Films In Competition Winners

The winners of the MyState BOFA Digital SLR Short Film Competition for 2011 are:

Best Tasmanian Short Film:
‘Peekaboo’, Dir. Damien Power, Australia, 10 min

Best International Short Film:
‘Sharfik’, Dir. Karina Gazizova, USA, 14 min

Best Youth Short Film:
‘Abbie’ Dir. Erin Good, Australia, 8 min. Erin Good from Sydney was in attendance to accept her award.

Films In Competition Finalists

Abbie

Run time: 8mins
Country: AUS
Directed by: Erin Good
In a dystopian corporate world idealistic Abbie embarks on the first day of her new job with nervous delight. Her excitement however, is quickly thwarted by the cold intolerance of The Boss and a failed attempt to make friends. The rigid office eventually proves too much even for the indomitable Abbie, but friendships can be formed in unexpected places.

Being Bradford Dillman

Run time: 10 mins
Country: UK
Directed by: EMMA BURCH
When bullied child Molly Flowers declares her dislike of boys, her boozy and self medicated mother invents a story to shock her into a more sympathetic view. A tale of a Mother and daughter relationship, shadowed by alcohol, loneliness and a dislike of boys.

Bookman

Run time: 10mins
Country: AUS
Directed by: Ben Bryan
A young girl who loves reading is bullied on a train. When her book is torn to shreds a stranger takes pity on her and gives her a book. It’s about a spy who works in a second-hand bookstore. As she continues to read the similarities between the Bookman and the stranger become too hard to ignore. Is the Bookman real?

Bottled

Run time: 9mins
Country: AUS
Directed by: Michael Sloane
A short comedy about the experiences that can occur on a night out under the influence of alcohol. Old friends Jack and Ben are having a few ‘quiet ones’ to catch, but intoxication gets in the way and eventually brings out the often suppressed and the seldom discussed feelings that the typical man tries his best to avoid.

Cankered & Cursed

Run time: 3.45mins
Country: USA
Directed by: Todd DeJong
A sisterhood of evil witches must avoid getting possessed by the ghosts of goodness that surrounds them, before they all become good little witches!

Clouds

Run time: 12mins
Country: UK
Directed by: Gilbert James
Living the life of a writer, Irving Walker’s days are filled with distraction, creative torment, lunch, the occasional smoothie and sometimes writing. But only one story holds the key to him fulfilling his dreams of true creativity.

Emilia Eckle

Run time: 7mins
Country: AUS
Directed by: Alyssa McClelland
When Emilia Eckle and Tom embark on their first date one fine Spring day, everything that takes place is beyond their wildest dreams. It seems destiny is shining favorably on these two souls… Or is it?

Good Men

Run time: 12mins
Country: USA
Directed by: Brian Connors
‘Good Men’ is a drama about two elderly Jewish men who get into a serious argument over the controversial circumstances surrounding the 9/11 attacks on The World Trade Center.

The Grace of Others

Run time: 11mins
Country: AUS
Directed by: Alexander Brunacci
James is a man with a string of past lovers. He asks his current photographer girlfriend Chloe to take his family’s annual portrait, but will she fit into the picture?

Life In Red String

Run time: 9mins
Country: AUS
Directed by: Keir Wilkins
Theodore Brand, thirty-three, and five foot eight, Not Herculean but not overweight. Brown hair, brown eyes, average looks, He wears conservative clothes and reads conservative books. He works for a company that produces red-string. And his job is to think of new uses for the thing. But like most, he searches for more, than this life he finds so bland. There must be more out there, he thinks, more for Theodore Brand.

Peekaboo

Run time: 10mins
Country: AUS
Directed by: Damien Power
On the train home from the Easter Show, an over-tired little girl is hyped-up by a stranger, who plays a game of ‘peekaboo’ with her, until her mother begins to feel disturbed by the interest he’s showing. A short time later, the girl disappears in a car park and her desperate mother searches. A glimpse of the man from the train fires her imagination, with devastating consequences.

Red Orchid

Run time: 7mins
Country: AUS
Directed by: Haydn Kwan
An orchid enthusiast brings home a new specimen which is more than it seems. An unusual woman appears and upsets up his carefully composed world. Red Orchid is a seductive mystery with a twist.’

Sharfik

Run time: 14mins
Country: USA
Directed by: Karina Gazizova
A family living during the period of World War II. Will the most unbearable siege suck the last drop of life out of this once warm and loving family? How does war change the people we need the most?

Stiff Competition

Run time: 10mins
Country: AUS
Directed by: Ashleigh Hanley
Washed up TV presenter, Tim Bolton, visits a town who have a strange competition on. A true journo, he enters, but thinks he might come up short. Will entering a competition get him his credibility back as well as his wife?

The Batchelor Experience

Run time: 2mins
Country: AUS
Directed by: Fiona Dalwood
Join straight-laced businessman Albert as he throws caution to the wind and visits ‘The Batchelor Experience’, an exclusive establishment that caters to his unique appetite.

The Grace of Others

Run time: 11mins
Country: AUS
Directed by: Alexander Brunacci
James is a man with of string of past lovers. He asks his current photographer girlfriend Chloe to take his family’s annual portrait, but will she fit into the picture?

Highly Commended/Out of Competition

Provendence Park

Run time: 6mins
Directed by: Daniel Krige
A day in the park turns into a magical experience when a little dog encourages people to throw a stick for it – and returns with what they need most.

Splitscreen: A Love Story

Run time: 3mins
Directed by: James W. Griffiths
Can two people who live on opposite sides of the world have anything in common? This is the story of two parallel lives, one in New York and one in Paris and the journey that will lead them together. Told simultaneously through the eyes of both characters

Mooncake & Crab

Run time: 20mins
Directed by: Heng Tang
On the day of the Mid Autumn Festival Chinese-born Crystal prepares a traditional meal of mooncake and crab for her new Anglo-Australian family. What no-one around her realizes is that Crystal has recently said goodbye to her lover, a Chinese artist, and she is pregnant with his child. As she prepares the meal with her visiting father, news comes that the plane her lover was traveling on has crashed. As Crystal tries to hide her feelings her step-daughter asks her to tell them the story behind the mooncake – a story that suddenly has great resonance with her own life.

Bear

Country: AUS
Run time: 11mins
Directed by: Nash Edgerton
Jack has a new girlfriend, but hasn’t quite learnt his lesson…

dik

Country: AUS
Run time: 10mins
Directed by: Christopher Stollery
A concerned father of a six year old takes it the wrong way.