Shine Short Film Award

Shortlist announced for the Shine Short Film Award

Bradford International Film Festival, 9-24th March 2007

National Media Museum

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Treading the borders yet pushing the boundaries

Inaugurated in 1998, Shine is the short film platform in the Bradford International Film Festival. This year five films have been short-listed for the Shine Award – the BIFF competition for best international film. Works featured in competition are selected from hundreds of entries submitted to the festival each year.

The focus of the Shine Award is to honour the best short film by an emerging director, and to support innovation and originality.

The Shine Jury – critic James Cameron-Wilson, director Jack Gold, film lecturer Liz Rymer, producer David Lascelles and BIFF international consultant Neil Young - will select the winning film from the short list during the opening weekend of BIFF2007. The presentation will take place at 3.30pm on Saturday 24 March in Cubby Broccoli Cinema.

THE SHINE SHORT LIST

MIRAMAR STREET
Dir. Jon Garaño Spain 2006 8 mins (adv PG) Some subtitles
Fele Tunaya, Ana Martinez, Adam Sanjurjo
San Diego, California. A Spanish taxi driver picks up a passenger who asks to be taken to an address in Miramar Street. In an instant the driver’s world is changed forever.

MORTEM COMPANY
Dir. Stéfan Le Lay France 2006 20 mins (adv PG) Subtitles
Loïc Fourniaud, Artus de Penguern, Mathilde Mottier, Guillaume de Tonquédec
Narrating the story, Bruno is proud of his father’s unusual job and becomes very excited when he is finally taken to visit his place of work. But an incident on the way precipitates a series of events that begin to affect their lifestyle and eventually Bruno’s life.

PRIVATE LIFE
Dir. Abbé Robinson GB 2006 15 mins 49 secs (adv 12A)
Lucy Lieman, Jana Carpenter, Toby Sawyer, Andy Henderson, David Westbrook
One Friday afternoon, a single twentysomething woman leaves her mundane job in a 1950s textile mill and takes the train to Manchester to meet up with a man. But all is not what it appears…

THE RED BALLOON
Dir. Michael Olesen USA 2005 3 mins 14 secs (adv U)
Aidan Gould, Pedro Miguel Arce
Enlisting the assistance of a balloon vendor, a young boy sends a birthday wish to his Mom – in the only way he knows how. A poignant, pocket-sized poem.

TALK TO ME
Dir. Mark Craig GB 2006 22 mins 45 secs (adv PG)
A beautiful, poignant and tremendously affecting autobiographical documentary in words and pictures based on 20 years of answer machine messages. The voices of old friends, former loves and relatives combine to create a moving memento mori as filmmaker Mark Craig revisits his past with the assistance of Ken Morse, the doyen of British rostrum cameramen.

THE WAY WE PLAYED
(Kako smo se igrali)
Dir. Samir Mehanović GB 2005 13 mins 18 secs (adv PG) Subtitles
Almir Mehanović, Eldar Šahinović
Kosovo, 1992. Oblivious to the growing conflict that will soon engulf their country, two boys search for hidden treasure in an abandoned hill fort. Instead they unearth a gun. Their country is about to be plunged into civil war – and their lives will change forever.

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