Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Australiens – Saturday 17^th October – Sci-Fi Opening Afternoon

Feature Film:

Australiens (Australia)

At the age of 10, Australian-born Andi Gibson had what she describes as a close encounter with a flying saucer. Naturally, everyone assumed she was bonkers. That is until one notable evening, 17 years later, when an airborne extra-terrestrial armada launches a nation-wide assault on Andi’s home country and at the same time, for unspecified reasons, kidnaps her mother. To add to the debacle, it seems the other nations of the world are far too insulted by their exclusion from the attack to come to Australia’s aid. Now it’s up to Andi, her hypochondriac brother Elliot, retired boxer cousin Keith and documentary filmmaker friend Cam to stop the attack and rescue Andi’s mum. Enlisting the help of Andi’s equal-parts mysterious and cringe-worthy father, the gang must battle car-chasing spaceships, martial-arts aliens, giant killer robots and, perhaps most frighteningly, a deluge of family secrets in their fight to save Australia. Bloody hell, this is gonna be a long night.

Director: Joseph Bauer
Cast: Rita Artmann, Rob Jenkins, Emma Randall, Tamara McLaughlin, Lawrence Silver, Doug Hatch, Joseph Bauer

Short Film:

Max (USA)

Some decisions are tough. A very hard day in the life of Annette Davis….

Director: Rajesh Naroth Cast: Bettina Devin, Quinn Saunders

Max – Film Still Image

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Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – I am Evangeline – Saturday 17^th October 4PM – Sci-Fi Opening Afternoon

Feature Film:

I am Evangeline (Australia)

In a dark and immoral city Evangeline, a naive runaway clone, desperately tries to find the cure she hopes will make her human – brain cells from her original, Diana. I am Evangeline is a science-fiction drama with a romantic undertow, set in an alternate now.

Director: Christine Rogers
Cast: Georgia Flood, Benjamin Hoetjes

I Am Evangeline – Film Still Image

Short Films:

Total Awesome Viking Power (USA)

When Viking role player Vidar is sidelined to “the land of the dead” he seeks help of the god Odin, who agrees to teach Vidar the ways of the Vikings if he takes him to a mystical Runestone. Together they embark on a journey that will test Vidar’s wits, bravery and his ability to go completely berserk.

Director: Morten Forland
Cast: Vince Major, Schno Mozingo, Jane Edwina Seymour, Adele Rene, Chris Stathis, Jes Selane, Jeremiah Benjamin, Adam N. Blanchard, Billy Smith, Angele Caron, Jessica Erin Bennett

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Willa (Germany)

A railway station in the middle of nowhere. David is looking for his girlfriend: Willa. They were on their way to their own wedding, when an accident made them stuck at a small railway station. Now Willa is missing and none of the other fellow passengers know where she is. Although the next train is so supposed to come any minute, David leaves the railway station to search for Willa…

Director: Helena Hufnagel
Cast: Karoline Schuch,Fabian Oehl, Mareile Blendl, Butz Buse
Dunja Bengsch, Martin Neuhaus, Marie Anne Fliegel, Mai Duong Kieu, Gerold Ströher

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WILLA – Film Still Image

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Dogs’ Breakfast – Saturday 17^th October 6:30PM – Opening Night Action + Live Band After Party!

Feature Film:

Dogs’ Breakfast (Australia)

Blackmailed by dirty cops, rookie thieves Nathan and Jeff are send to steal a briefcase from a warehouse. But what seems to be an easy mission to avoid jail, unleashes their worst nightmares from the underworld of crime.

Director: Rich Valverde
Cast: Peter Bertoni, Ellen Williams, John Gomez-Goodway, Narelle Nash, Geoffrey Grasso, John Samaha, Estelle Healey, Matt James, Richard Cotter, Nathan Bowen, Simon Shiells
Emilia Stubbs-Brigoriou

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Short Films:

Effloresce (USA)

Following a miscarriage and broken engagement, Amelia makes an unorthodox decision to move in next door to her ex, testing her theory that love can be re-purposed, but is not disposable … her experiment is met with considerable challenges.

