Written, Directed and Produced by Peter Bunzl

DP Balasz Bolygo

A comical look at codependency.
Roger and Molly are an ordinary elderly couple who have been married for many years. A year ago Roger got stuck on the ceiling and has been living there ever since. Gravity may have given up on him but Molly isn't going to.
Over time they have both got used to this surreal situation and organized a routine around it. Although she finds many of his habits annoying Molly likes caring for Roger and the fact he is ' no longer under her feet'. Roger likes the fact he now has a bit of space to himself, and he enjoys being obtuse and slightly difficult. But is everything as it seems, and do the two of them still see eye to eye?

HDCAM, UK, 7 minutes, 2008

Director Statement

The film was shot over two different weekends at a green screen studio in London with minimal sets and props. Using a computer generated pre-viz and storyboards for reference, each actor was shot separately.Their eye lines were matched up, so that Roger could be flipped upside down in the post production and added to the shots. Then began the mammoth task of compositing the cgi elements and the various live action plates. Peter took on this task completing 60 effects shots over a year with the help of various friends and compositing students. The final film fuses live action and digital images to create a surreal world that transcends the boundaries between animation and reality.

Biography

Peter Bunzl is a BAFTA award winning animator and filmmaker. A National Film andTelevision School graduate, his work incorporates manipulated footage and photo montage, with digital and traditional animation techniques. In 2002 he completed an Animation Direction MA at the National Film and Television
School. It was there that Bunzl developed an interest in combining animation with actors. His film 'The Garden' won an award at 'A Corto di Cinema' in Lucca, Italy, and wasnominated for a Golden Reels Sound Award at the Verna Fields Awards in Los Angeles.

Peter Bunzl now works as a commercial animator and filmmaker. His work on 'The SecretShow' (BBC) and 'Yoko Jakamoko Toto' (ITV) has contributed to four BAFTA awards. Sincecompleting 'On The Upside', Bunzl has been developing a feature and several new short film ideas. He is based in London.

Directed by David Cook

Produced by Crawford Anderson-Dillon, Written by Pol Mag Uidhir

DP Angus Mitchell

Ireland, 1942. While the adults are off fighting in the War, two children are forced to walk a fine line between responsibility and childhood fantasy. In the dripping taps and ticking clocks of their home they discover hidden Morse Code messages, but while the young boy is all too keen to accept them as real, his elder sister struggles with the rationale of her increasingly adult mind. Moreover, she understands something of the consequences of the messages, for if they are real, who sent them?

DVC PRO HD, UK, 16 minutes, 2008

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Written and Directed by Christopher Stack

Co-Produced by Christopher Stack, Kimberly Tittle and Terron Pratt

After an FBI raid of a downtown warehouse results in the apprehension of four suspects, a routine interrogation turns ugly when the lead agent reveals a new agenda. Along for the ride is an agent new to the team and it's methods. Eventually he's forced to make a choice: follow the lead agent and his team...or risk losing everything.

DVC PRO HD, 7 minutes, 2007

Biography

Christopher John Stack is a graduate of the California State University of Northridge film program and has worked in the film industry for six years in various capacities. While he considers 'An Exercise in Vigilance' his first "real" effort, his previous films include two video shorts, an 8mm short and a 16mm short. Currently he works as a colorist for a visual FX company in Santa Monica, CA. He craves knowledge and continually challenges himself to grow and evolve. He finds energy in interacting with creative and dynamic individuals, is a pescetarian and as far as he knows is not related to Robert Stack.

Directed by Flora Skivington

'Oscar & Isabelle' details the demise a fifty-year-old love affair between Oscar an ancient Irish house and Isabelle an elderly former music hall singer. Set on the darkly beautiful winter coastline of Northern Ireland, Oscar the house recalls how Isabelle creates an extraordinary ritual to say goodbye to him and the landscape she adored.

'Oscar & Isabelle' is an aesthetically distinctive 24 minute HD drama shot on a wild Northern Irish coast by critically acclaimed cinematographer Peter Strietmann. Peter, a long term collaborator of USA film artist Matthew Barney, was cinematographer on both the 'The Cremaster Cycle' and 'Drawing Restraint' films.

