WINNERS TO BE ANNOUNCED IN LATE NOVEMBER
Session Times
| Saturday 22nd November | Beaufort Community
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12.30pm |
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Elegy for the Elswick Envoy
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25 |
Disabled artist Nancy Willis is in search of a home for her much loved, but aging car - the Elswick Envoy. This unique small car was designed to be driven directly from a wheelchair. As she prepares to take possession of an ultramodern adapted Renault, Nancy sets out on a mission to ensure that her Elswick will not vanish without trace from motoring history. In this personal road movie, Nancy can see her own struggle for continuing mobility mirrored in the increasingly unreliable performance of her battered old car. This witty and moving film is a fitting tribute and final farewell to a distinguished old friend. | UK |
Nancy Willis |
RECOVERED Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back
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57 |
RECOVERED Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back is a true, amazing story of recovery from Autism Spectrum Disorder as told by four children, their parents and the therapists who treated them. Each child received services from the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), including assessments, supervision, parent/teacher training and one-on-one behavioral therapy. The film presents documentation of therapy sessions along with interviews of the children who are now teenagers, their parents, therapists and the founder/executive director of CARD. Their combined stories illuminate both their struggles and triumphs while providing hope to families of newly diagnosed children that recovery is indeed possible. | USA |
Michele Jaquis |
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2.00pm |
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Roller Derby Dolls
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26 |
In the sprawling outer suburbs of Brisbane, a
revolution is brewing. A sassy group of women from all walks of life has a dream: to
resurrect the lost sport of full-contact roller derby in Australia.Led by their president
Evil Doll, and despite none having experience in business, the roller girls have set up a
roller derby league, one of 220 now dotted around the globe. Born in the United States in
the 1920s, full-contact roller derby took off around the world before fading into
obscurity in the 1980s. Thirty years later, it has sprung up again, driven by the passion
of suburban women: nurses, artists, tattooists and driving instructors' wives and mothers
by day, hell on wheels at night. Many are heavily tattooed and pierced, living lifestyles
out of step with mainstream society. Roller Derby Dolls is a story of female empowerment,
friendship and struggles - all on old-school roller skates.
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Australia |
Phoebe Hart |
Lockout
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57 |
In 1929, in the face of collapsing demand for coal, mine owners in the Northern Coalfields of NSW, announced (with the support of the conservative State Government) that they would reduce miners' wages by 12.5 per cent and strip them of their hard won industrial rights. When their union, the Miners Federation, refused to agree to these terms the mine owners locked the gates. They were to remain closed for 15 months. 10,000 miners, pit boys and their families now found themselves without a job, forced to subsist on government handouts and charity. This story is told by the men and women who fought, against extraordinary odds, in extraordinary times, for what they believed in “a fair day's pay for a fair day's work". Lockout is presented by Australian award-winning actor, Chris Haywood. | Australia |
Jason van Genderen |
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3.30pm |
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Stolen Youth
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14 |
We all start as angels... As the
inhabitants of a quiet rural village enjoy their Sunday lunch a young tear-away embarks on
a violent and destructive tour.His opportunism leads him out of the village to the
meticulous home of a single man, where he stumbles on a terrifying secret. |
UK |
Leon Chambers |
Massacre at Virginia Tech
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59 |
Early in the morning on 16 April 2007, on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded 23 others before turning his gun on himself. The incident became the deadliest shooting in peacetime US history. With one in five people having mental health problems, what was it that made Cho into a killer? Who was this deranged young man and what had caused him to meticulously plan and carry out this tragic event? How had Cho tipped over the edge to become a killer?. | South Korea, USA |
Jonathan Hacker |
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5.00pm |
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What I see when I close my eyes.
