Congratulations to all the Queerly films which will screen as part of Celluloid Salon at Queerscreen in Sydney, and to Kelly Carpenter and Emily Brindal who were accepted into Melbourne Queerly Film Festival!
Also the 2006 Queerly films continue to travel to international festivals! 30 international festivals have now screened a Queerly film from 2006! An extraordinary effort. Congratulations to all our filmmakers!
Supervising Producer : Bettina Hamilton
The I Can See Queerly Now film production initiative has wrapped up for the year with two packed screenings at the Mercury on November 23 as part of Feast.
Congratulations to the filmmakers for 2007 and we wish them as much luck as the 2006 filmmakers in their adventures
The 2006 I Can See Queerly Now films were the most successful to date. The films have screened at over 30 international film festivals, including the most prestigious queer film festival in the world – the London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival supported by the British Film Institute and won a number of awards including 7 nominations at the SA Short Screen Awards (and the prize for best experimental for Disappointment) and a GALA Award for Not Waving Drowning producer Danny Hales.
2007 FILMS
CHECKING IN Wr / Dir / Prod : LISA HILL | 12 minutes, colour, stills Travelling stills and snippets of sound from across the globe mash and
merge to form this visually and aurally exciting tale of how our lives
can quickly alter their direction and our dreams can change, all thanks
to that complicated thing called love.
Created entirely from still images.
HOW TO BURY THE DEAD Wr / Dir / Prod : A. J. Tsiakas & Charles Bracewell |
8 minutes, colour, 16mm The dead are not the only things we need to put to rest.
When Dimitri and his mother return home the day after his grandfather
dies, they discover a lifetime of unresolved memories waiting to be
unpacked.
LOVE IS BLUE Wr / Dir / Prod : Emily Brindal | 12 minutes, colour, xdcam hd Combining classic science fiction with romantic comedy Love Is Blue
follows Angus on his search for true love.
Love is Blue is a quirky tale exploring modern perceptions of love and
aims to be as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.
DYKE! Wr / Dir : Kelly Carpenter | Prod : Tom Young |
8 minutes, colour, HDV Hot girls kissing in a pool; what more could a girl want? Love,
acceptance and a sense of normality. DYKE! deals with themes of
isolation, self-acceptance and trust. All Billy wants is to be normal,
to fit in, but first, she must throw away her constructed perception
of normality and fully accept herself.
Writer: Jason Sweeney
Director: Harry Whizkid
Producer: Harry Whizkid & Jason Sweeney
Mentor: Jason Sweeney
An experimental, nocturnal and disturbingly bent journey
through the abandoned streets, rivers and dark parklands
of Adelaide. An Unreasonable Film by Unreasonable Adults.
Nominated best direction, best sound design, best composition
and best experimental SA Short Screen Awards 2007
Winner Best Experimental SA Short Screen Awards
Runner-up (jontly) Outrate Online Short Film Festival
Disappointment
I Think We Should Break Up
12 minutes, Super 16mm
Writer: Chris Anderson
Director: Patrick Lang
Producer: Bettina Hamilton
DOP: Roger Dowling
Mentors: Shane McNeil & Kristian Moliere
The intricacies and complexities of contemporary young queer
relationships - A bittersweet comedy that ventures
into the lives of three couples after these heartbreaking
words are spoken.
Writer/ Producer/ Director: Yasemin Saubuncu
Co-Producer: Deb Lavis
DOP: Nima Nabilirad
Mentors: Amy Gebhardt & Jain Moralee
A schoolboy trapped by a trans dominatrix, an experience
taken to the extremes of trust, sexual exploration and destruction… A
sadistic sexual thriller.
Mardi Gras Film Fest, Sydney
NewFest (New York)
Publicity in various kink magazines
The Catch
Not available for online screening
Not
Waving, Drowning
8 minutes, HDV | Video soon
Writer: Rachel Hennessey
Director: Michael Trower
Producer: Danny Hales (Inside Out Project – Second
Story)
DOP: Cara Hurley
Mentor: Shalom Almond
Young. School. Queer. Alone. Pain. Fear... A teenage boy’s
journey of coming out in Adelaide’s Northern suburbs,
inspired by real life stories.
Mardi Gras Film Fest, Sydney,
Melbourne Queer Film Festival March 15 - 25,
MQFF
regional tour : Bendigo (March 30 - April 1), Cairns
(April 14& 15), Rockhampton (April 21 & 22).
21st London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: The festival,
organised by the British Film Institute (BFI) is the third
largest film festival in the UK and attracts audiences
of over 25,000. 21 March - 4 April 2007.
Second Story has also received a further $3000 grant
from Playford city council to create an educational DVD
package with Not Waving Drowning and Butterfly
Stories and a booklet which will detail the background
and purpose behind the project as well as several lesson
plans which can be used for training purposes. This package
will include new cover art, DVD Art and a snazzy booklet.
1000 copies will be made to distribute throughout the state,
mainly to schools around Adelaide.
Health
INdifference Conference, Brisbane – June
2007
