25th January 2023
…(Lonesome), Rachel Gardner (Curio Pictures, The Stranger), Megan Riakos (Crushed), Dov Kornits (Screen Inc.), Huna Amweero (Blaze), Del Kathryn Barton (Blaze), Fiona Williams (Managing Editor SBS Movies), Dean Francis (Lonesome), Paul Struthers (Lonesome), Kristen Hodges (Screen Australia), Garry Maddox (SMH Senior Writer/Film Writer). A big thank you to our Flickerlab sponsor, AFTRS, whose graduate films in Flickerfest this year have proved that…
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5th October 2023
…deadline: Monday 9th October. You still have more time to enter our FlickerUp competition for filmmakers 18 & under, which closes on Tuesday 7th November. Live a unique experience and celebrate your films at: #FLiCKERFEST2024 On the Road To Burnett Heads on the 7th October & to Canowindra on the 15th October After sharing the short film love at over 47 venues across Australia between now and February, the Flickerfest short film caravan is reachin…
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Moral-abiding feminist comedian, Rach, receives a massive blow after a show when she is rejected by the agent she was so hungry for. Rach’s brother Benny takes her out to his work Christmas drinks as a means to cheer her up. But in his world of sales bro’s Rach is pushed to see if she’s got the “tenacity” to survive in their world. Will she flip on her morals and throw her integrity to the wind to step up to their plate?
WORLD PREMIERE
- Director: Lucy Coleman
- Writer: Lucy Coleman
- Producer: Lucy Coleman, Lucy Hayes, Deanne Weir, Alice Willison, Kartanya Maynard
- Runtime: 17min
- Year: 2023
- Country: Australia
25th January 2024
…round the world in our Rainbow Shorts programme. Be the first to catch the World Premiere of outstanding short F**ked, which raises questions many of us secretly ask ourselves, by UK director Sara Harrak and admire extravagant performative actions from a group of queer activists who denounce the disastrous exploitation by the country’s largest coal mine in the Colombian short Flowers From Another Patio (Flores Del Otro Patio). This outstanding pro…
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27th January 2024
… our FlickerUp Youth Shorts competition! Follow the journey of a boy who struggles to connect in our digital world in (Dis)Connected, don’t miss out on the clever The Youth Have A Voice from Taylor Jia Yun Chilwell and Liz Zhi, and the delightful animation Hot Chip. ‘The only thing Gab loves more than a hot chip is a whole basket full of crispy, steamy, salty hot chips. But Gab is not the only one…’ At 6.30pm, be the first to watch shorts from bri…
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Born out of Melbourne’s lockdown period – a street preacher wants us all to forget the internet, to turn it off forever. When the world refuses to listen to him, he turns towards the audience in an attempt to try and explain his philosophy.
WORLD PREMIERE
- Director: Archie Chew
- Writer: William John Hall
- Producer: Alicia Easaw-Mamutil
- Runtime: 12min
- Year: 2021
- Country: Australia
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Stuck in a limbo between life and death, Nathan Rijckx, a deceased World War 1 soldier has to collect shadows to regain a second chance at life and love. With two shadows left to collect he discovers something that shakes his world completely.
- Director: Tom Van Avermaet
- Writer: Tom Van Avermaet
- Producer: Ellen De Waele
- Running time: 21 min
- Year: 2012
- Country: Belgium
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Unravel follows the Western world’s least wanted clothes on a journey across Northern India from sea to industrial interior. They get to Panipat a sleepy town and the only place in the world that wants them, where they are recycled back into yarn.
- Director: Meghna Gupta
- Writer: Meghna Gupta
- Producer: Gigi Berardi
- Running Time: 14 min
- Year : 2012
- Country: UK
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A Wild Idea is a documentary about Ecuador’s proposal to fight climate change. The government would leave in tact the vast oil reserves that lie beneath the pristine portion of the Amazon, as long as the world compensates the country with hundreds of millions of dollars. If accepted, this proposal would contribute to preserving biodiversity, avoiding carbon dioxide emissions and respecting the rights of indigenous peoples and their way of life. A Wild Idea shows how an initiative that sounds utopian turned into an official proposal championed around the world.
- Director: Veronica Moscoso
- Writer: Veronica Moscoso
- Producer: Veronica Moscoso
- Running Time : 26 min
- Year: 2009
- Country: Ecuador
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The Grizzleguts, with their glass-half-empty attitude, see the world around them as grey and silent. When they get a visit from Mr Arthur Glass-half-full, they learn to see the world’s colours and hear its music.
- Director: Sue Chapman
- Writer: Year 6 & 7 students
- Producer: Holy Family School QLD
- Running Time: 5 min
- Year: 2013
