The South West Film Network has been set up with two simple aims: to help filmmakers get their films shown, and to help exhibitors show films made by regional filmmakers.

If you are a South West based filmmaker and have a film you would like to submit, click here to download the guidelines and submission form.

If you are an exhibitor, scroll down this page to see the current catalogue. Films are listed in alphabetical order by film title and you can watch short clips of the films. Once you have selected films you are interested in showing, please contact Arilda Tymko (Tel: 0117 9529977) who will forward you contact details for the filmmakers. It is the responsibility of film-makers and exhibitors to negotiate arrangements for screenings.

Facilitated by South West Screen.

New films are added regularly and as the Network grows we would hope to introduce themed packages.

The following films are currently available through the Short Film Network (listed alphabetically by title):

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

10 Seconds

Director: Tim Clague
Synopsis: A man realizes he has the ability to see ten seconds into the future. What riches could this bring him? What lives could he save? It's a shame then that he has a stutter ...
Supported by South West Screen Digital Shorts.
Comedy | 4 mins 10 secs | 2004

A Short Collection of Hilary Flamingo's Dream Vocations

Director: Harriet Fleuriot
Synopsis: A factory worker dreams of escape with the help of some little cakes...
Supported by South West Screen Digital Shorts.
5 mins 52 secs | 2007

A Walk in the Park

Director: Sam Markham and Simon Pearce
Synopsis: After a tedious day working in the park, the keeper locks up for the night. He discovers something that could allow him to pursue his dream and leave the park forever. Just one thing keeps getting in his way...
Comedy | 2005

"And that's how I accidentally managed to confuse the eco-mob"

Director: Mark Jenkin
Synopsis: One man's confession regarding the rising (and falling) sea levels.
Comedy | 90 secs | 2005

Blind Date

Director: Keth Lawes
Synopsis: A short film about unrequited love and wurlitzer organs.
7 mins

Bus Ticket Story, The

Director: Dionysios Vossos
Synopsis: A sad young man who's recently split up with his girlfriend catches a bus home and a joyful incident occurs that makes him smile again.
Supported by South West Screen Digital Shorts.
Drama | 4 mins 4 secs | 2006

Charley Harry's Wondrous Nothing

Director: Esther May Campbell
Synopsis: Amidst the sand dunes, under a blanket of stars, the ghost of Charley Harry recalls the momentously insignificant moment he understood.
5 mins

Christmas Merry

Director: Calling the Shots
Synopsis: In three succinct minutes Christmas Merry reveals the disintegration of a relationship during the course of Christmas Day. You could call it an anti-love story.
3 mins | 2005

Darkside

Director: Michael Wright
Synopsis: AstronautDave Palmeris perplexed by his fellow astronaut Frank's strange behaviour as their space capsule heads around the dark side of the moon. Frank slowly starts to reveal why he's not himself and is about to take them both on a journey from which they may never return.
Comedy | 14 minutes | 2007

Dessert Disaster

Director: William Garrat
Synopsis: A pudding-based disaster movie.
Animation | 1 min 15 secs | 2006

Doodled

Director: Sam Rogers
Synopsis: Jenny is working late in her call centre and everything is as it should be. But when she runs out of paper, she starts a series of events that could spell the end of humanity as we know it!
4 mins 10 secs

Double Biology

Director: Tom Stubbs
Synopsis: "We're going to have a film so you won't need your books....it's about the birds and the bees" A unique short that features an utterly convincing reconstructed educational film.
Funded by South West Screen, produced and administered by Picture This.
Comedy | 15 mins | 2003

East Cliff, West Bay

Director: Tom Williams
Synopsis: Tom and Sara are on a romantic weekend in West Bay. Tom plans to propose to Sara, whilst Sara plans to break up with Tom.
2 mins 54 secs

Elders, The

Director: Lisa May Thomas
Synopsis: Bristol has one of the oldest and most established Black communities in the UK - this film celebrates the community, culture and history of The Elders through song, rhythm, music, dance and memories.
Funded by Arts Council England South West, Bristol City council and Dance Bristol
12 mins 52 secs | 2005

Film Eight

Director: Dan Gitsham
Synopsis: One man's incredible ability to make every wrong decision you could possibly imagine, and then some....
EM Media hold distribution rights. Funded by UK FILM COUNCIL
Horror Comedy | 5 mins 28 secs | 2006

Final Flight of the Falcons

Director: Brett Harvey
Synopsis: A 20-something suicidal mute and his over enthusiastic best friend find themselves at war with an unlikely foe; The Falcon Club a local boys brigade who are using their skills for evil. Let the battle begin!
Supported by South West Screen Digital Shorts.
Comedy | 9 mins 30 secs | 2007

Flying Rats

Director: Verity White
Synopsis: Gentle, old pensioner loves to feed the local pigeons ... but does he have a more sinister motive? A dark tale unfolds as the true horror of the seed-bag's contents are revealed. Made through BBC Film Labs.
Drama | 90 secs

