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In
the past nine years, Fully Flared Films have made a number of short films,
musical productions, live films and events. They ran The Short Crap Film Festival
for 4 years, its purpose, to create further exposure to new and young filmmakers
with what we believe is talent yet to be recognised in the wider community of
free champagne lovers.
In 2006 Fully Flared Films created 'The XPOSED International Queer Short Film Festival Berlin'. A festival that sets out to XPOSE weird, funny, disturbing queer short films from Australia/ Canada and other countries. It is held during the pride week celebrations in Berlin.
Fully Flared Films are looking for production companies who wish to join in
co-production ventures in Australia and Internationally with the outlook to
creating unique ways of telling stories be it in feature form, theatre, dance,
musical, short form or new media. If you would like to contact us please feel
free to do so on the email below.
Enjoy looking and searching through the rest of this website. Any feedback you
may have would be gladly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Bartholomew Sammut & Kelly West
info@fullyflared.com
LATEST LAND
Here you shall find articles/press releases from listings in our happenings page, or from Fully Flared Films and also Articles that may in someway or another relate to the Short Form.
What's the latest?
24th September 2009
QUEER BRANDING!
come down to SCHWUZ donnerstag abend, Bartholomew Sammut will be part of a panel diskussion on the topic of Queer Branding held by Berlins Schwules Museum.
Diskussion mit Party
am Donnerstag 24.9.2009 um 19 h
Kostenbeitrag: 5 Euro bzw. nach Selbsteinschätzung
Nicht zuletzt motiviert von kritischen Anfragen und Überlegungen zur
Umbenennung eines zukünftig nicht mehr nur schwulen Museums laden wir zu einem Austausch über die Brauchbarkeit des Begriffs "queer" ein. Dieser entwickelte sich Anfang der 1990er Jahre im akademischen Kontext und wurde zu einem multifunktional eingesetzten Label, das die alten Selbstbezeichnungen schwul, lesbisch oder schwullesbisch vielfach abgelöst hat. Wir gehen der Frage nach, wo sich "queer" heute zwischen theoretischem Anspruch und subkultureller Lebenspraxis einordnen lässt.
Eingeladen sind, Protagonist_innen "queeren" Denkens und Lebens in Berlin:
Dr. Antke Engel
freie Wissenschaftlerin und Gründerin des "Institut für Queer Theory"
Katrin Köppert
Mitherausgeberin des Tagungsbandes "Queer leben – queer labeln?"
Mitarbeiter_innen des Silverfuture
("Kings And Queens And Criminal Queers")
Debra Kate
"international Bio-Queen and Photographer"
Bartholomew Sammut
Organisator des "International Queer Short Film Festival Berlin XPOSED"
Sirko Salka
Chefredakteur der Siegessäule ("Queer in Berlin")
Moderation:
Birgit Bosold und Michael Fürst (Schwules Museum)
Geplant ist keine traditionelle Podiumsdiskussion, sondern ein entspanntes, vielstimmiges Gespräch zwischen den Stühlen und Tischen und mit fließenden Grenzen zwischen Publikum, G&quml;sten und Moderator_innen, Kurzfilm und Kurzperformance inklusive.
Anschließend Chillout mit kleiner Party im SchwuZ
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18th September 2009
THE LAST SON
to screen in BERLIN tonight!!!!!
at the ACUD KINO
as part of the
KURZ FILM FUNK
second edition!
YAY!
also screening are some other great shosrts and video clips from Berlin Directors!
come down and check it all out!
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15th September 2009
WELCOME TO MY SPOOKY BASEMENT
WAS AMAZING!!!!!
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JUST JEREMY 4,6
had its US Premier SATURDAY the 12th September 2009
at the
AUSTIN GAY AND LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL
click here for more details on the screening
and
click here for more details on Just Jeremy!
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AUGUST 19th 2009...
XPOSED presented one of our favourite Shorts ‘Love Bite’ by Craig Boreham at the Babylon Kino.
