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President - frank howson SCOTT RYAN - FILM MAKER DIANE CHARLSON - RMIT MEDIA COURSE JOHN LUCAS - FILM MAKER JACK SARGEANT - FILM CRITIC AMADEO MARQUEZ PEREZ - 15/15 FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR SHANNON YOUNG - FILM MAKER |
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| AWARDS | TECHNICAL AWARDS |
| BEST FILM BEST DIRECTOR BEST MALE ACTOR BEST FEMALE ACTOR MOST GRATUITOUS SEX MOST GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE BEST USE OF THE GUERRILLA AESTHETIC SPECIAL JURY PRIZE |
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY BEST SCREENPLAY BEST SOUND BEST EDITING |
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| BEST SHORT RUNNER-UP BEST SHORT BEST DOCUMENTARY |
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Here are the MUFF award results for 2005: (The only authentic awards for shorts and features this country has to offer by the way) FEATURES (Judged by Jury headed by Frank Howson):Best Film: Best Director: (Tie) Best Screenplay: Best Male Actor: Best Female Actor: Special Jury Prize: Best Guerrilla Film: Best Cinematography: Best Sound: Best Editing: Most Gratuitous Use of Violence: Most Gratuitous Use of Sex: SHORTS (Judged by Festival and Assistant Directors):BEST SHORT FILM (TIE): BEST SHORT FILM (RUNNER UP): Wooden Heart (AUS) BEST-ANIMATED SHORT FILM: BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM: BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM: BEST COMEDY SHORT FILM BEST ACTION/VIOLENCE SHORT: |
JURY EL PRESIDENTE
STATEMENT
Frank Howson
When I started making movies in Australia it was at a time when “Commercial” was a dirty word. Seemed strange to me because I never set out to make bad films, only ones I thought a few people may enjoy. I can’t tell you the resentment hurled at me for having such a plan. It became a little bizarre and as a result clouded some people’s objective view of my work. I found that my movies received far greater respect outside of my homeland which saddened me as I’d always been a staunchly proud Australian. It compounded my feeling of being an outsider. Probably not a bad thing for an artist but a weight nonetheless.
As the years rolled by and I became disenchanted with my business associates and their agendas my films became more and more personal. They turned inward. A reflection of my own frustrations and isolation. With a good dose of anger thrown in for good measure.
I was honoured when my dear friend Richard Wolstencroft asked me to be President of the Jury for MUFF this year. This is truly the Festival for the Outsiders. The mavericks. People who’ve made their movies on their terms without wilting to the cocktail set of decision makers in the industry. It’s the people on the sidelines who kill your boldness. Once you lose your identity and begin to make movies for your peers, your voice is lost.
So, I salute all the brave, original outsiders who have contributed this year to what I know will be an exciting celebration of film and guts. I lead the applause in your honour.
Spring RhapsoDy
KINO DENDY | Thu 14th 9pm
Dir Bill Mousoulis | 84min | 2004 | Drama | Australia
A portrait of Melbourne in Spring 2004 - a mosaic of different stories:
an angel desires to be human; a young couple cope with long-distance
relating; a novelist unexpectedly falls pregnant; a woman from
London discovers Melbourne; and a disenfranchised man with a gambling
debt, becomes involved with an underworld gang.
Featuring Q/A with Bill Mousoulis and selected cast and crew.
Wait Means Never
KINO DENDY | Sat 16th 9pm
Dir Andrew Groves | 90min | 2005 | Drama | USA
This film deals with the explosive convergence of the personal and the political, in protest at the complacency of the U.S. Today, four activists kidnap the head of an international oil corporation. When the government refuses to negotiate for the hostage, tensions within the group rise as they have to decide between compassion and evolution. One of the best entrants in this year’s Muff Neu. Q/A with Andrew Groves joining us all the way from the U.S.
In Blood
POP SHOP | Sat 9th 7pm
Dir Matt Moss | 79min | 2004 | Horror | Australia
Ultra-extreme guerrilla filmmaking on a $500 budget shot in Sydney and Brisbane, this hardcore exploitation horror film has a 70’s drive-in style. Think Last House On The Left meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre. With vampires! And zombies! A morbid, Gore-splattered shocker!
Elevator Movie
KINO DENDY | Sat 9th 1pm
Dir Zeb Haradon | 95min | 2004 | Comedy | USA
Surreal and claustrophobic tale about Jim, a Socially inept pervert and Lana, an Outgoing Born-Again Christian, who get stuck in an elevator together one afternoon. What happens next defies the hackneyed use in Hollywood movies of a stalled Elevator as a temporary plot device – as the Minutes turn to hours, days, weeks and Months...
Harry Knuckles and the Pearl Necklace
KINO DENDY | Sun 17th 11am
Dir Lee Demarbre | 116min | 2004 | Horror | Australia
A valuable pearl necklace has gone missing and Harry Knuckles is on the case. Armed with a lethal arsenal of Kung Fu, Harry is ready to knuckle up!
Tied Up
POP SHOP | Sat 9th 7pm
Dir Jeremy Rubin | 88min | 2004 | Narrative | USA
One night will change the course of their lives forever. Case persuades
his friends to help him steal some cash. Soon after, Case’s real pain
is revealed: Revenge! Relationships are tested and bonds are broken.
No one will be the same by Sunrise!
Prisoner Queen
KINO DENDY | Sun 17th 5pm
Dir Timothy Spanos | 60min | 2004 | Drama | Australia
When an aging actress who appeared in women’s Prison drama series gets leukemia, her son goes mad and believes that he is living in the show.
