Prizewinning films and outstanding favourites from this years St Kilda Film Festival’s Top 100 Shorts will soon be enjoyed at 7.30pm Wednesday 17 August at Port Fairy’s Reardon Theatre as part of its national tour .
The St Kilda Film Festival tour will ensure that film buffs around the state will have the opportunity to view this year’s exceptional entrants from Australia’s largest short film competition.
Festival Director Paul Harris says of the Tour “The awesome shorts chosen for our national showcase offer audiences the opportunity to view some of the most innovative, cutting edge, inspiring and just plain entertaining work from Australia’s current crop of emerging filmmakers, who are literally taking the world by storm.”
Straight from taking the Festival’s top honour for Best Short Film and the richest cash prize in Australian short film is The Kiss, directed by Ashlee Page and produced by Sonya Humphrey. The film follows the story of two teenage girls, fuelled by alcohol and hormones, whose fun night out takes a dangerous turn when they become trapped in a water tank. Ashlee Page also picked up the Best Director award for the film.
This year’s tour program also features a showcase of Australian talent: Nash Edgerton presents his new short Bear written by him and David Michod (Animal Kingdom), while Nadine Garner makes directorial debut with festival favourite Afterglow. This moving film follows the story of a young woman in post World War II Australia as she meets her forbidden love to tell him she has not terminated her pregnancy.
Jack Thompson, Gary Sweet and Sigrid Thornton appear together for the first time in The Telegram Man, a tale set in World War 11 where the once popular telegram man becomes a figure of fear and repulsion as he delivers the onslaught of bad news.
These films, along with other festival winners and crowd favourites will screen in two sessions at each destination- tour dates and the full list of touring films is attached below.
