SOUTH AFRICAN SHORTS PROGRAMME 1

SUNDAY 26 OCTOBER AT MIDDAY UGC HAYMARKET SCREEN 3

BIRDS BEES AND ADVERTISING 35mm 8 mins Director Leila Fisher Cast Hans Pleysier, Meg Thompson, Ashleigh Mills Print Source Katherine Leach-Lewis Email katherine@visualkitchen.co.uk

A family searching for fulfilment through consumption.

THE ULTIMATE COCKTAIL Super16 17 mins Director/S'play Shaun Cairns Producer Natalie Johns Cast Alex Ferns, Calvin Hayward, Alice Brickwood Print Source Shaun Cairns T 07796 037399

Desperate young men find a novel hobby freeloading at funerals

TRANSIT CAF & Digital 27 mins Dir Catherine Stewart Prod Angus Gibson Cast Ronnie Nyakale, Mmabotho Mogomotsi, Beauty Mafokeng Print Source Catherine Stewart E catrina@mweb.co.za

A sad story of love greed and desperation between rural and urban South Africa.

DUSTY ROAD Super16 16 mins Director Chee Hao Hui Producer/S'play Kristi Markou Cast Owen Sejake, Nothembi Nkhwebane Print Source Kristi Markou E kmarkou@lycos.co.uk

A tragic tale of pride and arrogance.

THREE BALD HEADS EAT TOGETHER Digital 1 min Dir/Prod Inge Prins Screenplay from a short story by Jan Rabie Print Source Inge Prins E sip@gmx.co.uk

A one-minute stop frame animation consisting of 1400 individual photographs. It symbolises greed, desire and consumerism to such extremities that characters of the story destroy themselves.

PENDULUM Digital 12 mins Director Jason D Ashberg Producers Jason D Ashberg, Dion Scher, Akin Omotoso Screenplay Dion Scher Cast Xolile Tshabalala, David Newton Print Source Dion Scher E dscher@global.co.za

Sometimes the line between life and death is love.