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In the past eight 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

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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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