Best of British Shorts 1

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The Carriageworks: Main Auditorium
17 November • 2pm

The brightest and bravest shorts in the land are on show across two screenings in the Film Festival's very popular annual Best of British selections. Highlights of the first screening include actor Paddy Considine's debut as a filmmaker with the powerful Dog Altogether, directing Peter Mullan as a man driven to self-destruction. The delightful animation Whale shows just what can happen when you find a huge sea mammal in your front garden. In the moving drama True Colours, a loving father struggles to earn his family's respect.

Dog Altogether
Dir. Paddy Considine, 2007, 17mins, Digibeta
Contact: Warp Films, Diarmid Scrimshaw
Diarmid_scrimshaw@warpfilms.com
Winner of the Silver Lion award at this year's Venice Film Festival, Dog Altogether stars Peter Mullan as Joseph, a man with a history of violence who scours the landscape for a scrap of redemption to restore some hope to his fractured life.

Whale
Dir. Rob Wicksteed, 2007, 4mins, MiniDV
Contact: Rob Wicksteed
Rob_wtd@hotmail.com
When a whale appears in your front garden, you'd try and move it too.

Hesitation
Dir. Virginia Gilbert, 2006, 16mins, Digibeta
Contact: Frigid Films Ltd, Michelle Eastwood
michellefilm@hotmail.com
From Leeds-based Frigid Films. Paul and Rebecca are relaxing by the poolside. It's hot, Paul's uncomfortable, and when a young spirited French boy tears up the apartment complex, the tension builds.

My Mum the Wrestler
Dir. Mark Withers, 2007, 2mins, DVCam
Contact: Big Brush Films, Mark Withers
bigbrushfilms@hotmail.com
An eight-year girl analyses the effect on the family of her mother becoming a wrestler.

After the Rain
Dir. Gaelle Denis, 2006, 18mins, Digibeta
Contact: Passion Pictures, Kim Strobl
kims@passion-pictures.com
A love story between two neighbours who suffer from surreal compulsive obsessive disorders. Lian, a Chinese waitress, evaporates when she cries, only coming back with the rain; while Adrian, the laundry man, coughs feathers in times of anxiety.

String
Dir. Naomi Wright, 2006, 10mins, Beta SP
Contact: Father Films, Naomi Wright
naomiwright@btinternet.com
A man on his way to work finds a label on the ground attached to a piece of string which reads: 'Follow string for happiness'.

Me and Her
Dir. Sarah Tripp, 2006, 14mins, tbc
Contact: GMAC, Sarah Tripp
studio@sarahtripp.com
Coleen and Damien have spent the summer working together in a hotel. As the summer comes to an end they confront the significance of their one night stand.

True Colours
Dir. Barney Elliott, 2006, 10mins, 35mm
Contact: Barney Elliott
Myfilm.barney@gmail.com
True Colours is a compelling social drama about a loving father with a propensity for violence and his struggle to earn his family's trust.

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