IT’S not easy to make your mark in five minutes or less, but that’s all local filmmakers have for September’s Sunshine Short-Film Festival.
Sunshine West filmmaker Michael Sandic, 29, hopes to go back-to-back at the second annual festival after winning last year’s prize with the mockumentary Man vs Sunshine.
“It’s a pretty dark production but it comes with a twist,” he said of this year’s entry, a film noir production he has yet to name.
While he has dabbled in corporate training videos and guest-hosted C31 lifestyle show GR TV Australia, Sandic got his taste for celluloid as a 10-year-old.
“I started making stop-go animation with Kinder Surprise toys when I was in grade 4 or 5,” he said.
“Later I worked in the corporate area making training videos, but I’ve gone back to my love of short films.”
Anybody with a story to tell in less than five minutes can enter this year’s festival, with up to $5000 prize money in each of various categories.
Entries close on September 1 and films will be screened at Village Cinemas Sunshine on September 11.
Details: sunshinefilmfestival.com.au
