Fitzroy Shorts last competition screening for 2007
Fitzroy Shorts brings short film aficionados another fine selection of films from the region with the last competition screening before the end of year ‘The Fitz’ Awards to be held in December. This month we cross the great divide and bring you a selection of short films from New Zealand, Australia and Singapore.
THE LITTLE THINGS from New Zealand, directed by Reina Webster. Tells us that sometimes it’s the little things that matter most. Winner of the 2005 Special Jury Prize, Berlinale Kinderfilmfest. CLOSER also from New Zealand is a drama from director David Rittey. Silence can be the most revealing thing of all. Winner New Zealand Screen Award 2005 Best Short Film. Also screened at the prestigious 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Australian director Sotiris Dounoukis brings us PUNCH is the most loved man in Paris reminisces about a time when he was loved by just one woman instead of a whole city. He longs for a similar love, but is it just his imagination, or could he really leave the adoration of the people behind? Screened at this years Melbourne International Film Festival 2007.
With his latest ambitious short film THE CHANGI MURALS, director Boo Junfeng from Singapore tries his directorial skills at recreating the passion of the man behind these well known paintings and tries to give an account of how they came into being and were wrought from circumstances well beyond description. The film is set in 1963 when Stanley Warren revisits the site of his imprisonment. In an ordeal 20 years ago as a POW in Changi Prison, he suffered the double hardships of dysentery and cruel treatment by Japanese guards. Warren is charged with memories he would rather forget and struggling with an upwelling of emotions too dark and powerful to bear. At the same time he is haunted by that era’s extreme desolation and hopelessness, the darkest days and dragging months, locked-away years of his life. In short, he is a man on an inner mission, with scores unsettled.
Full programme details available here!
WHY YOU NEED TO COME: Fantastic door prizes from Crumpler, DVD’s packs from Madman and a voucher from Purr Beauty Studios in Fitzroy!
WHEN: Tuesday 2nd October 2007
WHERE: The Panama - Third Floor, 231 Smith St, Fitzroy.
TIME: Doors open 7pm, Screening at 8.30pm
COST: $10 Full, & $5 Students and conc. (Tickets only available on the door.) 2 for 1 before 8pm
