69
Jamie Stanton
72
Sean McKenna
72
Cecilia Stenbom
Morag McKinnon
55
Rory Alexander Stewart
Kiri Pritchard Mclean
71
Ewan Stewart
Rosa Menkman
52
Yuta Sukegawa
83
Mandy Merrick
69
Dmytro Sukholytkyl-Sobchuk
66
Rob Millard
70
Pilvi Takala
37
Ian Miller
69
Makino Takashi
52
Ivaylo Minov
43
Liam Tate
72
Miran Miošić
83
Tea & Cheese
72
Vahram Mkhitaryan
34
Telcosystems
52
Juan Pablo Daranas Molina
38
Jimi Tenor
53
Gwenael Mulsant
36
Myriam Thyes
69
Marisa Privitera Murdoch
28
Charlie Tracy
69
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine
34
Iryna Tsilyk
66
Terence Nance
45
Jonathan van Tulleken
88
Diane Nerwen
41
Rachel Tunnard
88
The Turner Brothers
71
Jeppe Rohde Nielsen
22, 81
46 22, 27, 80, 81 29
Claire Oakley
18
Esther Urlus
Julia Ocker
82
Joern Utkilen
Brandon Oldenburg
85
Ian Venart
69
Laila Pakalnina
75
Keiran Watson-Bonnice
42
Tommaso Pitta
39
Ian Waugh
24
Mr & Mrs Poet
81
Darren Westwood
70
Gert-Jan Prins
52
Nick Whitfield
88
Christopher Radcliff
34
Andreas Widder
Kazik Radwanski
38
Scott Willis
Beagles & Ramsay
76
Daniel Wolfe
54
Oleksandr Ratiy
66
Martin Woolley
71
Pooya Razi
42
Michael Wray
71
Artur Zaremba
19
Jennifer Reeder Joost Rekveld di^pdlt=peloq=cfij=cbpqfs^i=OMNR
37, 63
52 42, 74
84 26, 79
52
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