Doors Open 4:30PM
Screenings 5:00PM
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DCFF (Deptford Cinema Film Festival) is a Quarterly International Film Festival based in Deptford, South London at the community cinema Deptford Cinema. The festival aims to provide a platform for all types of short form film, with a special focus on films from new and upcoming filmmakers.
Our main aim for the event is to provide a platform for up and coming filmmakers, to not only share their work but to discuss it with like minded individuals. Attendance to the festival is very much encouraged for cast and crew, with the opportunity for filmmaker Q&As for their films if selected. There will also be attached networking events for the filmmakers to mingle.
Please note that although not classified, many of the films will only be suitable for adults.
Sidepiece, United States, 9 mins 58 sec
Director: Teddy Tenenbaum
Dating is hard. Especially when you’re married. Nothing is what appears to be in this short romantic-comedy about two people who find each other on a very special dating app. You just can’t trust what you read anymore.
Teddy Tenenbaum & Minsun Park are primarily a writing team with combined experience in features and television, including pilot sales, staff writing, feature spec sales, and feature and television assignments. They have written separately and together, and currently write both as a team and as solo writers. They specialize in genre writing, including horror, thriller, and action, typically with a humorous edge. With Minsun's background as an Asian-American woman born in Korea and Teddy's experience as a White dude from Ohio, they cover a lot of bases.
Lucky Break, United Kingdom, 10 mins 30 secs
Director: John Addis
Uloaku works the graveyard shift at a remote service station and is bored out of her mind. Fortunately a chance encounter with a suspicious stranger will soon fix that.
John Addis has worked in the film industry for over 10 years, predominantly as an Editor in features and a Writer/Director on micro budget short films, music promos and other commercial work.
https://raspfilms.com/
Zoo, France, 6 mins 59 sec
Director: Viene
As the spectators in a zoo watch an animal, it wakes up. From the inside of its cage, the animal becomes the spectator of the questions and curious glances.
Veine is trained in screenwriting at the Ecole de la Cité. At this film school, she wrote the short film Louve, directed by Joanne Rakotoarisoa. Thereafter, she continues writing fiction in parallel of philosophy studies at the Sorbonne.
In 2019, she directed and produced her first short film Zoo.
Flavours, United Kingdom, 5 mins 23 secs
Director: Dej FM
Just an ordinary house party…
The latest offering from short film director DejFM provides a real taste of comedic talent. Dej, whose recent works include the excellent contemporary drama Coincide and the solidly creepy Knock a Door Run, has returned to tackle the comedy genre in short form. Yet again, he proves himself to be an up and coming director to watch, with the writing ability to match.
The film’s tag line, “An ordinary house party”, may suggest that there is some mysterious and particularly strange underpinning to a modern film audience so used to the somewhat sarcastic and euphemistic style of classic movie tag lines. However, here it couldn’t be more forthright; the film’s simple setup is just an ordinary house party. Set both during and after the party, Flavours uses this clear and familiar idea to tell jokes and explore group dynamics. It is a flavour of modern culture that is both smart and joyfully crude.
Classic Cooking, Australia, 6 mins 23 secs
Director: Daniel Go
Your favourite cooking show is back with only the best classic dishes and classic music in one place! In this episode, your host Jean-Paul Huitre prepares a delicious beef rib roast, and absolutely nothing out of the ordinary happens. Stay tuned!
Daniel Go is an Australian director based in Melbourne, Australia.
Tyresome, United Kingdom, 12 mins 8 secs
Director: Theresa Varga
Nathan meets his girlfriend's family for the first time and their repetitive conversation becomes dead frustrating.
Theresa Varga is a writer-director from South Yorkshire in the UK. With a focus on comedy and growing up in a family of five sisters, Theresa pulls inspiration from all their quirks and dramas, to create stories that push through the norm.
Cheyenne, France, 19 mins
Director: Gerard Corporon
At a birthday party with friends, Thomas, a volunteer at the Sea Rescue Society, receives a call from the Regional Operational Center for Surveillance and Rescue at Sea. Despite the insistence of his wife to stay at the party, Thomas goes on a rescue mission.
GERARD CORPORON French Director
1972: At the age of 17, enters the Fine Arts of Sète
1973: Projectionist at the Cinemas Palace and Comoedia of Sète
1974: Performs his Military Service at the Cinema des Armées in Chateauroux
1975: Integrates the Communication, Visual Audio service of the city of Sète for which he will realize institutional films and reports, in domains as varied as Festivities, Traditions, Sport, Culture, Health, Politics, as well as Pubs, Clips and teasers ....
Gérard CORPORON directed many institutionnal films in different domains : sport, culture, traditions , entertainment.
He also used to be a cameraman in movies as « Une bouteille à la mer » by the french director Bernard Malaterre and « La stratégie du thon « by Claude Gaignaire
Directed a docu-fiction about an hospital in Sète
in 1988 a short music video : Sète 88 , which was rewarded in a national festival in Narbonne
Welcome to Darkmoor, United Kingdom, 12 mins 55 secs
Director: Harrison Allen
When a woman driving through the English countryside finds her alertness dwindling, she decides to stay the night in a mysterious little town. However, the longer she stays there, the more she begins to notice there is something not right about this place and the people who live there.
