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Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival 2018 – Closing Night Events – 1st November 7:30PM – Feature Film “Point Man” + Short Film “Out of Our Arms” + AWARDS NIGHT!

+ Q&A with the Filmmakers!

TICKETS:

https://www.facebook.com/events/293201951500578

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sydney-indie-film-festival-2018-point-man-feature-film-short-awards-tickets-51324229151

Thu. 1 November 2018, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

SUGGESTED ARRIVAL TIME: 7:20PM
For the Red Carpet Meetings & Greetings Shananigans

Point Man

Director: Phil Blattenberger, Cambodia, United States, Viet Nam

Cast: Christopher Long, Jacob Keohane, Chase Gutzmore, Marcus Bailey, Matthew Ewald, Cody Howard, Shannon Williams

Synopsis: Set in Vietnam in April 1968 – three months after the tide-turning Tet Offensive and one month after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. – Point Man is the story of a U.S. Army fire team fractured by racial tensions, moral crises, and the crushing pressures of combat in a war nobody wants to fight. Andre “Casper” Allen, a rough-edged ideologue, finds his radical politics put him at odds with the squad’s machine gunner, Silas Meeks. When their search-and-destroy mission in the Mekong Delta goes terribly wrong, both men find themselves pitted against each other and their recalcitrant platoon commander, Lieutenant Sutter. Point men die like flies in the bush, and as loyalties dissolve every step forward comes with a price.

Australian Premiere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3esSKklslbw

https://facebook.com/pointmanmovie

@pablattenberger

Out of Our Arms

Director: Jarred Keane, Australia,

Cast: Ed Keane, Jacqui Maloney

Synopsis: A Sci-Fi Family Drama about a married couple trapped in a triage waiting room while their only son clings to life. But what meaning does life have, when you can just be reborn as a clone?

Australian Premiere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgZ0Vo300Vw&list=UUPk5jksPuX6mQ80jRDTXTJA&index=5

https://www.facebook.com/OutOfOurArmsFILM/ https://www.instagram.com/outofourarmsfilm/

Program subject to change without notice.

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Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival 2018 Halloween Night! – 31st October 5:30PM – Short Films #10 – Thriller #2

“Alfred J Hemlock” “Bad Hombres, Best Men” “Boxes” “Colony” “Creak” “Cut Off” “Evicted” “Porcelain Stare” “Roll a seven go to heaven” “Save” “Saving Mercury” “The Forgotten Children”

+ Q&A with the Filmmakers!

TICKETS:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2482340788658918

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sydney-indie-film-festival-2018-halloween-short-films-10-thriller-2-tickets-51369122428

Wed. 31 October 2018, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

SUGGESTED ARRIVAL TIME: 5:15PM
For the Red Carpet Meetings & Greetings Shananigans

Alfred J Hemlock

Edward Lyons, Australia

Renaye Loryman, Tristan Mckinnon, Christian Charisiou

When Emily’s boyfriend abandons her in the night, her only way home is through an alleyway where she is terrorised by the mysterious entity Alfred J Hemlock.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/176929079

https://twitter.com/AlfredJHemlock https://www.facebook.com/AlfredJHemlock/

@alfredjhemlock

Bad Hombres, Best Men

Carlos Grana, United States

Megan Putnam, Ben Russell, William McCarthy, Benardo Cruz, David Bladwin

A fake mariachi wedding band has a disturbing way of ensuring newlyweds remain together forever.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/199115347

@bazookamama

Boxes

Tony Yang, Australia

Mia

A single lady awakened by knocking sound in the middle of the night and then find 2 boxes outside of the front door of her apartment.

World Premiere

@YZNFILMS

Colony

Catherine Bonny, Australia

Emma Burnside, Alicia Hellingman, Ben Leyden

World Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/293665263 https://www.facebook.com/colonyshortfilm/

Creak

Elizabeth Dean, United States

Sarah Navratil, Bill R. Dean

Synopsis: An original and unexpected telling of the classic Hitchcock blonde as she makes her way through a most ominous night.

Never assume it’s just the house settling.

Australian Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/232270737

Cut Off

Ryan Cauchi, Australia

Jessica Bell

A true millennial horror story.

@ryancauchifilms

Evicted

Taylor James, Australia

Tom Daley, Mitchell Ralston, Holly Bohmer , Susan Radchenko

In this visually stunning horror/fantasy –A reclusive man initiates a bizarre eating ritual that sees him change into someone else, in order to pursue a life outside with the girl that lives next door.

Evicted is a surreal nightmare into the horrors of social anxiety where the only way out is to change yourself entirely.

