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Next Floor | Canada | 11:37
2009 Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama
2008 Cannes International Critics’ Week Best Short Film (Canal + Award)
2008 Atlantic Film Festival, Edmonton International Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival Best Short Film
During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with cavalier servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage. In this absurd and grotesque universe, an unexpected sequence of events undermines the endless symphony of abundance.
Subject #164 | UK | 2:31
2009 Ffresh Student Moving Images Festival Awards Animation Nominee
Filmed in the early 60s, this laboratory documentary follows a newly discovered and apparently unintelligent Neanderthal humanlike specimen, which is found through testing to have amazing logic solving intelligence.
Small Change | Australia | 7:30
2009 Tribeca Student Visionary winner
2008 Bin Short Film Festival Best Director winner
2008 Angelus Student Film Festival Triumph of the Spirit Award
2008 Palm Springs Shortsfest Best Student Live Action Short 2nd Prize
A man struggles without his wife, a little girl loses a tooth and a boy reacts the only way he knows how…small change can make all the difference.
Lies | Sweden | 13:30
2009 Sundance Film Festival International Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking
Three perfectly true stories about lying.
Jerrycan | Australia | 13:46
2009 Sundance Film Festival Honourable Mention
2009 Hamburg International Short Film Festival Arte Short Film Award
2008 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize
2008 Australian Film Institute (AFI) Best Short Fiction Award
Vladivostok International Film Festival Best Short Film, “Pacific Meridian”
Five bored kids with nothing to do decide to blow something up. Paper, scissors, rocks seals the fate of Nathan, who risks everything after he is bullied into making a life and death decision.
About Face | Canada | 5:57
2009 Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award
One boring day at work, lowly office drone BOB ZIMMER receives an invitation to sign up for a new “interactive reality” version of his social networking site. With nothing better to do, Zimmer agrees. Immediately, the AGENT appears. While Zimmer pauses to figure out what has just happened, and checks to see if anyone else sees what he sees, the newsfeed notifications begin.
Atem | UK | 5:05
2009 Ffresh Student Moving Images Festival Best Animation
A mesmerising and emotive journey through creation.
Megatron | Romania | 14:41
2008 Cannes Palme d’Or
It’s Maxim birthday. He’s 8 years old. He lives with his mother in a village quite far from the nearest city. For his birthday, his mother takes him to a McDonald’s restaurant.
This Way Up! | UK | 8:37
2009 Oscar nominee for Short Film (Animated)
2008 Ottawa Animation Festival National Film Board of Canada Public Prize
Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.
September | UK | 20:23
2009 London Short Film Festival Best Film
2009 BAFTA Best Short Film
Caught in an in-between world of flyovers, grass verges and dead-ends, where the motorway hum serves as a constant reminder of the speed of other lives, Marvin is not going anywhere. Into this forgotten corner of English countryside and motorway services arrives an extraordinary adolescent, changing his world forever.
