Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Feature The Dark Tapes + Shorts! Early Halloween Fright Night!
+ Q&A with the Filmmakers!
Do you like scary movies?
Then you can’t miss this! You will love tonight’s sessions!
This is better than all Paranormal Activity + Blair Witch together!!!!
“The Dark Tapes” is certainly going to make the TOP 10 Scariest Movies in the Horror Movies History!
+ Short Films “Hatchet Man” “Jehovah”

Tuesday, 18th October 2016
Time: 8PM
Location: Screening Cinema Room @ The Local
Darlinghurst/Paddington

Feature Film:

The Dark Tapes (USA)
(Australian Premiere)
Director: Michael McQuown
Synopsis: A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent, original anthology. The movie stars an up and coming ensemble group of actors such as Brittany Underwood (TV star of Hollywood Heights, One Life To Live & Youthful Daze), Cortney Palm (Sushi Girl, Zombeavers) and Emilia Ares Zoryan (Amazon’s Bosch: Season 2). Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity. Could the supernatural exist in our everyday lives and have a plausible, scientific basis? The Dark Tapes explores this and more with surprising, sometimes shocking results that will leave you questioning what could be real.

Short Films:

Film introduced by Filmmaker Seam Pearson (Hatchet Man) followed by Q&A after screenings

Hatchet Man (AUSTRALIA)
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/144876602
Director: Sam Pearson
Cast: Isaac Still, Olivia Giarrusso, Charlie Freedman
Synopsis: A contract killer attempts to reconnect with his humanity as his work pushes him further away from his goals.

Jehovah (AUSTRALIA)
Director: Joel Stephen Fleming
Synopsis: A ruthless murderer is constantly interrupted during his attempt to torture his victim.

Film introduced by Filmmaker Seam Pearson (Hatchet Man) followed by Q&A after screenings

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – World Thriller + SciFi! Early Halloween Shorts Session! + Meet the Filmmakers!
Short Films: “The Anchor” “Awakenings” “Collar” “First Aid” “Marketvita” “Vardøger” Waiting in the Wings” “Whisper” “2BR02B: To Be or Naught To Be”

Wednesday, 19th October 2016
Time: 6:00PM
Location: Screening Cinema Room @ The Local
Darlinghurst/Paddington
Thriller Shorts!

Film introduced by Filmmaker Leon Coward & Artin John (2BR02B: To Be or Naught To Be) followed by Q&A after screenings

The Anchor (AUSTRALIA)
Director: Harry Anderson
Cast: Rowan Howard, Alanah Parkin
Synopsis: A middle-aged widower takes in a homeless teenage girl in an attempt to manipulate her into a copy of his dead wife.

Awakenings (INDIA)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IurJIYZjSxo
Director: Bhargav Saikia
Cast: Palomi Ghosh, Saurabh Goyal, Mrudula Sathe, Jairaj Dalwani, Prisha Dabas
Synopsis: The line between dreams and reality is blurred when a young woman in charge of two children is haunted by mysterious entities.

Collar (USA)
Director: Rowan Maher
Cast: Danielle Savre, Christy St. John
Synopsis: Officer Mara Mercer discovers a young woman in a home with a bomb strapped around her neck. It is up to her to keep the girl calm and do her best to get her out alive.

First Aid (BRAZIL)
(Sydney Premiere)
Trailer: https://youtu.be/taGV6mdkQ5g
Director: Aline Rezende
Cast: Alexandra Borba, Vitor Britto
Synopsis: The paths of a teenage boy and a young woman alleged doctor intersect, when after getting involved in a crime and getting shot, he kidnaps her to force her to take care of his injuries. The desperate act has unexpected consequences for both.

Marketvita (SPAIN)
(Australian Premiere)
Director: Carlos Buero
Synopsis: Winter night; hard times. A man pursues its goal through the streets of the city. When reached, he discovers he’s not alone…

Vardøger (FRANCE)
(Australian Premiere)
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/152148147
Director: Ludovic De Gaillande
Cast: Nico Rogner, Niels Dubost, Diane Duquesne, Audran Cattin
Synopsis: While several murders bloodying Paris, a German photographer, back in the capital after some time abroad, feels persecuted by an unseen presence…

Waiting in the Wings (AUSTRALIA)
Director: Melanie Jayne
Cast: Melanie Jayne, John-Paul Santucci, Richard Cotter
Synopsis: Two bitter understudies for a theatrical production of Macbeth plot to overthrow the regular actors.

