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Using archival footage, newsprint image, text and an innovative use of audio, award-winning filmmaker Deco Dawson has fashioned a sensitive yet harrowing collage account of the 1947 Black Dahlia murder. Created exclusively using crude digital technology, the film presents a human side to the murder focusing on the victim Elizabeth Short and not often sensationalized aspects of the murder and unknown murderer.

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Death's Chaplain (Steve James)
For 15 years, Carroll Pickett ministered to 95 inmates in the final moments of their lives on Death Row in a Texas penitentiary. He watched as Billy Wayne White helped with his own execution.

07:20

Paul
Paul has been my neighbour for about 15 years. He's 83 years old and he's an actor. I recorded him talking about his life and I later added animation to it. In this portrait, past and present anecdotes of his life are mixed with drama, but they are told with a simple and satirical narrative.

07:03

Fall Into Half-Angel
Between heaven and earth, life and love hang on a thread of trust 'Fall Into Half-Angel' is a short documentary exploring the unique relationship between two trapeze artists and the physical and emotional trust that flows between them.

13:53

Bomb
What starts as an innocent flirtation between teenages goes askew when a trip home reveals a chaotic adult world that seeks to subvert their friendship.

24:53

Fifteen
The film charts the misadventures of three teenagers on the fringe of Singaporean society. Abandoned by the system, they seek answers to their aimless existence among the misfits and outsiders of Singapore's underclass. A provocative film acted by real street kids, it exposes a gritty side of modern-day Singapore life that many never knew existed.

07:56

Closework
In a bed at a treatment centre, a severely disabled boy lies. Nobody understands him. Everybody has given him up, except for one person. A warm film about the fact that solutions are not always the solution.

08:57

Transient
Transient is a poignant meditation on the nature of love and relationships. An 'end of love' story that traverses themes of travel, capitalism, loss and love, filmed in Sydney and Vietnam. Transient stars Craig Boreham, and Phoenix Leonard as a gay couple living through the decay of their relationship and is narrated by Sydney based actor Ian Roberts. Transient was made with assistance from the New south Wales Film and Television Office Young Filmmakers Fund and the Australian Film Commission

06:41

The Bridge
Memories are sparked when a man retraces the footsteps of his mother.

21:05

My Last Confession
Set in a Catholic Church in the late 1960s, this darkly comic short film tells the story of a young boy who dreads confessing the most grievous of all sins- `impure thoughts and deeds.`

13:52

The Swimmer
The story of a love's tragic cul-de-sac: if love helps making true the only dream of one of the lovers, they will be separated. If not, the only dream will die. And so does love.

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