St Kilda Film Festival 2008 - National Tour

The 2008 St Kilda Film Festival has extended its National Tour and will now be visiting regional destinations. We will be touring two sessions of highlights from our 2008 festival.

As these films are not classified, persons under 18 years of age will not be admitted to any sessions.

See below for details on Session One & Session Two

Session One

	Synchrodyes	MORE INFORMATION
	2007, DVD, 3 mins Genre Digital Art Producer Katrina J. Putker Director Katrina J. Putker	Synchrodyes (sin. kro. dies) verb. The simultaneous combination of sound and liquid images

	Beggar's Belief	MORE INFORMATION
	2008, DVD, 6 mins Genre Comedy Producer Colin and Cameron Cairnes Director Colin Cairnes	A beggar approaches passers-by with an unlikely tale of woe. A kind soul comes along and offers him the last thing he needs.

	Pleasance	MORE INFORMATION
	2007, Digital Betacam, 13 mins Genre Drama Producer Ben Commens Director Amy Gebhardt	Les and Errol are two elderly brothers living on their family property of Pleasance. Their existence is well-worn, a functional marriage of needs that neither questions. When Errol's past love returns to the district, the brothers' idyllic life is thrown painfully into question.

	AUNTY BETELNUT	MORE INFORMATION
	2008, Digital Betacam, 8 mins Genre Documentary Producer LINDA MICSKO Director NATASHA HENRY	A group of Papua New Guinean women gather to chew betelnut, a mild stimulant, in an intimate and joyous celebration of friendship and cultural identity.

	Lone Rider	MORE INFORMATION
	2007, 35mm, 2 mins Genre Comedy Producer Chris Kamen Director Edwin McGill & Kasimir Burgess	A portrait of an independent film maker and the lengths to which he will go to fulfil his celluloid dream.

	Dearest Sir	MORE INFORMATION
	2007, Digital Betacam, 6 mins Genre Drama Producer Victorian College Of The Arts Director Michael Kratochvil	An elderly man receives a captivating email from a Nigerian bureaucrat.

	Yolk	MORE INFORMATION
	2007, 35mm, 15 mins Genre Drama Producer Sally Madgwick & Damon Escott Director Stephen Lance	Lena, a teenager with down syndrome explores all the curious and rebellious impulses of sex and boys in a sweet tale of growing up.

	Funk, The	MORE INFORMATION
	2008, Digital Betacam, 7 mins Genre Drama/Animation Producer Melanie Coombs Director Cris Jones	Jack woke up in a Funk one day.  No-one really knows how it started.

Session Two

	7.23	MORE INFORMATION
	2007, Digital Betacam, 6 mins Genre Comedy Producer Brian Lien Director Brian Lien	Two strangers share a moment on a busy, evening commuter train.

	MY COUNTRY	MORE INFORMATION
	2007, DVD, 11 mins Genre Drama Producer Sally Madgwick Director Odette Best	An old indigenous Uncle revisits a painful memory to set his story straight.

	Pigeon Men	MORE INFORMATION
	2008, Digital Betacam, 7 mins Genre Documentary Producer Marryanne Christodoulou Director Marryanne Christodoulou	A group of men obsessed with the sport of pigeon flying take us into their strange world.

	Poles Apart	MORE INFORMATION
	2007, DVD, 6 mins Genre Animation Producer Andi Spark Director Paul Lalo, Xue Sen Wong, Steven Smith	In big cities it is easy to feel isolated, especially if you are Pang Pang who is the only panda in a city of polar bears.

	Wind	MORE INFORMATION
	2007, Digital Betacam, 8 mins Genre Drama Producer Katrina Fleming, Wahyuni Hadi, Aaron Wilson Director Aaron Wilson	Two people from two countries who once shared a common experience.

	Len's Love Story	MORE INFORMATION
	2007, 35mm, 14 mins Genre Drama Producer Michaela Kalowski and Karen Radzyner Director Sonia Whiteman	Len is having trouble with day-to-day life after his mother's death, until she sends him something quite unexpected to help him on his way.

	Eclipse	MORE INFORMATION
	2007, 35mm, 9 mins Genre Documentary/Experimental Producer Mark Lapwood ACS Co-Producer Jamie Hilton Director Mark Lapwood  ACS	This visually based film journeys through India's economic capital, Mumbai, contrasting portraits of people who live in the streets with the natural beauty that surrounds them.