It was a great night with many great short films shown from the other film festivals in Berlin. Nicole Stecker and Bartholomew Sammut were present to introduce the festival and the film 'Love Bite' to which the audience lapped up with devilish delight!
We would like to thank again the Teddy Foundation for setting this up and for Interfilm for putting this event on!
AUGUST 14th 2009...
THE LAST SON
Screened this night at the CAMP TIPSY FESTIVAL!
http://camptipsy.de/
AUGUST 7th 2009...
XPOSED shall be presenting one of our favourite Shorts ‘Love Bite’ by Craig Boreham.
In
Shorts Attack!
Festivals United - 14 Berliner Filmfestivals treten erstmals gemeinsam an!
Es ist sensationell: 14 Berliner Filmfestivals bestreiten bei Shorts Attack erstmals zusammen eine Veranstaltung. In Anwesenheit der Festivalmacher ist jedes Festival mit einem filmischen Leckerbissen vertreten.
Die außergewöhnliche Zusammenkunft von „Festivals United“ wird nach dem Programm bei einem synergetischen Umtrunk intensiviert. Dazu - und zum Gruppenbild - sind auch beim Screening nicht vertretene Festivalvertreter geladen. _Die Veranstaltung wird unterstützt von festiwelt-berlin.de.
LOVE BITE
Directed by Craig Boreham_
Synopsis - Noah and Gus hang out and smoke some weed after school. As the munchies kick in Noah feels compelled to share a secret desire that has been tormenting him.
Noah und Gus hängen zusammen rum und rauchen nach der Schule ein bisschen Gras. Als die Wirkung eintritt, will Noah das geheime Verlangen teilen, das ihn beschäftigt hat.
COME AND SEE IT as well as ALL THE OTHER GREAT SHORTS from other GREAT festivals in BERLIN!
Mittwoch, 19. August 2009 um 20 Uh
Kino Babylon Berlin Mitte
Rosa-Luxemburg Strasse 30
10178
U-bahn Rosa Luxemburg Platz (U2)
AUGUST 6th 2009...
Fully Flared Films LAUNCH their new night, happening once a month, METAL MAN JAM...
To begin on September the 9th, a monthly night, where Metal Lovers, Men Lovers, Beer Lovers, Burger Lovers and all YOUR Lovers and their Lovers can get together and ROCK OUT!
A combination of the legendary Metal Brunch in Toronto with the Man Jam parties in Sydney, comes for the first time, in Berlin, the METAL MAN JAM, a fucking great party where all you hear is METAL and all you see is MEN taking their clothes off and making a performance JAM on stage, around the stripping poles convieniently placed upstairs at the White Trash Fast Food.
With ‘heyjohnnydepp’ playing the METAL and the ‘Angel Of Death’ hosting the MAN JAM plus special prizes and guests, the night will be one not to forget!
Wednesday Night
September the 9th
White Trash Fastfood
21uhr
MAY 13th 2009...
Fully Flared Films launch Sasha Matteucci's website LOVE ROCKET!!!
visit www.fullyflared.com/loverocket.htm
and take a look at the wonderfully unique gifts, broaches, fashion, costumes on offer. An online shop exists as well so you can order all of your favourite one off items from one of our most talented designers who has worked on many of our films!
JUNE 27th 2009...
THE 4th XPOSED INTERNATIONAL QUEER SHORT FILM FESTIVAL - 2009, was a complete hit!
thanks everyone who rocked up and supported the night and the great queer shorts from Turkey!
Rock on and check out the fotos from the night, plus special pix from the amazing performance by So Low Suicide!
Cheers,
MAY 13 2009...
'The Last Son'Trailer is now online!
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Just Jeremy 4,6 Trailer is now online!
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Roll Lola Roll Trailer is now online!
MARCH 28th 2009
HI everyone! We just uploaded Kellys Directors/ DOP Showreel as well as Bartholomews Acting Showreel.
Plus a short preview of 'The Last Son' has been uploaded. Check it out!!!
