AUS / 2008 / 90 mins
director GEORGE GITTOES
special preview

George Gittoes’ eagerly anticipated new film, The Miscreants (follows Soundtrack to War, Rampage) will be given three special Preview Screenings at this year’s festival.
A mind blowing and entertaining mix of doco and drama, darkness and light, The MISCREANTS does some serious film rule bending and asks: what is real, what is unreal, what is too real?
Gittoes takes us on an extraordinary journey to a forbidden zone, gathering an astonishing cast of characters and dodging the anti-entertainment forces to make the ‘last tele movie’, an over the top action drama, played out in what must be one of the craziest locations in the world - just a cave or two away from where the most wanted man in the world reportedly runs ‘Terror Central’.

USA / 2007 / 5 mins
director MARTHA COLBURN
Australian premiere

Using scans of an apocalyptic 15th-century French manuscript mixed with gas-guzzling, eco-destroying 21st-century imagery, Martha Colburn shows that past and present apocalypse is not too dissimilar.

USA / 2008 / 7:30mins
director MARTHA COLBURN
Australian premiere

Martha Colburn makes films that are fantastical and stubbornly rooted in the material. Myth Labs is about “methamphetamines, faith and Puritans”.