2011 Gold Coast International Film Festival

Slackistan
Comedy Focus , Desi Spotlight , Feature Narratives , Middle East Focus
Narrative Feature, 2010, 85 min
Directed by: Hammad Khan
Interests: Drama

Islamabad, Pakistan. A group of privileged and westernised twenty-something friends while away their days and nights driving around town, partying, surfing the internet and smoking shisha pipes. As the country outside their world starts to crack, Hasan and his friends must face up to relationships, internal angst and life choices before it is too late. Read More

Something Ventured
Family , Feature Documentaries , Economy Focus
Documentary Feature, 2011, 85 min
Directed by: Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller
Interests: Documentary

SOMETHING VENTURED tells the story of the creation of an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and economic growth in the 20th century. It is told by the visionary risk-takers who dared to make it happen. Read More

Stanley Pickle

Short Narrative, 2010, 12 min
Directed by: Victoria Mather
Plays In: Narrative Shorts Program 2
Interests: Comedy, Drama

Stanley's life runs like clockwork, until an encounter with a mysterious girl turns his world upside down. Read More

Storm Up the Sky

Short Narrative, 2010, 12 min
Directed by: Jon Kauffman
Plays In: Narrative Shorts Program 1
Interests: Drama

Loosely based on the story of Cain and Abel, STORM UP THE SKY follows the splintering relationship between the two eldest sons of a Hasidic patriarch (Richard Masur). Where one son, Chaim (Dan Pfau), enforces his father's imposing system of beliefs, the other, Aaron (Dan Shaked), defies it. Read More

Submarine
Books-to-film , Comedy Focus , Feature Narratives
Narrative Feature, 2010, 94 min
Directed by: Richard Ayoade
Interests: Comedy, Drama

15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life. Read More

The Substitute

Short Narrative, 2005, 19 min
Directed by: Talya Lavie
Plays In: Narrative Shorts Program 1
Interests: Drama

Zohara is an Israeli soldier on an isolated military base who is about to get a much-anticipated transfer. Her hopes are shattered when her substitute appears to be suicidal. Read More