Oska Bright Short Film Showcase
12A
This fantastic Short Film Showcase packs a punch and is a great way to see a little bit of everything and celebrate Oska Bright Film Festival 2024 (11th - 17th March).
About Oska Bright Film Festival
With less than 5% of disabled people working in the UK film industry, Oska Bright Film Festival is driven to make change happen. Working internationally with industry partners and funded by the BFI, our team produces the BAFTA and BIFA qualifying Oska Bright Film Festival, promotes accessible screenings, runs training for venues and develops skills for aspiring filmmakers.
Oska Bright Film Festival puts people with learning disabilities or autism where they should be, on the big screen.
Read more about Oska Bright and welcoming learning disabled and autistic people to the Hyde Park Picture House in our latest journal post.
SHORT FILMS
A Tale of Swords and Smoke (2023, Dir. Michael Strachan Brown, 7mins)
A Tale of Swords and Smoke is the epic story of two young adventurers journeying across a far away land.
Dead Cat Film (2022, UK, Dir. Josie Charles and Nathan Miller, 5mins)
A young woman becomes increasingly attached to the taxidermied corpse of her housemate’s cat.
Unscarfed (2023, Germany, Dir. Anita Bruneburg, 9mins)
Three humans serve a giantess in a giant-ruled land. They try hide their true feelings.
Glitch (2022, UK, Dir. Dan McGowan, 13mins)
When a new router arrives, Tom thinks it’s the end of his lockdown wifi woes. But the new router has mysterious powers.
Holiday Maker (2022, UK, Dir. Harry Mead, 7mins)
After she can’t afford to go on her dream holiday, Emily builds a miniature model wonderland of her desired destinations.
Happy Okay Mate (2022, UK, Dir. Luke Collins, 4mins)
In this short dance film we see Rob arrive to collect the bins at the back door of a theatre before his eyes fall on a cancelled theatre production.
My Cameras (2022, UK Dir. Lucy Skuce, 6mins)
An experimental film about Lucy’s obsessions: first-person experiences and redundant technologies.
The Cunning (2022, UK, Dir. Alexandra Maher, 14mins)
A teenager with Down's syndrome helps herself, and others, to escape from accusations of witchcraft.
What I am hiding from you (2023, UK, Dir. Conor Powell, 5mins)
A short semi-animated experimental horror film about masking neurodivergence.
Good Vibrations (2022, UK, Dir. Tamsin Louise Parker, 5mins)
Explore Tamsin’s complicated relationship with the sound of snoring in film and TV.
Chicken (2022, Canada, Dir. Lucy McNulty & Emma Pollard, 14mins)
When Sam splits up with her partner, she moves back into her childhood home with her mother and neurodivergent brother.
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