PROGRAM #12
ARCLIGHT THEATER 12
WEDNESDAY - SEPTEMBER 6 - 7:45 PM

The Linnet

(Drama / Ireland / 35 mm / 14 minutes)

A tale of the good, the bad, and a bird… Bird watching softie Patrick adores his only friend, Melanie. When her boyfriend Bill starts to get jealous, a little bird comes magically to the rescue.

Director / Producer / Writer: Vincent Kinnaird

Contact: vincent@notasuch.com

Free Range

(Drama / United Kingdom / 35 mm / 13 minutes)

It’s Christmas, William is seven years old and plugged into a world of mobile phones and television. When he visits his grandparent’s remote farm, the urban sedative wears off and his imagination awakes. An unusual encounter could change William’s outlook…forever.

Director: Adam Etheridge

Producer: Asha Wolstenholme

Writer: David Watson

Contact: jill@aspectfilmandvideo.co.uk

Fish

(Drama / Australia / 35mm / 13 minutes)

A boy who makes treasure out of trash meets a girl who thinks she is. Together they explore each other’s wastelands eventually gleaning something beautiful and human from the other…

Director / Writer: Eron Sheean

Producer: Jason Byrne

Contact: eronsheean@optusnet.com.au

Old Man Music

(Drama / United States / 35mm / 22 minutes)

Living alone and isolated in his own private world, Old Man (Geoffrey Lewis, Every Which Way But Loose) spends his days immersed in a fantasy of concert halls and music. One fateful afternoon during his standard routine, tragedy strikes and Old Man is forced to examine his life, and whether or not it is still worth living.

Director / Writer: Scott Slone

Producers: Dustin Harris, Kevin Donovan, and Scott Slone

Contact: scott@ezcompanyproductions.com

The Mouse That Ate My Brain

(Drama / Australia / 35mm / 7 minutes)

The loss of a man’s ear during a vicious mugging begins a terrible downward spiral of paranoia. He grows a replacement ear on the back of a mouse and begins losing his sanity when he comes to believe the dead rodent has returned to claim its ear.

Director: Phillip Middleton

Producer: Nicholas Goldsworthy

Writers: Phillip Middleton and Aaron Bassat

Contact: nikgoldsworthy@yahoo.com.au

The Anarchic Hand Affair

(Comedy / Ireland / 16mm / 15 minutes)

Beano and Zoot are moronic, petty criminals working for the local crime boss. When Beano learns he has a son, his guilt-ridden conscience leads him to develop a rare psychological condition: ‘Anarchic Hand Syndrome.’ His hand develops an un-cooperative free will of its own. Determined to reform him, it may get him killed along the way...

Director: Des Mullan

Producers: Sasha King, Eoghan Ryan, and Michael Duffy

Writer: Michael Duffy

Contact: takeoff@rocket.ie

Chrysalis

(Drama / Australia / 35mm / 11 minutes)

In this modern day homage to “La Belle et La Bete,” we journey into the claustrophobic world of Chris—a mystically deformed artist who is forced to face fear, love, and the acceptance of his true self.

Director / Writer: Rashad Haughton

Producers: Sacha Rodriguez and Brian Sirgutz

Contact: brian@aaclypse.com