:: MISS SPARKS - Director Maikl Hap - 12 minutes ::

A black comedy about victimisation in which the beautiful and lonely Violetta initiates a romance with her neighbour, Jack, a handsome architect. After returning from their first date, Violetta gives Jack a passionate and literally electrifying kiss, bringing the night to an abrupt end. Their next date concludes in Violetta’s bed where her shocking kisses cause his death. Panic-stricken, she calls her GP who arrives to find her crying over his body. His disbelieving reaction to her story produces a wholly unexpected finale to this intriguing film.

:: THE RETURN OF THE ANCIENT MARINER – Director Ian Lavender - 8 minutes ::

Ian and Phil, two friends who have a mild contempt for each other, are seemingly adrift in a small fishing boat, arguing about the possibilities of surviving at sea. It soon becomes apparent that they have no idea how they came to be in the boat or what to do about their situation – until the unexpected appearance of an old fisherman. Based on an idea by Terry Pottle and written by Nick Taylor, The Return of the Ancient Mariner is their first collaboration and entirely self-funded.

:: WHEN I AM AN OLD WOMAN I SHALL WEAR PURPLE – Director Amy Langfield - 3 minutes ::

An adaptation of Jenny Joseph’s poem Warning, this quirky drama celebrates growing old eccentrically, working the poem lines into dialogue to create a comical and slightly surreal film. The final year project of a local student studying TV & Video Production at Bournemouth University, this film was shot on location in Brighton and Lewes.

:: ACCORDIAN MAN – Director Richard Harris - 16 mins ::

Unusual documentary about Brighton’s most eccentric busker. James Hughes is a 47-year old recluse who has lived a lonely, isolated life in and around Brighton since his mother died in the late 80's. This year has seen a radical change in his life, however, as he has now found the Lord, and become an active member of of the evangelical Emanuel Family Church. As a consequence, this born entertainer - now born-again Christian - has added hymns to the repetoire of music hall favourites he enthusiastically mangles for shoppers in Churchill Square.

:: SHOOTING YOUR OWN – Director Ian Currie - 8 minutes ::
Set in the trenches of WWI, this intense, claustrophobic drama was first screened at the Abbeville Festival. In exploring the feelings and attitudes of a British firing squad the night before they execute a deserter, it reveals the brutalising effects of battle and how the instinct for self-preservation often outweighed our troops’ famed sense of comradeship.

:: eMale – Director Richard Harris - 7mins ::
Based on a series of reviews of sex-workers submitted to a local brothel’s website by its male clients, this challenging film presents a unique video ‘canvas’. Mixing voices, sound effects, internet images and other visual material to dramatic effect, it encourages the audience to reflect on the impact of money on male -female relationships.

:: THE ADVENTURES OF BLUE - Director Herve Rebolj - 3 minutes ::
The first completed episode in a fast, furious and very funny series of animated shorts combining original music, hand drawings and clay-mation to hilarious.

:: 2000 AND KEN: A SPACE ODDITY - Director Roz Shearn - 12 minutes ::
The Earth is round, people are squarish and space is that way - Kenny Ken takes us through the final days before take off, and tries in vain to gain some support. If we all put in a fiver, he can leave this place - but no one is ready for Kenny's trip so, he carries on regardless. Because, when its time to blow it's time to go - a photonic wave is due and there's nothing else to do but catch the first one out

:: THE MEETING PLACE – Director Richard Harris - 20 mins ::
Straddling the Brighton/Hove border, just a stone’s throw from the crumbling West Pier, the famous Meeting Place beach café is an institution as popular with locals as the Palace Pier is with visitors. After 70 years of trading, it will soon be demolished and this film tells the story of this much-loved part of Brighton's seaside history before it disappears forever. The programme includes rare archive material that has only recently come to light.

:: EXPERIMENT 3 - Director Simon Hyde - 3 minutes ::
A surreal, deeply personal reaction to the destruction of New York's Twin Towers on September 11th 2001

:: LAB REPORT – Director Miwa Kurihara - 4 minutes ::
The moment of truth for all non-video film-makers is the day that rushes come back from the lab. No critic, not even the Director, can be more cruel than the author of the Lab Report, and this film is the result of a first-time director’s struggle to turn Z-grade footage into an A-grade film.