Director: Kathleen Davison
Cast: Kathleen Davison, Curtis Mark Williams

Effloresce – Film Still Image

The Fallen Phoenix (USA)

‘The Fallen Phoenix’ is the story of an established composer who struggles to write a masterpiece that pleases both himself and his sponsor. Ultimately, he realizes he has to choose between staying true to his art and pleasing those around him.
The fable of the Phoenix is used as a framework for the story. Though the Phoenix may fall in flames, his music lives on triumphantly!

The story is told without any spoken words, using music and images alone.

The music is classical in style but uses many electronic sounds and techniques, such as sequencers and arpeggiators.

Directors: Gwen Barriac, Heather Larkin

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Sydney Indie Film Festival – The Incredible Adventures of Jojo (and his annoying little sister Avila) – Sunday 18th October 2PM – Family Afternoon + Q&A with “My Christmas Wish” Director James Tumminia & Actor Ian Roberts

Feature Film:

The Incredible Adventures of Jojo (and his annoying little sister Avila) (USA)

A six year old boy named Jojo wakes up from a car crash in the middle of the woods. Reluctantly, he takes his baby sister Avila from the crash and plops her into his backpack. The two of them try to make it back home, encountering hobos, wolves, and raging rivers along the way.

Director: Brian and Ann-Marie Schmidt
Cast: Joseph-Joseph Ogando, Avila vonGoosebottom, Gina Plastino, Barbara Papageorge, Peter Tahoe

Short Films:

My Christmas Wish (USA)

A spirited and determined young girl, full of hope and heart, shows her family and friends that it is far better to give than receive.

Director: James Tumminia
Cast: Andreas Beckett, Louis Dezseran, Tara Emerson, John C. Epperson, Heather Harper, Greg Jackson, Anne Leighton, Ian Roberts, Ashley Lynn, Makayl Walsh, Nick Steele

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D.Asian (USA)

4th grade is all about fitting in. For ten-year-old Daniel that means owning the latest in Hello Kitty fashion, liking the cutest boy in class, and convincing yourself you’re Asian when everyone else thinks you’re white. Davis Desmond and Sari Lennick (A Serious Man) star in this short comedy that proves that identity is all in the eye of the beholder.

Director: Sarah Smith
Cast: Sari Lennick, Davis Desmond

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Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Love Socks – Sunday 18th October 4PM – Romantic Comedy

Feature Film:

Love Socks (Australia)

The mismatches of love and body functions!

A heart warming story about the misunderstandings that get on the way of love. The silly little things that we make big deal about and end up letting stop us from fully embracing life and love.

As a child Frederica is diagnosed with a phenomenon called Reynolds Aguda, which means she will sneeze forever. She finds out that the only way to stop her affliction is to wear socks. The film unfolds the troubles that follows when she loses her socks. With close friends by her side helping her through, she might be able to find love after all.

LOVE SOCKS is an entertaining look into love, family, friends and body functions conflicts.

LOVE SOCKS is partly based in true events.

Director: Shailla Quadra
Cast: Michelle Mattiuzzi, Shailla Quadra, Olga Assabgy, Amber Gokken, Adam Williamson, Rhys Gillmer, Natalie Rose, Samantha Beames, Paul Armstrong, Khanh Trieu,   Matthew Grego, Tia Malouhi, Joseph Famularo

Short Films:

Glow (Australia)

Glow is everywhere and it’s highly addictive, just because it’s the light from a smartphone does that make it any less destructive than a drug?

Director:Ren Thackham

Lady Luck (United Kingdom)

A young boy attempts to win back his mother’s love. Based on a short story by DH Lawrence ‘The Rocking Horse Winner’.

Director: Jo Lewis
Cast; Adam Thomas Wright, Abigail Titmuss, Richard Strange,
Tav MacDougall

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Love Anything (Switzerland)

Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung. This is the story of a broken heart.

