A Year in Paradise

Director: Benon Koebsch

On the 10th September 2000 at a Queenstown bus stop, Benon Koebsch said farewell to girlfriend Shelley Falconer on what would prove to be the end of their three year relationship.

10 months earlier they had arrived in New Zealand full of excitement, enthusiasm and very happily in love.

This is the story of how they lost it all.

Fantasy Men

Director: J. Cooney
Birthdaypants Productions

There are men who play Dungeons and dragons with paper and pen. And then there are the fantasy men who play the extreme sporst version. Join Vegas the Black, durin the Dwarf, Marcus of Gristledale and Jamis Half-Elf as they embark on a magical quest..

Time 4mins

Lunchtime

Director: Burleigh Smith
TKS Media

Mr Brown enters with little to say but that soon changes when he learns he is gay ...

Time 3.19mins

The Channel

Director: Geoff Charters

A troubled and introverted man plagued with agorophobia and drug addiction stumbes across a television channel that responds to his commands. a murer is witnessed - control is lost - and the entity is coming for him.

Time 10mins

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Rethink the way you think

Director: Geoff Charters

An experimental film highlighting key issues that are camouflaged in a grotesque deluge of over-regulation.

Time 4mins

Lucky Break

Director: Bruce Dwyer

Lucky Break is a coming of age story about a young Melbourne man who looses his job. We se Stewart at home as he struggles to survive in the chaos of his bedroom. He wakes up late one day and the day seem like it is getting from bad to worse. His luck changes when he finds a wallet full of money and after some deliberation decides to return it. As a consequence, his actions are rewarded in more ways than one.

Time 7mins

Sleeper

Director: Andrew Milner

Rosko's wor has become a disjointed collection of random moments. He finds himself snapping in and out of consciousness at the wheel of his courier van but even his dreams repeat scenes of his ordinary life.
Time 11mins

Chai

Director: Katie Byrne

A 23 year old David has trouble resisting his family, as his father wants to conform him to his way of life. David falls further into depression. This film tackles many of societys issues. Male youth suicide is the highest in Australia. as well as the universalissue of children not living up to their religion or parents expectations
Time 10mins

Dracenstein

Directors:
Tom Priestley and Bill Flowers

(Animated)

A mad scientist's life turns pear-shaped after accidentally installing a vampire brain in his monster creation.

Time 6.26mins

Just Jeremy

Director: Kelly West

Jeremy' mother walked into the sea. Never to return, when Jeremy was just a boy. Unable to deal with being left behind, Jeremy has developed a number of obsessive compulsive traits. He makes up times and dates and plans of ways to meet up with his mother through the gateway in the sea.

Time 9min

Hooked

Director: Terry Shepherd

Stressed executive Michael Macready decides to take a well deserved afternoon off but finds it is not such an easy thing to do in today's interconnected world.

Time 11min

Alaina

Director: Adam Stolfo
Adam Stolfo Productions
Alaina wishes theworld would go away, one day it does. Finding that every living person has seemingly vanished, she is confused and utterly alone.

Time 15min

Bzzzzzzz

Director: Lee Gordon Demabre
Odessa Digital
The Angry Film Festival goes international!
Our first entry ever from overseas.
Killer Bee invasion in Canada's capital.

Time 7min

MARCO SOLO

Director: Adrian Bosich
Poor 9 year old Marco still shares his parents' bedroom. Using a vivid imagination, an obsession with Dame Edna, and warped Catholocism, he seeks his own space.

Time 9min

FRAMED

Director: Brooke Goldfinch
If a six year old found a camera what would they take photos of? We often mistake small children for being innocent or naive. Children are surrounded by the realities and perversions of the modern world in the same way that adults are. So how do they interpret them? When Christabelle Moorely discovers a camera she thinks she may have found a means of telling the world her big secret.

Time 5.21min

My Shadow

Director: Sumitra Phoenix
Flat tyres, mystery calls. Cathy is being watched. Someone is following her, close as a shadow. Cathy tells her best friend. Heath already knows. The phone rings though the night. Is anyone listening?

Time 8min

Realm of the Hook

Director: Aaron Stevenson
The grim tale of a butcher and his family who triumph! Horror movie spoove.

Time 8min

Benny's Lost Audience

Director: Aidan Prewett
After a string of misfortunes, a young musician is forced threough rehabilitation.

Time 7min

Moments of Clarity

Director: Charlene Loh
"Moments of Clarity" explores the limbo world when a soul leaves the body and travels the earth as reality keeps moving forward. The decease shall look upon their family and friends watching significant moments of rage, fear and pain.

Grief takes time to overcome. It is released in this world through our various faces and personal demons.

Time 5.11min

It feels great!

Director: Justin Shaw
A cocky young bartender gets his come uppance.

Time 5.13min

Dentally Disturbed

One man's spiral into insanity as he tries to find the existence of dental floss.

Time 5min

No more than four

A callous property developer hosts a vigorous protest rally against tower blocks looming over a new people's park in Northcote.

Time 8.40min

Citizen Minna

An impromptu, personal documentary about my friend Minna who was born in Finland, spent her formative years in Mt Isa and, after 35 years in this country, recently became an Australian citizen on the Gold Coast.

Time 5min

A Brief Case of Anonymity

Director: Murray Lorden
Hymloe Productions
A man wakes beneath a bridge to find a briefcae cuffed to his wrist and only vague memories of who he is. Unable to remove or open it, he must go in search of his identity and his freedom.

Time 4.57

VIEW

Director John Chatwin
Lester is going crazy trying to kill a fly. Meanwhile Chester his neighbour is trying to kill Esther, but she won't die, will Lester kill the fly? Will Chester kill Esther? Will they ever meet and compare techniques?

Time 5.35

Revenge of the Seagull

Director Kurt Roberts
Jupeter Films
Never tease a seagull. Remember Alfred Hitchcock's Birds?
This is nothing like it!

Time 5.35

 

Strawberry Fair

Director: Murray Lorden
Hymloe Productions
Our crack documentary crew head on to the school fair of our youth to see if the magic is still there.!

Time 9.50

Smoking Kills

Director: Shannon Patterson
Blu Mug Films
Recently deceased Bud, after a brief encounter with death finds himself knocking on Heaven's door. Denied entry to Hell, Bud meets Peter who gives largely unsatisfactory answers to Bud's burning questions about life, the Universe and everything. The task of telling Bud how he passed is left to a mischevious deity, for whom a good time is putting Bud's unfortunate demise on the big screen.

Time: 7min

Backstage (Stop Motion Animation)

Director: Kelly McGillivray-Brown
Canterbury University
Backstage is an animated documentary set in the backroom of a strip club. A phone interview with an exotic dancer threads a narrative through the backstage chatter.

Priscilla describes what it is like being in the dancing profession and talks openly about the double life she leads.

Time: 6.15 min