Bondiwood Short Films

Saturday September 28th 2:00pm

Synopsis:

The best of Bondi Short Films

THIS BOND I AND BONDI

10 mins

Producer/Director Carolyn Saul
(Multi award winning short by local filmmaker Carolyn Saul brings a poetic light to bear on Bondi.)

When the once familiar streets and buildings of the place you grew up in become something else, how do you reconcile your relationship with that place? What happens to your sense of ‘home’? "this bond i and Bondi" is a rumination on memories, change and a very special place.

THE MAKING OF THE DARLINGS…

11 mins

Director: Ben Ulm

Here’s the hilarious real reality of reality TV.  What happens when reality doesn’t turn out the way the director intended.  A halfwit film director struggles with real people who aren’t manipulated as easily as he would like.  They argue when he’s not filming, are mute when he is and the crew keep walking into the shot at exactly the wrong moment.

Blood Sweat & Teeth

7 min

Director Irene Walls

Producer: Martin Simpson

Starring: Chris Piper

Chris shies away from the exorbitant cost of dentists and decides to undertake some do-it-yourself dentistry.  A film that can’t be unseen.  A unique and visceral cinema experience for the viewer.

SURFISH

11mins

Holly Murphy & Grayson Hinrichs

A journey across Australia to find the biggest fish and perfect waves.  Australia’s gun surfer Grayson Hinrichs and The Church’s national anthem “Under The Milky Way” combine to make a memorable movie space.

The Beaches 14.07.24.

A surf film by @hotndelicious

3 mins

Director: Dan Wilkinson

Beach breaks, barrels and closeouts.... roadtrippin' to the Northern Beaches and an epic morning surf film sesh flying sky high at Manly Beach. Special thanks to Sydney funk ensemble, The Regime, for the perfect music sync for my first ever short film.

Building Bridges 

7 mins 
1994 - 2000 
DIrected Bt Haydn Keenan 
Australia’s greatest bands donate for reconciliation.

VIOLENCE IN THE CINEMA Pt 1

20 mins

Director George Miller

Producers: Byron Kennedy/George Miller

Starring: Arthur Dignam, Victoria Anoux

What is the psychological effect of watching onscreen violence.  In this brilliant mockumentary George Miller and Byron Kennedy lay down the ground work for their next little project – MAD MAX