Director: Etienne Theytaz
Key Cast: Céline Weber, Jorge Couto, Niels Lerjen

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The Autumn of Zao (France)

Zao is a little boy with an incurable disease, in a house beside a lake. A little girl, Cloe, leads through the forest and tells him the legend of the lake monster. Beyond the pain, death and time, The Autumn of ZAO is a hymn to dream, life and childhood.

Director: Nikolaus Roche-Kresse
Cast: Caterina Murino, Elia Blanc, Morgane Hocde, Claudine Bertin

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Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Where Do We Go From Here – Sunday 18th October 6:30PM – Romantic Comedy

Feature Film:

Where Do We Go From Here? (United Kingdom)

“What is the appeal for a 25 year old to live in a care home?” This is the question; dejected nurse Jen asks when she joins the ranks at the “Easy love care home”. She is surprised to find a 25-year-old man (James) living and working in the care home.

James and his three, elderly best fiends hatch a plan to go on one last adventure and the only medical cover they can get is the one person who doesn’t want to be around old people. Will their plan go off without a hitch or is there a sell by date on adventure?

Director: John McPhail
Cast: Tyler collins, Lucy-Jane Quinlan, Alison Peebles, Richard Addison, Maryam Hamidi, Deirdre Murray

Short Films:

The Dog Walkers of Buenos Aires (Australia)

The art of walking 25 dogs at once and a 4 wheeled bicycle for our 4 legged best friend: the untold story of the Dog Walkers of Buenos Aires.

Director: Peter Wilson

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The Idea of Growing Old (USA)

Ellen best friend is too young to get married; or at least she feels too young to let him. In the dressing room before the wedding she scoffs at his oh-so-mature future bride while reminiscing on their much more genuine teenage escapades.

Director: Alyssa Stratton
Key Cast: Heather Bowling

The Idea of Growing Old – Film Still Image

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Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Tierra Caliente – Showing  Monday 19th October 6PM –True Story – Mexico + Short Films (Comedy, Thriller, Mini Doco)

Feature Film:

Tierra Caliente (Mexico)

This is the story of a family from the state of Guerrero, Mexico. As they go about their normal lives, they are caught in the crossfire between the Narco and the military. The film portrays how one hundred taxi drivers go on a search to find the missing husband of Daughter 2 and how the tragedy affects her and the rest of her family. The screenplay is transcript of conversations from the family recorded over a period of two years. Actors play the members of the family to protect their identity, but we are able to hear the actual recordings throughout the film, to remind the audience that these people are real.

Director: Laura Plancarte
Cast: Dimitri Andreas, Claudia Coulter, Anais, Alvarado, Christianne Oliveira

Short Films:

Janne of Love (Bulgaria)

“Janne of love” is a humorous investigation of the communicational problems, cultural differences and prejudices of contemporary Europeans. Bulgarian, Finnish and English language “get along, hide real intentions and clash” just like the characters, pointing out the invisible borders in a globalized world.

The wild journey starts in Bulgaria, where Millitsa and Anni meet two Finnish boys – Timo and Ilkka. Beer is flowing, the temperatures are getting high, so as the passions. After getting intoxicated and recklessly breaking the law, the feelings of the main characters evolve and culminate in a shameless love confession on the dance floor.

Finland, Timo and Millitsa are already married. When alone they are the perfect match, but in public the joyful and noisy Millitsa gives Timo a hard time. Soon the stereotypical views cause their love language to fall apart. They start speaking their native tongues and their mind. Clichés and the bias that Eastern and Western Europeans have against each other burst out in a hilarious argument.

Will there be a solution in this never-ending conflict? And who, for God’s sake, is Janne!?

Director: Vilma Kartalska
Key Cast: Millitsa Gladnishka, Juha Hippi, Vilma Kartalska
Miska Kajanus

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Forever (Australia)

A confessional romance where nothing is what it seems.

