Guest: Karen Chandler heads a new Media Arts program at St Thomas More College in Brisbane, Australia. Watch this show on YouTube: http://youtu.be/xsyufxS2BvY or subscribe on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/short-films-teachers-love/id1086360297
Links to short films loved:
Jason van Genderen: The Unspoken | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttA2Nk-bFog
Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke: Cargo | http://vimeo.com/56629974
Mike Foxall: You Are So Dead | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhAOIoZLrdQ
Disclosure statement:
Karen Chandler does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this review, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond her teaching position listed.
Other notes from the show:
Other Tropfest films Karen has loved over the years are…
Bomb, 2005 Finalist – Comment about religious tensions, told in jest
Animal Beatbox, 2011 Winner – Stop motion animation of sorts
We've All Been There, 2013 Winner – Pay it forward style, great Cinematography.
Time, 2013 Finalist – Could time travel be real?
Lamb, 2002 Winner – Drought stricken outback Australia, Narrative structure, with a clever twist.
Buried, 2003 Winner – Aussie Black comedy – not appropriate for students
