The Best of Short Films from Australia and NZ

SHOW ME SHORTS - THE DVD

Fifteen award winning films from the 2006, 2007 & 2008 Show Me Shorts Film Festival.

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2006 

Bad Dates

by Grant Lahood

NZ, 15min. Bad Dates is the hilarious comedy about a group of mismatched singles who come together for a disastrous speed date evening. 

Ray

by Tony Mahony & Jannine Barnes

Aus, 9min. A little kid is stranded, growing up in a country town he hates. The locals reckon it’s a paradise, but as far as he can see, the only interesting stuff happens to a guy the whole town dismisses as a f***wit...Ray. 

USO

by Miki Magasiva & Tara Riddell

NZ, 15min. Two boys in Urban New Zealand, a telephone booth, waiting for a call. 

Eating Sausage

by Zia Mandviwalla & Annelise Coulam

NZ, 14min. When Su Jung makes a kiwi friend in her new country, she begins to assimilate in ways her husband does not approve of. 

Thursday

by Matthew Fallon & Marisa Martin

AUS, 4min. A moment in time is frozen after a life-changing event takes place. An experimental drama shot entirely backwards. 

Blue Willow

by Veialu Aila-Unsworth

NZ, 14min. An animated fable that takes you deep into the heart of a porcelain plate, to story of a daughter who is about to be married off to a man she doesn’t love. 

Chop Off

by Grant Lahood

NZ, 5min. A tense comedy about three axemen, three tall wooden posts and an epic battle between young and old. 
 

2007 

The Opposite of Velocity

by Michael Robinson

AUS, 12min.Trevor’s worst nightmare is being ordinary. His life is inert. To move forward he must do something, anything to get him out of his head and into his skin. 

Dead Letters

by Paolo Rotondo

NZ, 14min. In WWII Wellington an unlikely romance sparks amidst the stacks of air graph letters destined for ‘our boys’ abroad. 

Rose

by Jo Hiles

NZ, 9min. What if you sold roses to lovers on the worst day in the world to be lonely and single? 

Night of the Hell Hamsters

by Paul Campion

NZ, 16min. A babysitter and her boyfriend must fight for their lives against demonic possessed killer hamsters. 

Gravel 3000

by Makoto Takaoka & Anna Canton

NZ, 6min. Nobody gets out alive! 

The Game

by Christopher Johnson

AUS, 8min. Another Saturday night, another game of ‘World of Movies’ for four friends. But tonight there’s a DVD Question, and the game just got very serious... 

The King Boys

by Christopher Clark

NZ, 15min. A boy wrestles to resurrect his family’s buried dream. 

A Very Nice Honeymoon

by Jeff & Phill Simmonds

NZ, 10min. A true story about the filmmakers’  great grandparents, Mariano & Elizabeth Vella, who were on the steamer SS Wairarapa when it wrecked on the coast of Great Barrier Island in NZ in 1893.