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BIAFF 1994 Shorts Selection
This collection was compiled especially for the UNICA Festival of 19-28 August, 1994, held in Hradec Kralove. These short films and videos were all made by British movie-makers and entered in the 1994 IAC International Film and Video Competition and first presented at the Movie 94 Festival in April, 1994, at Keele University, Staffordshire.
| 1. | ROONEY THE RHINO Alan Cleave, FACI (London) Introducing Rooney, the all-singing, all-dancing rhinoceros, with his most extraordinary music-hall act. Music written and sung by the producer, accompanied at the piano by his son, Martin. Transfer from Standard 8 film. Guernsey Lily, Best Animation Award 1995; IAC Gold Seal, Best Animation Award 1994 |
Animation |
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| 2. | SECOND FIDDLE Rochdale Movie Makers When a man (Geoff Alexander) brings home a video camera, his wife (Val Fielding) finds that she is no longer the centre of his attentions, so she starts a video diary to try to explain how she feels. Story and music: Geoff Alexander; producer: Jonathan Wilde. IAC Gold Seal, Best Humour Award 1994 |
Humour |
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| 3. | CHILD'S PLAY Darren Lalonde (Cambridge) Three friends, Mark (Andrew Proudfoot), Jason (Christopher Hacking) and Simon (James Evans) take a walk home through the woods after football practice. By chance, Simon finds a gun hidden beneath a log. . . IAC Gold Seal (Youth) 1994 |
Children |
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| 4. | SUBURBAN LINE Circle Eight Film Group (Surrey) It seems like just an ordinary train journey until a man (Geoff Rayner) and a woman (Jenny Crease) start a rather public argument. A well-observed piece of story-telling by director Carol Day, with an excellent sound-track. IAC Gold Seal 1994 |
Story |
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| 5. | THE SANDCASTLE Stephen Symes (Lincoln) Based on a true story about a young boy, David (Kirk Owen), who, spurned by his bickering parents (James and Sarah Daly), discovers, on a deserted, windswept beach, an old poster for the previous season's sandcastle competition. Music by Martin Fottles. IAC Gold Seal (Open) 1994 |
Story |
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| 6. | K Cambridge University Film-Makers (Cambs.) An experimental film in which the arrival of a mirror causes things to disappear. IAC Silver Seal (Youth) 1994 |
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| 7. | HAVEN Phil Davies (Holyhead) Set a few years in the future, a woman on the run (Bev Davies) is saved by a strange man (Phil Davies) who is the guardian of a remote run-down defence complex. She finds herself agreeing to take part in a strange experiment ... Music by Ian Ward. UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN IAC Gold Seal 1994 |
Story |
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| 8. | ANGRY MAX Keith Wright (Sheffield) A delightful, but brief, action spoof in the style of the Mad Max films, starring Rob Richardson (who also wrote and per-formed the music), Gordon Simpson and Mark Womble. Widescreen format. IAC Silver Seal (Open), Best One-Minute entry 1994 |
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| 9. | TEMPTRESS Class Films Amateur Cine Club (Surrey) A superb piece of work by a large number of animators, under the direction of Derek Bottle, which shows how even the smartest of animals can be 'taken for a ride'. Transfer from super 8 film. IAC Gold Seal 1994 |
Animation |
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Total running time 60 mins.
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