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12:45pm
SEPTEMBER
Director: Lindsay Allikas
Producer: Cat Mills
UBC Film Production Film
Leo Award Winner 2008 – Best Student Production
www.septembershort.com
“Andrea is 12 years old and her mother just called to say she’s not coming home, ever. ‘September’ is an uncomfortable comedy about family and growing up.”
PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT:
“A lone astronaut on Mars comes to terms with his fate as his return mission is discontinued”
12:55pm
CRAZY LATE
Director: Zach Lipovski
Producer: Chris Ferguson
Crazy 8’s – Best Short Film
Nominated – Best Cinematography / Best Direction – Leo Awards 2006
“Jimmy Smith (Peter Benson) wakes up to find himself Crazy Late for his own wedding. Armed only with adrenaline, his best man Travis (Ben Ayres), and sheer determination, Jimmy has mere minutes to arrive at the ceremony.”
PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT:
Paradise Redrawn
An imaginative and stylistically epic short film about Sophie, a Catholic school senior whose stickman doodles miraculously come to life and empower her as their god.
1.05pm
OFELIA
Director / Producer: Beto Gutierrez
Winner – Best Short Film FENACO – Cuzco, Peru
A little girl in a small town in the Amazon Raiforests finds a doll in the banks of the river.
PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT:
“A native community in the Amazon region must leave their land and all they own to save their lives and those of their families”
(Feature Documentary)
1.20pm
THE WINDFISHERMAN
Director: Anna McRoberts
Producer: David Freid
Winner Brussels International Independent Film Festival 2007 – ‘Emile Cantillon” Award
Winner – Moondance International Film Festival 2007 – Best Short Film
The Wind Fisherman lives in the windiest town in the world where he 'fishes' for things that have blown away and returns them to their rightful owners. His father, grand-father, great grand-father, and even great great grand-father before him were all Wind Fishermen but even though it is in his blood, it is not in his heart, at least not until he learns one of life's most valuable lessons.
1.32pm
CHICKA’S BIRD
Director: Adam Mars
Producer: Sharon Yu|
Winner Toronto Sprockets International Film Festival 2004 – Best Short Film
Winner Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival 2004 – Best Children / Youth Production
Winner Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2004 – Best Short Film
A ten-year-old Japanese-Canadian girl who struggles with family and school - a grandfather with alzheimer, a frustrated mother, an indifferent teacher, and intolerant peers. Chika's Bird is a coming-of-age story about a young girl finding her strength through her connection with her grandfather and the origami he folds.
PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT:
AIDAN WILSON AND THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
A boy’s awkward journey to self- acceptance is revealed by his obsession with unlocking the quantum nature of reality.
CURTAINS FOR MAESTRO
1.47pm
PLUMBER
Director: Andy Knight
Producer: Randi Yaffa
Nominated BAFTA Film Award – Best Short Animation
A plumber decides to fix a leaky sink in the bathroom of his house – by himself.
1.53pm
THE DANISH POET
Director: Torill Kove
Producers: Lise Fearnley, Marcy Page
Oscar Winner 2007 – Best Short animation
Winner New York City Short Film Festival 2007 – Best Animated Short Film
Winner Genie Awards 2007– Best animated short
“Can we trace the chain of events that leads to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do little things matter?”
SHOW B
3.15pm
The Porcelain Man
Director: Mark Ratzlaff
Producer: Jessica Cheung
Winner Leo Awards 2008 – Best Cinematography Short Drama
Winner Leo Awards 2008 – Best Production design Short Drama
“Spilt milk is the least of your troubles”
PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT:
An adaptation of ‘VOODOO’ written by award winning author Fredric Brown.
3.25pm
OFELIA
Director: / Producer Beto Gutierrez
Winner – Best Short Film FENACO – Cuzco, Peru
A little girl in a small town in the Amazon Rainforest finds a doll in the banks of the river.
PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT:
“A native community in the Amazon region must leave their land and all they own to save their lives and those of their families”
3.45pm
THE DANISH POET
Director: Torill Kove
Producers: Lise Fearnley, Marcy Page
Oscar Winner 2007 – Best Short animation
Winner New York City Short Film Festival 2007 – Best Animated Short Film
Winner Genie Awards 2007– Best animated short
“Can we trace the chain of events that leads to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do little things matter?”
4.00pm
THE WINDFISHERMAN
Director: Anna McRoberts
Producer: David Freid
Winner Brussels International Independent Film Festival 2007 – ‘Emile Cantillon” Award
Winner – Moondance International Film Festival 2007 – Best Short Film
The Wind Fisherman lives in the windiest town in the world where he 'fishes' for things that have blown away and returns them to their rightful owners. His father, grand-father, great grand-father, and even great great grand-father before him were all Wind Fishermen but even though it is in his blood, it is not in his heart, at least not until he learns one of life's most valuable lessons.
4.12pm
PLUMBER
Director: Andy Knight
Producer: Randi Yaffa
Nominated BAFTA Film Award – Best Short Animation
A plumber decides to fix a leaky sink in the bathroom of his house – by himself.
4.22pm
CENTIGRADE
Director: Colin Cunningham
Producer: Madison Graie, Derrick Garland
Winner Leo Awards 2008 – Best Short Film
Winner Cinequest San Jose Film Festival 2008 – Best Short Narrative Film
Winner Method Fest 2008 – Best Actor in a Short Film
Shortlisted 2009 Academy Awards
4.37pm
BLUE
Director: Adam Mars
Producer: Emiko Ando
Winner Vancouver Asian Film Festival – Best Short Film
A young Japanese Canadian girl struggles to find balance in her family life.
PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT:
AIDAN WILSON AND THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
A boy’s awkward journey to self- acceptance is revealed by his obsession with unlocking the quantum nature of reality.
4.47pm
Madame Tutli Putli
Director: Maciek Szczerbowski
Producer: Marcy Page
Nominated Oscars 2008 – Best Animated Short Film
Winner Cannes + Award – Best Short Film
Winner International Animation Festival Ottawa Canada – Best Narrative Short Animation
Winner Petit Rail D’Or International Film Festival, Cannes, France – Best Short Film
“Madame Tutli-Putli boards the Night Train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers.”
