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Flea is an inner city kid. Hers is a tough world, a rough world, a kick-in-the-guts and a spit-in-your-food world. She's small, but she's got heart and she's got smarts. She loves her mum Mighty and her sister Little Sis, but her mum's new boyfriend has come and shaken up their world with violence and fear. Flea does odd jobs to earn the money to buy drugs from the older and cooler estate kids thinking the pills will make her invincible against the beatings she endures from her step-dad. When that doesn't work, Flea buys more drugs. But Flea also has a very clever and surprising plan up her sleeve that no one sees coming. Flea is a stunningly uplifting and surprising 21st Century tale of overcoming all the odds.
In just a few hours school will be out, forever... Corridors and classrooms lie abandoned. The playground has an apocalyptic air. Pupils loiter as spectators, because among the ruins of a once passable educational institution, a duel is taking place. Two teachers, now combatants, mortal foes, see out the end of an era with a game of tag. Buffed up PE teacher Lee has a cohort of teenagers to help him outwit nerdy science teacher Sarah. She has nobody to help her until weedy schoolkid Deks steps in and concocts a plan to help her outflank Lee. In this action-comedy short the most mundane of playground games becomes a gigantic battle of wills, a modern-day spaghetti western, and an elegiac closing ceremony for a school lost to recession.
Horror aficionado Jay used to make quirky remakes of his favourite films with his friend Reena. Before she got new friends. Now, feeling increasingly isolated Jay decides to put on a special, one-off show, and announces that he is going to kill himself live on webcam. As an eclectic collection of people starts to tune in, the debate rages: is it all a stunt, or is he for real? And if he does intend to go through with it, can they, his viewers, reach out across the internet, and save him from himself? A bold and affecting story, this short examines how we can make connections in the online age.
The countryside is in sixteen-year-old William's blood: he comes from farming stock, and his family have worked the land for generations. But for a teenager, the silence and isolation are suffocating, and William secretly dreams of punk rock stardom, and the bright lights and noise the city has to offer. Now the opportunity he's been waiting for has arrived, to prove that he has what it takes to turn his aspirations into reality. All he has to do is convince his father, salt-of-the-earth Nick, and his sister, sarcastic and long-suffering Steph. Can he and his band pull it off? A poignant, funny coming-of-age story, this short follows William's pursuit of his dreams against the odds.
All Charlie's mother, Sally - also her netball coach - wants is for their team to win the league. But Charlie's had enough of living out her mother's dream. She can't pretend to enjoy the game anymore, and in the heat of a mid-match huddle, she quits. But her refusal to play ball proves the tipping point for tightly wound Sally, and sets in motion a series of unfortunate events that will see secrets revealed, and test their relationship to breaking point. Will Charlie be able - and willing - to help Sally pull back from the edge? Darkly comic, this short explores the relationship between mothers and daughters, and how far we're willing to go for family.
