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Special Programmes - Hall of Fame

Total Running Time: 102
Session rating: 15+
Show date: Saturday, January 15, 2005
Show time: 9:15 pm

HELLO
Running Time: 6.5
Year: 2003
Format: Video
Country: Australia

HELLO

Synopsis:
A lovesick loner struggles to find the right words. Can a man with a portable cassette player for a head overcome his clumsy tape selection and ask about his digtial love interests?

Award icon Best Direction in an Autralian Short, Flickerfest 04.

Producer:
David Atkinson
Director/Producer/Writer:
Jonathan Nix

MATE
Running Time: 11
Year: 1997
Format: Video
Country: Australia

MATE

Synopsis:
On a remote North Queensland riverbank, a simple promise between mates leads to a blood-drenched rite of passage.

Award icon Best Australian Short Film, Flickerfest 98.

Director/Producer/Writer:
Evan Clarry

81
Running Time: 28
Year: 1996
Format: Video
Country: Ireland

81

Synopsis:
A French film crew arrives in Belfast in 1981 to record the effects of Bobby Sands' hunger strike on two ordinary families, one Protestant and one Catholic.

Award icon Best Short Film, Valencia International Short Film Festival, Spain, Prix Europa, Berlin, Germany, Grand Prize & Best Cinematography, Flickerfest 98.

Producer:
Lesley McKimm
Director/Producer/Writer:
Stephen Burke

FLOWERGIRL
Running Time: 17
Year: 1999
Format: Video
Country: Australia

FLOWERGIRL

Synopsis:
Daisuke, Hana and Tetsu are three young Japanese sharing an apartment at Bondi Beach in Sydney. After a year of carefree living, Daisuke has to return to Osaka to work in his father's butcher shop. He is secretly in love with his flatmate Hana. A lyrical vignette of final days and home videos.

Award icon Winner of Best Short Drama over 15 mins Dendy's 99, London Film Festival 99, Uppsala Film Festival 99, Best Australian Short, Flickerfest 00.

Producer:
Anthony Anderson
Director/Writer:
Cate Shortland

SQUASH
Running Time: 27
Year: 2004
Format: Video
Country: France

SQUASH

Synopsis:
Psychological harassment during a game of squash between an employee and his boss.

Award icon Audience Award, Clermont-Ferrand 02, Luna de Oro at Cinema Jove, Valencia, Spain 02, SBS Eat Carpet Award, Flickerfest 03.

Producer:
Tetramedia
Director/Writer:
Lionel Balliu

IN SEARCH OF MIKE
Running Time: 8
Year: 2000
Format: 35mm
Country: Australia

IN SEARCH OF MIKE

Synopsis:
Brian lost his Glow in the Dark Chatty Cathy Halloween Doll. Mom reckons it's up Mike's ass. Brian realises there is only one way to find out.

Award icon Winner General Category, Dendy Awards 01, Winner Rouben Mammoulien Award, Dendy Awards 01, Best Film, Flickerfest 02.

Director:
Andrew Lancaster
Producer:
Megan Harding

DOWN ACROSS
Running Time: 13
Year: 1997
Format: 35mm
Country: Norway

DOWN ACROSS

Synopsis:
Harald is a careful elderly gentleman living an isolated pensioner's life in his small apartment. His safe, routine, everyday life begins to crack open when a lady living next door starts making advances by way of their common passion.

Award icon Prix Petit Rail d'Or-Samaine International de la Critque Cannes 98, Best Director, Capalbio Film Festival 98, Grand Prize, Flickerfest 99.

Producer:
Dag Mork
Director/Writer:
Erland Overby

LES OISEAUX EN CAGE NE PEU VENT PAS VOLER (CAGED BIRDS CAN'T FLY)
Running Time: 3
Year: 2000
Format: 35mm
Country: France

LES OISEAUX EN CAGE NE PEU VENT PAS VOLER (CAGED BIRDS CAN'T FLY)

Synopsis:
A caged bird, in all its form, cannot fly.

Award icon SBS Eat Carpet Award, Flickerfest 01.

Director:
Luis Briceno
Producer:
Jeremy Rochigneux