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A greatway to see how true this is at the WASA Wednesday screenings that are currently on during the Fremantle Outdoor Film Festival, chasing the covetted 'Most Popular Film Award', filmmakers encourage as many people as possible to come down and see their film. Yet films that have more actors, can rely on more grandmas, aunts and uncles, flatmates and friends of each performer to be dragged along as well.
What the article of course fails to mention is that a film with lots of small parts is of course a lot harder to write and film.
Last year we hosted an online discussion on this topic, you can check out the posts here.
The first in a series of WASA Wednesday's allowed Perth's filmmakers and film lovers to get a look at the recently announced nominees for the upcomming 21st WA Screen Awards. Screened in the Bohemia Outdoor Cinema at FTI the crowd enjoyed a range of short films encompassing animation, drama and documentary including 'Dox', 'No Ropes, No Rules: The SAW A-e', '20/20', 'Reflections', 'Erix ERA Prix', 'Edgar and Elizabeth', 'Colour', 'Wrong Way', 'The Music Box', and 'La Serena'. The WASA Wednesday run for the next two weeks and entry is by donation.
Spotted in the crowd were Aim Kanokgan Chokchaiaphiwat, Andrew Gavin Taylor, Dave Ronnert, Daniel Walsh and Luke Hardman, Henry Inglis and Arron McCann, Annabelle Fouchard, Zebedee Parkes, Ross MCCallum and Sam Freeman,Phil Jeng Kane, Mathew Voysey, Louise Brady and Brett Cullen, Justin Morissey, Alison James and Liz Sideris
Here's some news from the shorts film festival,
Online
entries now open.
There’s
a flurry of activity as SHORTS Film Festival gets ready for take off to London!
In a significant partnership with UK’s leading short film festival, a selection
of SHORTS Film Festival entries will be showcased for the first time at Rushes
Soho Shorts Festival in London in 2008. It’s a big win for SHORTS and our
filmmakers whose works will be seen by major international film sindustry
figures and backers.
For a
chance at this not-to-be-missed, extraordinary opportunity, filmmakers are
urged to get their entries in by the 14 March 2008 early submission deadline. Entries
are open to filmmakers across Australia with a short film entry of no longer
than 20 minutes in length, in any genre.
Attracting high quality short films from around Australia, SHORTS Film Festival champions cinematic storytelling at its best. The competitive national festival offers one of the richest prize pools in the country including a coveted first prize trip to the prestigious Cannes Film Festival as well as the opportunity to be selected for screening at the iconic Shorts Outback Festival in Parachilna and Rushes Soho Shorts
Festival in the UK, in the lead up to the 2008 SHORTS Film Festival
at the historic Queen’s Theatre in Adelaide.
So
download an entry form at www.shortsfilmfestival.com and get your entries in
by the 14 March 2008 early submission deadline or the final deadline of
1 August 2008.
