Australian Showcase (2013)

A chance for Australian animation to come front and centre. This is the first comprehensive snapshot of Australian animation in 2013 and if this collection is anything to go by, creative Australian animation is in tremendous shape. One of our most important and popular programs, there aren't many opportunities to see Australian animation on the big screen and each year AIAF probably shows more than any other event in the world. This is an opportunity to see what Australian animators are doing, how they're doing it and how the art form is traveling. After the screening there is a chance to meet many of the animators, hear them talk about their films and ask them questions about their work.

Featured in AIAF2013
Program Type: Films
Content Rating: Mature (M)
Re-Collection
Nicholas Kallincos

Paranormal occurrences. Karma for beginners. Understanding dreams and nightmares. Super-strength mothballs only offer so much protection.



Australia
Runtime: 3:25
Year: 2012
Good Grief
Fiona Dalwood

A short stop motion animated documentary exploring the lessons we learn from dealing with grief and loss.



Australia
Runtime: 8:01
Year: 2013
Lunar New Year
James Tran

The big and small intricacies that together weave the memory of a Chinese family New Year.



Australia
Runtime: 3:41
Year: 2012
Cedric And Hope
Pierce Davison

The year is 1097 and the first bloody crusade is well and truly underway. One of the benefits to emerge was....soap!



Australia
Runtime: 13:50
Year: 2012
Easy Way Out
Darcy Prendergast

A visually spellbinding music video teaming Australia's sensational Oh Yeah Wow crew with singing sensation Goyte.



Australia
Runtime: 2:12
Year: 2012
Kinetics 3
Annemarie Szeleczky

There was never any doubt we would be playing this wonderfully bouncy and vivacious addition to the "Kinetics" series.



Australia
Runtime: 2:34
Year: 2012
Fire Tiger Vs Acid Panther
Anya McNaughton

A visually dramatic pitched battle between a flaming Fire Tiger taking on a sly Acid Panther in the hunt for a boar.



Australia
Runtime: 3:09
Year: 2012
Butterflies
Isobel Peppard

Superbly crafted Faustian gothic fairy tale about an artist struggling to keep her muse alive in the face of adversity.



Australia
Runtime: 11:58
Year: 2012
Dragon
Ben Wotton

Death can strike almost without warning as a young couple flee for their lives in the face of a killer dragon.



Australia
Runtime: 3:59
Year: 2012
A Tale Of Longing
Xin Li

A beautifully hand-painted film charting a collection of journeys, real and imagined, from a range of different perspectives.



Australia
Runtime: 3:35
Year: 2012
Hamer Hall - Evolution
Cameron Gough, Dirty Puppet

A twisting and turning tour through the ages of time depicting the history of the site that now houses Melbourne's Hamer Hall.



Australia
Runtime: 3:31
Year: 2012
A Bird's Song
Alice Markham

Music comes from the heart, from nature and freedom. Trying to cage the source is a folly only the evil would contemplate.



Australia
Runtime: 1:32
Year: 2012
The Hunter
Marieka Walsh

A haunting sand animation capturing an epic journey undertaken by a hunter as he tries to conquer the icy wilderness in the hopes of finding a boy feared taken by wolves.



Australia
Runtime: 7:01
Year: 2012
Hans
Susie Jones

Many hands make all kinds of things work. A delightful tale of a little man with leakage problems and a propensity for attracting telemarketers.



Australia
Runtime: 2:49
Year: 2012
Reds Under The Beds
Phil Henderson

A fiesta of crazy, cool retro styling and a hilarious take on the notorious Petrov affair.



Australia
Runtime: 2:48
Year: 2012
Got Me A Beard
The Beards

Sing it loud, sing it proud, don't take no prisoners. Compromise isn't on the menu, shaving is out of the question. Got me a beard. Beard power rules!!!



Australia
Runtime: 3:52
Year: 2012