Harrison Allen first began making stop-motion animated shorts when he was thirteen years old, placing in the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival "Built By Me" Lego Movie Contest in 2008 with Bohrok Attack and winning Best Animation at the Dixie Film Festival in Athens Georgia in 2011 with Pirates Rule! and Best Animated Short at the DIY Film Festival in 2013 with How to Not Rob A Bank.
Harrison's latest animated short, Welcome to Darkmoor, was five years in the making. It contains over 11,000 frames shot in greyscale with some select scenes featuring red lighting and red elements for dramatic effect.
“I create a wide range of videos with whimsical humour, action, and adventure. I value quality of over quantity, and thus new videos take a long time to make, sometimes years. My videos are meant for all ages to enjoy.”
A Violent Noise, Germany, 4 mins 47 secs
Director: Natalie MacMahon
In a world where real human voices can be downloaded onto a humanoid robot, there is no need to meet a partner in real life. But what if that relationship with your artificial partner seems so authentic that you end up falling in love, but the voice sample download is about to time out? Time to say goodbye?
Natalie gained her first acting and performance experiences at a very young age and studied performing arts with the focus on acting in Berlin. After finishing her studies, she worked in German and international film productions, shot music videos, commercials and performed on stage.
A few years ago, the ambitious actress decided to dedicate more time to writing and directing her own films. Natalie's short films "The Man Who Couldn't Cry", "Like A Summer Sonata", "Lola wants to see the sea", “It’s getting darker every day”, “The Redhead” and “A Universal Love Story” have been shown at numerous international film festivals, won awards and special mentions. Her latest film "The Funeral Dancer" is equally successful and is touring the world at the moment. The Esperanto web series "Malsano Nomata Amo" has received very positive feedback since its release on Valentine's Day 2019! Apart from that, Natalie just released her Instagram series "Silent Disco" and her half fiction- half animated short "Pink Me Blue" as well as the fantasy sci-fi drama “A Violent Noise” while working on her first feature film script "Hot Scary Summer" and the second season of "Silent Disco"!
Flame, United Kingdom, 1 min 52 secs
Director: Cherelle Owusu
Lightning strikes in the desert, and Flame is born. Alone and scared, she soon realises that she is in trouble, as the same storm that brought her to life is a threat to her survival.
Cherelle Owusu is an animation student at Escape Studios, studying for her master's degree in the art of animation. This is her first film.
“I wanted to tell a story about a character's struggle to survive, coping with adversity, but in a fun engaging and entertaining way. Flame is a character trying to survive in a frightening world - but her journey is part of a much bigger story.”
https://flamegroupstudio.wixsite.com/flame
Adam & Eve Mk II, United Kingdom, 4 mins 13 secs
Director: Sebastian Kuder
Adam and Eve Mk. II is a modern re-telling of the Biblical origins story, set in a post-apocalyptic world in which human memories are uploaded into the artificial brain of a humanoid robot. The short film was created as part of Sebastian's final year project at Escape Studios, and it is his last project completed as an undergraduate student.
Adam and Eve Mk.II takes inspiration from the so-called "ImmortalityDrive" - a large memory device which was taken to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft on October 12, 2008. The Immortality Drive contains fully digitized DNA sequences of a select group of humans; with the intention being to preserve human DNA in a time capsule, in case some global cataclysm should occur on Earth.
Sebastian graduated from Escape Studios this past summer, and is now working as a Previs artist at the 3rd Floor, where he is successfully utilising his skills as a cinematographer, and his knowledge of the Unreal Engine pipeline. Sebastian Kuder While at Escape Studios, Sebastian was a prolific film-maker; his short mockumentary film Planet Mars, made during his second year of studies at Escape Studios, has made the official selection for many animation festivals around the world.
This film has won the Audience award at the ICONA film festival in the Best Student Short Film category.
https://escapestudiosanimation.blogspot.com/2019/06/adam-eve-mk-ii-by-sebastian-kuder.htmlhttps://escapestudiosanimation.blogspot.com/2019/12/adam-eve-mk-ii-wins-icona-audience-award.html
Join the Revolution, Mexico, 29 mins
Director: Miguel Salinas
In a futuristic world, where the Council of the Society has control over all citizens, Liz tries to lead a quiet life, while her boss harasses her, and the couple assigned to her is not very determined to renew their relationship, while an inexperienced anarchist tries to put her on his side to overthrow the order in this dystopian world.
Miguel Salinas is a Producer, editor and professional 3D artist. He has worked in audio-visual and VFX since 1990. His work include a feature length film documentary of the rock Band Human Drama, counts with more than 100 edited shorts films; some of them have participated and even won international prizes in various festivals. Winner of the first prize of the MOCAP contest in UK organized by 3D World Magazine and Autodesk ME.
In 2011 he have a short film which is an official selection in the International Film Festival at Mar del plata in Argentina Since 1996 has worked as 3D Studio Max Artist. Previously he worked with 3D Studio in MS-DOS releases since 1990. He is a Blender 3D, 3D Studio Max and Nuke artist.