Whisper (UK)
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/139494484
Director: Jo Lewis
Cast: Imogen Doel
Synopsis: A young woman travels to a remote beachside cabin in an attempt to finally quit her heroin habit. While there she accidentally sets in motion a chain of sinister events. Hauntingly beautiful, Whisper is a modern day ghost story that will keep you gripped from start to spine-chilling finish.

2BR02B: To Be or Naught To Be (CANADA)
(Australian Premiere)
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/161148267
Director: Marco Checa Garcia
Cast: Melissa Roxburgh, Artin John, Jason Diablo, Tyler Johnston, Mackenzie Gray, William B. Davis
Synopsis: Set in a dystopian future where population is strictly controlled, a Father waits for his children to be born. In a deserted hospital waiting room, one man must ask himself exactly what he is willing to do, to give his children a chance at life, any life at all.

Film introduced by Filmmaker Leon Coward & Artin John (2BR02B: To Be or Naught To Be) followed by Q&A after screenings

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Feature Film Better Half + Short Film! + Meet the Filmmakers! @ The Local!
Tonight’s session starts with a hilarious short romantic comedy, followed by a very beautiful love story!
If you like “I Love You Phillip Morris” you will love this!

Tuesday, 18th October 2016
Time: 8PM
Location: Screening Cinema Room @ The Local
Darlinghurst/Paddington

Feature Film:

Better Half (USA)
(Australian Premiere)
Film introduced by Director Michelle Clay and Actor Grant Landry (Better Half) followed by Q&A after screenings
Trailer: https://youtu.be/ldvY0yIwBEU
Director: MIchelle Clay
Cast: Jamie Fauth, Grant Landry, Scott Lowell
Synopsis: For years, Tony and Leo have been a happy couple. They had always talked about having a child… someday. So when a sickly infant is abandoned at a local hospital, Tony sees it as a sign. Suddenly, Leo is confronted with making good on his promise to start a family; he must face his deep-seeded fears of being a father, or risk losing Tony altogether.

Short Film:
I’ve got a date tonight with a girl who draws porn and works at a hellfire nightclub (AUSTRALIA)
Director: Martin Veit
Cast: Rachel Joy, Chase Anderson
Synopsis: : BRAD a young male in his early twenties, prepares himself in his bathroom for a date with EMMI, who he has heard draws porn and works at a hellfire nightclub. He narrates his thoughts on her profession, nationality, dress style, and sexual preferences. He objectifies her as a sexually hungry and experienced pleasure seeker, and decides the date will be an adventurous encounter into an unknown world of erotica for him.
Leaving his home he purchases condoms for contraception as he excitedly anticipates his date.
Brad arrives at one of his date’s places of employment, and he narrates his thoughts on the employees, the set up of the establishment, and the style of music. He is confident he is attracting attention from the employees.

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – World Drama at its Best! Hysteria + Short films! @ The Local!
Feature Film: “Hysteria”
Short films “Crude” “Rajam” “Ripples on the Water”

Tuesday, 18th October 2016
Time: 6PM
Location: Screening Cinema Room @ The Local
Darlinghurst/Paddington

Feature Film:
Hysteria (MEXICO)
(Australian Premiere)
Director: Carlos Meléndez
Cast: Héctor Kotsifakis, Sharon Zundel, Noé Hernández, Enrique Arreola, Fernando Becerril
Synopsis: Federico Anduaga is a shy and feeble architect victim of a violent and abusing surrounding. When he gets a new job at a construction company, he finds himself involved in a corruption scheme.
The pressure he suffers at work added to the constant abuse will lead him to transform his fear into the wrath that will push him to an unexpected limit of his own humanity.

Short Films:

Crude (USA, QATAR)
Director: Sion Ribeiro Joseph
Cast: Avias Schultz
Synopsis: Crude is a short experimental fashion film based on the themes of the middle east, women in the middle east and the damage that the excavation of natural resources have had on its iconic wildlife and nature. The film follows the journey of a young women wandering through the wasteland of the now damaged deserts in the search for the final untouched oasis of nature and life.