Our deadline is approaching fast and we are still on the hunt for GREAT Turkish Queer Short Films, if your reading this and know of any, let us know so we can chase them up!
Cheers!
MARCH 1st 2009...
FULLY FLARED RENOVATION!!!!
Fully Flared Films have renovated their website and with that, have also introduce new services and pages of lovely happenings by its members.
In a response to visitors we have given a tab of its own to 'The XPOSED International Queer Short Film Festival Berlin' in an effort to make navigation more easy, as well as creating an EVENTS page. On this page you will find links to the following; Fully Flared LIVE FILMS, Fully Flared GIGS, Fully Flared EXHIBITIONS and Fully Flared METAL BRUNCH. Each link will take you to past and or present and or even FUTURE projects being undertaken by Fully Flared Films as we expand our venture into Music, Theatre, Art and Partys.
So for now, until soon I am sure, we will say CHEERS, and will be updating this page with more information and up comings as they come to hand!
October 2008...
Australian Queer Short Films
at
The 38th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
From the 18th to the 28th of October the prestigious Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival will present over 250 films in the Ukraine nations capital. Part of these films are presented under the ‘sunny bunny’ program, a select program of Gay and Lesbian films from around the globe, similar to the Teddy Award at the Berlinale.
In this years festival a special program of 8 queer short films from Australia have been selected from the programs of The XPOSED International Queer Short Film Festival Berlin, a film festival that began three years ago screening queer Australian short films during pride week in Berlin.
Xposed festival curator Bartholomew Sammut will also be a guest of the Molodist International Film Festival and will present the special program of Australian Queer Cinema. ‘This is a great opportunity to further exhibit what great Queer Filmmaking we have in Australia and what extraordinary talent we have growing down under’ say’s Sammut whose new short film ‘The Last Son’ was also selected to screen in the program. ‘I am so extremely honoured and proud to present these great queer short films from these amazingly talented filmmakers at this exciting international event’
Below are the selected short films that will screen on the 22nd of October in this special ‘Sunny Bunny’ program! Congratulations go to the filmmakers and their teams!
The Waiting Room, Dir. Mona Ruijs
Fine and Dandy, Dir. Kelly West
Stray, Dir. Craig Boreham & Dean Francis
Filled With Water, Dir. Elka Kerkhofs
Disappointment, Dir. Martin Potter & Jason Sweeney
The Manual, Dir. Sarah Spillane
Checking In, Dir. Lisa Hill
The Last Son, Dir. Bartholomew Sammut
For further information please visit
http://www.molodist.com/en/
or
www.fullyflared.com
or email Fully Flared Films on
info@fullyflared.com
June 2008...
press release in german. see below for english version.
'The 3 rd
XPOSED International Queer Short Film Festival Berlin'
'disturbing queer realities'
Zum dritten Mal kommt das 'XPOSED international queer short film festival berlin' zur Pride Week Berlin zurück, um dem begeisterten Publikum queere ausländische Kurzfilme zu präsentieren! Lasst euch am 26. Juni aufwühlen, faszinieren oder anturnen, von den neusten Kurzfilmen aus Australien, Kanada und Südkorea.
Das Festival begann während der Pride Week 2006 in Berlin. Zunächst wurden preisgekrönte australische Filme gezeigt, 2007 erweiterte sich dann die Auswahl auf queere experimentelle Filme aus Kanada. In diesem Jahr gibt es erneut wunderbare Kurzfilme aus diesen beiden Ländern, als auch starke queere Filme aus Südkorea. Außerdem kommt die Band 'Call Me An Ambulance', die das Festival bereits im letzten Jahr gerockt hat, für ein anschließendes Konzert zurück.
Das aktuelle Programm ' disturbing queer realities' besteht aus Kurzfilmen, die innerhalb der letzten zwei Jahre entstanden sind und uns in verschiedenen Genres, Formaten und Geschichten eine Reihe von Realitäten, Situationen und Leben zeigen, die von bestimmten queeren Individuen durchlebt werden und auf bestimmte Weise beunruhigen, berühren und angreifen. Filme über traurige Kinder mit Suizidwunsch, die schwule Mafia, eine junge Lesbe mit unschuldigen aber schaurigen Fragen an die Erwachsenen, als auch über Situationen, in denen der Spieß umgedreht wird und aus Unterdrückten Unterdrücker werden, wie in 'My Girl 2012'.
