[Reader-list] MONDAY SHORTS

[Rudradep Bhattacharjee]

ABOUT MONDAY SHORTS:

The aim of Monday Shorts is to create a networking hub for creative minds where writers, directors, cinematographers as well as financiers meet to discuss ideas and business. And create an alternative experience of a night out for audiences.

Every fortnight, short filmmakers from across Mumbai gather at the Mumbai Times Café to screen their work and receive feedback from a mixed audience: some of whom are interested in the medium of the cinema, others who are looking out for something different to do than just getting drunk every night and corporates and middle class audiences who like to indulge in regular doses of culture.

We need your help to reach out to bigger audiences and more importantly film-makers who are interested in screening their work. If you know anybody who is interested, please get them in touch with us.

Contact Details:

Kenneth Lobo - kenneth at bombayelektrik.com
For mailing Short Film synopsis and stills: shorts at bombayelektrik.com
Mobile: 98197-03271.



A very special screening this fortnight at Monday Shorts. (Facebook
page link here:
http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/event.php?eid=55030662028&ref=ts)



The Bombay Elektrik Projekt in association with Short Circuit proudly
bring you the very best of The Asian Hot Shots festival. What a night
and what a line up of some of the best shorts across Asia.



Teena Lange, the director of the Asian Hotshots Festival in Berlin,
this coming Monday at the Mumbai Times Cafe in Bandra. Asian Hotshots
showcases the best contemporary cinema from (where else?) Asia.  What
she's doing for us is screening short films from her selection - so
it'll be something like a workshop cum talk cum screening.



The Line up:



GANDHI AT THE BAT (USA 2006, Stephanie Argy&Alec Boehm, 11min)

http://www.gandhiatthebat.com



In 1933 Gandhi made a top-secret trip to the United States. Now at
last, newly unearthed newsreel footage proves the wild rumors true...
and does it show?Gandhi is playing Baseball!



GOD ONLY KNOWS - Winner 1st Prize Green Chilies Audience Award 2009

(Philippines/USA 2008, Mark V. Reyes, 17 min)



A hear-ripping story from the slums: forced by economic circumstances
a mother has to look for foster parents for her infant son. However,
paradise expected in the first world can easily mean hell, too.



HOOLAHOOP SOUNDINGS - Winner 2nd Prize Green Chilies Audience Award 2009

(Indonesia 2008, Edwin, 7 min)



It is a story of a girl who hula-hoops to let customers of phone sex hear

the noise. It is a remade film of a graduate work by Joel Coen in college.



SUKRIT’S SUNDAYS (India 2008, Vasant Nath, 8 min)



The magic of a simple ritual used to bring him and his grandfather together

every sunday for as long as he can remember.



EVOLVING IDENTITIES POST-INDEPENDENCE (India 2008, Elvis D’Silva, 1min)



Using animated text, photographs and dynamic music, the film generates

imagery from the lives of people that represent different facets of India.

As characters appear in the frame, icons and images distinct to them

highlight their evolving identities.



LITERATURE (Philippines 2007, Khavn de la Cruz, 10 min)



One hell of an existeltialistic one-man hard-boiled crime story.
Visions from the streets of Manila. Life passes by. Literature can be
deadly if taken seriously. Is this how poetic justice looks like?



LAINER (Germany/China 2007, Dana Löffelholz & Anna Intemann, 8 min)



Out of the heat into the frying pan. Long-term unemployed Rainer from Berlin

tries to find a lucky new life in Beijing. However, this culture is
completely alien to him.



SAVING MOM AND DAD (India 2007, Kartik Singh, 14 min)



Eight-year- old Ravi learns at school that non-believers in Christ
will go to hell. Knowing his parents are not Christian, his challenge
is “Saving Mom and Dad”.



SHOPPING CART BOY (Taiwan 2007, Hou Chi-jan, 21 min)



A love story between a supermarket employee and a shopping cart, the film

tells a post-industrial allegory set on the fringes of an urban jungle
of mega-marts.



A VERY SLOW BREAKFAST (Indonesia 2002, Edwin, 6 min)



The film explores feelings about individuality and the loss of family
values. An attempt to redefine the meaning of family in the changing
realm of modernity.



KARA – THE DAUGTHER OF A TREE (Indonesia 2005, Edwin, 7 min)



Kara‘s mother has been killed and her father has disappeared. The
intrusion of a journalist into her isolated life prompts her to seek
her mother‘s killer and an ultimate answer.