Caught Short:
Independent Short Films
This month Caught Short screens a collection of shorts that will have you laughing all the way home with blind dates, internet trading, not so perfect uncles and even a little conjoined twin detective action all thrown into the mix. There will also be great prizes provided by our friends at Metroscreen and Icon Films.
Jansa Krsmanovic’s Warning: It May Contain Subtitles is an account of two people who meet for the first time on a blind date, with surprising results. My Bay is a humorous take on the world of internet trading. George is an internet addict but when his web access dies he must find another way to feed his habit. Boris Burgess’s The Truth About Uncle Ron is a comic gem. Greg has the perfect uncle or so he thinks. Until he finds out the family secret that will rock his world. In Good Cop, Bad Cop Brett Nicholas delves into the New York underworld, where a detective will stop at nothing to bring his conjoined twin brother to justice.
Join us for a pre-screening bevie or grab a bite at the Tap Gallery café. Don’t miss your chance to grill the filmmakers in the Q&A sessions!
What: Caught Short’s Film Night
When: Thursday 6th August
Time: 7.30pm for 8pm screening
Where: Tap Gallery, 278 Palmer St (just off Oxford St), Darlinghurst Cost: $10/$5
NOTE TO EDITOR: For high res images or to arrange an interview with Caught Short Director Sarah Lancaster please contact Sarah Lancaster on 0404 099 149 or HYPERLINK "mailto:filmcaughtshort@yahoo.com.au"filmcaughtshort@yahoo.com.au
Caught Short is a non-competitive short film night that screens on the first Thursday of the month. Filmmakers are invited to submit their short films all year round. To submit films visit or find out more visit HYPERLINK "http://www.filmcaughtshort.com"www.filmcaughtshort.com
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po box 411 Surry Hills nsw 2010
tel: (Sarah) 0404 099 149
filmcaughtshort(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
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caught short is supported by the city of sydney
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Date: Thursday 4th June
Time: 7.30pm for 8pm screening
Caught Short Embraces the Chaos on June 4.
After a rather fabulous run of themed nights, Caught Short has bucked the trend and will return to our promiscuous roots – presenting a mixed bag of diverse films for your viewing pleasure this June.
Our thrilling selection of locally produced shorts will have you cheering in the aisles – especially if you’re the recipient of our monthly Metro Screen voucher! Woo hoo!
Keeping with our recent spate of rev head films, Sean Lang’s The Gift weaves together a second hand dream-machine, a narcoleptic teenager and a flock of sponge squeezing car-wash angels in a tender exploration of the bonds that bind Fathers and Sons.
From South of the border comes I’m The Lion by Melbourne director Bill Irving. The film is a fly on the wall observation of the games siblings play and the role imagination plays in dealing with the realities of growing up.
We also screen the moody, brooding Death’s Requiem. This dark epic from director Marc Furnie spins a seedy tale of a haunted illustrator with an appetite for voyeurism.
Join us for a pre-screening bevie at the always exciting TAP Gallery and share in this selection of great shorts, ready for you to pass vocal judgment on! Remember Caught Short is a Q&A session as well as a screening and we thrive on your input!
What: Caught Short’s Mixed Bag Short Film Night
When: Thursday 4th June
Time: 7.30pm for 8pm screening
Where: Tap Gallery, 278 Palmer St (just off Oxford St), Darlinghurst
Cost: $10/$5
caught short
po box 411 Surry Hills nsw 2010
tel: (Sarah) 0404 099 149
filmcaughtshort(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
www.filmcaughtshort.com
caught short is supported by the city of sydney
Join the Caught Short Group on Facebook now!
Date: Thursday 7th May
Time: 7.30pm for 8pm screening
Rock out with your Docs out on May 7.
This month Caught Short celebrates all things non-fiction with an insightful collection of short docos by some inspired new filmmakers.
PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES!!! One lucky winner will go home with a fabulous MetroScreen voucher!
Program highlights:
Mine’s Bigger Than Yours is Natasha Sutevski’s humorous observation of Aussie male car culture and it’s kinship with the Blue Spotted Peacock.
A Shade of Purple chronicles young Drag Queen Jai’s journey from Thailand to Sydney as he juggles a burgeoning career with the demands of studying for his Master’s degree. Directed by Skan Aryurapong.
My Granny by Claire Wildish is an intimate study of illness and it’s effects on a family. Told from a child’s perspective, the film is a story of Jonah’s Grandmother’s journey with cancer.
What fuels a football fan’s unrelenting passion? Jolyn Hoff investigates Laurie Nichols obsession with the Balmain Tigers in Number 1 Fan, a short documentary about the lengths we go to, for the things we love.
Caught Short invites you to come share these unique perspectives of the world and join in for the healthy (read argumentative) Q&A session that always follows non-fiction screenings!
