AWARD WINNING SHORTS
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CLAIRE LYNCH MEMORIAL AWARD 2007
DEATH IN THE WEST Ireland 2007 27min DVD Colour
Death in the West is an exploration of the peculiarly social nature of the funeral in Irish culture. Tomais MacEllistrom is a Kerry bachelor who attends an old acquaintance, Tom Collins´ wake, where music and spirits override the mourning and grief. Are we studying the death of Tom Collins, the inevitable death of a lonely Tomais or the death of tradition, music, culture and the Irish phenomenon that is the wake?
Director - Keith Mannix
HUESCA FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS 2008
ALUMBRAMIENTO
Spain 2007 15min 35mm Colour
Award Jinete Ibérico (Iberoamerican Contest)
A family confronts the last night of its eldest member, revealing the different ways to confront the end of a life, in a surprising manner, crossing taboos and fear, one of them will guide them towards that end.
Director: Eduardo Chapero-Jackson
BRAEDRABYLTA (WRESTLING)
Iceland 2007 2min 35mm Colour
Youth Jury Award
A love story about two homosexual wrestlers living in rural Iceland.
Director: Grimur Hakonarson
CAFÉ PARAISO
Mexico 2008 10min 35mm Colour
Winner Iberoamerican Contest
It’s peak hour in the kitchen of the Paradise Café in Los Angeles. Gallo, an illegal Mexican cook, tries to make a heroic resignation, hoping to recover what is left of his youth, his dignity and even win the love of the aloof waitress he is after. However, things are not as they appear at the Paradise Café, where the line between fiction and reality is as thin as the one that divides the North from the South.
Director Alonso Ruizpalacios
CHAINSAW
Australia 2007 25min 35mm Colour
Winner International Contest
Brrrmm! Frank and Ava Gardner “star” in a Chainsaw safety film. They love each other, and love the rodeo. Brrrmm! Ten years later: the famous Australian rodeo bull “Chainsaw” is dead; the great Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin, the lover of Hollywood’s Ava Gardner, is dead. Brrrmm! Frank’s Ava meet the famous Australian bull rider Lewis Donovan, Brrrmm! Romance is like a chainsaw: a very dangerous beast indeed.
Director: Dennis Tupicoff
JOAO E O CAO
Portugal 2007 16min 35mm Colour
Award Cacho Pallero (Iberoamerican Contest)
In the desolate suburbs of the big city, Joao is a young man who can’t deal with authority and is not aware that it is only a defence mechanism coming from the fragile world from which he hails.
Director: André Marques
THE SOUND OF THE PEOPLE
Ireland 2007 7min 35mm Colour
Special Jury Award (International Contest)
The Sound of People is the story of a moment in the life of an eighteen year old boy, standing on the brink of his life and death
Director Simon Fitzmaurice