Description

Tucked away in a forgotten and isolated motel, a “lad” encounters a returning solider coping with post-traumatic stress disorder. The brief encounter is a soft collision of two characters both lost and trying to find themselves within each other.

Awards:

ACS Student Cinematography Award NSW Australia, Palm Springs International Shortfest, 36th Poitiers Film Festival, France

Director's Bio

Andrew Lee, (aka undi) studied design at the University of Technology Sydney, during which time he received two scholarships to complete his studies in France and Canada. He has worked on many award-winning productions under production designer Melinda Doring, including THE EYE OF THE STORM (Fred Schepsi), THE SAPPHIRES (Wayne Blair), NETHERLAND WARF (David Michôd), STRANGERLAND (Kim Farrant) and THE WATER DIVINER (Russell Crowe) under costume designer Tess Schofield. As a director in 2010 and 2011 he was awarded the ‘Young Australian Korean Filmmaker Award’ at the Korean film Festival in Australia, for his short films SWIMMING WITH CHOPIN and SECOND FROM THE RIGHT. His other awarding winning films that he designed include; PERCEPTION (Best Live Action Short at The Sydney Film Festival – 2013) SPINE (Best Australian short at the Melbourne international film festival- 2012) and BAT EYES, which was screened at the 69th Venice Film Festival in 2012. In 2013, Andrew completed his Directing Post-graduate Diploma at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, where he was awarded the Kenneth B Myer Scholarship for Exceptional Talent.

Credits

Writers: Andrew Lee, Jacob Holmes-Brown
Producer: Ashlea Ritchie

Precedes

1. 

   What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger

   Kiyoung Kang / Program 2: Dark Passage / South Korea / 2014 / Drama / 15 mins

   Yongsu, who makes a living from taking pictures and drawing, becomes a serial killer at night; he believes that too is a form of art. One night he goes out looking for prey, kidnaps Heejung, then rapes her, as he would do to any of his other victims. Following his routine, Yongsu asks Heejung for her very last wish and plays a song on his piano, giving her some time to think. When the music ends, Heejung tells him she'd like to call to her boyfriend....

   Preceded by: Eric

   Precedes: Nighthawks

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Plays in

1. 

   Program 2: DARK PASSAGE

   Program 2: Dark Passage / 94 mins

   In DARK PASSAGE, six filmmakers shine a light onto what happens when tragic and unforseeable circumstances test the limits of the human soul. From a reinterpreted Greek tragedy played out on China's waterways in "A Grand Canal," to a woman's final wish to her own rapist and would-be murderer in "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger," these films explore six very different interpretations of Invictus (Latin, for "unconquered" - from a poem by William Ernest Henley): Out of the night that covers me...I thank whatever gods may be, for my unconquerable soul."

   In This Program: My Red Guard, Nighthawks, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, Eric, A Grand Canal, The Free Man

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Preceded By

1. 

   The Free Man

   Sam Quah / Program 2: Dark Passage / Taiwan / 2014 / Crime, Drama / 30 mins

   "Except for the freedom to breathe, I have nothing."

   Preceded by: A Grand Canal

   Precedes: Eric

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