Tropfest Featured Films

  • EFFECTIVE TOWEL FLICKING – INTRODUCTORY TECHNIQUES

    Do you want to learn how to hurt people?

    Directed by Mike Sharman & Andrew Tomazos
    Tropfest Australia
    2003

  • BARGAIN!

    When shy, dorky Linda finds herself alone with her sister’s hunky boyfriend Matt, she decides to make the most of situation…

    Directed by Rachel Givney
    Tropfest Australia
    2009

  • MURBAH SWAMP BEER

    A documentary that could only be true in Australia. It captures the spirit of one small Aussie town, when a truck loaded with 40,000 beers crashes into the river just before Easter time.

    Directed by Gary Doust,
    Tropfest Australia
    2002

    Tropicana Award Winner

  • PHOTO BOOTH

    Three soldiers find a photo booth in the middle of a war-torn landscape and soon realise it carries a strange but disturbing message for each of them.

    Directed by Michael Noonan
    Movie Extra Tropfest Australia Finalist 2012
    TSI “Light Bulb”

    3rd Prize Winner

  • ONE

    Is life something that happens to everyone else?

    Directed by Gareth Davies & Damon Gameau
    Tropfest Australia
    2010

  • RGB

    A young man suffering from ‘total colour-blindness’ has the opportunity to see three colours: Red, Green and Blue – but only one at a time.

    Directed by Kailas Prasannan
    Movie Extra Tropfest Australia Finalist 2012
    TSI “Light Bulb”

  • THE ARSONIST’S RIDDLE

    A trembling matchbox, cigarette and deranged man form the key to the Arsonist’s riddle.

    Directed by Ben West
    Tropfest Australia
    2002

  • THE LITTLE WOMAN

    Ted wants the police to get his wife and kids back. The police are more interested in finding out just how nuts Ted is.

    Directed by Greg Williams
    Tropfest Australia
    2004

  • SHOCK

    A broken Man awakes to be confronted with his life, and the choices he’s made. His past,present and future collide as he faces the inevitable…

    Directed By Abe Forsythe
    Tropfest Australia

    2010 Winner
    Winner of Best Comedy

  • FINGERPRINTS

    A cop’s hunt for clues becomes much more than routine as his search reveals a devastating truth…

    Directed by Catherine McVeigh
    Tropfest Australia 2005

  • THE APPLICANT

    An Applicant. An Interviewer. An office. But what exactly is the Applicant applying for?

    Directed by Tim Dean
    Tropfest Australia

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Nash Edgerton – from Stunt Man to the Big Screen

Posted in Blog on Tuesday 05/15/12

Nash Edgerton is not the most conventional of filmmakers; making him the perfect choice for a Tropfest entrant. Edgerton got his start in films as a stunt man in films such as Superman Returns, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and The Matrix trilogy. Read more…

See Tropfest on Al Jazeera English Channel!

Posted in Blog on Wednesday 05/09/12

Check out one of this year’s Tropfest filmmakers, Hannah Soule, interviewed about her Tropfest film on Al Jazeera English Channel in this television segment by Al Jazeera’s New York correspondent Cath Turner. You can also see Tropfest’s founder/director, John Polson, being interviewed about Tropfest New York with a backdrop of Bryant Park on a glorious Spring day.

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