2019 will see the Greater Dandenong Short Cuts Film Festival return for its fourth year.
Short Cuts celebrates art, community and storytelling by providing an artistic platform for local community members, emerging artists and accomplished professionals from across the globe to share their stories.
Films are across the following three categories:
Emerging – current or recent film graduates with less than five years’ experience
Community/Student – primary and secondary students and people with no professional filmmaking training
Open – professional film makers
Festival Program
Broderick Smith Documentary
14 mins, Open
Broderick Smith, one of Australia's greatest music frontmen, explores the dichotomy of fame as a musician, and the entrapment of a long ago era by his fans.
Drowned
5 mins, Emerging
An oldman finds a strange woman in middle of the sea and tries to take advantage of her, but...
Lost and Found
8 mins, Open
A bumbling knitted dinosaur must unravel himself to save the love of his life.
Ladies Lounge
9 mins, Open
In 1965 rural Victoria, a woman chains herself to the foot rail of her local pub to protest the gender segregation laws of the time.
The Collector
3 mins, Community/Student
The simple journey of a man rowing a boat who travels through different landscapes and collects what he finds along the way.
All These Creatures
14 mins, Special Screening
An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his memories of a mysterious infestation, the unravelling of his father, and the little creatures inside us all.
Remarkable
6 mins, Open
A young boy searches for the truth about his identity and what connection it may have to his Mother's mysterious shed.
Caroline
12 mins, Emerging
When plans fall through, a six-year-old is faced with a big responsibility on a hot Texas day.
Sohrab and Rustum
14 mins, Open
The story of a young English teacher reading the poem of a legendary fight between two warrioirs to a class of teenage girls in 1960s Sydney.
A Rare Breed
11mins, Emerging
Rob is a world renowned chicken breeder from Tasmania who has traveled all over the world to exhibit his chickens, as well as his own body...
Nursery Rhymes
6 mins, Open
On the side of a rural highway, a bizarre encounter with a Metalhead takes a profound turn.
The Courier From Kibou Town
3 mins, Community/Student
A scooter riding courier ventures through a shallow flooded world to complete a delivery.
The Piano Teacher
4 mins, Open
In any art form, few reach the pinnacle of performance and renown, but with time even the most masterful regress. A poetic look at life, age and memory.
Still Alive
6 mins, Open
An ironic and irreverent view of animation - its history and Animator-as-Creator "theology" - using the traditional gospel song "God's Not Dead".
Kaya
15 mins, Open
In a remote Turkish village, an ostracised orphan girl seeks out the forbidden Alevi in her quest for faith.
Short Cuts Film Production Program
Using professional-grade equipment and with guidance from social enterprise Youthworx, fifteen young film enthusiasts from the City of Greater Dandenong entered into ten weeks of mentorship to create their own short films responding to the theme of ‘Home’. We are proud to invite you to the premiere of three powerful films that trace the inspiring people and stories we encounter daily in this community…
