30 Years of NZ short film 1980-2010
Tuesday 25 January 2011, 5:35PM
By Pead PR
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Restaurateur Luke Dallow (Sale St/ Chapel Bar & Bistro) has joined forces with film guru Ant Timpson (48Hours/New Zealand Film Festival) to present SALE ST SHORTS, a series of cinema-gastronomical excitements at the award winning Sale St Bar in Auckland.
Dallow is an avid movie watcher and fan of NZ short films and is passionate about supporting local actors and bringing new concepts to Sale St.
“The garden bar at Sale St is the perfect place to enjoy a wine or beer & some food along with a movie under the stars.”
Presented in association with SKY’s Rialto Channel, the series celebrates 30 years of the greatest NZ short films ever made. Patrons can watch NZ short films on a big outdoor screen as they feast on award winning food and imbibe on a selection of NZ wines and Sale St’s fine micro-brewed beers.
Ant Timpson says that watching the films under the Southern Cross brings a whole new dimension to the experience.
“If you’ve seen only some of these shorts on the small screen or on your computer monitor, then you haven’t really seen them at all. Each night is going to be a highly entertaining experience.”
The show gets underway from 15 February, with shorts screening every Tuesday for three weeks. More than 40 shorts screen in the series beginning with the most successful NZ short of all time - Alison Maclean’s creepy and surreal KITCHEN SINK (1989) - and ending with one of the funniest - Radar’s hilariously dead pan & depraved THE JOURNEY (2004).
Award-winning directors include Harry Sinclair, Taika Cohen, Ellory Elkayem, Jane Shearer, Jason Stutter, Steve Ayson, Jane Campion, Adam Stevens and many, many more.
Rialto Channel’s Luke Murray says it’s committed to supporting NZ short films. “We’re passionate about the development of new talent, building on-going relationships with NZ short film and independent filmmakers, and supporting these filmmakers by providing a vehicle for their work to be viewed by a wide audience.”
You can be part of the action too – if you’ve made a great short film in the past 12 months and want to submit it to be screened on the final night of the series (Tuesday 8 March), send a DVD (not your master, copies won’t be returned) together with some blurb to:
SALE ST SHORTS
Box 5653
Wellesley St
Auckland
FOUR TUESDAYS OF UNBRIDLED EXCITEMENT:
Tuesday 15 Feb
Tuesday 22 Fed
Tuesday 1 March
Tuesday 8 March - User Submission Night
***LIMITED SPACE - BOOK NOW FOR PEACE OF MIND***
TIME: Arrive from 7pm. Show Starts 8.30pm-10.15pm
LOCATION: Sale St Bar, 7 Sale St, Freemans Bay
TICKETS: $10 includes one tap beer/house wine (value $8)
BOOK NOW - LIMITED ROOM : http://www.iticketexpress.co.nz/events/2011/feb/sale-st-shorts/
Facebook Page with screening information :
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148272018559847