:: PROGRAMME: Thursday, March 31st 2005 ::

:: HEYDAY - Director Rachel Wang - 10 mins ::
Poignant new comedy from Wang featuring Shirley Anne Field as Iris, a frail woman in her eighties, who meets the love of her life, Percy, played by Kenny Lynch, in their old people's home. Wishing she could have spent her whole life with him, she decides to build a time machine from a wheelchair to make the dream come true. Heyday is a touching modern fairytale about treasuring every moment and valuing the person you love.

Winner, International Award Prize at the 2004 'Images of Black Women' Film Festival.

For more info about this film, visit: www.chocolatefilms.com

:: ABLE BODIES, SCRAMBLED MINDS - Directors Tim Hunt & Chris Perkins - 6 mins ::
A 24 hour Film Challenge piece written, shot and edited during a frantic one-day period in September 2004. This action comedy tells the story of two crooks who put a team together for one last job and the disastrous results caused by their decision to go for a 'mixed-gender' gang.

:: ANNABELLE - Director Darren Teale - 15 mins ::
At the graveside of a dead woman, a man reminisces about his past. Henry Spencer is a mortician, and his lost love is Annabelle, who's body he recently prepared for burial. This moving film reveals how he 'met' his lover in the morgue where he works and the bizarre manner in which he wooed her and eventually fell in love.

For more info about this film, visit: www.junction15.com

:: FINDING NUNU - Director Sanjay Joshi - 90 seconds ::
This engagingly daft ultra-short from the director of last month's Hippy Trip, tells the story of Edna who has somehow 'lost' her best friend.

:: BARON - Director Pawel Zastrzeyznksi - 17 mins ::
Intriguing B/W documentary about the making of a feature film in Poland during the summer of 2004. The director adopted the style of 'Sir Richard Attenborough' to make a fascinating and amusing fly-on-the-wall record of a top-flight Polish film crew in action. A witty, understated and cleverly edited oddity.

:: TRAILER TRASH: DESOLATION ANGELS - Director Terence Drew ::
Violent murder story.

:: TRAILER TRASH: FEMME FATALE - Director Lisa Holles ::
A dominatrix tells us about her lifestyle, revealing her approach and motivations as 3 willing 'victims' respond to her commands. There is no beginning middle or end to the dominant-submissive scenario as one is always being replaced by another. This is her life and their life...and their mutual desires intermingle to form a powerful visual and psychological reality.

:: TRAILER TRASH: WORSE THAN DEATH - Director Dominic Jones ::
The grapevine tells us this horror gore-fest is almost completed.

:: TRAILER TRASH: '3' - Director Steve Piper ::
Lee gets an unexpected visit from a best mate, fresh from a fight with his girlfriend.

For more info about this film, visit: www.coffeefilms.com

:: THE NEXT VICTIM - Director Owen Carey Jones - 13 mins ::
Staff at Kissinger's café/bar are becoming very jumpy following the death of several of their number and Lisa, in particular, is concerned about a fellow employee who seems to be following her everywhere. Is she next on the killer's list? But when things come to a head one night, the result is not what she expected. A murder mystery with a difference.

Selected for the 2004 Belize International Film Festival and the 2004 York Film Festival.

For more info about this film, visit: www.careyfilms.com

:: SETTLEMENT 04 - Director Gianluca Bonomo - 8 mins ::
In this unusual fantasy dance film, four quasi-humans settle in a decadent space to create a community. They communicate with each other via a strange language while engaging in a risky and violent 'game' in which physical contact must be avoided at all costs.

For more info about this film, visit: www.gianlucabonomo.com

:: DISPOSABLE - Directors Tony Parker & Kevin Pybus - 7mins ::
You can't trust anyone in the killing business. A professional killer calls in a favour from another hit-man to help him dispose of a body, but as the two men look for a suitable burial place, the helper grows increasingly suspicious of his true intentions.