Big Town Ideas

Meet You in the Parking ... Following the cryptic instructions from a battered Mead composition book, best friends Sam and Alex hope to get a glimpse of their lives-to-come by performing a ritual designed to conjure their future selves... (Screamfest)

A Different Category Three young women reflect on adolescence as a period marked by loss of ‘voice’ and the struggle between competing desires for autonomy and connection.

Internet Famous Amir (27) becomes internet famous by his videos where he picks fights with strangers on the street. He tries to justify his success in a portrait interview with a newspaper.

Bataan Rescue This is the story of a group of 514 prisoners of war from the Bataan Death March and how they were rescued near the end of the war. The reason this was so important is that the Japanese high command was ordering the execution of all prisoners when it appeared that the camps were soon to be liberated. So, in the case of this camp, it meant a covert operation well behind enemy lines in order to get to the guys before it was too late. The episode consists of many, many interviews--including several living POWs, a Philippino partisan, members of the assault team, their second in command and some historians.

T is for Turnip "T is for Turnip" metaphorically explores three siblings' collective experience of childhood trauma. Repetitive and ritualistic acts provide structure amongst the perceived uncertainty, while compartmentalization offers a false sense of security and abets forgetting. Each of the 3467 individual frames that comprise T is for Turnip were hand painted over the course of 1,000 hours. This laborious process involved using the smallest paintbrush available, less than 0.4mm wide, to apply silk dyes to the film's emulsion, while looking through a stereoscopic microscope to see the tiny objects on the film. The end result is a frenetic hand painted animation of color overlaid upon naturally occurring motion.

Perpetuo. An immortal being wanders through desolate lands trying to understand the reasons for his condemnation, the impossibility of dying; while he is tormented by memories of his past and imagining what the act of dying entails.

Walt Whitman This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.

O Despertar do Tiet... A group of young people will camp by the river for university work, but they will encounter supernatural and folkloric things from the river.

Julius After years of working at a coastal weather station, a lone meteorologist, Julius, is suddenly notified that his weather station will be shut down.

Hi, Sweety. Ashley travels to Buenos Aires to get FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery). During her last days before going back to Australia she meets Celeste, who would portray Ashley and lend her a handy-cam to make a self-portrait. Bit by bit, the labyrinths of Ashley’s life and the construction of a special link between director and protagonist will be unveiled.