Homegrown 1998

    Homegrown 98
    92 min. approx

    Once again local filmmakers display their skill and diversity in this selection of dramas, comedies, animations and dance that range from low budget to well funded.

    A Fine Weekend
    Armagan Ballantyne. NZ 1997. 13 mins. Drama
    “I met someone near the park, some girl, and told her lies… horrible ridiculous lies” A man is left wondering what might have been after a fleeting encounter. Will his best friend be able to guide him back to a chance of love?

    Lament For Barney Flanagan
    Paul Judge. NZ 1998. 13 mins. 16mm. Drama. World premiere.
    An interpretaton of James K Baxter’s well known ballad poem. An overweight, alcoholic publican of Irish catholic descent who dies from a heart attack, faces judgement by St Peter at the Pearly Gates.

    Point Your Toes Cushla
    Simon Marler. NZ 1998. 11 mins. 16mm. Drama. World premiere.
    Young ballet competitor Cushla falls in front of the bloodthirsty ballet mothers and the feared ballet mistress, Mrs Halpin. Cushla’s mother resorts to a desperate action.

    Flying
    Charlie de Salis. NZ 1998. 15 mins. Drama. World premiere.
    A young girl visits her dying grandmother with her father. A gentle film that gives hope for the father and his daughter and for the strength of the human spirit.

    Lament For Barney Flanagan
    Paul Judge. NZ 1998. 13 mins. 16mm. Drama. World premi?re.
    An interpretaton of James K Baxter’s well known ballad poem. An overweight, alcoholic publican of Irish catholic descent who dies from a heart attack, faces judgement by St Peter at the Pearly Gates.

    Point Your Toes Cushla
    Simon Marler. NZ 1998. 11 mins. 16mm. Drama. World premiere.
    Young ballet competitor Cushla falls in front of the bloodthirsty ballet mothers and the feared ballet mistress, Mrs Halpin. Cushla’s mother resorts to a desperate action.

    Mesmer
    Morag Brownlie. NZ 1998. 11 mins. Beta-SP. Experimental Drama. World premiere.
    Mesmer is a magical, surreal and comic look into a slice of urban life and an impossible romance.

    I Am A Cat
    Stephen Donoghue. NZ 1997. 4 mins. Beta. Animation. World premiere.
    A brief visit to the bizarre world of two animated biomechanical beings.

    Hurtle
    Shona McCullagh. NZ 1998. 10 mins. Beta. Dance comedy. World Premiere.
    A surreal dance comedy. One day in the life of two extraordinary sisters of the cloth. Compelled by a literally uncontrollable urge, the sisters seek higher spiritual truth and sweet relief from moral discomfort.

    Bella
    Karen Nobles. NZ 1998. 15 mins. Drama. World premiere.
    In a world without women Bella is Queen. Bella is a young transsexual who dreams of glamour from behind prison walls. When prison officer, Goff, attempts to destroy her dreams, Bella takes a courageous stand.

    Thirtieth Auckland International Film Festival
    Village St James Theatre, Queen St., Auckland
    Friday July 10th 2:00pm
    Friday July 10th 5:45pm

    Twenty-Seventh Wellington Film Festival
    National Library
    Tuesday July 21 4:00pm and 6:00pm