Welcome to the ERFF Screening guide page for the English Riviera Film Festival 10th Anniversary – South West Film Focused Screenings taking place on Wednesday March 19th at the Projection Room Paignton.
5.00pm Screenings
Total running time: 2hrs
Director – Grice Peters
One thousand birds symphony is a majestic collection of film footage captured on location in deepest darkest Devon (UK) and digital artwork accompanied by symphonic compositions and arrangements mixed with field recordings of dawn choruses and solo birdsong created during lockdown by British art-rock artist GRICE.
Running time: 17.32min
Director – Kelly Maria Bryant
We touch our smartphones on average 2600 times a day. Tap, swipe and pinch are unconscious movements of communication and connectivity, transforming our sociality and material embodied experiences. The touch screen is celebrated for overcoming distance as a barrier for connection and condemned for denying physical human touch. This film explores the tactile and emotional relationship between skin and screen and through a media archaeological lens the evolving relationship, from cinema to the touch screen era.
Running time: 13.52min
Director – Monica Shanta
‘Never Look Straight at the Sun’, possible sub-title ’Seeking Enlightenment in Paignton’. A short adventure with light, and the lightness of being, in a South Devon coastal town.
Running time: 6.20min
Director Lois Norman
a lick away from love now…
Late at night, her bed still warm from her lover leaving, a painter dips her brush into her own imperfect past & parts of her: a lost truth drips through…
Running time: 5.03min
Director Steve Moles – Producer Jeff Sleeman
Eric, a householder receives a series of doorstep callers inc. a couple of ropy builders and two Jehovah Witnesses. He welcomes them in and delivers a pitch inviting them to his luxury villa in Spain..
Running Time: 14.07min
6.00pm Screenings
Total running time: 1 hour
Director Rebecca Melvin Phillips
A mysterious woman flees for her life and a dark chapter of Dartmoor folklore is written.
The Medusa Box Prologue was shot in an eerie forest on the edge of Dartmoor on the Spring Equinox 2022, with a cast and crew fuelled mainly by cake and fake blood.
It uses in camera effects and the power of suggestion to allow the audience to fill in the gory gaps. A Prequel to the now in Production Feature Film of the same name.
Running time: 8.00min
Director Harry Faint
Teachers at a Cornish secondary school are playing catch up to the 21st Century as two teens are elected prom king and king.
Running time: 12.54min
Director Dean Ferris
Strange things occur for two lonely souls waiting at an empty railway station. As they sit on opposite sides of the track, their lives will crossover in a cataclysmic event that will determine their fates.
Running time: 5.22min
Director Sam Cox
Outside a quiet railway station a mischievous man encounters a lone figure after his blood, but not everything we believe is what is the reality.
Running time; 6.03min
Director Justin Carter
A lonely lady of the manor welcomes a new acquaintance to her home. Will she find love or be lost to the home like those before her.
Running time: 6.22min
Director Ethan Menear
In 1800’s Cornwall, the son of a grieving family finds himself facing a life changing turn of events after an intimate secret is uncovered that he wishes no-one to know, least of all those closest to him.
Running time: 9.41min
7.00pm Screenings
Total running time: 1 hour 2 minutes
Director Jacob Saul
What would you do for some pizza? Tim would do anything.
Running time: 9.50min
Director Aaron R Dorey
When Missing in action, Mimi walks away from the world of crime, it’s not long until the head of the organization and the aristocrats plan her assassination. Will they be successful? or will she burn them all to the ground?
Running time: 2.00min
Director Erenik Beqiri – Producers Erenik Beqiri, Pierre Mourey, Christie Molia and Antoine Heuveline
Klodi and Mira, a young Albanian couple, decide to marry Mira to a Frenchman for 5 years in exchange for money, in order to obtain French nationality. They will then have to choose the right husband for her, and learn to detach themselves from each other.
Running Time: 17.16min
Director Henry Austwick
Having lost her ticket, a customer must battle to get into the event.
Running time: 2.58min
Director Connor Raithby
After John receives a call from his friend regarding his absence at a party, a piece of stationary equipment speaks to him unexpectedly, which is revealed to be his Stapler. Cautiously, John tries to get to know the Stapler to see what he can learn.
Running time: 24.22min
Director Rio G
In a contemporary comedy, university student Alex struggles to balance his workload amidst a constant stream of distractions, each pulling him further from his studies.
Running time: 6.13min