tue 8 September WESTBOURNE STUDIOS London Film Makers Convention 6–11pm Every evening for 3 nights in both the cinema and the bar at Westbourne Studios. A unique opportunity to see the best in contemporary London film making. A chance for film makers and the public to meet up and plot the future of British film. 6pm Concrete Jungle Dominic Kenny 55 minutes 12A In response to Ross Kemp’s gang documentary, Dominic visits Trenchtown to show a very different side to this volatile ghetto! Music Documentaries. London Here Comes Funky Kazoo Paul Fuller 17 minutes 15 When mark’s date gets off to a bad start he begins to feel like a bit of a clown. Comedy. London Drifting Away David Bailey 7 minutes 12A The video is a journey threw the globalized society we live in. it juxtaposes both capitalist and communist images, showing the common factor of depersonalisation and deferred life plan which exist within both, where value systems are forged by. Music Videos. Britain EMS 8 Ian Helliwell 3 minutes 15 Super 8 animation designed as scene setting inserts to evoke the 1960s, for an Australian film on innovative British electronic instrument manufacturer EMS, creators of the VCS3 synthesizer. Accident & Design Ian Helliwell 7 minutes U The result of searching through hundreds of amateur standard 8mm films, extracting sequences which exhibited certain inadvertent eye-catching qualities - light flare, accidental shooting, abstraction and camera judder. Art. Britain Lines And Pulses Ian Helliwell 4 minutes U An experiment with super 8 and stroboscopic effects. Following on from Helliwell’s earlier flicker films, this concentrates on concentric circles, and horizontal, vertical and wavy lines, filmed frame by frame, bleached and coloured with ink. Art. Britain Street Lights Ian Helliwell 4 minutes U Super 8 film of night and daytime cityscapes and illuminations, collected over several years and spliced together into a split-screen collage. Art. Britain “George’s Day” David Whitney 12 minutes 15 This Is Where We Live Ben Falk, Josiah Newbolt, Jordan Wood 3 minutes U Journey through a vibrant, bustling literary world. Commissioned by Publisher 4TH Estate to celebrate their 25th anniversary this short is a marriage of stop motion and 2D drawn animation. Animation. Britain 8pm Wintering Ian Finlay 17 minutes 15 Wandering from a dead house party and out into the wilderness, a woman witnesses a man setting fire to clothes on a secluded bridge. Intrigued she follows him into the night, watching as he engages in more acts of destruction. Drawn closer towards the man and his increasingly bizarre behavior, the woman chooses to intervene. Drama. London Hey Good Looking Samuel Bailey 1 minute 15 A compressed look at the trials and tribulations of modern romance. How do we work our way through problems in an age of agony aunts and opinionated friends? How do we deal with our emotions in a grown up and mature manner? Drama London Sugar & Spice & All Things Movies Melih Kancelik 22 minutes U In his sweetshop, which resembles a film memorabilia museum, cinephile Umit Mesut debates film versus digital with screenwriter Tony Grisoni. At every opportunity Umit waxes lyrical about keeping celluloid alive. but he is forced to re-examine his beliefs in a world of inevitable technological advances. Documentary. London Sirenata Maya Puig 14 minutes 15 Sirenata tells the story of a mermaid who, fascinated by human life, falls in love with a street musician and his melancholic music. When her deepest wish to become part of his world becomes reality, her quest to find him begins. Drama. London Mary Tsubasa Maruno 7 minutes 12A Two teenage girls are talking in a room around midnight. One of them tells the story of a girl named Mary who was killed in a hit-and-run and is said to haunt her house. ‘And Mary’s room is the very same room we’re sitting in’ she says. Horror. London Funeral Blues Stephan George 11 minutes U Nicholas has the unusual habit of attending funerals of people he doesn’t know. When he meets Marlene, a woman with the same habit, an incredible and tragic journey starts... Drama. London POLiLLAS Pedro Touceda 14 minutes U Andrei Ivanov, a Russian immigrant in Spain, has been for quite some time on a very special journey. (In Spanish & Russian) Drama. London Terry - A Documentary Film By Charlie Ruez Nick Nevern 95 minutes 15 London hard man Terry Jones allows himself to be documented by film student Charlie Ruez, who is thrown head first into a world of petty crime, drug abuse and violence - A world where reputation is everything and a single incident can change your life forever... Fictional Documentary. London PLUS: WESTBOURNE STUDIOS IN THE BAR 6pm The Touch Talat Gokdemir 15 minutes U ‘The Touch’ is a tale of two females, Fareeda and Rocio. Fareeda is a clumsy and unlucky type whilst Rocio is the opposite, everything is perfect with her. One day, these strangers bump into each other on the street which introduces us to touch, the curse of unluckiness. This sets into motion events that will lead to a confrontation with a certain genius. Comedy. Britain Something For The Lamppost Dave Black / Ray Fury 15 minutes 12 The harts have been running their flower shop for over 30 years. like their marriage, it has gone stale. With mounting debts, Doug Hart is a florist on the verge of a breakdown. Things come to a head when the local mini market launch their ‘free bunch with your lunch’ offer. Comedy. London Urban Piss Door Stefano Ferrara 10 minutes 15 A decent, upstanding member of society battles singlehandedly against antisocial and lewd acts committed on his very own doorstep. Follow Muldoon’s trials and tribulations as he attempts to clean up what is known by locals as the “Urban Piss Door.” Comedy. Britain Road Kill Will Kenning 4 minutes 12A An unsavory hobby leads to a deadly face off between man and rabbit... and the road aint big enough for the both of them. London Beauty And The Butcher Johnny Parker 10 minutes 15 How does a dizzy, accident prone, vegetarian