WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? - Director Maddie Bridgett - 2 mins
The infamous Maddie (Maddie Live!) Bridgett really wanted to take part in our Lightning Docs competition, but couldn’t due to a date clash, so she went out and shot this hilariously rude gem about French singer Caroline Nin in her own time.

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HEADSET - Director Craig Martin Allen – 6 mins
Original and very funny ‘experimental’ drama revealing the daily routine of a roboticised nuclear family who’s only form of communication are messages sent via broadcasts to the TV monitors they have for heads. Bizarre.

SPLICE – Director Christinn Whyte – 1 min
Clever dance ultra-short from a talented choreographer/director and Final Cut ‘regular’ in which footage of four different people dancing is spliced together to create a single sequence of movement.

HOW TO PICK UP GIRLS – Director Dan Gitsham – 4 mins
A Dull Man.  A Vibrant Girl.  A demented lesson in how to pick up girls. Not all men are pigs. Not for the feint-hearted...

LITTLE SNAPS OF HORROR – Director Graham Rathlin - 2 mins
Don't go into the booth!

BLACK OR WHITE? – Director Debbie Howard – 4 mins
In this fascinating documentary, the filmmakers asked a list of 'either/or' questions to a large cross section of British society. How does a three year-old middle-class white girl respond to the same questions as a black male asylum seeker?

NORA – Director Amy Engles - 9 mins
When a service android is given an opportunity to leave the mother-ship and take part in an important mission, she believes her dream of freedom will be fulfilled. But she finds herself abandoned on a desolate planet and, with her illusions shattered, she is forced to build a new future.

BARRY COX: THE CHINESE DREAM – Director Nick Ahlmark – 8mins
Gok Pak-Wing belts out Cantonese pop ballads every night at the Sands Hotel and mega-casino in the gambling haven of Macau, China, earning £1,000 an hour. But this is not your average Cantonese crooner - his real name is Barry Cox, a 30-year old chancer from Liverpool making it big in the world’s newest super power by singing Canto-pop, a style of love song that has the Chinese girls swooning.

DOG YEARS II – Directors Richard Penfold & Samuel Hearn - 5 mins
Frustrated mongrel, inflamed anal glands, needs ointment. Warm hands essential. This is the hilarious follow-up to Dog Years that had our audiences rolling in the aisles and licking their private parts when it was screened last Month.

LINER – Director Jez Coram - 11 mins
An unusual and moving film that combines stop-frame animation and live action to explore themes of alienation and isolation in old age. It tells the story of Adam, a pensioner with mental health problems who lives in a scruffy bed-sit, following a repetitious and obsessive daily routine trying to make sense of the hallucinations he is experiencing. One night a manipulative puppet delivers a magic egg while he sleeps that has the power to change his life.

BAGGAGE – Director Jim Christian - 5 mins
An unfortunate soul has been rendered so dysfunctional by his loneliness and rejection that he fears even inanimate objects will leave him. A warped tale of dislocation from reality.

OUR MAN IN THE BRONZE AGE – Director Dan Gibling – 6 mins
Promo for UK stoner-rock band, Our Man in the Bronze Age, showing them hunting down a beautiful teenage victim in the woods, then torturing her with heavy riffs and finally converting her to the 'Bronze Order'. A story of fear, blood and bronze...and very loud music. Not half as bad as it sounds.

SURVIVOR – Director Nicole Volavka - 14 mins
Based on the director’s experiences of living in Rwanda and working with genocide survivors on the feature film, Shooting Dogs, this powerful drama recounts a meeting between a Rwandan genocide survivor and young man from Darfur in a West London flat.

BRING ME JOY – Director Debbie Howard – 10 mins
Sophie buys a beautiful white sofa in the hope that it will bring her the happiness she craves. But, of course, it doesn't.

MONOCULTURE – Director Jason Cuddy - 10mins
In a grey and dying world, an ordinary man discovers a mystical flower that transforms his life.

THE FERRYMAN – Director Giles Perkins - 7 mins
Fascinating and well-made documentary about a forgotten Thelwall ferryman who spends his days taking passengers across the Manchester Ship Canal in a rowing boat.

DAN AND DAN IN REQUIEM FOR A WARDROBE – Directors Dan & Dan - 5 mins 
The magnificently bearded Dan and Dan bid farewell to some of Dan's most treasured clothes. Hilarious new outing from the Darlings of Youtube.

RESONANCE - Director David Cohen - 5 mins
A young woman recalls the strong feelings she has for a former lover.

SANCTUARY – Director Lovejit  Dhaliwal - 3 mins
This true story of a brave woman seeking asylum in the UK. This moving film examines the twin 'journeys' she goes through: an internal journey of healing as she deals with the effects of torture and the ‘outward’ journey of her struggle to gain permission to stay in this country.