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This years
festival was a great success and the best ever! We had a full house
every night - that means 117 people. watched
17 main programme films, we added an extra late night session to accommodate
quite a few extra films that we either got late or just couldn't fit into
the programme. The Audience Favorite Prize
was awarded to the moving Black Day to Freedom an animated film
by the rising star of motion graphics - Rob Chiu, his website is
at theronin.co.uk. See the film here,
congratulations from all of us - there is a silver tankard with your name
on behind the bar! Second place was the motion
capture film Particle Man by Kirk Woolford and Third
was shared by the skateboardtastic Four Wheels Down and the excellent
story 20/20. A special mention should also be made that the audience
voted Anvil Studios by Alan Hanwell fourth, we hope he doesn't
mind us mentioning that he is 78 years old and made this hilarious single
shot film on a consumer digital camera with a movie function! Not only
that but it was his first film too!
Cannes has its scampi, Berlin its beer, Edinburgh its
warm welcome. At Langsett we have all these and a load of films!
This year we asked for open submissions and the response was fantastic;
film-makers aged 5 to 78, professionals, artists and amateurs, both local
and international responded. Many of last years film makers submitted
this time and the standard keeps getting better. Again we awarded the
Audience Favourite Film Tankard, as voted by the audience. Who enjoyed
an eclectic mix of drama, documentary, comedy and experimental films and
for the first time interactive multimedia work.
Our aim as always is to appeal to a mixed audience with a wide range of
films that embrace every aspect of film-making talent. Last year our great
success was local band Wagen who were invited to play at the Royal Opera
House as a result of their film.
We would like to thank all the film-makers and the audience. For their
invaluable technical expertise Igloo,
mptye and Langsett
Community Media and of course our hosts - everyone at the Waggon & Horses.
LIFF want to hear from you. If you have any suggestions on how to make
the event better, or want to be kept up-to-date with everything that is
happening at Langsett, or want to join our mailing list - let us know
at LIFF@empty.co.uk
WP - World Premiere
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| Anvil
Studios WP Using a digital stills camera and shot in a single take, a new studio presents: “Some song and dance, with a cast of four - My Grandfather, Major Peregrine Parkhurst, our pro-active Camera man and me.” Director: Alan Hanwell / 2:50 minutes / 2005 / Yorkshire |
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| Unfairground
Ride An experimental camera in a ball enables an extraordinary view of performer Tiago Gambogi. Director: Lizze Sykes / 2:07 minutes / 2005 / The South |
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| Attack
Back
WP On a planet in a galaxy not so far away, good fights evil in this minature special effects fest. Director: Jerald Battye (assisted by Tim & Vanda) / 1:20 minute / 2005 / Yorkshire |
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Trojan Horse Stop-motion animation based on the short story by Raymond Queneau. In a back street Parisian bar an anonymous couple meet to discuss their desperate financial situation. A chance encounter with another of the bars customers reveals a darker side to their solution. But have they said too much? Director: Matt Palmer / 7:30 minutes / 2004 / Lancashire |
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Hunters Moon WP On the evening of the Hunters Moon every year Mr Fox visits the Waggon & Horses and fireworks ensue. This documentary reveals the extraordinary pagentry of the Mr Fox ensemble. Director: Tim Copsey / 4:30 minutes / 2005 / Yorkshire |
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Black
Day to Freedom Watch the Film |
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| Particle
Man Reminiscent of a Len Lye film, this modern animation uses motion capture to create a dancing figure who whirls, explodes and spins in a shower of pixels. Director: Kirk Woolford / 2:18 minutes / 2003 / Holland |
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This interactive piece ran throughout the intermission. Imagery of a dancer is cut-up and displaced by a computer program controlled by the movement of the dancer, creating a process whereby movement and its visualisation are a function of one another. Director: Simon Biggs & Sue Hawksley / infinite / 2005 / Yorkshire |
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Four
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| Mandragora
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A trippy love story between two plants set in the 17th century, reminiscent of the early work by Czechoslovak animator Jan Svankmajer. Director: Alex Hislop / 3:30 minutes / 2005 / Yorkshire |
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Good, The Bad and The Chorley A Lancashire hot-pot Western! The scenes are direct reinterpretations from the original Spaghetti Westerns. Winner, second place, at the Tromafling Independent Film Festival in Edinburgh. Director: Krystal Gault / 15 minutes / 2005 |
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have a total 100 percent commitment to end user satisfaction through
an ongoing value realisation buy-in ... WP A short film about communication which wittily demonstrates the utter banality of corporate speak. Director: Tim Copsey / 2 minutes / 2005 / Yorkshire |
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| 20/20 Two young Japanese tourists in London on a Summers day. When Taro fails to pay Keiko attention, she gives up and goes off on her own. Director: Sasha Yeytushenko / 9:54 minutes / 2005 / Japan / London |
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3 - Sorry Tree An Englishwoman apologising in a Norwegian wood, “I was set the following task: keep apologising while swinging from a tree, think of Esther Williams. This is my filmed response.” Director: Clare Thornton / 2:11 minutes / 2005 / Oslo |
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| Some films we couldn’t fit into the programme, others just came late - so we had a late session (lock-in) where the stragglers could watch some of the more wild, long or unusual submissions. WE did however award an old candlestick to the best of fringe - the winner was Joe Mattey for J Hawkins-Hawkins Hawkins |
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Hawkins-Hawkins Hawkins WP Live story telling from the future - which you could let your mother watch. Director: J Hawkins-Hawkins Hawkins / 10 minutes / 2005 / London |
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| Castleton
- May Bank 2004 WP For hundreds of years Castleton in Derbyshire has celebrated May day by making a big bloke wear loads of flowers and ride around the villiage on a huge horse. Director: Dan Chamberlain / 4 minutes / 2005 / Leicester / Derbyshire |
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| Dubplate
Drama WP
Pirate radio land where a woman rapper competes in a mans world - this is a pilot of an interactive soap shortly to be aired on Channel 4 and MTV. Fashion Designer: Vexed Generation / 12 minutes / 2005 / London |
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| Stolen
Smile Sarah Wells lives her life unnoticed, rejected by her father and everyone in her school. Wanted by no-one living her life through poetry. Year of Production: 2004 Running Time: 9 minutes 48 seconds Director: The Lyrical Lizards, staff and students of Sir Frank Markham Community School and Finola Geraghty / Milton Kynes |
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Yacht A wannabe filmmaker Ben at the Cannes Film Festival pretends to be a yacht owning big producer in order to try to impress a hopeful actress Laura. His plan works well to start with, but she eventually sees through his facade, and he discovers that she has a secret as well. Director: Huck Melnick, Jeremy Herman / 29 minutes / 2005 / Cannes |
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Dance A day-in-the-life documentary gives a poetic glimpse of the famous dairy farm at Longley in Holmfirth. Director: Chris Squire / 4 minutes / 2005 / Yorkshire |
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| Digging
at Pay Sank Filmed on the actual day that Bradford Pothole Club breaksthrough Pay Sank and make a fabulous discovery. Director: Dave Haigh & Martin Baines / 10 minutes / 2005 / Yorkshire |
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