LOCALS 2+ Screening

Join us for this gala event!

Want to fill your afternoon with gregarious choirs, dancing communities, fearsome T-Rex dinosaurs, zooming billy carts, AI, an endless train, dancing Lego, and explore quieter moments of watching grass grow, muddy water turning to compost, a cemetery of children and witnessing community resilience? And more! Then join us at the gala event LOCALS2+: 22 short films from local filmmakers, of which ten are premieres!

For the first time the Chewton Film Society [CFS] and the Castlemaine Documentary Festival [CDoc] are coming together to showcase all the 22 short films submitted for the LOCALS Short Film Program. The program will show the films over two sessions and include eleven premieres. A shortlist of twelve of the films were shown at the 2024 Documentary Festival.

The LOCALS program invites filmmakers of all experience levels to submit a non-fiction work of up to six minutes’ duration and of any style or genre. Through Club CDoc the filmmakers had opportunity to hone their films through a series of workshops with local filmmakers Tony Jackson, Leonie Van Eyk, Bergen O’Brien and Kyla Brettle. Special guests have included Kate Pappas, Sam Dinning and Rob Buttery.

What to expect? A fresh and wonderful mix that includes films from both first time and experienced filmmakers. The two screenings will be introduced by Beverley Bloxham, President of CFS, and presented by Suzanne Donisthorpe and Tony Jackson. The screenings are entirely different with each short film only shown once and the short films from the June screening spread over the two screenings. The list is below.

Real Stories, Real Community, Real Conversations, Real LOCALS 2+

Doors open 30 minutes prior to each session: Refreshments will be available from Chewton Film Society volunteers before both screenings from 1pm-2pm and 4pm-5pm.

SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER at the Phee Broadway Theatre, Mechanics Lane Castlemaine [off Barker St].  There are two sessions of 11 films each.

Real Stories, Real Community, Real Conversations, Real LOCALS 2+

Doors open 30 minutes prior to each session: Refreshments will be available from Chewton Film Society volunteers before both screenings from 1pm-2pm and 4pm-5pm.

SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER
at the Phee Broadway Theatre, Mechanics Lane Castlemaine [off Barker St].  There are two sessions of 11 films each.

SESSION 1:  2pm Short Films 1 - 11
• Futureproof Buddy App*: Cate Kennedy.
• Don’t call me your life*: [Subtle nudity] Manou Staedel-Arnould, Pepi Schikowski, Jakob Hübner, Leif Bloomer.
• Pennyweight Flat: Elizabeth Geddes, Lucy Armstrong, Gus Read-Hill
• Castlemaine Billy Cart Challenge 2023: Lisa Mills, Kerry Anderson, Damon Girbon.
• West End Resilience*: Sam Hoffmann, Tim Johnson, David Williamson, Kathy Landvogt, Sally Markham, Beverley Lewis, Julie Bortoletto.

• The Holiday* Sherene Clow, Poppy Peterson-Clow.
• Going.. Going.. Gone*. : Kya Moore.
• A Bunch of Noise: Sam Loy, Jem Ponussamy, Jace Rogers, King Bean.
• Myrteza Blue: Eren Besiroglu, Lawrence Phelan, Austin Paley, Adrian Eppel, Lewis Coleman, Lucy Cawood, John Blyth, Ryan Granger, Danielle Blyth
• Macapella: Lucy Armstrong, Fred Farquhar, Richard McLeish
• Treatment*: Leonie Van Eyk, David Waters, Forest Keegel, Taffy Avard.

*Premieres

SESSION 2: 5pm Short Films 12 - 22
• How I Fell in Love with Grass: Sam Downing, Tim Ratcliffe, Romy Ratcliffe
• The Legend of Oscar's Box*: Michael Harkin, Chris Hosking
• The Dance Instructor*: Pepper Shaw
• Get up and Dance: Cate Kennedy
• Lot 19 Spring Sculpture Prize*: Elizabeth Scanlon, Mark Anstey, Luca Royle, Robin Gist

• A Muddy Drop: Kyla Brettle, Mikaela Beckley, Richard Wynn, Rob Law
• Mother/Son*: Glen Careedy, Matt LeGroui
• 20/70: Suzanne Donisthorpe, Michael Wolfe, Rob Burke, Clare Hall.
• Asma: Asma Khanom, Navida Ameen Nizhu, Ian White
• QAPITALISM: David Farrington
• The Making of The Remake of Jurassic Park: Tim Davis, Al Moore & John Roebuck.
*Premieres

COST
Single Session Adult: $16, Under 18: $11, Family (2 adult, 2 children): $43 {all prices include booking fee}
Both Sessions Adult: $24, Under 18: $16, Family (2 adult, 2 children): $64 {all prices include booking fee}
Tickets: https://bit.ly/locals2

Please choose your tickets carefully as refunds are not possible.

Funds raised from the encore screening will be used to support the Club CDoc program and the Chewton Film Society annual program.