The Sundance Film Festival has concluded its 2008 program and the Australian Film Commission (AFC) congratulates Australian filmmaker Nash Edgerton on receiving an honourable mention during the Festival’s closing Awards Ceremony.
Nash Edgerton’s short, Spider, was one of the five short films selected from Australia to screen as part of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The festival’s shorts line up presented 84 films with Nash being one of seven filmmakers from around the world to receive a Honourable Mention in Short Filmmaking.
Spider is the fourth short film directed by Nash Edgerton that has screened at Sundance since 2000. It has had much success both domestically and internationally with screenings at numerous film festivals including Telluride, Prague, Cork, Sydney and Melbourne. Spider recently won the Jury Prize at the AFI/Los Angeles Film Festival and won the audience award at both the Sydney Film Festival and Prague Short Film Festival.
Spider
(9 minutes)
Director: Nash Edgerton
Writers: Nash Edgerton and David Michod
Producer: Nicole O’Donohue
Production Company: Blue Tongue Films
Cast: Nash Edgerton, Joel Edgerton, Chum Ehelepola, Mirrah Foulkes, Tony Lynch
Synopsis: It’s all about fun and games until someone loses an eye.
[release from the AFC]