Shepp Shorts Maps Seventeen Years of Competition

Former Shepparton residents Jonathan Sumner, Georgia Kris and Andy Burkitt were among the winners at the 17^th Shepp Shorts, Short Film Festival screened at the MacIntosh Pavilion on Friday night.

Selected from 124 entries from sixteen countries, Sumner, Kriss and Burkitt won Best Open Film, Best Local Filmmaker and Best Junior Filmmaker respectively in rural Australia’s longest running short film festival.

She Sells* is a smartly written tragi-comedy profiling a fresh faced beach entrepreneur and received a warm reception on viewing night. 

Hound is a four-minute animation that randomly parodies long-tongued and smelly designer-bred and mongrel dogs. Accompanied by an original score by fellow Sheppartonian Matt Magill, this delightful short film is possibly best described by its naïve non-sensical joie de vivre that defies logic and reason. A frivolous romp through canine antics recognisable to all dog lovers, it will seduce even the grumpiest of viewers and enchant the rest.

Image from Georgia Kriss' Hound

Burkitt’s The Pirates is an allegorical tale exploring the immorality of movie piracy, featuring Matt Sneyd as the “five pirates of piracy: Horror, Comedy, Drama, Past and … Present” and Georgia Robinson as an unsuspecting girl. Cleverly written and edited, The Pirates shows Burkitt to be a particularly skilled filmmaker, a creative working well beyond his years.

Matt Sneyd featured in Andy Burkitt's The Pirates.

Other winners were Luke Wissell’s Grounded (Best New Filmmaker), Ehsan Massoum’s Impressions of Life (Best Animation) and Dave Wade’s Walter (People’s Choice).

* She Sells will be available on ABC iView until 2 am 08.04.2017.

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