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CAPS SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Capricorn Film Festival brings you 12 Queensland and Australian Premieres from Australian and international filmmakers providing thought provoking, socially conscious, family centric journeys, comedic, relationship challenging films. Welcome to CAPS Short Film Competition.
SCREENING SCHEDULE
1530 - 1700 Sunday 19th January 2025
SCREENING LOCATION
Yeppoon Town Hall
SESSION RATING
M15+
ALMA
DRAMA - 7 MIN
DIRECTED BY SEBASTIAN CLARO
Alma is in charge of her brother's care in her loneliness. An unfortunate accident will leave her true reality exposed.
BIRD DRONE
ANIMATION - 9 MIN
DIRECTED BY RADHEYA JANG JEGATHEVA
A lonely seagull struggling to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone with a limited battery life.
BLOOD SISTERS
DRAMA - 12 MIN
DIRECTED BY MURAYA MOORE
Summer is invited to a sleepover with a new group of friends, but when their makeover starts to take a dark turn, Summer is tested just how far she will go to fit in.
DAD
DOCUMENTARY - 9 MIN
DIRECTED BY RILEY ELI JONES
A documentary featuring three children who talk about a family tragedy - when their dad was diagnosed with brain cancer.
DONT COME IN YET
COMEDY - 10 MIN
DIRECTED BY ISAAC DEAN ELLIOTT
Wheelchair bond Jake just tuned 18 and without supervision plans to have sex.
JASON IS MY DAD
DRAMA - 16 MIN
DIRECTED BY ASHLEY ZUKERMAN
An uber driver finds himself helping a private school kid with a paper route while trying to get a refund for a washing machine that he says never arrived.
ROE
DRAMA - 5 MIN
DIRECTED BY ALISON STANTON-COOK
A ride along in the day of the life of Jenna, a teacher at a public college.
ROSTRUM
DRAMA - 8 MIN
DIRECTED BY DANIEL KUBEREK
A former Olympic athlete and "recovered" heroine user gives an addiction recovery group more than they bargained for.
THE GHOST THAT WALKS
SPOKEN WORD - 3 MIN
DIRECTED BY JAY JAY & RADHEYA
What will you do if you captured the ghost...the entity... the creature... the monstrosity... that haunted your very existence?
THE REALTOR
COMEDY - 2 MIN
DIRECTED BY ADRIAN EPPEL
The Realtor explores Melbourne's current rental crisis through a Western lens.
WHEN THE GRASS GROWS
DRAMA - 5 MIN
DIRECTED BY MARIA MONREAL OTANO
To wonder is to grow. Because not everything is easy to understand... even when you've grown up.
LA BOUTEILLE
DRAMA - 5 MIN
DIRECTED BY XAVIER MESME
A runner sees the empty water bottle he throws into the wheat fields mysteriously come back onto the trail.
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cq shorts
Presented by Screen Queensland and viewed as part of the CAPS Short FIlm Competition, CQ Shorts is an exclusive selection of short films by Central Queensland filmmakers.
SCREENING TIME
1430 - 1525
SCREENING DATE
Sunday 19th January 2025
ANALOGOUS SOUL
THRILLER - 8 MIN
DIRECTED BY CALLUM MATEER
A woman paints a portrait of a man as she reminisces on their past.
DEARY ME NURSERY RHYMES
MUSICAL - 8 MIN
DIRECTED BY MARK DEERE
Three siblings discuss their favourite nursery rhymes.
ONE IN A THOUSAND
DOCUMENTARY - 2 MIN
DIRECTED BY AMY LAWSON
The life cycle of a turtle on Heron Island.
PREDATOR NIGHTFALL
ACTION - 5 MIN
DIRECTED BY KASEY DEETH
The Predator arrives in Central Queensland to start his hunt.
THE PURSUER
THE SILVER BULLET
SHORT - 5 MIN
DIRECTED BY SOREN JOCUMSEN
A lone mechanic’s quiet night in the shed spirals into terror as an unknown force stalks
him on his way home.
DRAMA - 10 MIN
DIRECTED BY GASTON BOULANGER
When the heat becomes unbearable our heroine finds a solution with a silver lining.
WHERE AM I?
DRAMA - 11 MIN
DIRECTED BY JACOB WILLIAM MCGUIRE
In a world where behind every door lies a different potential of yourself, is a teen lost in his anxieties trying to figure out who’s hand he will take.
YOU'LL NEVER SEE MY FACE
EXPERIMENTAL - 4 MIN
DIRECTED BY JADE LEE
This film in response to my own late diagnosis.
CAPS Short Film Competition & CQ Shorts screens short film premieres competing for cash and prizes on Sunday from 1430 to 1700 at the Yeppoon Town Hall.
Screen Queensland supports film and TV production across the state and is a proud partner of events like Capricorn Film Festival.
We Are Still Here, produced by Queensland’s No Coincidence Media
with Mārama Productions
Learn more
screenqueensland.com.au
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