SAE FlickerUp 2015
The finalists short films in our National Schools competition for Primary & Secondary School students or Filmmakers under Eighteen Years of age.
Screening: Sat 17 Jan, 2pm | Duration: 108 min | Classification: Open all ages
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Hunt For Memories
Riding her bike to school, Natalie has an accident that causes her to lose her memory. She has no recollection of her former life and is left alone and unhappy until family and friends devise an ingenious plan. Will they succeed?
- Running Time: 5 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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Ignatius Quince – A Cautionary Tale Of A Child Genius
Every year the school holds a science fair. Ignatius Quince, being a child genius, has won the last 5 years. This year is to be no exception – Ignatius Quince is going to build the most stupendous experiment ever. However plans don’t run smoothly and Ignatius Quince gets a hand from an unexpected person, Mable Syrup, resulting in a valuable lesson.
- Running Time: 3 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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Martistley’s Story
When people grow up in the favelas of Sao Paulo, life can be hopeless. Out of this rubbish pile of dashed hopes comes a young girl, Martistley, who has dreams of something better for her people.
- Running Time: 3 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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Rewarding Recycling
Australians Who Are Trying To Keep Our Environment Clean
I found out that there are lots of kindhearted people who spend a lot of time and effort to keep our environment clean.
WORLD PREMIERE- Running Time: 4 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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Reflection To Find Perfection
Cool kids rule! Trevor and Emily want to be part of that scene. They ditch their old friends and change their appearance and attitude to fit in with the ‘Cool kids.’ Things didn’t quite turn out as they expected!
WORLD PREMIERE- Running Time: 5 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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WiFi – An Invention That Changed The World
A video about the Australian inventors of Wi-Fi and their legal struggle against the IT giants of the world. It includes interviews with the inventors Dr John O’Sullivan and Dr Terry Percival.
WORLD PREMIERE- Running Time: 7 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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Down In The Valley
Two boys, on holiday in a mountain valley, dare to camp out in a tent, where they cleverly confront ‘things that go bump in the night’.
WORLD PREMIERE- Running Time: 4:30 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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Magic Man
Matthew has always held onto the guilt of his younger brother’s death. When a series of events tip him over the edge, it takes a special kind of magic to bring him back.
WORLD PREMIERE- Running Time: 7 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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For You
A film about expectation that can be passed down through generations.
- Running Time: 8 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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Post Apocalyptic Arcadia
The animation follows a lone wolf trying to find a new and safe home, free of human threats.
- Running Time: 4 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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The Haven
Set in Europe during WWII, Emilie must decide whether to remain with her family risking the threat of war, to flee completely on a boat or to escape with Jean, the boy from town.
WORLD PREMIERE- Running Time: 7 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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Anti Citizen
A man attempts to break free of his dystopic prison.
- Running Time: 8 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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My Only Enemy Is Time
An aging grandfather loses his vision. An octogenarian, he comes to terms with his mortality and impending blindness.
- Running Time: 6 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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Misconceptions
A reclusive man with psychological issues has a hidden passion that he is reluctant to share. If you look at something in a particular way, it will appear in a particular way to you, but if you change the way you look at it, what you are looking at will also change.
- Running Time: 5 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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The Era Of Change
An optimistic journey through a succinct hit of inspiration and information that ignites a passion within viewers to join the global movement fighting for a more just, sustainable and ethical world.
WORLD PREMIERE- Running Time: 10 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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Film Noir Parody
A rugged 1940’s private dick is approached by a mysterious female and sent on his ‘darkest case yet’, involving an exploding monastery, a warehouse fight scene and some extremely far-fetched plot twists.
WORLD PREMIERE- Running Time: 5 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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Surface Tension
The journey of a eleven-year old Aboriginal girl as she drifts through a backwater town on the mid-north coast, her future fate unknown.
- Running Time: 6 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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The Gadget
A teenager walking home from school finds a wrist teleportatron gadget. He starts to experiment with the gadget until it malfunctions.
- Running Time: 3 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
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Sleepless
The music video exposes the transitional stage between dreams and reality, disorientating the protagonist in a way that renders him unable to comprehend what is real anymore.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE- Running Time: 3 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia