Press release from Sydney Film School
Two Sydney Film School films have been selected as the finalists of this year’s ViVa Leichhardt Short Film Festival.
‘Look At Them Run, Why Are They Running?’ and ‘Mr Hector Dudley’, the short Thesis Film and short Documentary both directed by former student Brian Lye are about to screen at the Leichhardt Film Festival as two of only 9 short films selected this year.
With the biggest number of entrants than ever before the selection of the finalists of this year’s festival posed a challenge to the festival’s organisers.
“This year we had a record number of entrants”, says Nino Lo Giudice, organiser of the festival. “We had more entrants than the last 2 years combined, so I am confident that this is the strongest field of finalists we have ever had and there will be something to entertain and challenge everyone. In fact, it was extremely difficult to exclude some other films.”
Produced in 2008, the charming short doco ‘Mr Hector Dudley’ features the world of the Pug whose life, although accompanied by intense heavy breathing and snorting, is still full of challenges not so different from our own.
From December 2008 till April 2009 the film screened as part of The Tails Of The City exhibition at the Museum of Sydney and has recently returned from Hong Kong where it screened as part of the ‘7th Global Chinese University Student Film and TV Festival’.
At this year’s VIVa Leichhardt Film Festival ‘Mr Hector Dudley’ will screen next to 8 other short films including the 5 minutes long comedy ‘Look At Them Run, Why Are They Running?’, a beautifully comic look at why five different groups of people are running.
The 3rd edition of the ViVa Leichhardt Short Film Festival will be held on June 7 at Palace Cinemas, Norton St, Leichhardt. Finalists will compete for the opportunity to win the Pomo D’oro, the best film award accompanied with a $2000 cash prize. Films will screen in two sessions, one starting at 8:30pm and the other at 9pm.