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Taika Waititi | 12:00 | Drama
| 2003 | New Zealand |
A tale
of first love. While waiting for their parents, two boys
and a girl meet in the carpark of a rural pub. |
Taika Waititi |
Taika
Waititi is of Te Whanau-A-Apanui descent. Taika has been
involved in the film industry for several years, initially
as an actor, and he is now focusing on developing his
skills as a writer and director. He recently founded
Defender Films, with Ainsley Gardiner, who has just been
commissioned to write a comic play based on the legends
of Maui for the International Arts Festival in 2004. |
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Paul Daley |
8:00
| Animation
| 2002
| UK |
Wendell
is content to live in the clouds in a giant balloon
until something on the ground beckons him to
Earth. |
Paul Daley |
Paul
Daley worked as a graphic designer before studying
illustration and stop-motion animation at the
University of Westminster. Currently enrolled
in the animation course at the National Film
and Television School in the UK, Paul has collaborated
on multiple films. His study of computer animation
has afforded him unlimited control over his character's
personalities. While continuing to sharpen his
animation skills, Paul's main interest lies in
telling stories. |
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Redd Barna (Save the Children) |
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Terje Rangnes | 6:00 | Comedy | 2002 | Norway |
Eli
and Tarald sell lottery tickets for the benefit
of blind children in Africa. The film was inspired
by a right-wing Norwegian political party. |
Terje Rangnes |
Terje
Rangnes has directed several program series for
NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation),
including the popular series "Egil and Barbara" and "Teens." "Save
The Children," his short film debut, is
part of the feature length film UTOPIA-NOBODY
IS PERFECT IN THE PERFECT COUNTRY. UTOPIA features
eight shorts, each inspired by a different Norwegian
political party. |
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Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten
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Harvey Wang |
12:00 | Documentary
| 2003 | USA |
A detailed look at the life's work of a 93-year old photographer and his subject-generations of common New Yorkers. |
Harvey Wang |
Harvey
Wang is a published photographer, author and
filmmaker who has shot and produced documentaries
for National Geographic, CBS, HBO, and WNET/NY
(public television). He won two Emmy Awards for
his work on WNET/NY, and has worked as a commercial
director with Maysles Films and Celsius Films.
Harvey is currently directing his first feature
film THE LAST NEW YORKER, as well as a series
of short documentaries. |
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Jouni Honkkanen and
Simojukka Ruippo | 3:30
| Documentary
| 2001
| Finland |
Pyongyang,
a closed city in North Korea. There are no traffic
lights in this town, because there is a robogirl
for the traffic control. |
Jouni Honkkanen and Simojukka
Ruippo |
Simojukka
Ruippo was born in 1964 in Tampere, Finland.
He worked with the Tampere Short Film Festival
for more than ten years and as a baggage handler
at the Helsinki Airport. Jouni Hokkanen was born
in 1964. He works as a critic, journalist and
documentary filmmaker specializing in Asian cinema.
He is a programmer for Helsinki International
Film Festival - Love and Anarchy. |
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Aimee Lagos and Kristin
Dehnert |
11:00
| Drama
| 2003
| USA |
A
heart-racing ride through a woman's day on a
subway with a shocking conclusion that challenges
the audience to face themselves. |
Aimee Lagos and
Kristin Dehnert |
Aimee
Lagos and Kristin C. Dehnert come from diverse
filmmaking backgrounds. Kristin has worked as
a location manager with critically acclaimed
feature directors. Aimee has directed theater
and worked as a script supervisor, production
coordinator, and production associate on major
Hollywood and independent feature films. Based
in Los Angeles, the two first-time directors
formed the company Smash Cut Films and launched
into full production on "Underground" within
a couple months of completing the script. |
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Asier Altuna |
4:00
| Comedy
| 2002
| Spain |
In
a small rural village, the men become overly
enthusiastic about watching two rams fight. |
Asier Altuna |
Asier
Altuna was born in Bergara, Spain in 1969. Asier
has studied filmmaking in the Basque Country
in Spain, Venezuela and Cuba. He has worked in
various capacities on films, videos, advertisements
and television programs, as a technician, advertising
executive and screenwriter. He has directed several
short films on video and 35 mm, inlcuding "Txotx," co-directed
by Telmo Esnal, which participated in many festivals
and was awarded several prizes. He is currently
working as a television screenwriter. |
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Chase Palmer | 10:00
| Drama
| 2002
| USA |
A
classic case of "Soviet" roulette--Russian roulette
for cheaters in this classic mystery film. |
Chase Palmer |
Chase
Palmer's first short film "Neo-Noir" debuted
at the Austin Film Festival, where it won the
Short Jury Award. Last December the film opened
for Lions Gate Films' THE COOLER at pre-release
screenings in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Miami and Chicago. The film has been distributed
to HBO Latin America, Sundance Channel and Universal
Studios Networks, Italy. Chase's first feature
script BURIED ABOVE GROUND-inspired by the short-has
won numerous screenwriting awards. Chase
most
recently shot his second short, "Shock and
Awe" for Fox Searchlight's Searchlab program.
He lives in New
York City. |
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Jonathan Hayes |
8:00
| Comedy
| 2002
| Canada |
Edgar's
precocious students make an outrageous request
to help them forget their troubles when things
start dying in "The School." |
Jonathan Hayes |
Jonathan
Hayes is a Toronto-based filmmaker. He holds
a B.A. and an M.A. from McGill University in
Montreal. He has studied film at the Film Art
Foundation in San Francisco and at the National
Screen Institute workshops in Toronto. He has
worked as a writer, producer's assistant, associate
producer, and workshop leader. In addition to
developing projects to write and direct for his
own company, Berkeley Films, he is a director
with Spy Films. |
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Andrew Silke and
David Clayton | 4:00
| Animation | 2002
| Australia |
A
yobbo cane toad learns the dangers of being one
of the less adored icons of the Aussie landscape. |
Andrew Silke and
David Clayton |
"Cane-Toad" was
made by two Australian animators, David Clayton
and Andrew Silke, in 2002. David currently works
at Weta Digital in New Zealand where he was an
animator on the third installment of THE LORD
OF THE RINGS trilogy and is currently working
on KING KONG. After contributing to films and
games as a 3D artist, Andrew joined Animal Logic
in Sydney to work on Australia's first fully
computer animated feature film. |
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