World Premiere

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFEgY4u0hrk

https://www.facebook.com/evictedfilm/ https://www.instagram.com/evicted.movie/

Porcelain Stare

Robin Rippmann, Switzerland

Mia Miljko, Veronika Herren

A young girl is invited for tea by an old woman. Little does she know that the woman harbours a terrible secret that will soon be uncovered.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/240009365

https://twitter.com/PorcelainStare

https://www.facebook.com/PorcelainStare/

@porcelainstare

Roll a seven go to heaven

J.L. Shenstone, Australia

Daisy Lythe, Warren Lyons Emily Rose has reached a dead end. She sits in a motel room with a bottle of rum and a single dice. In a desperate attempt to change her life she assigns each number with an outcome and leaves her fate to chance.

Australian Premiere

@jlshenstone

Save

Iván Sáinz-Pardo, Germany, Spain

Josephile Ehlert Roland Von Kummant, Mia Von Kummant

Dawns A baby breaks the silence .

“54 International Awards. More than 300 official selections.” Sydney Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/174825306

https://www.facebook.com/savetheshortfilm/

https://www.facebook.com/savetheshortfilm/

Saving Mercury

Ali Kadhim, Australia

Olga Miller, Anastasia Miller, Tommy Ropati, Paul Pedersen, Angelina Volmer

In the not too distant future, a young woman carries the key to humanity’s survival.

Australian Premiere

@9livesfilms

The Forgotten Children

Jason Michael Hooker, Australia

Halyna Mykyta, Paul Dawber, Pippa van Wijck, Etienne Goessens, Kathryn Tohill

The owners of a foster care home venture out to search for the orphan girl in their care – who has disappeared into the nearby woods – unaware of the impending threat to their existence.

Sydney Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/192889953 https://www.facebook.com/TheForgottenChildren2016/

Program subject to change without notice.

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival 2018 – 30th October 7:30PM -  Feature Film “Swipe Club” + Short Films Action-Comedy-Drama

“Swipe Club” “A Hive” “Face Forward” “The Limited”

+ Q&A with the Filmmakers!

TICKETS:

https://www.facebook.com/events/320483728504848

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sydney-indie-ff-2018-feature-swipe-club-shorts-action-comedy-drama-tickets-51358873774

Tue. 30 October 2018, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

SUGGESTED ARRIVAL TIME: 7:15PM
For the Red Carpet Meetings & Greetings Shananigans

Swipe Club

Director: Curtis Wyatt, United States

Cast: Zach Veatch , Curtis Wyatt, Raven Wynn, Andrew Yackel, Brooklynn Summers

Synopsis: When Dustin and Jett find out their lifelong dreams are no longer a reality they decide to team up and assemble a crew to take their money back from the University

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ajpHZobN0o https://facebook.com/swipeclub

A Hive

Director: Christina Crawford, Australia

Cast: Elyse Beer

Synopsis: A Hive is a short psychological drama centred around the inevitable cycles of life and death. Infatuated by the insects she works with, Evie, young beekeeper and recluse, questions the nature of free will in a universe that seems much simpler than her own. When confronted by the reality of her mother’s illness, Evie must accept the repercussions of her own choices and come to terms with more than she ever expected.

Face Forward

Director: Annisa Belonogoff, Australia

Cast: Annisa Belonogoff, Susan Belonogoff, Firdaws Adelpour

Synopsis: Elizabeth is new to YouTube, and since makeup tutorials are all the rage, she thought she would take her followers on the journey of getting ready for her date. It’s not as simple as it sounds.

The Limited

Director: Chris Elena, Australia

Cast: Julie Beale, Jonathan Darby, Patrick Gilbert, Matthew Cropley

Synopsis: A group of students at a Catholic all boys school tell the story of how a teacher’s son died. Before the question can be asked if any of it is true, the teacher calls one of the boys into her office. Confrontation and conflict ensue.

Program subject to change without notice.

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival 2018 – 30th October 5:30PM - Short Films #9 – Mixed Bag #4!

“Magic Alps” “Mother, Child” “Papercut” “Sound of Silence – Born severely deaf” “Sylvia” “The Missing Things” “The Redhead” “The Son, the Father” “The Terrible Tale of Henrietta Tate” “Weird”

+ Q&A with the Filmmakers!