Bondi Tsunami
KINO DENDY | Tue 12th 9pm
Dir Rachael Lucas | 91min | 2004 | Drama | Australia
Bondi Tsunami follows the psychedelic adventures of four punked-up Japanese surfers that venture “Up the East Coast in a 1961 EK Holden. Described as MTV meets Kalsuki meets Monkey Magic Meets the Wizard of Oz. Rachel Lucas does a great job directing this music video inspired feature. Featuring Q/A with Lucas and cast and crew.
Sex and Sensitivity
KINO DENDY | Sun 17th 3pm
Dir Brett Eagleton | 84min | 2004 | Drama | Australia
Good in bed, bad in love, we see his relationships - ferocious, masochistic, absurd – collapse under the weight of his fractured egotism. When a woman he truly loves decides to leave, his choice is clear: Die alone or learn how to listen!
The Captives
KINO DENDY | Sun 17th 5pm
Dir Mark La Rosa | 57min | 2004 | Experimental | Australia
Two individuals attempt to rescue their partners from a cult-like theatre troupe. Self-doubt and a stubborn director stand in their way.
Meat Pie
KINO DENDY | Sun 10th 11am
Dir Garnet Mae | 90min | 2005 | Comedy | Australia
Jono Smith hopes he is settling down to a nice Romantic afternoon, until it all goes hilariously wrong. From there on, the film takes us into the highly sexual World of Jono, his close friends, and his dysfunctional family.
Max: A Cautionary Tale
KINO DENDY | Sat 16th 1pm
Dir Nicolas Verso | 84min | 2003 | Horror | Australia
After moving house with his family, Damien Wilson becomes convinced there is something lurking at the end of the corridor...
Strange James
KINO DENDY | Sat 9th 3pm
Dir David Reid | 96min | 2004 | Thriller | Australia
In order to escape a violent step dad, James and his family move from Sydney to Canberra. Things don’t go well for James in Canberra. But then, something happens that will change his life forever...
The Actress
Kino DENDY | Wed 13th 9pm
Dir Zak Hilditch | 90min | 2005 | Drama | Australia
When femme fatale Emma enters the share house of supermarket manager Tom, office drone Kevin and uni student Clair, she begins a game of jealousy and possession that escalates out of control!
X, Y Kino
DENDY | Sat 16th 11am
Dir Vladimir Vitkin | 90min | 2004 | Narrative | USA
The lives of a young woman and her boyfriend spiral out of control after she loses her memory and becomes convinced that she is a man!
A Wicked Tale
Kino DENDY | Tue 12th 9pm
Dir Tang Merwyn Tong | 45min | 2005 | Fantasy | Singapore
A Wicked Tale is a dark psychological and erotic Singapore reincarnation
of the Little Red Riding Hood story.
Scratched
Kino DENDY | Fri 8th 5pm
Dir: Travis Bain | 2005 | Australia | Mini DV Feature
A late edition to MUFF Neu! Unfortunately out of competition but check it out tomorrow folks! The plot: Five Townsville University students spend one insane summer night tearing apart their share house looking for a hidden million-dollar scratchy lottery ticket. While outside an apocalyptic tropical cyclone looms. Well shot and competently directed by talented new comer Travis Bain this flick is a northern treat we are delighted to include at the last minute in MUFF 6. Thanks to Mr. Bain for being kind enough to add his film at this late stage. Support local Australian Indy cinema. Take a punt and see some of the new works in MUFF Neu! Screens Friday July 8 at 5pm Kino Dendy Cinemas.
Thirty|Eight
Kino DENDY | Sat 9th 11am
Dir Kieran Morrissey | 103min | 2005 | Experimental | Australia
A worn out administrative worker is troubled by increasingly sinister daydreams as he resists the slide into corporate automatism. Meanwhile, he is investigated for a psychotic episode he hasn’t had yet by a committee of five bureaucratic automatons, and two old friends who know better.
Welcome to Greensborough
Kino DENDY | Sat 9th 7pm
Dir Tom McEvoy | 2003-4 | Australia | 110 mins
The rise and revenge of Youth! The Australian answer to “Kids”, “Gummo” and “Ken Park”. The first Australian film I know of to have been refused a classification from the OFLC (…a first film historians?). Why? Because this film is about young people, made by young people…that actually dared to have scenes of late teenagers having sex. Shock Horror…that doesn’t go on does it? This is no Larry Clark drooling over teenagers here; this is young people reflecting their world, where in that world sixteen year old girls fuck sixteen-year-old guys. Well not anymore, director Tom McEvoy had to reshoot his love scenes with actors over 18. So the MUFF version will be ok with our masters and betters at the OFLC. The film features angst-ridden teenagers partying, getting wasted, being bored and generally wondering who sold the youth of the world down the river. Film ends in a gang bang cum rape scene…now that’s how they should have finished Somersault!
OUT OF competition:
The Garth Method
Kino DENDY | Fri 8th 9pm
Dir Gregory Pakis | 2004 | Australia | 90 min
The hit of The MUFF jury in 2004, The Garth Method makes a return screening. This film is fantastic. It won Best Actor and Director for Gregory Pakis in 2004 at the MUFF awards and missed out on Best film by a pinch. The Garth Method is about an out of work actor who tries everything to make it big on the local thespian scene. When all else fails in a “King of Comedy” style move he abducts normal citizens at gun point to act in his underground movie with hilarious results. Directed with assurance by Gregory Pakis using very effective flashback sequences that displace the narrative, this flick really packs a humorous subversive punch that is consistently entertaining. Pakis lead performance is reminiscent of a young De Niro…no we are not kidding. He will be here to intro film and do a Q&A.