By Goya Dmytryshchak
Melbourne’s longest-running short-film night is hosting a 10-year reunion and inviting directors previously featured to a special screening in Williamstown.
West Side Shorts, presented by Angry Productions, is a film night held at Customs House Hotel on the second Tuesday of the month.
Founder and award-winning Newport filmmaker Tom Vogel said many of the directors featured had gone on to achieve major success.
Of the thousands of short films he has watched, Vogel plans to show seven of the best on the night.
“I’m trying to get in touch with Matthew Saville at the moment because I want to play his short film,
Sweetheart, which played there years ago,” he said. “Matthew directed The King, which is the television biography of Graham Kennedy.
“We’ll be screening Nash Edgerton’s film called
Bear – his brother is Joel Edgerton who’s in a lot of Hollywood movies at the moment.
“The film stars Teresa Palmer who was in
Hacksaw Ridge and Wolf Creek; Warwick Thornton, the director of Samson and Delilah and Sweet Country, also stars.
“On top of that, James Di Martino is going to be hosting the night and he’s just completed his first feature film, which is called
The Faceless Man. We’ll be showing a trailer of that at the end of the night and doing a Q and A with him and the DOP [director of photography].”
Members of the public are invited to come along.
West Side Shorts celebrates 10 years on December 11 from 8pm. Entry is free for previously screened directors and $7 for others.
