Celebrating its 20th birthday this year and remaining Australia’s only Academy Accredited and BAFTA recognised short film festival Flickerfest roars around the country on it’s 30-venue national tour, heading south to Canberra for 2 days of the best of Australian and International Shorts.
With an opening night party and screening on Saturday March 17th and screenings continuing on Sunday the 26th, Flickerfest will be hosting 2 sessions of short film highlights, pulled from over 1793 entries and distilled into the crème de la crème of local and global short filmmaking.
Across the International 1 Program screening on the opening night enjoy the astonishing animation Babel – which challenges viewers with it’s ultra-realistic animation that recently won the award for Best Use of Digital Technology at Flickerfest 2011; and the winner for Best Short Film at Flickerfest 2011, the French screwball comedy ¿Donde Esta Kim Basinger?
The opening night screening also includes a delightful stop-motion animation from local Canberra filmmaker Marisa Martin, Tegan The Vegan. The film is about Tegan, a 12 year old student who finds out where meat comes from – and decides to become a vegetarian. She must contend with Elenore the Carnivore (voiced by Pippa Black, a campaigner for PETA). The plot is based partly on the story of director Marisa Martin who became a vegetarian when she was 12 after visiting an abattoir. It is narrated by Paul McDermott and voiced by Noni Hazelhurst and Charli Delaney.
On Friday March 18th the screenings continue with Best Of Australian shorts programme which includes several award winning films: The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan which took home the award for Best Australian Film at Flickerfest in 2011 and was the only Australian film to win an Oscar at this years’ Academy Awards! Also screening is the Flickerfest/IF Audience Award winning comedy When The Wind Changes; AFI Award winner and Flickerfest winner for Best Cinematography The Kiss and The Telegram Man starring Jack Thompson in his first ever short film alongside Sigrid Thornton and Gary Sweet.
Session Details & Ticket Prices:
$17/ $14.50 concession / $12.50 seniors-kids
Best Of International 1 – Saturday March 26th, 7pm
Best Of Australian Shorts – Sunday March 27th, 7pm
For more information head to www.flickerfest.com.au or www.dendy.com.au
May The Shorts Be With You!