Rajam (USA/SYRIA)
Director: Amanda Renee Knox
Cast: Najla Said, Sam Kasem, Deja Soufka, Tulsi Ram , Sam Kaledi, Sarah Himadeh, Alberto Zeni
Synopsis: A Syrian woman living under strict Sharia Law is accused of adultery, imprisoned and sentenced to death by stoning.

Ripples on the Water (USA)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7MAA14nog
Director: Alexander Falcon
Cast: Ruty Rutenberg, Paulina Michaels, Marlon Aquino
Synopsis: After losing his wife and contemplating suicide, Leo has a life-changing encounter with a young man who tries to rob him.

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Psychological Thriller Night! Mile End + Short films!
Feature Film “Mile End” is about so many things, it will leave you wanting more, its intriguingly addictive!
+ Short films For “My Friends in Detention” (short doco) “Lola wants to see the sea” “Silence is Golden”

Monday, 17th October 2016
Time: 7:30PM
Location: Screening Cinema Room @ The Local
Darlinghurst/Paddington

Feature Film:
Mile End (UK)
(Sydney Premiere)
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/137930385
Director: Graham Higgins
Cast: Alex Humes, Mark Arnold, Heidi Agerholm Balle, Valmike Rampersad, Mary Jane Lowe
Synopsis: After being forced out of his job, London executive Paul Kerr (Alex Humes) is left doubting his future until he runs into John (Mark Arnold), a friendly American who seems to have all the answers. They both agree that life isn’t fair and John comes up with a radical plan to turn Paul’s life around. But when a young banker (Valmike Rampersad) is found murdered, Paul begins to question what John really wants.

Short Films:
For My Friends in Detention (AUSTRALIA)
Director: Zebedee Parkes
Synopsis: ‘For my Friends in Detention’ is a short documentary that examines the impact refugee activism in Australia has on people on both sides of the fence.
It focuses on the relationship of Sarah, a refugee activist and Cali a Tamil refugee.
The film draws upon observational footage filmed over several years of the campaign that includes Sarah’s first experience of a detention centre and Cali’s first speech after getting his freedom.

Lola wants to see the sea (GERMANY)
Director: Natalie MacMahon
Cast: Natalie MacMahon, Ali Bulgan, Cyrus Rahbar, Matthias Rheinheimer
Synopsis: This is a film about finding yourself while becoming a woman. LOLA likes to get into cars with strangers- to get away, to take the risk and do something unexpected, dangerous and exciting. Every time Lola meets someone new, she makes up a story and identity, but most of the time, she calls herself “Lola” and tells them that she wants to see the sea. Hitchhiking has become her hobby and taking a risk her passion until one day someone makes her see herself in a different light.

Silence is Golden (AUSTRALIA)
Director: Katharine Rogers
Cast: Carla Nirella, Brendon Taylor, Kai Raisbeck , Gil Balfas, Nathaniel Scotcher, Timothy Cole
Synopsis: Louise goes on a series of increasingly bad dates until she realises she happier on her own.

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Romantic Comedy Rollercoaster Love + Short films! + Meet the Filmmakers!
From Italy, Australian and Brazil, with love!
Girls night out, Guys night out, everybody night out!
What better way to spend Monday night than watching movies that will put smiles on your face?

Monday, 17th October 2016
Time: 6PM
Location: Screening Cinema Room @ The Local
Darlinghurst/Paddington

Feature Film:
Rollercoaster Love (ITALY)
(Australian Premiere)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDS1mxgRXaI
Director: Emanuele Valla
Cast: Luca Nucera, Tania Tuccinardi, Elena Curti, Dario D’Ambrosio, Francesco Antimiani, Giorgio Pellegrini, Chiara Militerno, Erica Sani, Elia Galeotti, Daniele Bertani, Davide Pessina, Jo Sassi, Gian Marco Schiaretti, Giacomo Pelizzoni, Mattia Tagliavini, Veronica Mattei, Stella Piroli, Achille Maini
Synopsis: Certain stories are damn true and love is damn unstable: suddenly it brings you up and then it throws you down at the same speed, slamming you around, makes you want to screa, shaking your stomach… However, you want to try again. Like those tangles of iron, bolts and rails that we call roller coasters, for which we go along sometimes mileage queues. The parallelism between schizophrenia of love and iconic attractions from amusement parks is quite obvious: Rollercoaster Love is about that and the seemingly endless queue crossed by David, yet tried by his “last ride”, before returning up on a roller coaster ride.

