Best of The West Screens with Movie Extra Tropfest

18 February 2010

Animation Centre

Australia’s most prestigious short film festival and one of its most iconic cultural events, Movie Extra Tropfest, is back this weekend at Bohemia Outdoor Cinema screening the 16 finalist films selected from an entry pool of an average 650 annual entries and competing for more than $150,000 in prizes.

FTI will also screen The Best of The West, a program of WA films from the Top 50 finalists. Some well know filmmakers are represented so expect these films to be of a high standard and to offer added value to your Tropfest experience. Programme below.

From WA, FTI graduate Julia Ngeow with her animated short, All Work & No Play came in the Tropfest Top 20, in the Mobile Masterpieces category. Featuring music from local outfit , Injured Ninja, All Work & No Play tells the tale of an ambitious high flyer, Sinbad Fingleberry Faxy Jax Milanee, which the director says is based loosely around her own “quarter life crisis”.

Recognising the change in technologies and the opportunities this presents to filmmakers, the mobile category is seen as a natural extension of short film story telling. Julia shot the film on a 3G iPhone, edited in Photoshop, animated in MacromediaFlash, and video edited in Sony Vegas.

Tropfest will be held at Bohemia Outdoor Cinema, Princess May Park, Fremantle on Sunday the 21st February 2010.

The Best of the West Screening will take place in the FTI Cinema at 5:30pm prior to the main screening of the Top 16 at 7:30pm.

Entry is by donation, ($5 recommended)

Tropfest – Best of the West

PROGRAMME:

Then She Was Gone
Produced by Mat de Koning and Burleigh Smith
Written and Directed by Burleigh Smith

Basil pursues Mia. But Mia is only interested in men who are masculine.

All Work & No Play
Written/Animated by Julia Ngeow
Music by Injured Ninja

Sinbad Fingleberry Faxy Jax Milanee is a young and ambitious high flyer. Familiar with success; a winner at all games. The world is at her feet. What more could Sinbad
possibly desire?

The Delivery
Produced, written and directed by Nenad Radov

Delivering pizza is usually a straightforward experience until you find a bound and unconscious girl in what appears to be a quiet warehouse.

On Hold
Produced by Amy Costello, Written by Amy Costello and Raz Islam, Directed by Raz Islam

A young mother battles a pre-recorded menu system and a three-year-old as she tries to get through to a customer service officer on the phone.

Cashed Up Bogans
Produced and Directed by Jules Duncan

An examination of Western Australia’s blue-collar rich, and the jealousy they inspire in the film maker.

Dead By Dusk
Produced, Written and Directed by Brendan Dee

The living and the dead do battle across a dusty outback road.

FTI congratulates all the filmmakers on their finalist selection and encourages everyone to come and see the WA best of Tropfest for 2010.

Image: All Work & No Play by Julia Ngeow