The house used for Oscar is built on a dramatic site, surrounded by cliffs and ocean and only accessible through a cave.

The project was the first drama in Europe to be shot with the ARRI D-20 film style digital HD camera, only officially available at the start of 2006. The ARRIFLEX D-20 has been developed by ARRI, the world's leading film camera manufacturer. It is the first digital camera invented by ARRI and uses 35mm film lenses.

ARRIFLEX D-20, UK, 24 minutes

Director Biography

Flora Skivington is a young award winning filmmaker, born in Northern Ireland and now living and working in California. Her work is characterised by a painterly aesthetic used to capture magic reality. Her work has been shown in film theatres and public spaces in the UK, Europe and the United States. Her film 'A New Way to Fly' won the KODAK FILM AWARD.

Previously Flora spent several years working as a creative professional in television and advertising.Her diverse background includes making current affairs TV programs with BBC Television in London, creating TV commercials with New York advertising agencies and working with an OSCAR nominated documentary filmmaker in California. Flora received her Masters Fine Art in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco USA

Written, Directed and Produced by Valerio Pizzonia

Adam and Eve, a couple in their late twenties, bitter and cynical decide to take the world by storm. In a way, they are to represent the original sinners after being expelled from paradise.

They are fighting without a reason or a target. They are rebelling against a society and everything that we are meant to be or to do. And they will go until the end, until death does them apart.

HDV, Italy, 4 minutes, 2007

Written by Al Boardman, DP Al Boardman

Co-Directed and Co-Produced by Paul Deegan and Seb Mankelow

In the centre of a deserted storeroom in a Himalayan settlement sits a large box. Wrapped in brown paper, it is about to be taken on a journey past some of the highest mountains on Earth, along a route that will cross several centuries in just three days.

Join Sonam as he drives the box to his home – in the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Zanskar – where its secret is finally revealed.

HDV, UK, 2008, 13 minutes

Biographies

Al's been running his own Bristol (UK) - based business for ten years. He's grown a reputation for being innovative, creative, professional and highly personable. As a digital film maker Al works with professional HDV camera equipment and edits using Final Cut Pro and can often be found working alongside the talents of Paul Deegan and Seb Mankelow as part of Snowline Productions.

Al has climbed, trekked and worked on location in places as diverse as Bhutan, Oman and Namibia. Al's first short film Special Delivery premiered at the Apple Store on Regent Street, London and was a success at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival and went on to form part of the 2008 'best of' world tour.

In the late 1990s, Al made the first ascent of a mountain in the former Soviet Union, and named the peak after his grandmother. He now receives regular requests from other members of his extended family to climb yet more virgin summits.

Synopsis

Eleonora lives in a mental institution in Caseta, Italy. Her mother has been mentally ill since her childhood. She writes poetry and aspires to be an actress. Encouraged by a social worker, she attends an audition and proves herself. Angeli Dark is the story of hope and becoming.

Directed by Paolo Guglielmotti

Click to read Article by Paolo Guglielmotti about Shooting with HDV

Produced by Bruno Frasca

Written by Carolina Sellitto and Paolo Guglielmotti

DP Simone Pierini

Drama, JVC GY/ HD 100 720P

Country: Italy

Quote from Filmmaker on HD "It makes me feel free to create movies and images better than film. HD technology can satisfy me to create beautiful images. I know it is different from film, but in many aspects, HD technology helps to make my creation.

Director Biography

Paolo Guglielmotti started working in the arts when a student at University of Newcastle Upon Tyne UK where he directed student productions such as Suddenly Last Summer by T Williams and Six Characters in Search of an Author by L Pirandello. He then moved to London where he undertook his professional directorial debut with the play 1969. Soon he worked in film as an Assistant Director, both in England and Italy and then went on to direct his first short film 1969 based on the play he staged in London.

Angeli Dark is his second short film, written in collaboration with Carolina Sellitto, which has given him the opportunity to put together, side by side, professional and non professional actors, to tell a story of hope, self-realisation and becoming. Paolo and Carolina are currently working on a screenplay which will be their debut as feature length writers.