Fresh Ink » Short Films

Making a film is like giving birth. Forgetting the difficult bits is a coping mechanism.

freshinkmanager — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:59:16 +0000

We are closing this site down, and shifting everything over to our new, much improved Fresh Ink site. Check out the interview with Bec, here.

I’ll give this city the bits of me it needs

freshinkmanager — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:17:09 +0000

We are coming up to our National Studio, taking place in December at the beautiful writers retreat of Bundanon in NSW .

At this year’s Studio, we are going to be looking at writing monologues, and we will be selecting works coming from the Studio to form part of our annual monologue showcase, which will be held in February 2012, as part of The Voices Project.

Our inaugural presentation, Tell It Like It Isn’t, about the vicissitudes of first love, was a huge success with audiences earlier this year and we are giving you a chance to be part of it.

To get us in the mood, check out this beautiful monologue, written in the form of a letter written to her lover and narrated by a young African migrant to Dublin, as she walks the streets of her new home. As she passes through the eponymous Moore Street, she considers her future, her unfolding sense of identity, and her new life.

The film is the second in the acclaimed Civic Life series, by UK-based filmmakers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy, and was made in collaboration with the Dublin-based African theatre company, Arambe. It was shot in Moore Street which, in the history of immigration into Ireland, has become the first home for new migrants.

Since July 2003 Christine and Joe, through Civic Life, have worked on a series of such films, which are made in negotiation with local residents and community groups. At the centre of the work is the relationship these communities have to the environments in which they live and work and all of the films are involve largely non-professional casts made up of volunteers from the local communities.

Their most recent film, Tiong Bahru, shot in Singapore in 2010, is currently on tour in Australia as part of the Travelling Sydney Film Festival. You can find details, here , while watch Joe talking about his and Christine’s process, here.

Check back this Thursday (1st September) for details of how you can be part of the Studio.

A (love) Tale of Two Cities

freshinkmanager — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:39:11 +0000

JW Griffiths’ Splitscreen: A Love Story was shot entirely on the Nokia N8 mobile phone in Paris, New York and London, and is the winner of the Nokia Shorts competition 2011.

The finalists screened at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.

You can check out the other finalists, here.

A helping hand on the journey al norte

freshinkmanager — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:32:04 +0000

This stunning short film celebrates the women of La Patrona, Veracruz and their quest for human solidarity.

As the trains with their cargoes of human traffic head north to the United States, carrying the dreams of migrants and their families who stay behind, a hand of friendship is extended by the woman of La Patrona in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

A reminder of our common humanity, the film had us in tears when we realised what is actually going on.

Please watch and pass on!

Read more about the women of La Patrona, here.

See also Dulce Pinzón’s body of work casting migrants from Mexico as the real superheroes of the United States, here.

More than just a plot device!

freshinkmanager — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:22:02 +0000

A promotional video for Red Giant editing software becomes a smash and grab critique of Hollywood’s narrative-by-numbers filmmaking.

Very, very clever…and very, very funny! Just watch and enjoy!