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2013 summary

MARCH - JUNE 2013

SHORT ANIMATION

THE DUCK
Genre Drama
Producer Sara Taghaode
Writer Ben Loory
Director Simon Cottee
Synopsis A duck hopelessly in love with a rock that can never love him back must take action before his heart breaks.

LOST PROPERTY OFFICE
Genre Drama
Producer Liz Kearney
Director Daniel Agdag
Synopsis Ed is the sole custodian of a lost property office. In many ways he is like the lost items gathering dust. But although he is content to remain this way a letter on his desk compels him otherwise. How he chooses to move on from his post is somewhat unorthodox.

THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE
Genre Fantasy/Adult Fable
Producers Angie Fielder, Brendan Fletcher, Polly Staniford
Writer/Directors Del Kathryn Barton, Brendan Fletcher
Synopsis A Nightingale bird discovers ‘a true lover’ when she sees a young university student from her home in the oak tree. The Nightingale is so taken by the virtue of the student’s passion that she commits to help him find the single red rose that his lover requests of him. However, this comes at a price. The chilling ritual that she must put herself through to summon this flower into being is a collision of love, death and nature. The world of the true lover will never be the same again. Based on Oscar Wilde’s timeless story of ecstatic first love and the artwork of Del Kathryn Barton.