More than 50 short films will be screened at Yarraville this week when the Setting Sun Short Film Festival returns for its second year.
The 2015 ‘Sunnies’, opening on Thursday night, will showcase 52 films across four days at the Sun Theatre and Kindred Studios.
Director Anna Bourozikas says the festival will wrap up on Sunday with a Sunnies awards ceremony, where the best films and filmmakers for 2015 are proclaimed.
“The festival has grown this year, with many films highlighting the people and places of the west, while a good range of films came from across the bridge and interstate,” she said.
Newport filmmaker and actor Tom Vogel has two films screening at the festival.
“I’ve been doing it for about 10 years now; I’ve directed 13 short films.
“I’ve always been interested in telling stories. I was always interested in film but thought it was out of my realm,” he said. “But after doing a one-week course I realised I could do it.”
Vogel runs the West Side Shorts monthly short film night in Williamstown and is festival director and organiser of the decade-old Angry Film Festival.
He does most of his filming in the western suburbs, including the two films being screened as part of the Sunnies. One of them is a sequel to his award-winning and Tropfest finalist film One In a Million, which is about a boy who discovers his dad is a serial killer.
For session times and tickets visit www.suntheatre.com.au.
