If you want to brag to your friends in a few years that you witnessed the birth of new filmmaking stars, you shouldn’t miss the brand new festival section Future Frames, in which ten promising film students have the opportunity to present their short films in the hope of catching the interest of producers.
Today, for example, Greek director Konstantina Kotzamani presented her film Washingtonia, in which she showed the fates of several people at once and connected them with a mysterious myth about a giraffe’s beating heart. “I worked exclusively with non-actors, the screenplay was constantly changing, and while I was filming I still didn’t know how it would end,” revealed the director during a discussion with viewers.
Also presenting today was Irish artist James Fitzgerald, whose Skunky Dog follows a regular at a local pub. The young outcast Flick gets a chance to change his life thanks to a meeting with an elderly woman. If he wants to change it. After the projection, Fitzgerald mentioned that he was inspired by a real person: “A similar boy used to go to the pub where I worked. He had dropped out of school, he had nothing. I gave him a small royalty for using his story as inspiration and he went around the neighborhood excitedly telling people that we were making a Hollywood movie about him.”
Further screenings of the Future Frames section:
7.7. 15.30 and 18.30 Little Hall
