Festival Program
Friday 4th August - Sunday 6th August 2023

Session 1 - OPENING NIGHT
6.30pm-9.10pm Friday 4th August

6.30pm - Foyer Bar Open

7pm - Opening Speeches in Cinema

7.10pm - Screening

8.50pm - Award Presentations and Q&A

9.25pm - End

Program

  • The Rockpool Waltz, Marlon Denning, Schools/Under 18, NSW

  • Born to Stay, Anahita Sahar Babae, Open, Sweden

  • Did You Live A Good Life, Robin Lowe, Local/Music Video, Bass Coast

  • Don Javier, Alejandro Llamas, Open/Animation, Mexico

  • Kutcha's Koorioke - Kamahi Djordon King, John Harvey, Open/First Nations Stories, Victoria

  • Home, Michael Green, Local, Bass Coast

  • E6-D7, Eno Swinnen, Open/Animation, Belgium

  • Submerged, Danny Rumsby, Arthur Francis, Schools/Under 18, Tasmania

  • Laughter Club, Adam Ciancio, Open, Victoria

  • Woman of Gold, Maureen Alford, Local/Music Video, Bass Coast

  • Pieces of Solitude, Elaheh Ghomeishi, Open/Animation, Iran

  • Habitat, Brett Cousins, Open, Victoria, Victoria

  • Amissa Anima, Tatiana Doroshenko, Open, Victoria

Session 2
1.30pm-6.30pm Saturday 5th August

1:30pm - Screening

3.15pm - Break

3.45pm - Film Makers Forum in Cinema

6pm - Foyer Bar Open

Program

  • Kutcha's Koorioke – Emma, John Harvey, Open/First Nations Stories, Victoria

  • The Outside Dunny, Walter Smithers, Open, Victoria

  • The Wave, Eleanor Evans, Giovanni Aguilar, Open/Animation, ACT

  • Stitched Together, Tess McArthur-Dowty, Open/Documentary, Victoria

  • Ukulele Man, Seth Bee-Hickman, Local/Schools/Under 18, Bass Coast

  • Alaska, Holly George, Open/Music Video, ACT

  • Tendrils, Kate Matheson, Open, Victoria

  • Summer, Ivy Tucker, Schools/Under 18, Victoria

  • Bunurong Coast, Steve Dunn, Local/Documentary, Bass Coast

  • Once I Passed, Martin Gerigk, Open, Germany

  • Djaambi, Joel Brown, Open/First Nations Stories, Adelaide

  • The Sprayer, Farnoosh Abedi, Open/Animation, Iran

  • Run Little Rat, Ofre Sparrow Vaknin, Open/Animation, USA

  • Hatchback, Riley Sugars, Open, Victoria

Session 3
6.30pm-10.30pm Saturday 5th August

6pm - Foyer Bar Open

6.30pm - Screening

8.30pm-10.30pm - Foyer Event, Meet ‘n’ Mingle With Film Makers &Other Patrons

Program

  • A Way of Seeing, Cameron David Myers, Open/Documentary, Victoria

  • Kutchas Koorioke – Bumpy, John Harvey, Open/First Nations Stories, Victoria

  • Red Line, Wei-Yi Jiang, Open/Animation, Taiwan

  • Rollercoaster, Anthea Staats, Open, ACT

  • The Sanctuary, Timothy Raymond Brown, Michael Bruce Portway, Open/Documentary, Victoria

  • The Hoarder, Eleanor Evans, Giovanni Aguilar, Open/Animation, ACT

  • The Yappas, Nevanka McKeon, Open/First Nations Stories, Northern Territory

  • Resurection under the Ocean, Serkan Aktaş, Open, Turkey

  • Hermit, Stephanie Begg, Open, NSW

  • Techno Àhčči, Elisabeth Rasmussen, Open/Music Video, Norway

  • Climate Change Inverloch, Steve Dunn, Documentary, Bass Coast

  • Safe As Houses, Mia Mullarkey, Open, Ireland

Session 4
12.30pm-2.30pm Sunday 6th August

12:30pm - Screening

2.15pm - Closing Q&A

3pm - Finish

Program

  • Mikayla, Nevanka McKeon, First Nations Stories, Queensland

  • Earthquake Without a Richter, Farid Nikkha, Open, Iran

  • Beta Days, Dan Walls, Open, Victoria

  • Dice'n With Death, Gary Hegedus, Open, Victoria

  • Home We Go, Michael Green, Local, Bass Coast

  • Reincarnation Mall, Eric Giessmann, Piers Goffart, Open/Animation, Germany

  • Don't Come In Yet, Isaac Dean Elliott, Open, Victoria

  • Karl Heinz, Andrew Robb, Open, Victoria

  • Kutchas Kooriokie – Birdz, John Harvey, First Nations Stories, Victoria

  • Thou Shalt Dance, Abtin Yaghmaian, Open/Animation, Iran

  • Gotcha, Scott Kennedy, Open, Victoria

  • Like A Dog, Hamid Naseri Moghadam, Open, Iran

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Where are we?

 

Main screening venue:

Wonthaggi Union Community Arts Centre

96 Graham Street

Wonthaggi Vic 3995

Proudly supported by
Bass Coast Shire, South Coast FM,
MYLI Community Library,
Wonthaggi Workmen’s Club,
& the MJ McMahon Motel