Flickerfest has revealed the 53 films selected to screen as part of the festival's competitive program in its 25th anniversary year.
The films were chosen from more than 2300 entries.
This year.s official Australian Competition features 18 world premieres, six Australian premieres and 10 Nsw premieres..
Twenty-one female directors are represented across the official Australian competition.
The best of the australian films will be shown over seven sessions.
They will be competing for prizes across all areas of the filmmaking craft including the Academy Accredited Virgin Australia Award for Best Australian Film, the Canon Award for Best Direction and the Yoram Gross Award for Best Australian Animation.
Flickerfest is Australia.s only Academy accredited and BAFTA recognised festvial and runs from Friday January 8-17. .
Festival director Bronwyn Kidd, steering her 19th festival, said she was thrilled that Flickerfest was once again a platform for the Australia's most exciting, creative and talented short filmmakers.
The films were chosen from more than 2300 entries.
This year.s official Australian Competition features 18 world premieres, six Australian premieres and 10 Nsw premieres..
Twenty-one female directors are represented across the official Australian competition.
The best of the australian films will be shown over seven sessions.
They will be competing for prizes across all areas of the filmmaking craft including the Academy Accredited Virgin Australia Award for Best Australian Film, the Canon Award for Best Direction and the Yoram Gross Award for Best Australian Animation.
Flickerfest is Australia.s only Academy accredited and BAFTA recognised festvial and runs from Friday January 8-17. .
Festival director Bronwyn Kidd, steering her 19th festival, said she was thrilled that Flickerfest was once again a platform for the Australia's most exciting, creative and talented short filmmakers.
- 12/14/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
After scooping up a whole lot of festival acclaim with short films in the past, Aussie filmmaker Wade K. Savage (The Owl, Hunt) returns with Barrow, a short that's being described as Silence of the Lambs meets "True Detective."
Sound good to you? Because it sounds good to us. Check out the first stills from the upcoming short, which we don't yet have a release date for.
Written by Peter Gurbiel, the flick stars Amanda Woodhams and Caris Eves.
Synopsis
Twenty years to the day that her Father murdered her Mother, Carly Jacobs is returned her childhood jewelry box that had been confiscated with the police investigation. At first providing little to unlock the mystery of that horrible night, Carly returns the box to her long abandoned family home, where she finds that both time and memory are more connected than she could ever have imagined possible.
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Sound good to you? Because it sounds good to us. Check out the first stills from the upcoming short, which we don't yet have a release date for.
Written by Peter Gurbiel, the flick stars Amanda Woodhams and Caris Eves.
Synopsis
Twenty years to the day that her Father murdered her Mother, Carly Jacobs is returned her childhood jewelry box that had been confiscated with the police investigation. At first providing little to unlock the mystery of that horrible night, Carly returns the box to her long abandoned family home, where she finds that both time and memory are more connected than she could ever have imagined possible.
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- 3/4/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. This week’s feature includes first details on Harbinger Down, trailers for Beneath and Inbred, release details for The Black Dahlia Haunting, and much more:
First Details on Harbinger Down: “Award-winning Visual Effects artists Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr., co-founders of Studio Adi (Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc.) launched a campaign today for Harbinger Down. “In the spirit of sci-fi/horror classics, Alien and The Thing, Harbinger Down is a tense, claustrophobic full-length creature film that will feature only practical Animatronic and Makeup Effects,” announced Gillis, who will write and direct.
“Our company, Amalgamated Dynamics, will create the kind of Oscar caliber Creature Effects for which we are known,” commented Woodruff, who will produce along with Studio Adi’s Jennifer Tung. Lance Henriksen is set to star.
In Harbinger Down, a group of grad...
First Details on Harbinger Down: “Award-winning Visual Effects artists Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr., co-founders of Studio Adi (Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc.) launched a campaign today for Harbinger Down. “In the spirit of sci-fi/horror classics, Alien and The Thing, Harbinger Down is a tense, claustrophobic full-length creature film that will feature only practical Animatronic and Makeup Effects,” announced Gillis, who will write and direct.
“Our company, Amalgamated Dynamics, will create the kind of Oscar caliber Creature Effects for which we are known,” commented Woodruff, who will produce along with Studio Adi’s Jennifer Tung. Lance Henriksen is set to star.
In Harbinger Down, a group of grad...
- 5/19/2013
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
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