:: PROGRAMME: Thursday, MAY 15th @ Redroaster cafe, St James Street ::

:: F 15 - Director Marc Francis - 5 mins ::
A powerful film about the largest demonstration in British history which took place on February 15th 2003. On this day, over 1.5 million people gathered on the streets of London to protest against the US/UK-led war against Iraq. On the evening of the protest, the rushes of this film were uploaded to the Oneworld TV website where over 20,000 people around the world viewed them during the following week.

For more information on Oneworld TV, visit: www.tv.oneworld.net

:: MUSIC FOR PIANO & PIER - Director Tim Brickell - 2 mins ::
The latest offering from one of Brighton's most original animators explores the course of true love on the Hove Lawns - accompanied by plenty of gratuitous sex. Morrison's previous films have shocked and surprised Final Cut audiences with weird stop-frame animations featuring laser-eyed doll's heads, exploding police cars and live human hearts. This one won't disappoint!

:: DIGITALIS - Directors Marco Alessi and Ninoslav Vrana - 10 mins ::
Robbie Digital takes us on a journey that explores the effects of new technologies on today's society. We eat, drink, sleep and live surrounded by binary codes, but the unlimited powers of 1's and 0's are quickly turning into a Room 101 scenario. So, are numbers really everything? Set in a backdrop of futuristic underground tunnels, this remarkable vision of connectivity, order and chaos will leave you wondering about society's direction and its enthusiastic relationship with technology.

:: RETROGRADE -Director Adam Lavis - 5 mins ::
When's the last time you forgot something? Your keys, a name, an appointment? It's easy for us to pretend we know the frustration of memory-loss, but can we ever imagine living a life without memory? This moving documentary was shot in Brighton by a close friend of its central character, Faisal, who was left with no short-term memory after a serious car accident. For the rest of his life, Faisal must inhabit a perpetual present - a world outside of time.

:: CARPET PEOPLE - Director Devlin Crow - 10 mins ::
Drama starring veteran TV actor, Richard Briers, playing against type as a lonely old man close to death. Trapped in his decrepit flat, he hallucinates about the small beings inhabiting his carpet who are preparing to take him away...

:: DIE GESTALTEN VERLAG - Director Sam Bannister - 1 min ::
A contribution the Die Gestalten Verlag book & DVD due to be published in June 2003 which looks at a group of post-graffiti writers and their exploits beyond & after spraypainting. This film is one of the more interesting contributions to the project and reflects the director's own involvement in graffiti and his life afterwards.

For more informationabot the project, visit: www.die-gestalten.de

:: Shadows - Writer 'Clare' - 4 mins ::
The Dreaming Will Initiative is a joint venture of the London Shakespeare Workout Prison Project. It trains offenders and ex-offenders in all aspects of digital film-making with an emphasis on drama. Shadows is one of its first efforts and was written by an inmate at HMP Cookham Wood. It tells the universal story of prison bully and victim and how the personality of each defines their respective roles. Clare is the recipient of 37 Koestler Awards for Literature

:: SOULS IN HOPE - Producer Dreaming Will Initiative - 18 mins ::
A documentary about the inaugural screening of Dreaming Will Films at the Curzon Soho in March 2003. The film includes interviews with top actors and film-makers plus excerpts from their main production, The Wax King

:: ELVIS IS THE KING, I'M JUST A FAN - Director Nhung Dang - 6 mins ::
A look at the weird and wonderful world of Elvis impersonators and their fans. Some of them look like Him, some of them talk like Him, some have shrines to Him...some even want to be Him! Elvis is the King... is an affectionate, light-hearted exploration of what Elvis means to some people and how his music has influenced and inspired them. Cut with classic archive footage, this film sums up all that is magical about 'The King'.

:: RING PEACE - Director Lynne Angel - 5 mins ::
A clever film from first-time local filmaker, Lynne Angel, which tells the story of a man engrossed in a book on his train journey home. The train is delayed and he continues reading as the other passengers talk to each other and make noisy calls on their mobiles. With increasing difficulty he manages to shut these interruptions out, but when a woman has a particularly loud conversation with her GP's surgery it becomes too much for him and he settles the matter once and for all.

:: LAPTOP JAM (promo) - Director: Richard Harris - 5 mins ::
Filmed in Brighton's Hanbury Arms Ballroom, the home of Final Cut, this is a fast-paced promo for a longer film being premiered at our final screening and party on May 29th. Laptop Jams are one of the most exciting performance arts to emerge in recent years and the Brighton-based jammers are world leaders in this form of digitised entertainment. They have attracted a significant cult following in Brighton and the South East and now perform monthly gigs at London's ICA.

For more information about the full-length version of Laptop Jam (inc production stills), visit www.bigbamboo.org.uk

:: SIDEBURNS - Director Lawrence Pearce - 4 mins ::
Sideburns premiered at London's Shoot & Slice in December 2002 and this was its first outing since then. An action comedy featuring some very unusual special effects which starts with a man admiring his huge sideburns in the wing-mirror of a car. As he walks away, his reflection emerges from the mirror armed with a razor blade and shaving foam - determined to punish his rival.

:: 22 SHELBOURNE ROAD - Director Josh Beattie - 8 mins ::
A new take on the Iraq War, which tells the story of an elderly woman who has lived her entire life in one house. Adamant that she will only leave 'when they take me out in my box', she feels the world has largely passed her by. Then, unexpectedly, she finds herself drawn into events overseas as she becomes increasingly affected by the war, particularly the TV imagery.

:: STIFF DRINK - Director Stephen Hore - 8 mins ::
In Final Cut's first official comedy of the Festival, we follow the exploits of a desperate ensemble of geeks, freaks and creeps thrown together by their anxieties, intimate desires and social inadequecies. Stiff Drink is an off-beat film about alpine survival...and immortality...and rampant disappointment.