beautician get a date with a butcher ?? ... Comedy. Britain Enter The Preacher Paulette James 10 minutes 12A A mysterious man arrives in town and encounters a gang of youths harassing a young woman. This man is a preacher, on a mission to teach respect. Preacher stops the attack, but has made an enemy. in the final showdown, Preacher kicks ass and reclaims the street. Good just got bad. Comedy. London E World Me Rory Gilder 10 minutes U Filmed on location as an entry for the Cannes 2008 24hr film challenge, “E World Me” is a James Bond spoof, where our agent, who is a double for Sven Goron Erikson, gets waylaid in his attempts to reunite Mr Spielburg with the crystal skull with humorous and disturbing results. Comedy. Britain Rofl Dave Lojek 7 minutes 12 Two lovers go on a trip with an old VW-van but they are suddenly out of gas in the middle of nowhere. Without a cell phone network available, our hero decides to go to the next gas station by bike. He skidds into quite an adventure. Comedy. Germany An Unmarked Grave Stella Macdonald 11 minutes 12 A man stranded on a desert island finds out it’s not as deserted as he thought. Comedy. Britain Nollaig Shona Orla Murphy 14 minutes U A christmas tree will not get the girlfriend back - just more hassle. (with English subtitles). Comedy. Ireland Biddy Got Back Warren Mackenzie 2 minutes A spoof music video about the sex lives of the elderly. Comedy. Britain The Cubicle Tactic Paul Denny 12A Tony’s drunken night out is ruined when a twisted game show voice over invades his thoughts in that most sacred of places - a pub toilet. Comedy. London 8pm Flawless Stanislava Buevich 10 minutes 12 A young girl runs away from her cold emotionless mother during a shopping day out. The high society mother searches for her child frantically, while gradually losing control of her emotions. Drama. London Elevator Ciaran Reynolds 9 minutes 12A One man’s struggle to get a good nights sleep in a elevator. Drama. London Cigarette Man Heeyoung Seo 8 minutes 12A Here comes the hero of recession days! One young man is wandering on the street. He is desperate for a fag but dead broke. He smokes someone’s dead cigarette and finds he’s got a special ability... Comedy. London Sunday Joon Goh 5 minutes 12 During a blistering hot summers day a couple bicker when the girl’s revealing outfit attracts the wrong kind of attention. Drama. London ‘My War Is Yours’ Yemi Bamiro 5 minutes 12A Young former soldier returns from war in a wheelchair after getting badly injured while away on service. At odds with his sanity and struggling to come to terms with the situation, he stumbles upon an unlikely sounding board for his grief. Drama. London What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor? Chris Ward 21 minutes 18 The decline and fall of Nina Hannett artist / model, self-styled queen of bohemia starring Sidbhan Pahey (Bananarama, Shakespeare’s sister), Clive Arrindel and Donny Tourette. Haunted by arguers from her past and present, fueled by alcohol and casual pickups. A woman’s uncompromising bid for artistic freedom in 1930’s Soho. Drama. London Nonexistance Luther Duncan 3 minutes U This film is about looking back at past memories. Find out who I am as an individual and the people and the world around me, I’m on a journey to find out answers to my questions. Art. London Balance Of Power Stuart Parkins 4 minutes 12A During an attempted mugging the relationship of our two would be muggers, ‘Ana and Mel, is put to the test as they confront a smooth talking strangler. Drama. London Microchimmp Vol.1 Duncan Masters J.P. 7 minutes 12A Ever wondered about the moon landings? Fake or real? Could this be what really happened? Animation. London Mimesis Go Team 12 minutes 15 A detective who has already gone down the so called path of self-destruction and religious damnation still goes to church for reasons he can’t quite understand. His answer will come in the form of a drug overdose... London Bride Of Frankenstin Tobias Tobbell 3 minutes 15 The ridiculous tale of horror and betrayal... of Eastern European origins a desperate man, Frankenstin, orders a Chinese bride from a website. She comes. She is beautiful. She’s unspeakably evil. Horror. London Letter To Rothko Eddie Saint-Jean 6 minutes 12A Five art students are asked by their teacher to write an imaginary letter to artist Mark Rothko. But sometimes this fragile part of our subconscious is the most difficult to share. Drama. London Me And Her Chantal Bose 4 minutes 12 My own experience on a bus, with a conversation of me and my friend in the background. I was trying to show how you never really know someone and you may get an insight into a person. Art. London Blueberry Pie Kaluba 7 minutes 15 Basy wants to propose to Fumi. She walks in on him as he practices how to ask her. He hides the ring in the slice of blueberry pie, unwittingly putting the proposal in jeopardy. Drama. London Please Do Not Remove It Debora Bonemei 5 minutes U One portray - infinite faces - one journey exploring possibilities of movement, sound and visual sense - are we busy going somewhere? Drama. London All That’s Left Ed Wiles 10 minutes 15 Shot in the style of a home movie, a touching drama in which a young man with a secret films his two feuding brothers as all three journey together to scatter their mother’s ashes. Drama. London ILK Mark Tintner 11 minutes 12 ILK is trapped escaping the elements on the fringe of society. Sleeping rough, ILK reenters her hidden sanctuary in attic of squat. ILK survives on what she can thieve by secretly descending into the ‘living’ space. Belly empty, mind wilted, reality blurred. Treading carefully literally and mentally. Will ILK crash through? Drama. London Hopper’s Fortune Michael Gregson, Andrew Thomson & Michael Purpy 4 minutes 15 Every few thousand years, the magnetic poles switch. This has been called the ‘Polar’ flip, and has been sited as a possible cause of extreme natural disaster, even the ice age. What if it happen now? Sc-Fi Drama. London back to schedule