Sept.
21-24, 2000
FOREIGN
SHORTS PROGRAM - 86:30minutes
BLESSED
FRUIT
Ireland
1999/color/16 min./35mm
Two
weeks late and two possible fathers -
what's a girl to do?
Director:
Orla Walsh
Producer: Paul Donovan
Screenplay: Orla Walsh
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
Editor: Niamm Fagan
Composer: Pat Clafferty
Cast: Stella Feelhily, Paul Roe, Conor
Mullen, Karen Monks, Gavin Kelty
Bios:
Orla is currently developing two feature
length projects - SALSA DAYS IN DUBLIN
and BLOOD SISTERS. SALSA DAYS is
currently at third draft stage. The
project is being developed with the
support of the Irish Film Board, Arista
and ACE. BLOOD SISTERS is being
developed with the Irish Film Board, EMDA
and EAVE.
Paul
Donovan is a founding partner in Grand
Pictures and his second feature film is
due for production in Spring 2001.
CONTACT:
Paul Donovan
Roisin Rua Films
15 Upper Baggot Street
Dublin 4, Ireland
3531 667 7025
grandpics@eircom.net
Distributor
Forefront Films
401 Broadway, Suite 101-2
NY, NY 10013
212 431 0407
CARGO
Austria
(shot in Japan)
1999/color/15 min./Digital Video
Cargo
is a symbiotic loop about people, a
mysterious bag and cellular phones.
Directed
and written by: Timo Novotny
Producer, cinematographer, editor (s):
Timo Novotny and Norbert Pfaffenbichler
Composer: Sofa Surfers
Cast: Yoshiyuki Komatsu
CONTACT:
Timo Novotny
Simmeringer Hpstrasse 108B/14
Vienna 110
Austria
436767235533
531 494-9801
timo@monoscope.co.at
www.monoscope.co.att
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HEADWRECKER
Ireland
1999/black & white/6
min/35mm
The
boss harangues an office worker
in an incomprehensible language,
but the office worker is not
without recourse.
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Directed
and written by P.J. Dillon
Producer (s): Roger Rawlings, Tom« s Hardiman,
P.J. Dillon
Cinematography: Peter Robertson
Editor: Merry Doyle
Composer: Pierce Turner
Cast: Billy Roche & Terry Cromer
(Lime Street Sound)
Bio:
P.J. Dillon won the Frank Copplestone
Award for Best New Director (all
categories) at the 1999 Celtic Film
Festival for his short film "Most
Important." This film, which stars
Colm Meaney, was also nominated for Best
Short Film at the Banff International
Film and Television Festival in 1999.
"Headwrecker" is his second
short film as a director. Both films were
financed in part by the Irish Film
Board/Bord Scannán na hÉireann.
CONTACT:
Curtis Church
3 Forks Productions
245 W. 107th Street, #9c
NY, NY 10025
212 749-5805
cchurch@unet.net
LARI
FARI
Germany
1999/color/14:30 min/35mm
The
heart of the matter has been lost for a
long time. The greatest talkmaster of all
times has the lovely variety and strength
of language destroyed. He talks a lot and
says nothing. The gardener cultivates the
language's variety in his garden. He
starts searching for the heart of the
matter. He realizes the nothingness
behind the talkmaster's seemingly
powerful slogans. The battle over the
last word takes its course.
Director,
Producer, Screenwriter, Editor: Oliver
Bittner
Cinematography: Saschko Frey
Composer: Marius Ruhland
Cast: PERCY Brauch, Bernard Ulrich,
Susanne Vogel, Christa Leifheidt
CONTACT:
Oliver Bittner
Halmstr - 27
50825 KOLN
NRW Germany
0049 (0) 227/559-5573
Oliver.Bittner@hop.de
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MELODY
OF THE STREET / KAZINCZY UTCA Hungary
1999/color/12 min/35mm
Nothing
has changed in the old Jewish
quarter of Budapest. It remains
as it was, a hundred years ago.
This is the place I come from.
When I pass through the streets,
I hear Mahler's symphony and
memories of the past and present
come together.
Director,
Producer, Screenplay: Diana Groó
Cinematographer: Judit Schwahofer
Music: Gustav Mahler
Editor: Agnes Mógor
Sound: Balazs Gabor
Cast: Judit Groó, Gabor Fischer,
Lili Fenyvesi, Peter Bognar,
Sandor Altman, Geczy Istvanne,
Istvan Pacza, Margit Majeszky,
Terez Lakatos
Bio:
Diana is currently developing her
post graduate feature film. She
is an alumnus of the Hungarian
Film Academy - Budapest
CONTACT:
Groó Dianna
Tatra Utca 14/16
Budapest H1136; Hungary (Europe)
Tel:011 36 1 329-3038 and/or: 011
36 1 329-3814
groodini@hotmail.com
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ODE
TO A HUNTER
Norway
2000/color/ 5 min/DVOde to a
Hunter is a shortfilm made for
Per Fronth's fine-art exhibition
"Bloodlines" - the Duke
of Beaufort's Foxhunt, which went
on view in London in January
2000.
The
video-piece depicts 1.4 seconds
in the life of a very scared fox
escaping Prince Charles and his
fellow foxhunters one saturday in
november 1999.
It was shot on nightcam dv-video
and 39 frames make up the entire
piece. Each frame was then
physically painted
and reassembled.
Execution,
editing ,painting, concept : Per
Fronth 2000
Executive producer: Gill Holland,
Cineblast
Music pieces: William
Walton : "Passacaglia -
Death of Falstaff" and Arvo
Part: " Sarah was Ninety
Years Old.
CONTACT:
Per Fronth
perfronth@hotmail.com
www.perfronth.com)
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THAT
SLEEPLESS NIGHT
Poland
2000/color/10 min/35 mm
In a
province far from the battles of history,
a mother and daughter live in a palace
that has known better times. Their
solitude is broken by the sudden arrival
of the daughter's fiance from the front.
As darkness falls, strange things begin
to happen during the restless early
autumn night
Screenplay,
Scene Design and Directing: Hanna Sawka
Director of Photography: Michal Englert
Editing: Joanna Fabicka
Original Music: Edyta Gorska
The film is a production of PWSFTViT (The
Polish National Film, Television and
Theatre School in Lodz)
Cast: Grazyna Walasek, Monika Markiewicz,
Juliusz Chrzastowski, Mariusz Jakus,
Przemyslaw Sadowski
Bio:
Hanna is currently studying in the MFA
program of the Film, Television and
Theater Directing department of the
Polish National Film, TV and Theatre
School in Lodz, Poland.
CONTACT:
Jan & Hanna Sawka
54 Old Rte 213
High Falls, NY 12440
T 845 687-7022
F 687-7094
hmsawka@hotmail.com
www.jansawka.com
| TRANSIT Hungary
1999/color/9 minutes/35mm
A
young woman on her way to Vienna
by train,
has an hour stop over in
Budapest. In the train station
restaurant, she neets someone she
will remember many years later.
Written
and directed: Ferenc Török
Camera: Dániel Garas
Editor: Béla Barsi
Music: Korai Öröm
Short fiction film from the
Budapest Film Academy
Cast: Tünde Kövécs, László
Hajdú, Gábor Öri, Péter
Gyárfás
Bio:
Ferenc is a graduate of the
Budapest Film Academy in
Budapest.
CONTACT:
Török Ferenc
Nádor utca 19. II. 7
Budapest 1051 - Hungary
Tel: 36-1-3026287
bbeka@freemail.hu
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