This month's screening was part of CINECITY, Brighton's official film festival

For this year's CINECITY screening, we joined forces with Screen South to present a programme of quality shorts from film-makers living in the South East. The programme focused on the 12 films commmissioned in this region for the 2004 DIGITAL SHORTS scheme and also featured the UK premiere of Somewhere, a new film starring the Strangler's founder and lead singer, Hugh Cornwell, in his first film role.

:: SOMEWHERE - Director Ben Thomas - 10 mins ::
Starring Hugh Cornwell in his first film role, this enigmatic short offers a dark and disturbing glimpse of the future. Receiving it's first UK screening tonight, Somewhere is set in a time when Big Brother is merely a fond memory and internet gambling has become the new reality; an intrinsic part of life - and death. Fame and immortality is now just a spin of the roulette wheel away. Are you feeling lucky?

:: ENGLISH PATIENCE - Director/Writer Trevor De Silva, Producer Chris Le Grys - 4 mins (Digital Short) ::
A raid on a post office goes badly wrong when an armed robber meets more than his match.

:: PLENTY OF SPOONS - Director Simon Hook, Writer/Producer Jayne Kirkham - 10 mins (Digital Short) ::
A chance meeting with a young thug brings a disturbing resolution for elderly Jack

:: OUT OF WATER - Director Jacqueline Wright, Writer Alice Lowe, Producer Anne Henry - 10 mins (Digital Short) ::
As the sea throws up clues about Maria's true identity, a bizarre twist reveals a more sinister edge.

:: ONE MINUTE WONDER ::
Nine new ultra-shorts produced by Final Cut in association with Screen South, Lighthouse Media & Training and lottery organisation, Awards For All.

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:: IMAGE - Directors/Animators Samantha Pia Sulkin & Sarah Bird, Writer/Producer Samantha Pia Sulkin - 3 mins (Digital Short) ::
Image is everything! That's the problem facing 'Hero', a spandex-clad not-so-superhero.

:: THE GREAT ESCAPE - Director Anthony Gates - 9 mins ::
This one-man tour-de-force from Gates was shot mostly in Brighton's Duke of York cinema. It tells the story of a bored young man who decides to move into a cupboard to get away from it all. Daft and uplifting.

:: LOFTY LIFE - Director Josh Pulman, Writer/Producer Carole Hayman, Designer Janet Cronin - 8 mins (Digital Short) ::
Shena - a disciple of film-maker, Michael Moore - sets off through grungy loft life to find her lost camera and love.

:: HOMEWORK - Director/Writer Zara Waldeback, Producers Zara Waldeback & Lynette Norris - 10 mins (Digital Short) ::
Now that Katie's mum has gone to a strange place in the sky, Dad's stories seem to have lost their magic.

:: HAMMER & FLAME - Director Vaughan Pilikian, Producer Justin MeilandContact Producer Justin Meiland -10 mins (Digital Short) ::
Exploration of the maritime graveyards of northern India.

:: CHANGING - Director Clive Mason, Producer/Writer William Mager, Writer Douglas Equils, Producer Liz De Planta - 4 mins (Digital Short) ::
As her mother and father argue, a young girl dreams of a better life.

:: THE KARMIC WELL OF DOO DOO - Writer/Producer/Director Richard and Robert Hull - 4 mins (Digital Short) ::
A Sunday morning dog walker makes a decision that doesn't change his life - but certainly ruins his day.

:: COW - Writer/Director Sue Whitting - 3 mins (Digital Short) ::
Louise, lonely and lost, is soon to find she's on the wrong road.

:: LITTLE THINGS - Director James Twyford, Writer Anthony Bullock, Producer Alex Feakes - 5 mins (Digital Short) ::
Four-year old Chloe sees a man shoplifting and asks her mum if she too can 'shop like the man.'

:: FEIS - Director Anita Parry, Writer Josie Melia, Producer Mike Berenger - 10 mins (Digital Short) ::
Young Irish dancer Sinead would rather be skateboarding but her Gran has other ideas.