FTI Films at St Kilda Film Festival

13 May 2010

Funding Deadlines

Several FTI films were selected in competition in St Kilda Film Festival’s top 100 films to screen 25 – 30 May in Melbourne before touring nationally.

Mabuji, The Washing Line and The Water was Dark and It Went Forever Down were selected from over 500 entered films and will compete for a $10,000 cash prize for best film, as voted by a panel of industry judges.

Mabuji, directed by Tyson Mowarin, produced by Robyn Marais was made through Deadly Yarns, a joint initiative of FTI, ScreenWest, ABC Television. More

The Washing Line, directed and co-produced by Penny Bedford with co-producer Megan Riley was made through Raw Nerve, a joint initiative of FTI, Screen Australia and Screen Development Australia (SDA). More

The Water was Dark and It Went Forever Down, directed by Khrob and Miranda Edmonds, produced by Kate Beverley was made through LINK, a ScreenWest and FTI initiative. More

The FTI films join West Australian short Disarm, co-written and directed by Nathan Keene, co-written and produced by Will Faulkner in the St Kilda Top 100. An independent production, Disarm was shot over two days in Perth and has already garnered $3000 of cash prize money winning the My Queer Career award at the Mardi Gras Film Festival 2010 in Sydney. More

West Australian practitioners also feature in the films Jacob and Early Checkout. The principal cast in Jacob include Ningali Lawford-Wolf, Connie Amos, Heath Bergersen, David Ngoombujarra and LeRoy Parson while West Australian Cinematographer and FTI member, Andrew McLeod, was Director of Photography for Early Checkout.

FTI congratulates the West Australians selected in this year’s festival and wishes them all the best in competition. Look out for them when the St Kilda Film Festival tours WA.

Image: Karna Smith in Mabuji