TICKETS:

https://www.facebook.com/events/567193623737733

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sydney-indie-film-festival-2018-short-films-9-mixed-bag-4-tickets-51359285004

Tue. 30 October 2018, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

SUGGESTED ARRIVAL TIME: 5:15PM
For the Red Carpet Meetings & Greetings Shananigans

Magic Alps

Director: Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi, Italy

Cast: Giovanni Storti, Hassan El Aouni

Synopsis: When an Afghan refugee arrives in Italy with his goat to seek asylum, an Italian immigration officer finds himself in a difficult position because he doesn’t know what to do with the animal. Based on a true story.

Australian Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/251124747 https://www.facebook.com/MagicAlps/

Mother, Child

Director: Tin Pang, Australia

Cast: Gabrielle Chan, Lawrence Leung

Synopsis: Having suffered a recent Stroke, a mother and her adult son are reacquainted and forced to live together. As they face the physical and psychological challenges head on, they’re placed on an emotional collision course, leading them to question whether their close proximity is such a good idea.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/222086710

https://twitter.com/motherchildfilm

https://www.facebook.com/motherchildmovie/

@motherchildmovie

Papercut

Director: Damian Overton, Australia

Cast: Josh Kieser, Kieton Beilby, Donnie Baxter

Synopsis: Two closeted actors on their way to their first high profile awards ceremony fight both expectation and each other, as intimacy and insecurity collide in the back seat of a car.

Sydney Premiere

Trailer: https://twitter.com/OmadProductions https://www.facebook.com/papercutshortfilm/

@omad_productionsfilm

Sound of Silence – Born severely deaf

Director: Philippe Woodtli, Switzerland

Cast: Robin Gillon

Synopsis: A young man born severely deaf faced exclusion from society from his early days on. He was bullied by his peers, branded a fool by his teachers, and locked away in a basement at his first job at a bank—but Robin Gillon found his way through, all thanks to skiing.

Australian Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/282560071 https://www.facebook.com/WOOProductions/

https://www.instagram.com/woop_prod/

Sylvia

Director: Richard Prendergast, United Kingdom

Cast: Jolie Lennon, Benjamin Hartley, Gaynor Fraser, Maisie Prendergast

Synopsis: A loving family set off in their car on what seems like a carefree family outing. As Mandy drives, they sing along to a favourite song, stop for ice- creams and play eye-spy. However, it gradually becomes clear that this isn’t a family outing after all, and that their destination isn’t a happy one. In fact, their destination is the house of a man, due to buy their car, and only once the car has stopped does the actuality of the narrative fully manifest.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/281101423

https://twitter.com/submotionDOTnet

https://www.facebook.com/sylviafilm/ https://www.instagram.com/sylvia_film

The Missing Things

Director: Jason van Genderen, Australia

Cast: Hendrika van Genderen

Synopsis: Dementia takes someone you love away in little pieces, every day.

Sydney Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/290078977

@jasonvangenderen

The Redhead

Director: Natalie MacMahon, Germany

Cast: Joey Jordan, Autumn Bartholetti, Myra Eetgerink, Nicole A. Zalewska, Inken Paland, Christian Müller, Natalie MacMahon, Recardo Koppe, Anna Maria Hadorn

Synopsis: When meeting a mysterious redhead in a seductive virtual reality game world, it soon becomes impossible for Aven to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

Aven likes to take off his mind by spending his free time in a virtual reality game, which is set in a mysterious, seductive and ambiguous world. This fantasy world is the perfect contrast to his rather boring every-day life, that is determined by a monotonous callcenter job. Soon this game threatens to take over his life and Aven gets obsessed with a mysterious red-haired woman. What started as a game, eventually becomes bitter reality, where boundaries are non-existent. Has this game become reality or is reality nothing more than a game?

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/244713580

https://twitter.com/nataliemacmahon https://www.facebook.com/theredheadfilm/

@nataliemacmahon

The Son, the Father

Director: Lukas Hassel, United States

Cast: Lukas Hassel, Colleen Carey, Lucas Oktay, Chris Morson

Synopsis: The events on a young boy’s birthday have twisted consequences far into his future.

Australian Premiere

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g1ud5FPPtc&t=3s https://twitter.com/thesonthefathermovie https://www.facebook.com/thesonthefathermovie/

#thesonthefathermovie

The Terrible Tale of Henrietta Tate

Director: Tom Beckwith Phillips, United Kingdom

Cast: Yumi Lambert, Mark Ryder, Jonathan Holby

Synopsis: Who is Bubble Girl? Bubble girl is the sad, silent mascot of Gummer Gooseberry soda pop. Bubble Girl is a vison of bubblegum pink loveliness, she smiles for the camera, but cries pink soda-pop diamond tears when no-one is looking. As she travels by train to advertise Gummer Gooseberry, under the watchful eye of Mr Control and his son, something strange is afoot, and it’s not just her eye-makeup.

