AUSTRALIAN SHORTS PROGRAMME

SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER AT 10AM UGC HAYMARKET SCREEN 3

NOT QUITE CRICKET Super16 8 mins Director/Producer Linda Kearns Screenplay Stephen Jessen, Linda Kearns DoP Oliver Lawrance Print Source Linda Kearns Email superwisp@idx.com.au

A 1950s technicolour cricket-crazy adventure, based on a truelife story, which proves that sometimes the best lessons are discovered and not taught.

THE ROUSEABOUT 16mm 25 mins Director/Screenplay Scott Pickett Producer Hugh Burton, Scott Pickett DoP John Brawlet Print Source Scott Pickett Email scottpicko@yahoo.com

A young boy is tested when he goes to work at a shearing shed. He finds love but he is haunted by his father's accident. He overcomes his fear to save the day.

PREP RULES 16mm 19 mins Director/Screenplay Luke Mayze Prod Luke Mayze, Simone Mackinder, Simon Toy DoP Andy Strahorn P/S Moving Pavlova Productions E luke_mayze@health.gld.gov.au

Young Ross is being bullied and wants to leave the school. The head boy wants to change his ways, but nothing gets resolved as he decides that his own popularity is more important. He has to define the moment or the moment defines him.

SHIFTING GROUND 16mm 19 mins Director/Screenplay Desmond Connellan Producer VCA DoP Yen Ooi Print Source Desmond Connellan Email desmondoc@hotmail.com

A son who has inherited a farm struggles against its repossession by the bank. Forced to sell the land, he drinks himself into trouble because he can't face up to it.

HEAVEN 35mm 11 mins Director/S'play Sam Bennetts Producer Giles Skillicorn DoP Tom Spark Print Source giles@iglooprod.com

Angie and Davie are having a conversation. They are in love. However, the mood is tainted by the subject of death. We see Davie's perspective of Angie's death and he blames himself. Guilt overwhelms him and takes his own life.