Drone Category – Port Shorts 2022 Film Festival
A Bird’s Eye view on the Future of Filmmaking
DRONE VIDEOS
AWAKENING
Directors: Enrique Alexander, Gracia Herrera
Video poem of a young woman’s daydream. A spiritual and sensory journey through the unspoiled islands of the Azores.
FRANCE / PORTUGAL – 3:00 min
RAINFOREST JOURNEY
Director: Martin Stringer
Take a visual journey into the Daintree Rainforest is Australia’s largest and most biodiverse and the world’s longest continuously living and evolving rainforest.
AUSTRALIA – 4:55 min
MONTAGE OF THE FAR NORTH
Director: Matthew Noel Sayre
A montage of drone footage from tropical Far North Queensland. Featuring stunning locations from Townsville right up to the world heritage Daintree rainforest.
AUSTRALIA – 1:06 min
FIREHAWKS
Director: Chris Tangey
3 species of raptors in Australia have the ability to pick up flaming branches to carry them forward, lighting new fires as they go. They are collectively known as “firehawks”
AUSTRALIA – 4:18 min
PERSPECTIVE
Directors: Simon Mulholland, Timothy Hay
Being filmmakers and licenced drone pilots, the reality of living through a pandemic sparked a natural urge to want to document it and to capture a monumental moment in history.
SOUTH AFRICA – 4:57 min
Fire up the popcorn and find your comfy spot as the curtain is raised on the snack-sized short film extravaganza from 7pm on Sunday October 16 and you can check out all the films for free until October 23 wherever you are in the world (as long as there’s internet connection).
SUNDAY 16 OCT – 7:00pm AEDT
4:OOPM – WESTERN AUSTRALIA
6:OOPM – QUEENSLAND
7:00PM – VICTORIA / NSW / TASMANIA / ACT
7:30PM – SOUTH AUSTRALIA / NORTHERN TERRITORY