The Terrible Tale of Henrietta Tate, is a lyrical, dystopian fairy-tale.

Australian Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/253881802

https://www.instagram.com/beckwithproductions/?hl=en

Weird

Director: Fausto Montanari, Italy

Synopsis: “Weird” is a short animated film about the diversity.

It is a shout of a girl usual to be judged like weird and different.

She express in the monologue her sufferance and her dream to make possible to delete the concept of weird

She thinks that in the end weirdness is only a point of view and that we are all the same.

But sometime during her speech she fall in the error to indicate something like Weird, because again Weirdness depend from each self and a personal perspective

World Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/246100918

https://facebook.com/weirdshort

https://www.instagram.com/fm.illustration/

Program subject to change without notice.

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Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival 2018 – 29th October 5:30PM – Short Films #7 – Mixed Bag #2!

“A Thousand Kisses” “Buy The Dip” “Dead End” “Dinner With Friends” “Death of an Umbrella Salesman” “Lucy” “Once upon a dream” “This is not about us” “Welcome to Paradise”

+ Q&A with the Filmmakers:

Director: Steve Herold, Death of an Umbrella Salesman, United States
Director: Marek Kacer, This is not about us, Slovakia
Director: Stefan Goslinga, Welcome to Paradise, Australia

TICKETS:

https://www.facebook.com/events/356676775070380

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sydney-indie-film-festival-2018-short-films-7-mixed-bag-2-tickets-51367656042

Mon. 29 October 2018, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

SUGGESTED ARRIVAL TIME: 5:15PM
For the Red Carpet Meetings & Greetings Shananigans

A Thousand Kisses

Director: Richard Goldgewicht, United States

Cast: Elke Sommer, Christian Oliver S

Synopsis: Separated by the fear of prosecution in the Nazi Germany of 1933, a young Jewish couple in Berlin make loose plans to reunite on the safe tropical shores of Brazil.

Inspired by the actual correspondence recovered by the couple’s grandsons 80 years later in São Paulo, A Thousand Kisses presents a peculiar love story tainted by the harsh historical context of its time, with a light appeal of irony and real-life poetry.

Buy The Dip

Director: Sam Lucas Smith, Ireland

Cast: John Colleary, Shane Robinson, Sam Lucas Smith, Sean Flood, Florence Ordesh

Synopsis: Two friends are introduced to the mad world of cryptocurrency when a homeless man offers them some unsolicited investment advice.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEDF2Ds4Nz4

https://twitter.com/vardproductions https://www.facebook.com/buythedipfilm

@sam0smith

Dead End

Director: Carter Ferguson, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, United States

Cast: Bryan Larkin, Julian Gaertner

Synopsis: A contract killer is sent from London to Hong Kong on an assignment with an up-and-coming young gun for hire, but the Contractor’s past life starts to derail their assignment and both men have to gamble on their survival. Australian premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/230786531

https://twitter.com/deadendshrtfilm https://www.facebook.com/deadendsshortfilm

@deadendshortfilm

Dinner With Friends

Director: Kate Ryerson, Australia

Cast: Amanda Jermyn, Elly Hiraani Clapin, Robyn Makhoul, Ryan Bown, Michael Kotsohilis, Alexander Williams

Synopsis: When their husbands step away at a dinner party, two women are reluctantly left to endure awkward small talk with their self-absorbed, high-maintenance host. What starts as civil conversation quickly de- scends into social chaos, and before the night is through tears will be shed, loyalties will be tested… and many, many drinks will be needed.

World Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/257860157 https://www.facebook.com/dorothycreatives

@dorothycreatives

Death of an Umbrella Salesman

Director: Steve Herold, United States

Cast: Kevin Kolack, Sabrina Gennarino

Synopsis: Stanley Grimp, a door-to-door umbrella salesman, attempts to make a sale, avoid his alimony-hungry Ex, and reconcile how his life turned out this way.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7QppLrMyD8 https://twitter.com/jointpartners

https://facebook.com/jointfilms

@umbrellashortfilm

Lucy

Director: Roberto Gutierrez, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

Cast: Luigi Sciamana, Eloisa Maturén, Elvis Chaveinte

Synopsis: A solitary Foley Artist secretly films his neighbor and reconstructs the sounds of her life, while creating an imaginary relationship that leads him to discover closely the true sound of his obsession: Lucy.

