We are excited to announce March Official Selections, Semi-Finalists and Finalists for The People’s Film Festival!
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:
FROM FRAGMENTS
Directed by James Quinn
FROM FRAGMENTS tells the story of an elderly couple that must battle through the grips of dementia to finish the swan-song of their lifelong love.
The film explores the burden ‘love’ places on us: to compromise, to sacrifice and (most of all) to cherish.
A true multi-disciplinary collaboration between a musician, two dancers and a filmmaker. The film combines these three artforms to envisage the devastating emotional reality of dementia.
THE STRANGERS’ CASE
Directed by Peter Trifunovic
This new film based on a four hundred year old speech shows fear of immigration is nothing new.
In 1517 anti-immigrant riots broke out in London. Thomas More, then a deputy Sheriff of the city, intervened.
Decades later William Shakespeare wrote a speech for the play 'Sir Thomas More', in which More defended asylum seekers - 'the strangers'.
TROUBLED WATERS
Directed by Gemma Norton
Viv is struggling with motherhood after the birth of her second child. Convinced there’s something wrong with her newborn, she tries to confide in her absent husband Terry, but is met with disinterest. As she rapidly finds herself questioning her sanity she turns to medication and drink to ease her through this parental dystopia.
Her health quickly deteriorates and she begins to realise just how much she is slipping through the net when she lets her frustrations out on her children. She begins to question the risk she is putting both her children, and herself, in.
FINALISTS:
ACTRESS by Edward L. Dark & Liz McMullen
CANAN: LIBERTY OR LIFE by Michael Davies
GWEN by Candace Wise
IDLE INTERACTIONS by Joshua Black
THE MANY FACES OF BETH JONES by Harvey Puttock
MEDIUM HEAT by Chris Waller
NO GUARANTEE by Stuart Black & Nick Mather
RUPTURED by James Mansell
SCAR TISSUE by Jared Watmuff
WHAT CAN’T BE SEEN by Maria Andrews
SEMI-FINALISTS:
BLUE TOMORROW by Numan Ayaz
BRAGGING RIGHTS by James Atkins
THE COLD CALLER by Lee Charlish
CONDITIONING by Philip Pugh
FIND ME AT REST by Adam R Kennedy
GREEN by Daniel Sketchley
HOOKED IN by Fay Beck
INTERPRETATIONS OF “N” WORDS by Kiel Robinson
IT CRAWLED IN THROUGH THE WINDOW by Isaac Ruth
LOVESUNK by Natalia Bykova
THE MAN IN THE BACK SEAT by Tom Kircher
MY GRANDSON, CHARLOTTE by Tyler Pierreson
MY NEIGHBOR BARBECUED MY FENCE by Victoria Muldoon
NORA ADVENTURE by Joe Lee
PLONKER MAN by Samuel Casserly
PORTRAIT OF A GOAN COLLECTOR by Agnelo Rodrigues
PRIME PERFECT 2 by Tom Bessoir
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD by Mark Cabaroy
WOMXN by Adrien Peskine