Wish 143, about a terminally ill adolescent, tugs at the heartstrings but is shot through with a no-nonsense stoicism.
In 2009 大象传媒 Writersroom co-produced some short films from new writers and/or directors with , and .
The weird and wonderful by Karni + Saul was nominated for a , while written by the brilliant was shortlisted for an .
The four films were:
Wish 143
Written by Tom Bidwell and directed by Ian Barnes
An Oscar-nominated short drama about a fifteen-year-old boy with only months to live, who is granted a final wish from the Dreamscape Charity. But David doesn't want to go to Disneyland or meet Gary Neville; what he really wants is an hour alone with a naked woman.
Turning
Written and directed by Karni and Saul
On his sixth birthday, Robert receives three beautiful old ladies in his mother's sitting room. Through his eyes, we visit the memory of this afternoon, visualized with the free spirited imagination of childhood, naive yet wonderfully dark. Ladies appear like birds, a gift scuttles across the floor, blue icing is nibbled from a magical cake, tea is sipped, lacy slips shifted, and between knobbly knees strange visions appear. The ladies weave an extraordinary tale of an emperor with no skin, and the boy himself, older and wiser, adds the finale... with a tail.
Munro
By Michael Keillor
Enduring a poorly planned camping trip deep in the Scottish Highlands, Father and Son, Bill and Robbie face up to the secrets they've kept from each other.
Conversation Piece
By Joe Tunmer
A unique musical-of-sorts in which a domestic argument is lip-synched to the sounds of a jazz cornet.