Nach intensiver Suche sind insgesamt elf Kurzfilme im Programm, die sich gegenseitig ergänzen und vor allem die Realität und Geschichten ihrer Figuren als zeitliche Momente darstellen. Wir dürfen Zeuge dieser Momente werden, wenn die Zeit knapp wird und wir die Tage zählen, bis das Rauchen in den Berliner Bars und Cafés nicht mehr erlaubt ist. Hiermit möchten wir auch das Rauchen auf der Leinwand huldigen, denn die meisten der Kurzfilme zeigen ihre Darsteller beim Anzünden einer Zigarette.
'LIGHT UP' to save Berlin from Global Lameness!
Bei XPOSED geht es um XPOSER und XPOSING. Es geht um Spaß, Berlin, und es ist wieder Zeit! Das 'XPOSED international queer short film festival berlin' wurde ins Leben gerufen, um queere Kurzfilme aus anderen Ländern während der Pride Week nach Berlin zu bringen und queeren Filmemachern aus der ganzen Welt die Möglichkeit ihrer internationalen Darstellung - 'Xposure' - zu geben. Im Vorfeld des Festivals werden außerdem einige großartige Kurzfilme aus dem letzten Jahr in verschiedenen Berliner Cafés zu sehen sein!
Das endgültige Programm gibt es ab 1. Mai auf www.fullyflared.com
Für weitere Informationen: info@fullyflared.com
oder auf Myspace: www.myspace.com/xposedinberlin
Immer auf dem neusten Stand bist du als Mitglied der Facebook-Gruppe http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28361656968
Das Festival wird unterstützt von der Teddy Foundation
in english...
'The 3 rd
XPOSED International Queer Short Film Festival Berlin'
'disturbing queer realities'
'the XPOSED international queer short film festival berlin' is back for it's 3 rd year of showing queer films from abroad to an enthusiastic Berlin pride week audience! On June 26 th prepare to be disturbed, intrigued & perhaps even turned on by some of the greatest and latest short films to come out of Australia, Canada and South Korea!
The festival began in Berlin during the Pride Week of 2006. At first it screened award winning Australian queer short films but then in 2007 expanded to screen queer experiments from Canada. In this years program expect some shockingly terrific short films from these two nations as well as a couple of intense queer shorts from South Korea. Plus a special return concert by 'Call Me An Ambulance' the band that rocked the festival away last year!
This years program ' disturbing queer realities' is a collection of short films that have emerged in the past two years that show us through many different genres, formats and stories a series of realities/ situations and lives that are lived by certain queer individuals that in some way disturb, offend, touch and aggravate others. Films about sad children with the wish to suicide, the gay mafia, a young lesbian with an innocent yet scary questions for adults as well as situations when tables are turned and the oppressed becomes the oppressor as such in 'My Girl 2012'.
In all, Eleven short films will be screened, after an extensive search, each one of these films compliment each other and most importantly show characters realities and stories as moments in time. We are lucky enough to witness these moments as their time runs thin and we count down to the time when smoking is no longer legal inside Berlin Bars and Cafes. With this, we also like to celebrate smoking on screen with the majority of these shorts showing a good number of people lighting up. To this we say 'LIGHT UP' to save Berlin from Global Lameness!
XPOSED is about XPOSER and XPOSING. It's about FUN, BERLIN and it's about TIME! 'The XPOSED international queer short film festival berlin' was created to bring Queer Short Films from other nations to Berlin during Pride Week and to provide international Xposure for Queer Filmmakers from around the world. In the lead up for this years festival we will also be screening some of the fantastic short films that screened at last years festival at a number of cafes around berlin during pride week!