Australian Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/275364971

https://twitter.com/lucytheshort

https://www.facebook.com/Lucy-The-Short-Film-1981069198810685/

@roberto_gut

Once upon a dream

Director: Anthony Nion, Belgium, France

Cast: Thomas Jeand’heur, Sarah Brunel

Synopsis: When Valentin meets Ludivine, he is convinced she’s the girl he has been dreaming of for the past weeks… Litteraly, the girl of his dreams ! Only, Ludivine has a feeling this boy meet girl scenario will take a nightmarish turn.

Australia premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/194075881

https://www.facebook.com/mperfilm

This is not about us

Marek Kacer, Slovakia

Cast: Rebeka Polak, Milo Kral, Jan Jackuliak, Tomas Stopa

Synopsis: Year 1933. In multinationalistic and first republic Bratislava the influence of the Slovak nationalists is getting stronger. They are taking advantage of tense situation in the Slovak National Theatre so that they can strengthen their political power and spread propaganda. Manipulated and avid students are demonstrating , arousing unrest toward the Czechs and the Hungarians. However, they are not the only who has yielded to ideology of extreme nationalism.

Sydney Premiere

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvdIne7Tu9Y

Welcome to Paradise

Director: Stefan Goslinga, Australia

Cast: Carly Mozsny, Jared Scott-Mills, James Hughes, Fadi Alameddin

Synopsis: A man returns to his hometown for his mother’s funeral and one night meets a mysterious woman in a bar who gives him both closure and the worst night of his entire life.

World Premiere

https://facebook.com/welcome2paradisefilm

Program subject to change without notice.

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival 2018 – 28th October 6:00PM – Feature Film “Bernadette”

+ Short Films Romantic Comedy

“Bernadette” “A Room That Fits” “Ken” “The Bookshop”

+ Q&A with the Filmmakers!

TICKETS:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1598325353647019

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sydney-indie-film-festival-2018-feature-bernadette-shorts-romcom-tickets-51357803573

Sun. 28 October 2018, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

SUGGESTED ARRIVAL TIME: 5:45PM
For the Red Carpet Meetings & Greetings Shananigans

Bernadette

Director: John Psathas, United States

Cast: Sam Straley, James Psathas, Marilyn Bass, Sarah Shirkey, Johnny Lim, James Guyton, Sarah Jane Murray, Zach Weil, Jalen Eason, Steve Przybytek, Tommy Philbin, Mike Hall, Zoey Murphy, Eric Feltes

Synopsis: 1994 was the perfect summer… for heartache. At 15, Archie Kinsler has an impossible goal: to win the heart of Bernadette, a much older French foreign exchange student and local lifeguard, before she returns home at the end of the season. To gain her affection, Archie enlists the help of his first boss, Dixon, a local lothario, suburban legend, and the park district’s least valuable employee. Under Dixon’s tutelage, Archie and his friends learn about love, adulthood, and all the things that books can’t teach.

Australian Premiere

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/131947745

https://www.facebook.com/BernadetteMovie

@bernadettethemovie

A Room That Fits

Director: Tina Matolov, Australia

Cast: Harriet Gordon-Anderson, Nicholas Starte

Synopsis: Jenny’s looking for a share house. By now she’s well rehearsed in the art of the ‘flat mate interview,’ having seen dozens of potential abodes prior to the one she now finds herself standing in front of. All she really wants is somewhere nice to live, preferably without any weirdo’s. She’s definitely not prepared for Geoff, who initially refuses to open the door. When she eventually makes it inside (not without some difficulty), Jenny soon realises that Geoff is quite a character. The room itself leaves a lot to be desired, with just enough space for a single bed, no windows, no cupboards, and the door only narrowly big enough to fit a person through. All this for the unquestionable price of $250 a week, bills and utilities not included. What a deal! Will Jenny take the room? What else has Sydney really got to offer after her unsuccessful search thus far? Is she tired of the house-hunt and willing to settle?

World Premiere

Ken

Director: Ryan Byrne, Australia

Cast: Giustino Della Vedova, James Agius, Andre Ong Carlesso, John Ward, Sheree Zellner

Synopsis: When Ken, a middle-aged divorcee, learns from his ex-wife that his only son has come out as gay he tries to reach out to and reassure his son. He quickly finds himself struck by feelings about his life as a young man and his own, long hidden, sexuality. Ken must decide whether he can live an openly gay life like his son or stay in the closet as his partner Marc believes they must.

@ryanbyrnefilm

The Bookshop

Director: Ashley Pollard, Australia

Cast: Alastair Osment, Emily Gruhl

Synopsis: A desperate writer tries to woo a publisher into taking on his manuscript. But has his arrogance, and stupidity, got in the way of something more real than a book deal?

Program subject to change without notice.