Friday Night

Director: Ornette Spenceley
Writer: Jane Pugh
Synopsis: Nathan, Rebecca and Kerry hope that Friday night will be the night where their dreams come true. But their dreams do not come true. How can they when Nathan wants to prove his love for Kerry, not knowing that Rebecca secretly fancies him, but Kerry only wants to be with her older, sexier boyfriend?
Supported by South West Screen Digital Shorts.
Drama | 8 mins 44 secs | 2007

Hat Trick, The

Director: Chris Dickason and Tom Chitty
Synopsis: A plucky recruit is beckoned to town by the promise of opportunity, but he must first acquire the proper attire. His endeavours are met with a curious blend of diversion and trickery.
Animation | 4 mins 34 secs | 2004

Hedgewitch

Director: Liz Banks
Synopsis: A film about friendship, magic and belief set on the Somerset Levels.
Supported by South West Screen Digital Shorts.
Drama | 8 mins 8 secs | 2007

Here is My Home

Director: Barbara Santi
Synopsis: A short participatory documentary on what it is really like being brought up on a farm in Cornwall. Part of Cornwall Arts Marketing Region of Culture bid. Has been screened on 4Docs and was selected as one of the best shorts July 06.
Documentary | 4 mins | 2006

Hung

Director: George Chan
Synopsis: A saw, a hammer, a hangman's noose, and an electric toaster ... what kind of interview is this? Hung is a short film that looks into what might happen if capital punishment were ever to return to this country. Made through BBC Film Labs.
Drama | 90 Secs

If I Had a Hammer

Director: Andy Bean
Synopsis: The Mighty God of Thunder has lost his magical hammer and embarks on his quest for a new one - at the local DIY store...
Animation | 5 mins 40 secs

Illumination

Director: Liz Crow
Synopsis: When five-year old Nell yearns for trainers which flash, imagination proves a powerful thing.
Supported by South West Screen Digital Shorts.
Drama | 3 mins 17 secs | 2007

Indians

Director: Richard Penfold and Sam Hearn
Synopsis: Whilst out walking one winter morning, Jim, an elderly veteran, dies of a heart attack. During his dying moments, he reflects upon the man he was and the experiences that defined him.

Land Girls of Cornwall, The

Director: Barbara Santi
Synopsis: A documentary rediscovering the efforts of those women who were posted to cornwall to become land Girls during the second world war.
Commissioned by The Hypatia Trust, Penzance, Cornwall. Screened on The Community Channel for International Womens Day 07 & Cornwall Film Festival Best of the Fest. 20 minute version is available if required.
Documentary/factual | 10 mins | 2006

Living Statistic

Director: Young people at PVA MediaLab and First Light
Synopsis: When Alex Kachepa and his family were raided at dawn by immigration officers and escorted to a detention centre to be forcibly removed from the country, the white rural community of Weymouth, Dorset responded with protests and an organised campaign.
Made by PVA MediaLab with funding from First Light.
Documentary/factual | 10 mins | 2005

Lobsterman, The

Director: Mark Jenkin
Synopsis: A portrait of Cornwall's late, great playwright and fisherman Nick Darke.
Documentary/factual | 10 mins | 2001

Losing It

Director: Susie Painter
Synopsis: Enter a psychological pressure chamber with a young boxer in the moments before a big fight. Made through BBC Film Labs.
Drama | 90 secs

Lost Footage of the Fabulous 'Shorty' Backways Brothers, The

Director: Mark Jenkin
Synopsis: Previously unseen look at what was once the most sensational footage in the land.
Documentary/factual | 2 mins | 2005

Lost In Translocation

Director: Ingrid Kvale
Synopsis: One tortoise's journey to find the family that left him behind. Made through BBC Film Labs.
Drama | 90 secs

Lost Ticket

Director: Clare Wilmshurst
Synopsis: A domineering wife. A dejected husband. A winning lottery ticket goes missing. The end of a marriage or the beginning of a brighter future? Made through BBC Film Labs.
Drama | 90 secs

Love Train, The

Director: Eva Bennett
Synopsis: A lonely dragon takes a journey to find love in a mythical Northern, snowy landscape in the age of steam.
Animation | 7 mins 53 secs

Mixed Emotions of a Middle Distance Runner, The

Director: Mark Jenkin
Synopsis: The ever-changing mind-set of one who pounds the pavement.
Comedy | 90 secs | 2006

Motion

Director: Robin Whenary
Synopsis: A spinning top is spun, and several everyday actions become interconnected, through the power of editing. then it all starts to go wrong.
Drama | 4 mins 20 secs | 2001

Nectar

Director: Liz Crow
Synopsis: Working class Walter Kendall has lived all his 91 years in the same city. After his beloved wife Gloria dies, he is overtaken with memories of the day he discovered what he really wanted from life. Available with captions, sign language interpretation and audio description.
Funded by NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) as part of fellowship award.
Drama | 16 mins 7 secs | 2005

