July Press Release:
UK’s The Bill star launches Clare Valley Film Festival 2010: Call for Entries
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Blyth Cinema |
| 9:00am - 5:30pm | Filmmaking Master Class Focusing on lo-to-no-budget filmmaking. This one day workshop will run through the basic essentials you will need to create a short film with a low budget or even no budget. |
| 11:00am | Clewers 24 Hour Film Challenge Can you shoot and edit a film in 24 hours? Grab your film buddies and get your creative juices flowing! Contestants meet at Clare High School for registration. Filming commences 12 noon. |
| 10:00am | Clewers 24 Hour Film Challenge Screening All films submitted by contestants will have their film screened. |
| 11:00am | Question & Answer Seminar with Seeta Indrani and Rob George |
"The 3 sections are loosely titled One, Two and Three. 'One' mostly deals with a character's experience of life in isolation, 'Two' deals with relationships with one other, and 'Three' dramatises a filmic universe with at least 3 key figures."
Carolyn Choa
| 1:00pm | ONE 'One' mostly deals with a character's experience of life in isolation. |
| Hip Hip Hooray | Director Lynsey Miller Drama | United Kingdom The preparations for the surprise party are well underway, led by an enthusiastic Pippa. The only problem being Pippa's the birthday girl. |
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| Purfungsstress (Test Stress) Director Niko Kühnel | Comedy | Germany Frank has five minutes until his final exam. So it's off to university as fast as possible. |
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| White Sound | Director Sarah Tracton Documentary | Australia Silence is the loudest sound of all. |
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| Catharsis | Director Anders Michael Nielsen Animation | Denmark In a world between life and death a little girl embarks on a fateful journey to find her mother. |
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| Utang (Shame) | Director Hasan Gunduz Drama | Turkey Does the human body and mind belong to a person or society? |
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| Jesusito De Mi Vida (Dear Child Jesus) Director Jesús Pérez-Miranda | Drama | Spain A Child who is afraid of the dark. A mother and her beliefs. A night that changes everything. |
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| 3:00pm | TWO 'Two' deals with relationships with one other. |
| Luck of the Irish Director Michael Zeitz | Comedy | Australia Luck shines on Felix like the sun, whereas his neighbour, Floyd, has been under a cloud his entire life. But today, things are about to change! |
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| Zwischen Licht Und Schatten (Fading Away) Director Fabian Giessler | Drama | Germany Martha and Herbert are an old married couple. Recently Martha has been behaving strangely. Herbert is desperate. |
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| Das Paket (The Package) Director Marco Gadge | Comedy | Germany The two hardened gangsters Klaus and Bernd have to supply again. One package. |
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| Litterpicker | Director Ashley Horner Arthouse | United Kingdom Two men clean the city's streets: one compulsively, the other poetically. |
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| George's Day | Director David Whitney Drama | United Kingdom A father and son with little in common collide forcefully during one fateful day out in a shocking encounter of truth and discovery. |
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| 5:00pm | THREE 'Three' dramatises a filmic universe with at least 3 key figures. |
| 20 Buses | Director Stuart Parkins Romantic Comedy | United Kingdom 20 Buses is a romantic comedy which follows the relationship of a couple that meet every day at a bus stop. |
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| The Next El Masri | Director Matt Hawkins Comedy | Australia One skinny kid from western Sydney tries to prove he's the next rugby league superstar in a middle of a war zone. |
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| Early Checkout | Director Jim Lounsbury Comedy| Australia Two men. One body. No idea. |
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| The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5 Director Chema García Ibarra | Drama | Spain Almost everybody is going to die very soon. |
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| Blind Date | Director Chris Ramos Comedy | Australia A love-damaged actress, who won't admit she still yearns for the real thing, must eliminate the opposition to make love work on her terms. |
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| Letters to Sally | Director Matthew Jenkin Arthouse | Australia World premiere A man wakes up on the side of the road. In his hand is a letter to Sally. |
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| 2:00pm | Non-competition selected films |
| Don't Blame Me | Director Ben Crisp The blame game takes over when a desperate man attempts a late night robbery in a quiet suburban petrol station. |
| Flip’d | Director Jim McCarthy A middle aged woman's birthday is disastrous as she struggles to fight the effects of aging. She evnetually finds happiness by abandoning the superficial. |
| Eat My Shorts 3 short films from the Eat My Shorts Festival for youth aged between 12 -25 years held in the Lower North Health Region of SA. |
| Daisy's Last Stand | Director Gary Grant The favourite from local SA judges Daisy knows she has alzheimers, but she won't just stay at home waiting to die, this Saturday night she's going out. |
| 8:00pm | FOUR DIRECT FIVE Light supper & drinks to conclude the Awards Ceremony with wines supplied by Grosset Wines and Mount Horrocks Wines of Auburn, South Australia |
| Dead Rich | Director Tom Wright Producer Jason Fairley Starring Alison Steadman & David Horovitch Lust, Greed, Deceit: A short film about Family Values. |
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| Friday | Director Tom Wright Writer Jim Sweeney | Starring Seeta Indrani The hypnotic rhythms of her call-centre script have twisted one woman's sanity. Her fragile grip on the real world is about to be pushed even further. |
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| Our Time Alone | Director Gurchetan Singh World premiere Harpreet is struggling with her father's mental illness. The burden of his condition leaves Harpreet feeling lonely and desperate. When she confronts her fears she is left with a terrifying conclusion. |
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| The Sweeney – The Life and Work of Jim Sweeney | Director & Producer Seeta Indrani Jim Sweeney, feted grandfather of improvisational comedy. We trace the life and laughs of this titan and how he turned Multiple Sclerosis into a positive force in his journey. |
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| The Banker | Director Hattie Dalton Producer Kelly Broad | Starring Michael Sheen A lonely worker in a sperm bank dreams of unrequited love. Starring Michael Sheen and a colourful support cast, this BAFTA award winning short film went on to great festival success. |
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Awards Ceremony |
Please note that this programme is subject to change - Changes will be announced on the website and via email.
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