DOCUMENTARY SHORTS PROGRAMME

SUNDAY 26 OCTOBER AT 10AM UGC HAYMARKET SCREEN 3

THE BLACK TRAGEDIAN UK 17 mins Digital Director/Screenplay Joseph Mydell Producer Flip Tanner Print Source jjmydell@hotmail.com

A haunting, compelling tribute to England's first black Shakespearean actor, Ira Aldridge. He stood in for an exhausted Edmund Kean on the Covent Garden stage in 1833. He went on to enthral audiences across Europe and Russia for more than forty years playing Othello, Shylock and Lear.

UTTERANCES UK 11 mins DV Director/Producer/Screenplay Shreepali Patel DoP Sian Roderick Print Source hannah@sgrin.co.uk

This short film captures the utterances and images of a day in the life of a small Cardiff park.

THE WALL AROUND MY HEART UK 11 mins DV Director Cluna Donnelly Producer Abigail Davies Print Source clunad@yahoo.co.uk

A poetic documentary revealing the world as seen through the eyes and dream world of a young autistic artist.

BERLIN: ABANDONED HEROES UK 10 mins DV Director Dan Edelstyn Producers Dan Edelstyn, Hilary Edelstyn S'play H Edelstyn DoP Gillian McIver, Danny Brown, Sandrine Albert P/S violetyellow@hotmail.com

A poetic travelogue. From the grimy Hackney Wick in East London, Hilary Edelstyn makes a pilgrimage to a similarly forgotten area of East Berlin.

THE VEGGIE VAN VOYAGE USA 12 mins Digital/Hi8 Director Joshua Tickell Print Source tickell@veggievan.org

Here's one slick solution big oil can't keep down. It's called The Veggie Van and it's powered by vegetable oil. Keen to clean America's highways, this flower-covered van fills up on fast food fryer oil. A fossil-free road trip around the United States.

LOST AT SEA UK 17 mins Super8/DV Director/DoP Tom Tilleard Haines Producer Pinky Ghundale P/S pinkyghundale@hotmail.com

A portrait of Ed Dowie, a young musician with kidney failure.

A THOUSAND MOONS UK 13 mins DV Director/Producer Nick Roylance Print Source nick@genesis-publications.com

A look at the work of virtuoso and guru, Ravi Shankar, as he tours the UK at 83 (his year of a thousand moons).

BLISTERING DAYS UK 6 mins Super16/DV Dir Lucia Helenka Prod Josh Pearcey DoP John Brown P/S luciahelenka@hotmail.com

Young skater Sean Kelly leaves his friends and the smooth ideal skating conditions of Brighton promenade in search of challenging new terrain and adventures on a road trip between Edinburgh and the South Coast.

COLD BLOODED LOVE Australia 20 mins DV Dir/Prod/S'play Jaqui Davis DoP Antony Balmain, Rachel Maher, Jaqui Davis, Hamish Townsend

Despite close calls with a tiger snake and a death adder, Aaron Briggs' passion for reptiles has become his profession. Not for the squeamish.