Short Films:

Film introduced by Director Michela Carattini (Unspoiled by Feminism) followed by Q&A after screenings

The Load (BRAZIL)
Director: Aline Rezende
Cast: Maria Gal, Vinicius Manne, Michel Blois, Lorena da Silva
Synopsis: A sensual married truck driver mother of two kids, takes a lover to live in her house. How to make the husband accepted this situation?

Unspoiled by Feminism (AUSTRALIA)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZtg-Bz0GF0&feature=youtu.be
Director: Michela Carattini
Cast: Michela Carattini, Leigh Scully
Synopsis: Frustrated by the dating scene, Nathan thinks he’s found the perfect match in Sonia, a Czech girl he’s met online, who claims she’s “unspoiled by feminism.” On their first date, things go exactly as planned, with surprising results. The tango ensues: gender performance and impossible expectations meet self-discovery and reality in this multi-layered romantic comedy made in our multicultural times.

Film introduced by Director Michela Carattini (Unspoiled by Feminism) followed by Q&A after screenings

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Feature Film “Damaged” + Shorts “Another Love” “Stay” “This Moment” + Q&A with Filmmakers!
The beauty of drama!

Thursday, 13h October 2016
Time: 8:00PM
Location: Screening Cinema Room @ The Local
Darlinghurst/Paddington

Feature Film:

Damaged (AUSTRALIA)

https://vimeo.com/140629883
Film introduced by Filmmaker Maha Wilson followed by Q&A after screenings
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/140629883
Director: Maha Wilson
Cast: Nicholas Burton, Kabir Singh
Synopsis: Fear makes you a prisoner…Hope sets you free.

Short Films:

Another Love (UK, ITALY)
Director: Victor Perez
Cast: Maria Ruiz, NIgel Barber, Maite Jauregui, Charlie Frost
Synopsis: A pregnant married woman struggles to tell a much older man that their affair is over.

STAY (UK)
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/153223146
Director: Ben Hyland
Cast: Alan Breck, Jack Condon, Andrew Bryan, David Hepple, Patricia Denys, Kate Gwynn, Rebecca Tromans, Tineka Fox
Synopsis: Julian is struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife. He has shut down and cut himself off from the people in his life.
One day, whilst sitting in his Chesterfield chair looking out of his window, he sees a dog. Intrigued, he approaches the dog. As Julian tries to reach out the dog runs away into a forrest that sits at the end of his garden. Julian follows the dog and he is transported through memories from his life that spans all four seasons.
Julian’s story is about love, hope and regret.

This Moment (USA)
Director: Greyson Horst
Cast: Abby McLachlan, Jake Cherry
Synopsis: A girl who feels invisible stops time to escape her world until she finds a chance for real human connection.

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Feature Film “Concealed” + Short films “Dead Sharks” “Seven Never Wins”! + Guest Filmmaker!

All made in Australia, a thrilling evening full of mystery and action!

Thursday, 13th October 2016
Time: 5:30PM
Location: Screening Cinema Room @ The Local
Darlinghurst/Paddington

Feature Film:

Concealed (AUSTRALIA)
Film introduced by Filmmaker Jo McNulty-Clark followed by Q&A after screenings
Director: Shane T Hall
Cast: Simon Lyndon, Paul Tassone, Joanne Priest
Synopsis: Max, a struggling actor living in South Africa, has flown into Sydney, Australia for the audition of his life. As soon as he lands things start to go horribly wrong when his girlfriend Sallie disappears. Frustrated with the police’s lack of progress in finding her, Max embarks on a desperate search with the help of childhood friend Richard. The pair’s search pushes them to both external and internal extremities in their desperate plight to find Sallie.

Short Films:

Dead Sharks (AUSTRALIA)
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/154460594
Director: Nic Barker
Cast: Fiona Norman, Hannah Vanderheide, Bryce Padovan, Taylor Hemsworth, Jackson Tozer, Skye Young, Robin Brown
Synopsis: A relationship is like a shark. It has to move forward or it dies.

Seven Never Wins (AUSTRALIA)
Director: Stella Kim
Cast: Harry Tseng, John Gomez Goodway
Synopsis: Jackie is a gambler who is massively in debt, chasing the next big win. Brian has been hired to kill him, and as he patiently pursues him for the perfect moment, he finds himself judging his own morality.

