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Films by women directors. |
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2006 Australia - Japan Year of Exchange Special Screening. |
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Mature Content
These films contain sexual or violent content. |
※ Australian special screenings, Australian Maestro & Star shorts, SHIROTAKU, Tokyo Tenshi and other special screenings are non-competition. |
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| Joshua Leonard/11:50/Drama/USA/2005 |
An innocent yet tragic love story, “The Youth in Us” features two young lovers who gain the courage to confront a painful future by looking to the past.
 Joshua Leonard / Joshua Leonard first garnered attention for his memorable role in 1999’s lo-fi thriller The Blair Witch Project. He began his career working with documentary and experimental filmmakers at Mystic Fire Video. He has acted in over 25 films and is currently directing a feature documentary film.
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| Greg Williams/6:30/Comedy/Australia/2004 |
Ted's wife has left him and taken the kids. The police are there to help Ted get them back, but something’s a little suspicious.
 Greg Williams / Was born in Melbourne in 1966, and grew up obsessed with cartoons and commercials. In 1995, he started making short films on super-8, then 16mm and mini DV. Greg’s short film “Vitalogy” won for best comedy at the 2001 Melbourne International Film Festival. Greg divides his time between making shorts, making money in undisclosed ways, and writing a feature script. |
Women Short Shorts
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Hayelet Bodeda (The Substitute)
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| Talya Lavie/19:00/Drama/Israel/2005 |
Zohara is living a tough life on an isolated military base she can't wait to leave. Things get even tougher when she meets her substitute.
 Talya Lavie /Talya Lavie, born in Israel in 1978, graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School of Jerusalem in 2005. Lavie also studied animation at the Bezalel Art& Design Academy in Jerusalem from 1998-2000. Her first film “Sliding Flora” (2003, 12 min’, 16 mm), won 7 international prizes, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New-York (MOMA) as well as over 30 Film Festivals worldwide, including the 2004 Berlin Film Festival. “The Substitute” is her graduation film. |
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La Leyenda del Espantap jaros (The Legend of the Scarecrow)
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| MARCO BESAS/10:00 /Animation/Spain/2005 |
A scarecrow's life changes radically when he decides to become friends with the birds.
 MARCO BESAS /Marco Besas was born in Madrid , Spain in 1969 and studied film at NYU till 1991. He spent the next ten years working professionally with numerous directors, inlcuding Almodovar, directed two television pilots and several award winning short film. “The Legend of the Scarecrow” is his latest short film, and was nearly nominated for an Academy Award®. Marco is currently preparing a feature based on the Spanish folkloric boogieman known as the “Sacamantecas.” |
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| Geva Patz/2:15/Comedy/USA/2005 |
A woman runs from a menacing pursuer. Will anyone save her?
 Geva Patz / Geva Patz is an independent filmmaker based in Boston , Massachusetts in the United States . He is a graduate of the Media Arts and Sciences program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Geva has written and directed two award winning short films, “Cog” (2003) and “Thug” (2005), and won the 2003 Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Woods Hold Film Festival. He is currently working on a new short film, and a featureproject, “Mouthfeel”. |
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AU PETIT MATIN (AT DAWN)
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| XAVIER GENS/15:00/Drama/FRANCE/2005 |
Two tragic lives collide in a gas station early one morning.
 XAVIER GENS / Xavier Gens’ passion for cinema began at an early age. Though he never attended film school, the self-taught director has created many solid amateur films. He moved on to making video clips and then commercials. Since completing "At Dawn" he has dedicated himself to fiction and is currently developing a feature film script. |
Australian Maestro shorts
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Violence in the Cinema, Part 1
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| George Miller/11:00/Black Comedy/Australia/1971 |
What at first seems like a serious psychological assessment of violence in the cinema by a professor, turns into a bloody orgy of human destructiveness.
George Miller / George Miller has an eclectic and unusual resume. The former doctor left his first giant mark on the film world with the acclaimed drama “Mad Max” which introduced a young Mel Gibson to the world. He directed Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer in “The Witches of Eastwick” along with Susan Sarandon who also starred in 1992’s “Lorenzo’s Oil”. In 1995 Miller showed the world a much softer side when he wrote and produced the film “Babe” starring an adorable talking pig. His next project is the CGI animated feature “Happy Feet” about penguins set for a Fall release. |
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