Director: James Walker
Cast: Jacqueline Whiting, Callum Harrington

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See Me Now (UK/Fiji/India/Nigeria/Australia)

See Me Now is a fashion film inspired by the quote – “The darker the skin, the uglier they’re considered”. Upon hearing that, I called upon models and designers of colour to showcase the beauty of dark skin. And to send a message, that beauty comes from being comfortable in your skin.

Director: Glen MacKay
Cast: Paula Santos, Paula Souza, Leila Gurruwiwi, Veniana Natekuru, Adjoa Mensah, Kolpona Begum, Nana Afua Antwi, Ruby Brobey, Gayle (NG) Thompson, Kerrie Newton, Jaina Wilson, Leslie Louis-Jean

See Me Now – Film Still Image

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – The Last Executioner – Showing Monday 19th October 8:30PM –True Story – Thailand

Feature Film:

The Last Executioner (Thailand)

The remarkable true story of Thailand’s last machine gun prison executioner who worked at the notorious ‘Bangkok Hilton’.

Director: Tom Waller Cast:Vithaya Pansringarm, David Asavanond, Thira Chutikul

THE LAST EXECUTIONER – Film Poster

Short Films:

Meat (USA)

Desperate for work, Darren agrees to a one-day trial as a door-to-door meat salesman.

Director: Michael Forstein Cast: John Cromwell, Caleb Carlson, Pearce Bunting, Sari Lennick, Joanna Harmon

Meat – Film Still Image

Blame (Australia)

Director: Omer Zekirovski Key Cast: Robin Queree, Paul Duncan

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Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – INTERSECTION- Showing
Tuesday 20th October 6PM –Romantic Action Drama

Feature Film: 

Intersection (USA)

A broken man, haunted by a car crash that claimed the life of his daughter, returns to the same small town where the fateful accident occurred only to discover something he never expected to find – love. Do second chances come with a price?

Director: Tim French
Cast: Hoyt Richards Dumbbells, Anabella Casanova

Short Films:

Pretty Boy (USA)

Sean is taken to a motel and is given a prostitute for his 18th birthday by his father. He must sleep with her to “fix” his questionable homosexuality. Aside from acceptance, “Pretty Boy” is about confidence, finding an inner strength, and being who you are meant to be.

Director: Cameron Thrower
Cast: Nick Eversman, Rebekah Tripp, Jon Briddell, Zach Matchem, Millie Trachtenberg

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Alex (Australia)

A romantic drama short film. It follows the choices a teenage boy faces from a troubled home, growing into adulthood and how one girl can change his life.

Director: Chris Kelly
Cast:Nick Allen-Ducat, Piera Forde, Darrell Plumridge

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Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Day Release

Day Release (Spain)

On his first weekend parole after 5 years in prison, Mark Rodriguez witnesses the armed robbery of a security van. His brother´s critical situation and his own feelings of remorse will lead him to take desperate measures. His only help will be a young and sexy stripper he met the night before.

Director: Geoffrey Cowper
Cast: Jesus Lloveras, Sara Casasnovas, Frank Feys, Javier Beltran, Miko Jarry, Ferran Lahoz

Short Films:

The Clinic (Singapore)

A young man suffering from severe depression battles between two worlds: one in which he finds release, the other in which he struggles against his will. What will he do when he is given a choice and which world will you believe? An emotional and time-twisting vision in a debut short film by Sarah Howell.

Director: Sarah Howell
Cast: Mike Bash, Gesella Ohaka

Colt 13 (Australia)

A former sports phenomenon looks to settle a score with the man he believes is responsible for destroying his life – his brother.

Director: Luke McKay
Cast: Ivan Ford, Dean Kyrwood, Simon Lyndon, Aaron Scully, Franck Zuanic, John Manning

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The Man Who Couldn’t Cry (Germany)

“The Man Who Couldn ́t Cry” is the story about a man who feels like he is different than everybody else, because he never cried a tear in his life. One day he meets a woman crying on the street who fascinates him right from the beginning. How can anybody cry that much? He invites her to his home and a strange relationship develops.

Director: Natalie MacMahon
Cast: Stephen Patrick Hannah, Natalie MacMahon

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