KAPOWERFUL Short Films Heading to Perth!
Flickerfest 2019 National Tour
Flickerfest is bringing its National Tour back to Perth...
Flickerfest 2019 National Tour
Flickerfest is bringing its National Tour back to Perth at the Camelot Outdoor Cinema!
The tour will showcase three programmes from the 2019 Flickerfest Short Film Festival, including:
- Best Of Australian Shorts on Thursday, 28 February 2019
- EU Short Film Showcase on Friday, 1 March 2019
- Short Laughs Comedy on Saturday, 2 March 2019
These programmes present a selection of entertaining, inspiring and award-winning films hand-picked from the festival’s 2,700 entries, giving local Flickerfest audiences the first look at the hottest shorts in the world today.
This year’s Flickerfest Perth Tour has an impressive line-up of seven diverse and wonderful films from Perth and Western Australia across the Best of Australian Shorts and Short Laughs comedy programmes.
Best Of Australian Shorts
The Best of Australian Shorts programme is a specially curated selection of highlights from Flickerfest’s Australian Academy® Accredited competition programmes in Bondi 2018.
Featured WA films include HOME, NO SINCERER LOVE, YULUBIDYI – UNTIL THE END and JUDAS COLLAR.
Date: Thursday, 28 February 2019
Time: 8:00pm
Where: Camelot Outdoor Cinema, 16 Lochee Street, Mosman Park WA 6012
Price: $20 general admission | $16 concession and child | $14.50 with Luna Palace Privilege Card
Tickets are available on the Luna Palace website.
Visit the Flickerfest website to view the full Best of Australian Shorts Perth Programme.
EU Short Film Showcase
The EU Short Film Showcase programme features a selection of film gems from across the European Continent.
Date: Friday, 1 March 2019
Time: 8:00pm
Where: Camelot Outdoor Cinema, 16 Lochee Street, Mosman Park WA 6012
Price: $20 general admission | $16 concession and child | $14.50 with Luna Palace Privilege Card
Ticket are available on the Luna Palace website.
Visit the Flickerfest website to view the EU Short Film Showcase Programme.
Short Laughs Comedy
The Short Laughs Comedy programme offers a hilarious mixture of dark and light tales, all of which will raise a smile.
Featured WA films include CALLING, SAMMY THE SALMON and TROLL BRIDGE.
Date: Saturday, 2 March 2019
Time: 8:00pm
Where: Camelot Outdoor Cinema, 16 Lochee Street, Mosman Park WA 6012
Price: $20 general admission | $16 concession and child | $14.50 with Luna Palace Privilege Card
Tickets are available on the Luna Palace website.
Visit the Flickerfest website to view the full Short Laughs Comedy Perth Programme.
Featured WA Films
HOME
Best Of Australian Shorts
Aussie favourite Jack Thompson takes the lead role in the haunting HOME – an adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck’s 1894 one-act play INTÉRIEUR. Director Peter Gurbiel calls Perth his hometown and calls forth a masterful performance from Thompson as two men struggle with delivering terrible news to an innocent family.
NO SINCERER LOVE
Best Of Australian Shorts
NO SINCERER LOVE is a film by Perth native Amelia Saunders and was shot in Perth. It tells the story of Harriet and her friends having a tea party. Sounds simple? Despite their seemingly perfect exteriors their lives begin to show cracks.
YULUBIDYI – UNTIL THE END
Best Of Australian Shorts
Filmmakers Curtis Taylor and Nathan Mewett developed a bond through the knowledge that they both grew up in the same remote area of the Great Western Desert.
Their film YULUBIDYI – UNTIL THE END tells the story of a young Aboriginal man who helps his disabled brother escape from their abusive life in a remote Australian Aboriginal community with the aid of a Mamu (Dreaming Creature).
This film won Flickerfest’s Virgin Australia Award – Best Australian Short Film (Academy® Accredited).
YULUBIDYI – UNTIL THE END was developed and produced in association with Screenwest and Lotterywest through the Screenwest Elevate Program.
JUDAS COLLAR
Best Of Australian Shorts
The extraordinary JUDAS COLLAR tells the heart-wrenching story of a wild camel in outback Australia. Filmed in Western Australia, in particularly Cue, Sandstone, Mt Magnet and Paynes Find Roadhouse (approx. 6.5 hours North/ East of Perth CBD) and directed by Perth native Alison James.
A wild female camel is captured and fitted with a tracking device known as a Judas Collar. Based on a real-life practice, Judas Collar explores the importance of connection and the tragedy of self-sacrifice.
Deeply moving, this film tells a story that speaks to the human condition while letting camel actors show us their plight by showing the wild camels’ story directly through their eyes.
JUDAS COLLAR was developed and produced in association with Screenwest and Lotterywest through the Screenwest Elevate Program.
CALLING
Short Laughs Comedy
CALLING is a hilarious portrayal of a mother/daughter relationship chronicled entirely through their phone calls with each other.
It’s a laugh out loud modern comedy written and directed by Fremantle born and raised Miley Tunnecliffe who won Flickerfest’s Rebel8 Award – Outstanding Emerging Female Director.
Miley said, “I wanted CALLING to be a kind of love story for deeply flawed mothers and daughters everywhere.”
Half shot in Perth, the film Won Best International Film at The Austin Short Comedy Festival 2018 and has Debra Lawrence (of PLEASE LIKE ME and Pippa in HOME AND AWAY fame) in the brilliantly cast mother role.
CALLING was developed and produced in association with Screenwest and Lotterywest through the Screenwest Generate Program.
SAMMY THE SALMON
Short Laughs Comedy
SAMMY THE SALMON is an hilarious LGBTQI comedy short from Perth filmmaker Jake Shannon.
Unable to pluck up the courage to come-out to his girlfriend, Spencer comes across Sammy – a talking salmon who offers to get his love life back on track.
TROLL BRIDGE
Short Laughs Comedy
16-years in the making, TROLL BRIDGE is the work of Writer/Director Daniel Knight who grew up in Perth, and began his career directing Discworld stage plays for Blak Yak Theatre.
The film is a sophisticated mix of live action and animation and brings to life the humour and charm of the much-loved Discworld of Terry Pratchett’s series of books. The film tells the story of Pratchett’s aged hero ‘Cohen The Barbarian’ as he and his talking horse embark on a suicidal quest to battle a bridge troll.
More Information
For more information about the 2019 Flickerfest Tour visit www.flickerfest.com.au/tour or contact the festival director.
Bronwyn Kidd
Flickerfest Festival Director
M: 0455 037 441
E: director@flickerfest.com.au
For information about the Flickerfest Perth sessions and tickets, please contact:
Luna Palace Camelot Outdoor Cinema
T: 08 9386 3554
W: www.lunapalace.com.au
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