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – SCI-FI NIGHT! ORIGIN+ The Eyes + The Light Thief

Sydney Indie Film Festival – SCI-FI NIGHT!
Feature Film “Origin” + Short Films “The Eyes” “The Light Thief”
Are you a fan of Sci-Fi?
Then you can’t miss this!
Is it your best friend birthday party?
Then you better have the party here and bring your best friend!
Sci-Fi doesn’t get any better than this!
Book your tickets fast because they will go fast!
Then don’t blink, because you might miss something!

Wednesday, 12th October 2016
Time: 8:00PM
Location: Screening Cinema Room @ The Local
Darlinghurst/Paddington

Feature Film:

Origin (SWEDEN)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xn8T6NBUHk
Director: Andreas Climent, André Hedeoft
Cast: Emelia Hansson, Rikard Björk, Sandra Redlaff, Rafael Pettersson
Synopsis: Three science students are on the verge of making a breakthrough in their research into biohacking and cell ageing. When one of them is diagnosed with a terminal illness, they break moral boundaries and use their untested research on him, in an attempt to save his life. He starts showing signs of strange side effects that enhance the body’s properties, but what seemed like something fun and exciting turns out to be far more dangerous than they ever had imagined.

Short Films:

The Eyes (USA)

Director: Jingchuan Wang
Synopsis: A 2D Digital Narrative Animation Short about a being who starts to grow extra eyes.

The Light Thief (BAHRAIN, SPAIN)
Director: Eva Daoud
Synopsis: When the essence of Love is snatched from someone and locked away in a vessel with no name , what happens to those persons and how do they change? How can the broken hearted souls break that curse and recover from their pain? Can they regain their spark by overcoming dark supernatural forces?

Continue reading »]]> Sydney Indie Film Festival – Feature Film Dumbbells + Short films! + Guest Filmmaker!
“Blokes Dramedy Night Out!”
And yes, the girls will love it too!
Feature Film “Dumbbells”
Short films “Happy Birthday Mr Quarantino” “Veni, Vidi, Fugi I Came I Saw I Fled”
Tonight we start in Romania, with “Veni, Vidi, Fugi I Came I Saw I Fled”, friendships, broken hearts, gangsters, poetry, and all fantasy that European cinema can bring, and then we go to America, and everything that American comedy can deliver, Dumbbells delivers! From great friendships, to bikini girls, cult runaways, sweat, buff dudes, hot chicks, Fabio, evil cults, bankers, relationships, pep talks, Tom Cruise, not Tom Cruise, great quotes and lots of adventures!

Wednesday, 12th October 2016
Time: 6:00PM
Location: Screening Cinema Room @ The Local
Darlinghurst/Paddington

Film introduced by Filmmaker Robert Eugen Popa (Veni, Vidi, Fugi I Came I Saw I Fled) followed by Q&A after screenings

Feature Film:

Dumbbells (USA)

(Australian Premiere)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYY3OXNgaM
Director: Chris Livingston
Cast: Brian Drolet, Hoyt Richards, Taylor Cole, Micea Monroe, Fabio , Jay Mohr, Tom Arnold, Carl Reiner
Synopsis: A buddy comedy set in a struggling fitness club where mayhem ensues when a new owner arrives with the grand scheme to save the gym by turning it into a reality show.

Short Films:

Veni, Vidi, Fugi I Came I Saw I Fled (ROMANIA)

Director: Robert Eugen Popa1
Cast: Maia Morgenstern, Geo Dobre , Dorian Boguta
Synopsis: Failing Latin is one thing, but failing in Love is unthinkable! K has no hope until the Roman Poet Ovid materializes in order to not only teach the art of love and help K pass Latin, but more importantly to escape Communist Romania.

Happy Birthday Mr Quarantino (AUSTRALIA)

Director: Shailla Quadra
Cast: Shailla Quadra, Chase Lee, Matt Oxley, Franck Bossi
Synopsis: How to get a role in a Quarantino Movie!
Umaira is very determined to steal the heart Mr Quarantino and his team!
Is she going to be able to impress them? What’s in the box?
Is it the key to be the next Kill Phill Girl?

Film introduced by Filmmaker Robert Eugen Popa (Veni, Vidi, Fugi I Came I Saw I Fled) followed by Q&A after screenings