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EDIMBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Best British Short Film

Christine Molloy (1965) works together with Joe Lawlor (1963) as Desperate Optimists. Hailing from Dublin, Ireland they have lived and worked in the UK since 1987, making works or a variety of media and contexts including digital arts, video, film, radio and performance.

Joe Lawlor (1963) works together with Christine Molloy (1965) as Desperate Optimists. Hailing from Dublin, Ireland they have lived and worked in the UK since 1987, making works or a variety of media and contexts including digital arts, video, film, radio and performance.

Christine Molloy: 2004 Revolution (corto, short); Civic life: Moore Street (corto, short); Who killed Brown Owl (corto, short)

Joe Lawlor: 2004 Revolution (corto, short); Civic life: Moore Street (corto, short); Who killed Brown Owl (corto, short)

It is a sunny afternoon in an enchanted corner of England. Strains of elegiac classical music fade up on the soundtrack, as a camera begins to gently move along a riverbank gradually revealing an elaborate tableau. Burnt sunbathers, beer-drinking kids, an abandoned baby, a rabbit in a boat, a bicycle accident – in Who Killed Brown Owl, the perfect English arcadia gives way to varying kinds of misfortune, disruption and violence. With more than a passing reference to the ‘narrative’ paintings by masters such as Bruegel, this spectacular single take 9-minute short is about a lazy Sunday afternoon that goes horribly wrong.

CORK FILM FESTIVAL
Jameson Award for Best Irish Short Film

Ken Wardrop has just recently completed his studies at the National Film School, IADT-DL. During his time at film school, Ken specialised in directing documentary film. His films include the awarding winning shorts Dampened Spirits, Love is Like a Butterfly and Useless Dog. He has also won the O2 Student Film of the Year Award for the last two consecutive years. He has co-founded the production company Venom Film with his former classmate Andrew Freedman and they are currently developing both short and feature projects.

Undressing my Mother is a poignant documentary that explores a woman’s unique take on her overweight and aging body. Having recently turned sixty Ethel continues to be self-assured and happy with the way she looks. Her big bottom and round tummy are exposed to reveal a confidence that derives from her husband’s love and attention. Undressing my Mother is a story that is funny in nature but sad in reality. The film was shot on location in Ethel’s house and directed by her son.

ARRIVANO I CORTI – FESTIVAL DEL CORTOMETRAGGIO
Secondo Premio

Born in Pergola (Pesaro-Urbino) on May 23, 1970. After getting his degree in Animated Cinema (full marks and honours) at the State Institute of Fine Arts of Urbino, he began to work as a free-lance animator.

2003 Piccola mare (corto, short) 2001 Tengo la posizione (corto, short) 2001 Pittore, aereo (corto, short) 1997 Keep on! Keepin’ on! (corto, short) 1996 Racconti (corto, short) 1995 Immemoria (corto, short)

I cannot sleep. Tonight, I will imagine the sea.

regia/director duane hopkins
sceneggiatura /screenplay duane hopkins
fotografia/cinematographer lol crawley
montaggio/editing chris barwell
musica / music n/a
suono / sound dolby sr
cast/cast james firkins, zoe rietti
genere /genre fiction
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 14’ 30’’
anno di produzione/year of production 2003
paese di produzione/country of production inghilterra – england
produzione/production third films – samm haillay
distribuzione/distribution the coproduction office

Duane Hopkins was born in the ‘Cotswolds’, a rural area in Southern England. After leaving school he attended Art School, where he studied mainly as a painter and photographer. Soon after being accepted to study Fine Art in London, he made his first film on video. This experience made him rethink and he left painting to study film in the North of England. Hes graduation short ‘Routine’ was well received on the festival circuit and won several awards. Since then he have made two short films ‘Field’ and ‘Love Me Or Leave Me Alone’ which has allowed hem to investigate the style of cinematic grammar he find interesting and develop his approach to storytelling. He have also been concentrating on writing scripts which reflect him thematic interests within cinema. He admire the work of Robert Bresson, Alan Clarke, Bill Douglas, Werner Herzog, Andrei Tarkovsky, Yasujiro Ozu and Stanley Kubrick amongst others. His influences tend to be filmmakers who are interested in the creation of a personal cinematic grammar that juxtaposes ideas and meanings as opposed to a strict adherence to a conventional narrative structure.

2003 Love me or leave me alone (corto, short) 2001 Field (corto, short) 1997 Routine (corto, short)

A young boy, a young girl. Against the backdrop of the countryside they try to understand and express their feelings for each other. A study in the articulations and limitations of first love.