Meet The 2013 Finalists

  • OPERATION RETRO: TS SQUAD

    OPERATION RETRO: TS SQUAD

    DIRECTOR: Calum Peiris
    PRODUCER: Calum Peiris
    STATE: NSW

    SYNOPSIS: It’s do or die – the untold story of soldiers behind enemy lines fighting for the safety of the world…

  • THE FIVE LITTLE MONKEYS

    THE FIVE LITTLE MONKEYS

    DIRECTOR: Catriona Warren
    PRODUCER: Emma Buckley
    STATE: VIC

    SYNOPSIS: Five little monkeys, left unsupervised, cause all sorts of chaos; leaving adults frustrated and annoyed.

  • AUSSIE KIDS AT CHRISTMAS

    AUSSIE KIDS AT CHRISTMAS

    DIRECTOR: Kurt Montana-Borg
    PRODUCER: Paul Burns
    STATE: NSW

    SYNOPSIS: A mockumentary that compares how children from two very different Australian families view Christmas.

  • TRANSILIENCE

    TRANSILIENCE

    DIRECTOR: Eamon Coulthard
    PRODUCER: Eamon Coulthard
    STATE: VIC

    SYNOPSIS: A teenage boy makes a mistake in the past, and now he takes another risk to stop it from happening.

  • ALICE

    ALICE

    DIRECTOR: Seetha Tan & Marnie Drake
    PRODUCER: Seetha Tan & Marnie Drake
    STATE: NSW

    SYNOPSIS: Life’s a game of chess, you only win if you control the game.

  • HUNGRY PANDA

    HUNGRY PANDA

    DIRECTOR: Sarah Brennan
    PRODUCER: Sarah Brennan
    STATE: VIC

    SYNOPSIS: A little panda cub struggles to get what he wants.

  • DREAM

    DREAM

    DIRECTOR: Keshava Head
    PRODUCER: Sanjaya Gibbons
    NSW: NSW

    SYNOPSIS: After waking, a teenage boy encounters face to face his nightmare, when it personifies into a heated chase. But whose dream was it?

  • BUMPER

    BUMPER

    DIRECTOR: Ben McCarthy
    PRODUCER: Ben McCarthy
    STATE: NSW

    SYNOPSIS: Bumper the frog overlooks his disability and likes what he finds.

  • NEEDS AND WANTS

    NEEDS AND WANTS

    DIRECTOR: Peter Hoskins
    PRODUCER: Peter Hoskins
    STATE: NSW

    SYNOPSIS: Steve is a young teenager who, like many others, is unsure what lies ahead in life. After his parents have a fight Steve runs away on an adventure that teaches him some important lessons in life.

  • HOW TO MAKE A HORROR MOVIE

    HOW TO MAKE A HORROR MOVIE

    DIRECTOR: Matthew Robertson
    PRODUCER: Screen Seekers Club
    STATE: SA

    SYNOPSIS: How Scary Can a Horror Movie actually be? It is as scary as you make it!

  • RUBIES ARE RED

    RUBIES ARE RED

    DIRECTOR: Leing Repuana
    PRODUCER: Leing Repuana
    STATE: WA

    SYNOPSIS: A girl who faces problems searching for her identity.

Latest News

DATE & VENUE CHANGE

Posted in Blog on Monday 18.02.13

We are excited to announce that the next Trop Jr will take place THIS YEAR!

That’s right, Tropfest is moving to December 8, 2013.

We have also made the huge decision to move away from the Domain, Sydney. To accomodate our ever-expanding audiences, Sydney’s spectacular Centennial Park will become Trop Jr’s new home.

Festival Director John Polson said he is excited about the changes, but will miss the Domain: “We’ve been extremely privileged,” Polson said. “The Domain is now an important part of our history, having been our home since 1999. However, with our steadily growing audience, Centennial Parklands is really the only Sydney venue that offers us the space we now need. This will be an exciting new chapter for us.”

NEXT TROP JR: December 8, 2013

NEXT TSI: CHANGE

Ben McCarthy takes out First Prize at Trop Jr!

Posted in Blog, Media on Monday 18.02.13

Ben McCarthy (NSW) has won Trop Jr, the biggest short film festival for little people with a big imagination. Ben’s winning entry was Bumper, a claymation film about a frog who can’t jump.

One of the youngest of 16 finalists, 12 year old Ben is passionate about filmmaking, and spent most of the day grilling Sam Worthington about Hollywood and how to make it in the film industry. Inspired by last year’s Trop Jr runner up the I Think You Stink Show, McCarthy’s Bumper is the only Claymation entry to make it to the finals this year at Trop Jr.

McCarthy says the film took him six months, which included making the figures entirely on his desk at home and creating a really huge mess. He has aptly named his future production company “Messy Desk Productions”. His inspiration to work with Claymation came from the creator of Wallace and Gromit, Nick Park.

Watch Bumper here! 

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