The final program will be announced May 1 st on www.fullyflared.com
For further details please contact Fully Flared Films on info@fullyflared.com or view our myspace page www.myspace.com/xposedinberlin for more information.
Also, for up to date notices, you can join our facebook group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28361656968
This festival is proudly supported by the Teddy Foundation
March 2008...
Well, I guess i has been a year or so since we last updated this page. Soooo sorry. We have had two of our short films doing really well on the film festival circuit - 'The Omphalites' and 'Fine and Dandy' have both been around the world and back which has been very exciting. We were also extremely beneficial to both receive travel grants to see the films screen in New York and San Fransisco.
At present we are developing some feature ideas that we hope to make in the near future as well as dabbling in other areas, Kelly has taken up tattooing whilst Bart has been getting involved in acting. Currently we are curating our 3rd XPOSED international queer short film festival berlin which will be screening on the 26th of June!
Speak soon!
december 2006...
At the moment, Fully Flared Films has completed post production on two short film that they have been working on since February, 'The Omphalites' and 'Fine and Dandy'. At present we are sending the films to festivals and developing projects for 2007.
Fine and Dandy will be screening this coming Thursday evening at 9pm as part of the VCA graduate screenings at ACMI in Federation Square, it shall be a great program of short films also including 'The Waiting Room' the new short film by Mona Ruijs whose short film 'untitled' was screened at this years 1st International Queer Short Film Festival Berlin.
Stay posted for more news to come over the next few weeks. Until then, have a safe christmas and a happy new year!~
march 2006...
FULLY FLARED FILMS latest short film’Time Will Tell’ to screen at the 16th Annual Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, Canada!
‘Just Jeremy 4’6’ to tour Australia in the In the Bin Touring Short Film Festival.
After finishing the Short Crap Film Festival last year, the founders of Fully Flared Films have been busy with their latest film ‘Time Will Tell’. The short film set in a canola field in southern Victoria is based on the idea of daylight savings and the difficulties of saying goodbye. Written and Directed by Kelly West, the film premiered at the Opening Night of this years Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney, as part of the My Queer Career Short Film Finalists. The film also then went on to acquire a distribution deal with Queerscreen, the organization responsible for the Mardi Gras Film Festival. This festival is seen as one of the most influential Queer Film Festivals in the world.
‘Time Will Tell’ then went on to screen at the 16th Melbourne Queer Film Festival in the beginning of March and will screen next in Australia at the 7th Brisbane Queer Film Festival. Fully Flared Films short film will screen before the queer slasher flick by American director Paul Etheredge-Ouzts ‘Hellbent’ on the 5th of April at the Brisbane Powerhouse. The film will then travel to Toronto to screen at Canadas most prominent and one of the worlds largest Gay & Lesbian film festivals, the Toronto Inside Out Film Festival. Held over 11 days in May the festival attracts over 10000 punters showing queer films from around the world.
After screening at last years In The Bin Short Film Festival in QLD, “Just Jeremy 4’6” a short film directed by Kelly West, starring Bartholomew Sammut, has been selected to tour with the In The Bin Touring Short Film Festival Family Program. It will be screened alongside 14 other short films that will tour communities throughout Queensland and New South Wales. The film festival will be visiting Bart Sammuts home town of Sarina on the 1st to the 3rd of June.
Fully Flared Films Producer Bartholomew Sammut and Kelly West are now busy putting together a program of Australian Queer Short Films to be screened during Pride Week in Berlin, Germany in July. They are hoping to make it a regular event in the hope to further expose Australian Queer Short Films overseas. The pair are also in the process of making their next 2 short films, one to be shot in Berlin.
If you would like to purchase a copy of ‘Time Will Tell’ along with the other My Queer Career finalists you can log onto www.queerscreen.com.au and order the DVD online. For more information on The 7th Brisbane Queer Film Festival please visit www.brisbanepowerhouse.org. For information on the In The Bin touring short film festival, please visit www.inthebin.net.au
For media enquiries on Fully Flared Films please visit www.fullyflared.com
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