What: Caught Short’s Quiet Film Night
When: Thursday 7th May
Time: 7.30pm for 8pm screening
Where: Tap Gallery, 278 Palmer St (just off Oxford St), Darlinghurst
Cost: $10/$5
caught short
po box 411 Surry Hills nsw 2010
tel: (Sarah) 0404 099 149
filmcaughtshort(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
www.filmcaughtshort.com
caught short is supported by the city of sydney
Join the Caught Short Group on Facebook now!
Date: Thursday 2nd April
Time: 7.30pm for 8pm screening
Shh! Have a quiet night out on April 2.
This month Caught Short declares talking overrated - presenting a range of
exciting dialogue free films, by some innovative filmmakers.
PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES!!! One lucky winner will go home with a fabulous
MetroScreen voucher!
Program highlights:
The Silence in Between is an enchanting look at desire and fidelity by Nathan
Wishart.
Directors Michael Wayne and Andrew Martyn present a chaotically rich soundscape
in Man's Best Friend chronicling the death of a beloved pet dog.
The Death and Life of John Vaughan by Michael Wormald take us inside the demonic
world of an out of work actor who has made a pact with Satan.
Finally our own Katherine Rogers and Leslie Marsh present two silent works: Out
of Gas and Ricardo's Love following the promiscuous life of a Newtown lighter
and a love struck school kid respectively.
Join us on April 2 for a night of sensory rich cinema proving once and for all
that silence is golden. (Note: one or two of the films may contain minor
sections of dialogue, these however were unavoidable).
What: Caught Short’s Quiet Film Night
When: Thursday 2nd April
Time: 7.30pm for 8pm screening
Where: Tap Gallery, 278 Palmer St (just off Oxford St), Darlinghurst
Cost: $10/$5
See you there!
caught short
po box 411 Surry Hills nsw 2010
tel: (Sarah) 0404 099 149
filmcaughtshort(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
www.filmcaughtshort.com
caught short is supported by the city of sydney
Join the Caught Short Group on Facebook now!
Date: Thursday December 4th
Time: 7.30pm
Caught Short’s Tassie Bits
Caught short’s final screening for 2008 will be a rockin’ Tasmanian adventure with two of our favourite filmmakers, sisters Harriet and Stella Macdonald, in town to present the latest, greatest, and possibly craziest, shorts films from their wee island home.
The multi-award-winning Tasmanian cineastes, whose work ranges from kooky animations to touching documentaries, have won the hearts of caught short audiences over the last four years. Following on from the success of their work, the Macdonald sisters were asked to curate a Tassie spectacular to wow Sydney audiences. Searching high and low, the girls have selected an exciting program, promising a “chocolate box of Tassie shorts. Packed with soft centers, dark ones, sweets ones- but beware: some contain nuts...".
The Macdonald sisters present their program LIVE at caught short Thursday 4 December, at the Tap Gallery in Darlinghurst. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet the Macdonald sisters, check out the wonderful world of Tasmanian cinema and toast to another year of super flicks with caught short.
Program highlights:
Snow Petrel Down Under
Dir Matt Tucker
When Matt’s younger brother decided he wanted to sail to Antarctica he and his father volunteered to be his crew. But the danger of the voyage soon became clear when no one wanted to lend them a boat. Unperturbed they set off in their own boat, the smallest sailing vessel to attempt the voyage; navigating (with a faulty compass and GPS) ice- bergs and the howling arctic winds, that stay with you long after this chilling documentary ends….
Snail Tales
Dir Alex Machin
In this stop-animation a love sick slug is doing everything he can to catch the eye of a snooty girl snail…
Copy Warrior
Dir Simon Gross
Well, if Rocky hung up his gloves and went into the dog-eat-dog world of advertising his job application might look something like this…
Catnap
Dir Vivien Mason
a short and very sweet catnap…
Boody Mary
Dir Simon Gross
a Hitchcockian thriller shot in Super 8, about a man on a mission to buy a hammer…
NOTE TO EDITOR: For high res images or to arrange an interview with Caught Short Director Sarah Lancaster please contact
0404 099 149 or filmcaughtshort@yahoo.com.au
Caught Short is a non-competitive short film night that screens on the first Thursday of the month. Filmmakers are invited to submit their short films all year round. To submit films visit or find out more visit www.filmcaughtshort.com
caught short po box 411, surry hills nsw 2010 tel. 0404 099 149
filmcaughtshort@yahoo.com.au
www.filmcaughtshort.com
Program details at www.filmcaughtshort.com
Caught Short
po box 411 Surry Hills nsw 2010
tel: 0404 099 149
filmcaughtshort@yahoo.com.au
Caught Short is supported by the city of sydney
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