New Boots

Director: Simon Edwards
Synopsis: A short film conceived and written by a group of women who came together to share their experiences and raise awareness of domestic violence.
Produced by awen productions CIC.
Drama | 15 mins | 2007

Off Beat

Director: Will Becher
Synopsis: An adventure involving biscuits, a TV and absolutely no police whatsoever.
Supported by South West Screen Digital Shorts.
Animation | 3 mins | 2006

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Director: Simon Harvey
Synopsis: The story of a Cro-Magnon man so desparate to eat he inadvertently rewrites the history books...well, almost.
6 mins 46 secs

Ramble On

Director: Tom Parkinson
Synopsis: A mild-mannered rambler journeys through the hills of North Wales. Slowly things begin to lose their familiar innocence and the rambler soon finds himself in a very different world to that which he expected.
Supported by South West Screen Digital Shorts.
Animation

Ratfink

Director: David Henley and Jeremy Lawson
Synopsis: When Tom Parks finds a rat who gives him betting tips he can't believe his luck. But when he takes the rat home and into his garage, the rat strikes a deal with him.
12 mins

River, The

Director: Adam Laity
Synopsis: On a dark river, an old man rows for his life in a desperate effort to shield his 'cargo' from what lurks on the far shore.
Supported by South West Screen Digital Shorts.
Drama | 10 mins 3 secs | 2007

Rocket Science!

Director: Sam Morrison
Synopsis: Grime City, somewhere in America - When local hoodlum Larry Finn turns up all burnt and scabby, police captain Jack Hersey doesn't think much of it. But then a scientist turns up and starts asking awkward questions and a giant crater is found in the desert...
Nexus Productions hold the distribution rights.
Animation| 14 mins 57 secs | 2006

Roots

Director: Barbara Santi
Synopsis:. There are many people in the UK who are oposed to GM cultivation - Hector Christie is one of these people. 'Roots' is a film sharing Hector's outspoken political views on the state of our countryside and the love for his land and animals.
Funded by South West Screen and screened on Carlton TV.
Documentary | 10 mins | 2003

Screwed

Director: Matt Pelly
Synopsis: This is the ultimate 'morning after' nightmare. The story of one mission, one man, his woman and her handbag. Not suitable for children. Made through the BBC Film Lab
Drama | 90 secs

Shadows and Reflections

Director: Stephen Whittle
Synopsis: A gentle and evocative film about a little girl as she tries to capture the moon from the night sky.
Funded by Animated Screen Gems - A co-production between S4C/Sgrin Wales and the ACW.
Animation | 3 mins 30 secs | 2005

Small Steps

Director: Max Sobel and Tom Loughlin
Synopsis: Kasia, a young Plish girl working in an English canney, longs to escape the monotony of her job and start living properly in her new home.
Comedy | 12 mins | 2006

Space Time Envelope

Director: Calling the Shots
Synopsis: If you had an envelope containing space and time, what would you do?
3 mins | 2005

Stacking

Director: Vicky Smith
Synopsis: Direct liquid animation is stacked into multiple human forms. The body struggles to adapt, but the restless paint is unstable and eventually the image congeals into a muddy meltdown.
Funded by Arts Council.
Animation | 7 mins | 2006

Stuffed

Director: Sam Rogers
Synopsis: A broken-hearted romantic takes out her angst on a selection of Teddy bears to the soundtrack of her ex-love.
90 secs

Talking Coasts

Director: Mark Jenkin
Synopsis: An exploration of modern life along the South West coast. Based around a series of interviews conducted with communties and using a diverse range of visual material, the film examines issues of past, present and future coastal living.
60 mins

The Man Who Needed a Traffic Light

Director: Mark Jenkin
Synopsis: A man finds himself trapped on a lonely filling station forecourt.
Supported by South West Screen Digital Shorts.
Comedy | 6 mins | 2003

Thoughts From Inside a Headache

Director: Mark Jenkin
Synopsis: An example of the dangers of over thinking during the search for the source of energy.
Drama | 2 mins | 2005

Toast

Director: William Garratt
Synopsis: The nightmarish story of a man, some bread, and a very nasty toaster.
Animation | 1 min 20 secs | 2004

Two Thirds Water

Director: Young people of Penwith, Cornwall
Synopsis: A short film made by young people in Penwith, Cornwall about surfing, spirituality and environmental issues. Shortlisted at Celtic Film Festival.
Documentary | 5 mins | 2005

Young Offender

Director: Isabel Anderton
Synopsis: An 18-year-old white inmate becomes increasingly disturbed in the oppressive atmosphere of a multi-racial young offender's institution.
Supported by South West Screen Digital Shorts Plus.
Drama | 11 mins 2 secs | 2007

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