DIRECTOR: Rupert Reid
PRODUCER: Matthew Reeder
STATE: NSW
Ma and Pa have been married forever and they keep the magic alive by staying one step ahead of each other, but how many steps are too many?
BETTER THAN SINATRA
DIRECTOR: Jefferson Grainger
PRODUCER: Jefferson Grainger
STATE: NSW
SYNOPSIS: Every other day, Raymond Borzelli, elderly pensioner, wanders the streets of Sydney, seeking out music to dance to, a small taste of fame, and a few hours of happiness.
A confronting look at a filmmaker’s personal journey to reach out to his dying father.
Directed by Jason van Genderen
Tropfest Australia
Runner Up 2011
ELEVATOR
Directed by Jennifer Ross
‘Elevator’ is a suspense/ drama about a single mother, Jenny and her young son, Cody.
Loosely based on the Director’s personal experience, ‘Elevator’ depicts the feeling of panic that ensues when mother and son are unfortunately separated.
Jennifer Ross is from Melbourne, Australia. She is currently working on a film documenting a year in the running of vineyard, Bluestone Acres. ‘Elevator’ is her first short film.
DIRECTOR: Trent Holmes, Bassett Dickson
PRODUCER: Trent Holmes, Bassett Dickson
STATE: QLD
“If you’re out of your cage, by all means, flap your wings.”
THE BREAK-UP TOUR
Directed by Alexander Poe
‘The Break-Up Tour’ follows a couple on a very personal tour of Greenwich Village.
Alexander Poe is a writer/actor/director. His first feature film, ‘Ex-Girlfriends,’ will be released in the fall. Past work has played at the Tribeca Film Festival, the NYC Fringe, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Photo by Ben Watts/Corbis Online
Tropfest is returning to New York this summer! Making the move from Manhattan to Brooklyn, the event will be hosted by acclaimed actor, producer, director, and screenwriter Liev Schreiber on Saturday, June 22nd in Prospect Park.
The move to Brooklyn will allow for an expanded festival featuring music, food, art installations and of course, a lineup of great short films that will be screened and judged live by an esteemed panel of industry and celebrity judges.
Tropfest, the world’s largest short film festival which staged its hugely successful U.S debut in Bryant Park earlier this year in front of a 10,000 plus capacity crowd, today announced its next phase of programming, the Roughcut film symposium. Produced in the United States in partnership with The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Roughcut is an exclusive and intimate day-long series of lectures, conversations and presentations about the art of storytelling on screen. The event will feature actor/writer/director Liev Schreiber (Salt, X-Men: Origins, Everything Is Illuminated), film editor Sarah Flack (Lost in Translation), producer/writer Scott Rosenberg (Gone in 60 Seconds, Con Air), Entertainment Weekly’s film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum, Global Chief Creative Officer of R/GA Nick Law and Tropfest’s founder and director/producer John Polson (Swimfan, Hide and Seek) in moderated conversations with FSLC Associate Director of Programming, Scott Foundas. Best-selling author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Outliers) will keynote the event in a conversation with internationally celebrated screenwriter Charles Randolph (Love and Other Drugs). Roughcut will be held on Friday, December 7th beginning at 10 am at The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s landmark state-of-the-art Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.
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EMPTYS
Directed by Josh Leake
A documentary that follows people who collect beverage containers as their principal source of income.
Josh Leake is from Portland, Oregon and has eight chickens, two cats and a bulldog. ‘Emptys’ is his first film. Josh is currently in production on his second short and in development on a narrative based on a story by Bertholt Brecht.
Today marks the start of the Tropfest NY 2013 Call For Entries period! After a hugely successful 2012 competition, which saw Portland-based filmmaker Josh Leake take out the top prize of $20,000 and a ‘week of meetings’ with industry players in Los Angeles supported by Motion Picture Association, Tropfest returns to New York City bigger and better.
ELVIS: THE LONELY HUNTER OF CIRCLE BEACH
Directed by Matt Hulse
Circle Beach: a God-forsaken corner off the coast of the once-great city New York. Only the toughest can survive an environment this unforgiving.
Matt Hulse is a British artist film-maker. His feature ‘Dummy Jim’ based on the life of a profoundly deaf Scottish cyclist is almost complete > dummyjm.com
Elvis is a chubby wee bullet from Noyack, Long Island. This is his first movie.
Chairlift
Tropfest New York has announced its musical acts for the upcoming festival and they include some of the most exciting names from the current Brooklyn music scene. Popular indie duo Chairlift will headline the event, with Neon Indian (DJ Set), Bear In Heaven, Ghost Beach and People Get Ready also taking the stage at Prospect Park on June 22nd. Read more…
Malcolm Gladwell
Today Tropfest announced that Academy Award winning producer Fisher Stevens (The Cove), Journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell (The New Yorker, The Tipping Point, Blink), and WNYC host Leonard Lopate will be among the Judges at Tropfest New York on June 22nd in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Other jurors will be announced soon. Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) will host the festivities. Read more…
