CINE's December movies reviewed

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Paintbrush & Paintbrush The Epitaph one of the films shown at December’s CINE, and reviewed by Sean Wilson

One of the growing number of Torbay’s movie mafia, and sometime D+CFilm reviewer, Sean Wilson popped along to CINE‘s December gathering to find out what films the filmmaking networking event had in store.

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CINE screens a selection of the best films on offer to a discerning audience of filmmakers and film aficionados, so it’s good to see a fine represention from the D+CFilm home turf: Ashley Thorpe‘s Scayrecrow; Elliott Montello‘s Sod’s Law; and CINE’s own Ashley Wing and Clayton Fussell‘s A Hard Day’s Knight.

Of the above, Scayrecrow and A Hard Day’s Knight have been picking up awards throughout the short film festival world (Ashley Thorpe most recently picked up the Buried Alive! Visionary award at the Atlanta fesival), and Elliot’s film was inspired through CINE’s own four week short film challenge.

Here’s what Sean says about Sods Law:

Blending turbulent social relevance with the inevitable eruption of climactic violence, what’s most remarkable is the fluidity between the two halves of the tale; transcending the compressed time-frame, it’s a confident, well-realised narrative, benefiting from strong performances from Kelly and Sam Bond.

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Also screened was the Paintbrush and Paintbrush The Epitaph by Alex Barrett. The film intends to show us ‘what happens when we click the “Like” button’.

Here’s part of Sean’s assessment:

Its stripped-down quality is at once arresting and perceptive and, once to suggest the stunted social interaction of the modern age. Whether a separate film was warranted is another question but the deft transition from irony to pathos is a hallmark of an enormously confident, clever piece of work.

Magnifier by Marcel Gallant makes up the full contingent of short movies on offer, a fantasy in the mould Joe Dante family movies of the 80s and 90s, and is “a vivid portrayal of ordinarily life on the cusp of the space age”.

Gallant infuses his short with real ambition and an authentic sense of time and place. And that ending is a real humdinger…

Says Sean.

All inspiring stuff, but to think CINE is just about sitting in a room watching movies, then you’d be wrong. There are talks from those involved in the industry, Q&As with directors and a whole load of fun chatting (often called networking) with those in the region who are making and involved with film.

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