Update: This event has reduced capacity due to Level 2 Lockdown restrictions. As a result we have sold out. However if Wellington drops to Level 1 before October 8th then we will be able to release more tickets. Check back for updates!

Join us for a very special night out as we launch this year’s Show Me Shorts Film Festival in Wellington. We will be screening a special selection of short films which includes world premieres, Wellington-made films and some of the best in this year’s programme. Come celebrate short films and the people who make them!

We are keeping all our fingers and toes crossed but in the event of Wellington shifting to Covid Alert Level 3 or 4 you can request a full refund through Eventbrite.

Rating TBC

Films featured below:

A HOLE

Comedy, 12 mins, New Zealand

Dir/Writ: James Solomon

Prod: Lissandra Leite

A skilled workman digs a perfect hole in a cracked earthen plain in an endless warehouse. A series of well-dressed people come and sit on comfortable couches offering contradictory opinions, and the job gradually unravels.

Song for Serbia - World Premiere

Drama, 9 mins, New Zealand

Dir/Writ: Rouzie Hassanova

Prod: Francesca Carney

Two sisters decide to escape lockdown and are picked up by a couple of unlikely locals. Mistake, assumption and prejudice come to the fore after a sudden perceived threat.

JUNE - World Premiere

Fantasy, 15 mins, New Zealand

Dir/Writ/Prod: Dwayne Cameron

Prod: Sarah James

Willow and David receive a serious diagnosis from their doctor and attempt to deal with the mundane as their world disintegrates in the following 24 hours. This one day for the couple holds raw despair, unleashing carnal natures but a transcendent occurrence offers them the hope of new life.

Blood and Gold - World Premiere

Western, 14 mins, NZ

Dir: Yamin Tun

Writ: Jodie Hillock

Prod: Morgan Leigh Stewart

New Zealand, 1861. Man’s hunt for gold is feverish. Through the snow-capped mountains a woman flees on horseback. When she encounters a horrific scene, she makes a decision which will alter the course of two lives…

Blue Lake - World Premiere

Comedy, 11 mins, New Zealand

Dir/Writ: Anya Tate-Manning

Prod: Maddy Maxwell

Monster-hunting youtube sensations Phil and Angie are on the road again, searching to uncover Otago’s supernatural secrets. An eerie trip to Blue Lake could finally get them on the cover of the Otago Daily Times, or maybe the obituaries.

Woman in Blue - World Premiere

Thriller, 13 mins, New Zealand

Dir/Writ: Jack O’Donnell

Writ/Prod: Ashleigh Flynn

Awhi (Tanea Heke), an ex-policewoman, relives memories from her past while in a dementia ward. A visit from Owen (Temuera Morrison) provides a moment of relief.

The Mushroom Hunters

Animation, 6 mins, United Kingdom

Dir: Caroline Rudge

Writ: Neil Gaiman

Prod: Amanda Palmer, Alexandra Casswell Becker

Neil Gaiman’s Award winning poem The Mushroom Hunters, narrated by Amanda Palmer, invites us to re-examine how we think of the origin and nature of science, and the role it has played in our development as a species.

Survivors

Science Fiction, 7 mins, Spain

Dir/Writ/Prod: Carlos Gómez-Trigo

Natural selection says that only those who adapt will survive. But, if modern humans have become too stupid, a question comes up: if a society that has thrown away its ability to adapt and evolve intelligently, would it deserve a second chance to survive?

Green - World Premiere

Drama, 16 mins, New Zealand

Dir/Writ: Rachel Ross

Prod: Morgan Leigh Stewart, Samantha Dutton

An estranged father and daughter, both with life altering illnesses, smoke marijuana together for the first time and it becomes healing in more ways than one.