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SHORT AND LOW BUDGET FILM NEWS
Festivals around the globe are snapping up the latest crop of Western Australian short films. The Indigenous short films Amy Goes to Wadjemup Island and Storytime have both been selected for the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival and several other short films have also had festival success. WA producer Matteo Bruno’s low budget feature film, Corroboree, has been accepted into the Toronto International Film Festival.
Amy Goes to Wadjemup Island and Storytime were both funded through ScreenWest’s Index scheme and recently screened at Get Your Shorts On! as part of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival. Amy Goes to Wadjemup Island is produced by Jennifer Gherardi with writer/director Denise Groves. Storytime is produced by Belinda Kelsall with writer/director Jub Clerc.
WA producer Matteo Bruno’s film Corroboree is directed by Ben Hackworth, who wrote the film with Peter Savieri. The low budget feature screened at the 2007 Revelation Perth International Film Festival. The film will screenin the prestigious 'Discovery' program at the Toronto International Film Festival, and has also been selected by the Festival for advance media screenings in New York and Los Angeles.
In other short film news, The Glimpse, directed by Zak Hilditch and produced by Melissa Kelly, has been accepted into the Melbourne Underground Film Festival and the In The Bin (Currumbin) Short Film Festival.
The WA short film, Selling Hopkins, will have its world premiere at the 2007 Calgary International Film Festival in Canada. Selling Hopkins is a quirky ‘dramedy’ about the emerging friendship between an awkward unemployed man (Jeremy Malcolm) and a lonely saleswoman (Michelle Francis). Selling Hopkins was produced, written & directed by Scott Eathorne. The film is funded through the ‘Raw Nerve’ initiative by the Australian Film Commission (AFC) and The Film & Television Institute (FTI).
Two WA Screen Academy productions have been nominated as finalists in the prestigious Enhance TV Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Awards. A Fish Tale produced by Emily Glover and David Leigh has been nominated for Best Tertiary Documentary and Touched, produced by John Petricevic and directed by Lucile Weigel, has been nominated for Best Tertiary Short Fiction.
