Three Australian films will screen in competition at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, one of the world's most prestigious competitive short film festivals to be held in France from January 31 to February 8. Another eight titles have been selected for out-of-competition screenings.
Selected for competition are:
DOWN RUSTY DOWN by John Curran
A black and white 14-minute anthropomorphic tale of one mutt's experience. Act like a dog and get treated like one!
FREESTYLE by David Lowe
An 11-minute film about a man murdered in a swimming pool at the beach. But did anyone actually witness the event?
SMALL FICTIONS by Jennifer Robertson
Small Fictions (14 minutes) explores fragments of stories from the lives of eight naked men as they are photographed.
Out-of-competition selections in the Indigenous Minorities section: The Emu And The Sun by John Skibinski, My Survival As An Aboriginal by Essie Coffey, Coorab In The Island Of Ghosts by Francis Birtles, Two Bob Mermaid by Darlene Johnson, Uluru - An Angu Story by David Roberts, Payback by Warwick Thornton and Milli Milli by Wayne Barker. Andrew O'Sullivan's Horse With Stripes will screen in the Fantasy section.
The Festival has invited each of the filmmakers who have short films in competition to attend, along with Wayne Barker who is to be a juror in the Indigenous Minorities section.
Due to the success of last year's screening of Australian shorts, the Australian Film Commission will again present a buyers screening of ten new shorts and co-ordinate the Australian delegation. |
