Best of British Shorts 2

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The Carriageworks: Main Auditorium
17 November • 4pm

More British filmmakers showing us their shorts in a programme bursting with talent. Highlights of the second screening include Broken, a brilliant drama about a daughter devises a plan to stop her father's womanising, with devastating consequences. In the wicked How to Pick Up Girls, a shy man waits too long to ask out the woman he fancies. The tale of a young boy racing through a strange city to solve the mystery of his disappearing cat is wonderfully told in the animation The Mystery of Pig City.

The Eskimo & the Wolf
Dirs. Jonathan Ley / Mark Henrichsen, 2007, 14mins, Digibeta
Contact: Mark Henrichsen
henfilm@hotmail.com
Business is war and war is hell. Two executives engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Only one will triumph. The Eskimo or the Wolf.

The Mystery of Pig City
Dirs. Garth Jones / Johnny Luu, 2006, 3mins, Digibeta
Contact: Garth Jones
garthjones@gmail.com
Cats are being stolen by mysterious mechanical arms for nefarious purposes! One young boy races through a strange city to save his cat and reveal... The Mystery of Pig City!

More More More
Dirs. Dylan & Blake Ritson, 2007, 13mins, Digibeta
Contact: Edible Films, Ed Rubin
Ed.rubin@bbc.co.uk
A claustrophobic, blackly comic drama about a mysterious meeting between two strangers in an abandoned warehouse. Who are they? Why are they there? As an electronic counter marks the passing of time, the men's facades slip away. Starring The League of Gentleman's Mark Gatiss.

Dach/Roof
Dirs. Timo Langer / Robert Glassford, 2007, 8mins, Digibeta
Contact: Screen Acadely Scotland, Tamara Van Strijthem
T.van_strijthem@napier.ac.uk
A graduation film from the Scottish Screen Academy, Dach is set inside and on top of a tower block. A old woman listens to dance music on her headphones while friends fling themselves off the roof above her.

Soft
Dir. Simon Ellis, 2006, 14mins, BetaSP
Contact: Bub, Simon Ellis
simonellis@bubtowers.com
Soft is the latest from Simon Ellis, one of the UK's best directors of the short film form. A father rediscovers his fear of confrontation, at the worst possible time.

How To Pick Up Girls
Dir. Dan Gitsham, 2007, 3mins, MiniDV
Contact: Sketchbook Pictures, Dan Gitsham
dgitch@yahoo.com
A guy faces a girl across a road, trying to find the nerve to ask her out only to learn how men really can be pigs where women are concerned.

Broken
Dir. Vicki Psarias, 2007, 15mins, 35mm
Contact: Tenthousandfilms Ltd, Vicki Psarias
vpsarias@yahoo.com
It's 1968 and Greek Cypriot immigrant Chrystalla arrives in London to meet her father Soloman, after 4 years apart, only to find he is not the man she wants him to be...

Mother
Dir. Christoph Steger, 2006, 6mins, tbc
Contact: Christoph Steger
Christoph.steger@alumni.rca.ac.uk
Mother is an animated documentary about a life devoted to the dead.

Dad
Dir. Daniel Mulloy, 2007, 8mins, 35mm
Contact: Sister Films, Daniel Mulloy
Sisterfilms.info@googlemail.com
Daniel Mulloy's multi-award winning short film explores the intimacy of an ageing couple and the insecurity of their son.

The Mystery of Pig City
Dirs. Garth Jones / Johnny Luu, 2006, 3mins, Digibeta
Contact: Garth Jones
Garthjones@gmail.com

Cats are being stolen by mysterious mechanical arms for nefarious purposes. One young boy races through a strange city to save his cat and reveal...the mystery of Pig City.

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