SF3 is the Smart Fone Flick Fest and is Australia’s only dedicated smartphone film festival for filmmakers of all ages. See how the humble portable smart telephone can be easily used for so much more than photographing your food and sending sms text messages.
2015 is the inaugural year, receiving more than 500 entries, but which movies will make the final top ten? All of the Top Ten Films were shown on the huge screen at Palace Chauvel Cinema. The audience was captivated by an entertaining fun night of innovative, creative short movies, with each Smart Phone movie having a running time under six and a half minutes.
Congratulations to every movie chosen as the SF3 2015 Top Ten Finalists. After the screening the winners were announced for the People’s Choice Award and all the Judge’s Awards. Congratulations to all the winners.
SF3 began because of Short and Sweet Theatre 2013. Angela Blake and Ali Crew met by being cast in a WILDCARDS play called “Weeing on a Stick” which won the 2013 Short and Sweet Play Festival Wildcards Award. It was an amazing play, simply told. Co-organisers Angela Blake and Ali Crew were inspired to give filmmakers the same opportunities that Short and Sweet gives theatre makers, and created SF3. Thank you to Angela Blake and Ali Crew for creating this great concept, and especially for all the time and effort required to organise this amazing movie festival.
SF3 2015 Best Film Winner and Best Actor Award – “The LSD Man” by Steve McGrath . . . Written and performed with great style and vigour by a very gifted actor/playwright, Steven McGrath has had many Australian television roles, but also is the man seen a million times in TV commercials over the past two decades. Superb mockumentary about an inspiring artist who is a wonderfully weird “song and dance man” claiming to be “the love child of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers”. Featuring the filmmaker and with Gerry Sont as his interviewer. Steve McGrath was a regular and award winning contributor to Short and Sweet Theatre. THE LSD MAN is a shorter version of his ten minute play “THE LAST SONG AND DANCE MAN” which was performed 22 to 26 February 2011 at NIDA Parade Theatres SYDNEY as part of Short and Sweet Theatre 2011.
SF3 2015 People’s Choice Award Winner – “Cystic Fibrosis” documentary by Tayla Dawson . . . Meet Charlie an infant with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) in this awareness film, that is a short film of hope for finding a cure.
SF3 2015 Best Director and Best Cinematography Awards Winner – “Dog Tail” by Swathy Deepak . . . From India and inspired by an old Hindi saying, tells the incredible tale of a poor pick pocket, and the real reason for stealing wallets full of money.
SF3 2015 Best Screenplay Award Winner – “Hit” by Jim Minns . . . fast murder in the garage, heard but not seen.
SF3 2015 Top Ten and Best Actress Award Winner – “The Goal” by Nicola Wood . . . This soccer watching girl must think outside the box to win her guy, by becoming a soccer player.
SF3 2015 Top Ten – “The Asking Room” by Conrad Mess . . . Double homicide interrogation.
SF3 2015 Top Ten – “Murrays Run” by James Hartley . . . A meeting on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, so what can go wrong.
SF3 2015 Top Ten – “Lady Redback” by Alec Hall . . . Sydney now has its own guardian superhero.
SF3 2015 Top Ten – “The Dhal Burglar” by Eran Thomson . . . Sri Lankan girl is stealing bowls of dahl to feed her animal friend, a chained elephant.
SF3 2015 Top Ten – “51” by Cassandra P. Cameron . . . When you both love each other for more than fifty years.
The first movie screened was the SF3 2015 Kids Flick Pick – “The Day Before It’s Due” by 16 year old Sean Notley . . . About forgetting to early submit a short film entry and doing an improvised quick entry just in time.
7:30pm Friday 28th August 2015 at Palace Chauvel Cinema, corner Oxford Street and Oatley Road, Paddington, NSW
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