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30 |
This short documentary looks at how
several of Phnom Penh's 20,000 street kids are being helped by Mith Samlanh / Friends
International. The children's stories range from the simple wish of a young girl to have
enough soap, to the bold dream of a teenage boy to help drug addicts kick their habit and
find work. Much of the film is told through the life-sized self portraits the children
draw of themselves-an art project inspired by the film's title: What I see when I close my
eyes. |
Cambodia |
Leslie Hope |
Ayaa: A Hero's Journey
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48 |
Ayaa: A Hero's Journey explores the connection of two individuals whose lives should have been worlds apart. A Canadian Aboriginal soldier and a Dutch child. However one brief encounter in the middle of a World War II battlefield in Holland bonded them together forever, resulting in a series of unexpected miracles. | Canada, Netherlands |
Jason Margolis |
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6.30pm |
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Passage
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21 |
A chance encounter between two strangers pushes both to come to terms with past decisions made. | USA |
Angela How |
Six Seconds of Freedom
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53 |
Six Seconds of Freedom is the story of
the Angola Prison Rodeo told through the eyes of the participants... convicted rapists and
murderers. They do not practice. When it's rodeo time they simply put on hats and spurs
and become cowboys. Often referred to Gladiators without the Lions, the Angola Prison
Rodeo pits man against beast in some of the most unusual rodeo events ever witnessed. So
hang on, it's one of the wildest rides you'll ever take. |
USA |
Jeff Smith |
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8.00pm |
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Calling
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40 |
The Calling explores a relationship between the monotony of Western living and young men's romantic notions of adventure and martyrdom. Exploring the mass movements that dominate global politics today, Kershaw examines the parallels between extremist movements across the political spectrum as he asks the question: What drives a young recruit to fanatical obedience? Kershaw uncovers why the militant Neo-Nazi is so similar to his communist counterpart. How the jarhead marine undergoes indoctrination like the Islamist suicide bomber in Palestine or Kashmir. Kershaw explores the nature of fundamentalist thinking and the death of traditional Religious value as he corners the young men willing to risk everything for the infamy and honour of self-sacrifice. | Brazil, Canada,
France, India, Israel, Palestinian Territories, USA, United Kingdom |
Stuart Kershaw |
Water Bearer
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52 |
The quest for fresh water leads Indonesians of
Catholic and Muslim descent to work together, along with Quebecer Gilles Raymond, to
establish direct democracy, after thirty-two years of dictatorship. A road movie in wich
solidarity overcomes defeatism, and generosity wins over corruption. |
Indonesia |
Pascal Gelinas |
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| Sunday 23rd November | Beaufort Community
Centre |
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12.30pm |
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Tripswitch
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2 |
A master scientist has finally finished his greatest
achievement. And now, history beckons. |
UK |
Anthony Sutcliffe |
Evil Twin
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4 |
A girl falls in love with a man she sees on her mother's funeral... Since that she cannot forget that man, so she starts to find out who he is. At the end she meets him again but also finds out the truth she never wants to know... | USA |
Yun Wang |
Animal Instincts
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5 |
Animal Instincts is an action packed claymation of epic proportions. A cow and a sheep battle it out in a fight for ultimate farmyard supremacy. Animal Instincts is an action packed claymation of epic proportions. A fight breaks out between a cow and a sheep after the sheep steals some flowers. The cow doesn't take too kindly to the devious sheep, but the sheep isn't one to stand down from a fight no matter how far it takes them. The farmyard is transformed into a battleground as the animals use whatever they can get their hooves on as they desperately try to kill one another. | Australia |
Cameron Edser, Michael Richards |
Bulb
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6 |
A man realises that after changing a light bulb in his lounge the whole room has shifted to a different reality. Further changes of the bulb reveal new environments. After becoming complacent about his ability to shift through these different settings one of the bulb changes causes a woman to appear in the room. Her motives are unclear but she has a particular interest in the man's supply of light bulbs. | New Zealand |
David Collins |
String and Girl
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6 |
String and girl is a story about a string who wants
to get the attention of a little girl. Full of optical illusions, the film's primary goal
is to take the viewer from one scene to the next in strange and surprising ways. Whether
an entire room morphs or a simple perspective change leads to an unexpected image, String
and Girl's content mirrors the ever-changing flexibility of a string. Next door
lives a precocious little girl who only wants to jump on her bed. When the string offers
affection to the girl, through attention and gifts, will the little girl notice? |
USA |
David Bazelon |
Patience
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7 |
Patience is a moving tale set on a hospital ward and focuses on the relationship between two elderly women. In neighboring beds but separated by a screen, Constance has a view of a park and Vera listens to her descriptions of what is happening outside. Although entertained, Vera is also envious of this view of the outside world and eventually the desire for her own window becomes overwhelming. | UK |
Robert Hackett |
Black Button
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7 |
It’s premise is simple yet intriguing: if you
couldn’t get caught, would you kill a stranger for $10 million? |
Australia |
Lucas Crandles |
Come back sweet heart.
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8 |
A story about finding the balance
between freedom and constraint. The Character lost his heart and struggled to get his
heart back. Try to explore the true meaning of being a person with the desire for freedom,
but also living under some forms of constraint at the same time. |
USA |
Chang-Pei Wu |
Head, Heart & Balls... or Why I gave up smoking pot
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