SHORTS: ANIMATED DISPLAY B

SUNDAY 8 OCTOBER AT 12PM

ALIEN DINNER THEATRE
US PAL DigiBeta 13 mins Dir/Prod/S’play Carolle-Shelley
Abrams Cast Carolle Shelley Abrams, Jean Paul Vignon, Mark
Von Hanau P/Scarolleshelley@beingbeautiful.com
French chain-smoking coquette Nathalie delivers a performance
with universal appeal when she and her effete companion
Armand are abducted by aliens hungry for good entertainment.

MAGDA
USA 35mm 6 mins Director/Producer Chel White Cast Joe
Franck Print Sourcechelfilm@teleport.com
A first love is corrupted as a man recalls his affair with a beauti-
ful circus contortionist in this stop motion animation of wooden
manikins. At its heart, Magda is an off-centre parable about lost
innocence and the corruptibility of human nature.

MY FIRST TASTE OF DEATH
UK DigiBeta 10 mins Director/ScreenplayLaurie Hill
A special collaboration crossing the barriers of time. Text by the
director aged 12, now 35, about events when aged 21. Me and the
boss discover Dodo island, I face a deadly struggle with my
nemesis the demented sea scorpion and the whole adventure
can only end in tears.

STATIONERY
UK DV Dir/ProdJason Fairley P/Scontact@jasonfairley.com
Happy-snapper is taking a deserved nap from chasing paper. As
top-dog of office stationery, and with his bull-dog clips traps
sprung, all stapler has to do is wait for Sheet to tip-toe past. But
Sheet is determined to escape, with or without punctures. Who
said office supplies never last?

THE WINDMILL BOY
UK DigiBeta 10 mins Dir/Prod/S’play Andy Fisher, Leonid
Mandel DoPMike Washlesky CastAndy Fisher, Heather Kafka
P/Sandy@weepirate.com
This episode from the long running serial chronicles the rise and
fall of famed Russian filmmaker Vyacheslav Krilov. The film fea-
tures clips from rare Krilov classics including If Not Redeemed,
Babies Are Angry and The Unbirth.

TRAGIC STORY WITH HAPPY ENDING
Portugal 35mm 8 mins Dir Regina Pessoa ProdAbi Feijo,
Patrick Eveno, Jacques-Remy Girerd, Marcel Jean Music
Normand Roger P/Sagencia@curtasmetragens.pt
Some people are different, against their will. All that they wish is
to be equal to others, they spend their lives fighting for this.

WASP
UK DV 4 mins Dir/ProdJon Davis Cast Laura Hulse P/S
jon@turtleweb.com
Wasp is about how wasps buzzing around in the summer can be
really irritating, and how the best way to cope is not to panic.
Using movements similar to those of Tai Chi to waft them away,
you might attain a serene Zen state, rather than manically waft-
ing and getting more het up.

COLD CALLING
UK DigiBeta 5 mins Director/Producer Nick Mackie Print
Sourcemackienick@yahoo.co.uk
A short film about getting revenge on annoying cold callers..

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