Homebake Cinema Pavilion returns
Home grown short films are on display as well as music at the Homebake Festival with the Homebake Cinema Pavilion.
Award-winning short films have been selected to screen alongside musical acts Grinderman, The Triffids, Cut Copy and Gotye and Icehouse performing Flowers.
Filmmaker Kieran Darcy-Smith has made the selection.
Expect early short films by filmmakers David Michod (Animal Kingdom), Glendyn Ivin (Last Ride, Offspring), Nash Edgerton (The Square), Gregor Jordan (Two Hands), Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah) and Greg McLean (Wolf Creek).
Darcy-Smith told Encore: “I’ve found short films from filmmakers who have gone on to do much better things, as a way of providing inspiration. They might be ten years old but you can see the creative signature.”
“I also try and uncover films that I think are indicative of a great team of filmmakers, people who I think should be encouraged to do more.”
As a result, Darcy has selected rising directors Frazer Bailey and his film Glenn Owen Dodds, starring David Wenham, Christopher Stollery’s Dik and Russell Kilbey’s Rainman goes to RocKwiz.
Darcy-Smith said: “I came across Glenn Owen Dodds by happenstance and it really struck me as something special – the writer, producer and director have put together a film that is so commercial in it serialisation but so earthy and wonderful and hails potential of a real director.
“Every year I look around for films I’ve heard of, or had a link thrown at and stored away. So there’s a bit of that but I want to incorporate guaranteed crowd-pleasers. The cinema pavilion is a place for people to wind down.”
Darcy-Smith has made numerous short films himself, is a member of Blue Tongue Films and is expecting his debut feature film, Wish You Were Here, to be released in early 2012.
Homebake is on Saturday 3 December.
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