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Best Of Australian 4 – 2019

The 4th of seven programmes featuring the best of Australian short films in competition.

Our home-grown talent battle it out for the prestigious Academy® accredited award for Best Australian Short Film.

Screening: Sun 13 Jan, 8.45pm | Runtime: 108 min | Classification: under 15 to be w/adult

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  • Hard Rubbish

    While vandalizing a private girls high school late at night, image conscious 15 year old Simon & his friends are caught off guard by a gang of the very people they are trying to emulate.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

    • Director: Stephen Packer
    • Writer: Michael Beck
    • Producer: Adam Camporeale
    • Runtime: 11min
    • Year: 2018
    • Country: Australia

  • The Hunt

    Set in a dystopian world in which women hunt men in the name of equality, five female hunters must choose between loyalty or the law.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

    • Director: Holly Hargreaves, (co-Dir) Catherine Mack
    • Writer: Holly Hargreaves, Catherine Mack
    • Producer: Holly Hargreaves, Catherine Mack , Nigel Huckle
    • Runtime: 9min
    • Year: 2018
    • Country: Australia

  • Eternal

    During one night, 3 teenagers; James, Royston and Saskia seek to escape their troubled home lives, only to find that they may have brought the trouble with them.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

     

    • Director: S.F. Tusa
    • Writer: S.F. Tusa
    • Producer: S.F. Tusa, Ewan Cutler, Lalania Tusa, Curtis Lambert
    • Runtime: 16min
    • Year: 2018
    • Country: Australia

  • Here There Be Monsters

    To escape incessant bullying on the bus ride home, a young girl falls asleep only to wake up trapped at an empty bus yard, with something lurking outside – something big – and if she wants to make it out alive, this frightened girl will have to unleash a monster of her own.
    AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

    • Director: Drew Macdonald
    • Writer: Drew Macdonald
    • Producer: Steve Geddes
    • Runtime: 15min
    • Year: 2018
    • Country: Australia

  • No Sincerer Love

    Harriet has prepared a tea party for her friends. But that afternoon, the girls’ anxieties run rampant, and their seemingly perfect lives begin to unravel.
    WORLD PREMIERE

    • Director: Amelia Saunders
    • Writer: Amelia Saunders
    • Producer: Shireen Narayanan
    • Runtime: 14min
    • Year: 2018
    • Country: Australia

  • Cattle

    On a rural cattle farm, two sisters worry about their mother’s cancer, but an unexplained death in the herd gives the girls cause to go out alone looking for answers.
    NSW PREMIERE

    • Director: Kerinne Jenkins
    • Writer: Kerinne Jenkins
    • Producer: Katie Amos
    • Runtime: 20min
    • Year: 2018
    • Country: Australia

  • Dots

    People start dying after the arrival of a mysterious stranger in a small Australian town. Despite this, the local police officer is too preoccupied by his dream Mercedes to pay attention to the deaths surrounding him.

    • Director: Eryk Lenartowicz
    • Writer: Eryk Lenartowicz
    • Producer: Rebecca Janek
    • Runtime: 23min
    • Year: 2017
    • Country: Australia
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