Festival passes for all three days work out at £18.00 (£6.00 a day), with a special VIP invitation to the awards ceremony where there will be free drinks for those with passes!!
Standard tickets are £7.50 per day.
Festival pass £18.00.
Tickets may be purchased by clicking here.
Here is the definitive guide to the films showing at London Lift-Off 2011...
!!MONDAY SCREENINGS!!
To make you giggle, cry and inspire!!
Run Time: 2 mins.
Origin: UK
One day Bowie the dog awakes to an idea. Noticing he has recycling materials at his disposal he begins building a rocket to take him to the stars and away from his boring life. A funny very short film set to beautifully composed music.
All You Need Is Love by Wagnor Depintor.
Run Time: 18 mins.
Origin: Brazil
All you need is love is a movie that is ironic about Brazilian contemporary cinema, today polarized into two genres: violence and life in favelas and soap-operas.
Run Time: 9 mins.
Origin: UK
The film is about Joe and about when the confused shock and denial of losing someone meets the acceptance of it.
Les Armours Des Perdues by Samanou Sahlstrøm.
Run Time: 30 mins.
Origin: Denmark
Maria's life changes as she witnesses a man trying to kill himself.
Dusters by Christopher Baines. read the films blog.
Run Time: 12 mins.
Origin: UK
It's not easy selling cleaning materials with a stutter. Paul isn't having a good day.
Only Sound Remains by Arash Ashtiani. read the films blog.
Run Time: 14 mins.
Origin: UK & Iran
In the wake of the violent post -election protests in Iran ,a family tries to hide the news of death of their youngest member from their grandmother.
Pa'hana by Lana Dang.
Run Time: 10 mins.
Origin: Hawaii, USA
Kekoa is a man who wants the best for his daughter, though he himself is stuck between jobs struggling with the fact that he cannot achieve what he wants.
Worship by Calum Macdiarmid. read the films blog.
Run Time: 11 mins.
Origin: UK
'A man delves deep into his dreams to confront the religion his father brought him up with'
The true story of a psychiatrist delves deep into his dreams to confront the religion his father brought him up with.
!!TUESDAY SCREENINGS!!
To test and dazzle the mind, the stomach and the consciousness.
To test and dazzle the mind, the stomach and the consciousness.
Remembering Formby by Sue Elliot. read the films blog.
Run Time: 5 mins.
Origin: UK
Formby Patterson-Wright had one of the most recognisable faces in the country. His career spanned over four decades and his work can still be seen on road signs, construction sites and public buildings today.
Corvus by Clare Kissane
Run Time: 8 mins.
Origin: UK
One deed unforgiven. One revenge untaken. One man, one woman enter a forest that holds secrets of the past. Unaware of the eyes that watch.
Adams Tallit by Justin Olstein
Run Time: 17 mins.
Origin: Australia
A reclusive, recently widowed Holocaust survivor reluctantly babysits her vivacious young grandson, and discovers that life can be better in the company of others.
The Plan by Jason Moola. read the films blog.
Run Time: 23 mins.
Origin: UK
London. Six dysfunctional gangsters meet in an abandoned warehouse to plan their next job.
Sanctified by John Charles Jopson. read the films blog.
Run Time: 13 mins.
Origin: Italy & UK
A pedophile priest 'confesses' to the repeated rape of a ten-year-old boy and is absolved of his sins. Based on actual victim depositions, perpetrator interview transcripts, and grand jury investigations.
Sink by Ryan Owen
Run time: 7 mins.
Origin: UK
Faced with new responsibilities, a young couple's relationship teeters on the edge of disintegration. Which road will they choose? Continue their juvenile ways or come together and deal with the consequences, and get older.
Ridicula by Domingo J. Gonzalez
Run time: 15 mins.
Origin: Spain
Laura is 40 years old and she has three sons. She has always been the perfect mother and wife. But now things have changed.
Variationen by Sebastian Barner-Rasmussen
Run time: 14 mins.
Origin: Finland
A young man has recently been fired from his job as a guard at the museum. At home he is met by his brother, an inventor trying to build a time machine. Unemployed and with bills stacking up, he fools his technically gifted brother to break in to his former workplace.
!!WEDNESDAY SCREENINGS!!
To excite, scare and romanticise!!
To excite, scare and romanticise!!
Alone by Ethan Senecker
Run time: 8 mins.
Origin: USA
Home is the safest place, unless, you're alone.
Drift by Ben Carid. read the flims blog.
Run time: 20 mins.
Origin: UK
In an attempt to find a reattachment to the memory of his childhood, John returns to the London neighbourhood he grew up in.
Run time: 24 mins.
Origin: India
An aspiring intellectual writer is thrust with the task of writing a pulp fiction erotic novel to begin his career. As he writes, we see the world he is writing about.
Run time: 7 mins.
Origin: UK
Vincent got lost on his way to work one day, and he doesn't know how to get home. He has spent the last five years living on a bench behind a church.
Run time: 24mins.
Origin: USA.
Run time: 18 mins.
Origin: USA.
In the heart of London a young girl searches for herself amidst a musical fairytale.
Run time: 4 mins.
Origin: UK.
Two pinata dolls meet at a Mexican themed party. Will love blossom between them? Or does fate have a more tragic end in store?
!!THE AWARDS!!
"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. " -- Jack Benny.
All awards are audience choice and as member of the audience you will be given a voting card to decide which were your top two favourite films and which actor you loved the most.
Awards in the region of £12'000 worth of prizes will be given to the following categories:-
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best UK Professional Film
Best UK Student Film
Best International Professional Film
Best International Student Film
The festival runs from the 10th-12th October 2011 at the Tricycle Cinema in North West London. Click here for tickets. Or call the box office now on 020 7328 1000.  |
No comments:
Post a Comment