The Bold, the Brave and the Best - 2-DVD Set ( Leisure / Crust / Union Street / Tiga / One Man's Instrument / Redback / Cousin / Love Song / Slim Pickings / Ward 13 / Cane Toads / Democracy Leunig / Darra Dogs / Birthday Boy / TISM: Everyone else has had more sex than me ) ( Ned Wethered / The Emu and the Sun / Arnold has a Thought / Sunday / Feral Television / Episodes in Disbelief / Shh! / Dad's Clock / Mother Tongue / Gargoyle. )

The Bold, the Brave and the Best - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Leisure / Crust / Union Street / Tiga / One Man's Instrument / Redback / Cousin / Love Song / Slim Pickings / Ward 13 / Cane Toads / Democracy Leunig / Darra Dogs / Birthday Boy / TISM: Everyone else has had more sex than me
Alternate Title: Ned Wethered / The Emu and the Sun / Arnold has a Thought / Sunday / Feral Television / Episodes in Disbelief / Shh! / Dad's Clock / Mother Tongue / Gargoyle.
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
213 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1989 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Max Bannah

Written By:
Bruce Petty

Actors:
Michael Cusack
John Hughes
Wendy Chandler
Lucinda Clutterbuck
Sarah Watt
Max Bannah
Robert Stephenson
Adam Elliot
Bruce Currie
Anthony Lucas
Peter Cornwell
Andrew Silke
David Clayton
Alex Stitt
Phillip Adams
Andrew Horne
Dennis Tupicoff
Seejong Park
Bernard Drriman
Lee Whitmore
John Skibinski
Peter McDonald
Peter Moyes
Damien
Ledwich
Ann Shenfield
Adam Robb
Dik Jarman
Susan Seidelman
Kim Danta

Synopsis:

For the first time in Australia, Flickerfest is pleased to present an outstanding showcase of the best of homegrown animation that has seen our animators win awards and much acclaim around the world. Curated by Academy Award® nominated animator, Anthony Lucas from the animations that have inspired his career. Highlights of the programme include award winning iconic television commercials, Louie The Fly, Life Be In It and Aeroplane Jelly alongside award winning shorts by famous Australian Animators including Sarah Watt, Adam Elliot, Wendy Chandler and Bruce Petty (winner of the first Academy award for Australian animation 1970). See the Best in Aussie Animation! Contains Leisure, Crust, Union Street, Tiga, One Man's Instrument, Redback, Cousin, Love Song, Slim Pickings, Ward 13, Cane Toads, Democracy Leunig, Darra Dogs, Birthday Boy and TISM: Everyone else has had more sex than me, Ned Wethered, The Emu and the Sun, Arnold has a Thought, Sunday, Feral Television, Episodes in Disbelief, Shh!, Dad's Clock, Mother Tongue and Gargoyle.

A fast-paced, humorous and thought-provoking film using animation by Australian newspaper cartoonist Bruce Petty. The film emphasizes the use of leisure time as an important aspect of life in our society today. Planning for recreation and leisure time should be undertaken both on a personal and on a public level. Director: Bruce Petty Producer: Suzanne Baker Crust Running Time: 5 min 10sec Year: 1986 Format: 35mm Country: Australia Synopsis: Crust follows on from Germ of An Idea (1984). This mad and bad story unravels a situation where two half made, half-baked protagonist Ropeshair and Evanrude engage in a battle of ill will to be the most polite. The film is a gradual build up of tension and psychic status as hallucination takes on hallucination. Director: John Hughes Union Street Running Time: 14min Year: 1990 Format: 35mm Country: Australia Synopsis: Union Street tells the story of a typical inner-city street, opposite the train line and underneath the flight path. None of the residents see eye-to-eye, but when the Armstrong-Taylors decide to renovate it sets off an unexpected chain of events, which changes the face of Union Street forever. Director: Wendy Chandler Producer: Anna Grieve Tiga Running Time: 10min Year: 1989 Format: 35mm Country: Australia Synopsis: A stunning animation about the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger, based on documentary footage shot in Hobart in the 1930 's. The soundtrack is both whimsical music and a voice over of various people recalling sightings of the Tiger. Director: Lucinda Clutterbuck One Man's Instrument Running Time: 4min Year: 1990 Format: SP Betacam Country: Australia Synopsis: One Man's Instrument deals with the way a farmer lives with his bananas and copes with a changing environment... a man attempting to reclaim a world that has gone forever. Director: Max Bannah Redback Running Time: 8 min Year: 1995 Format: 35mm Country: Australia Synopsis: A man with a compulsive cleaning disorder discovers a red-backed spider inside his home. His attempts to kill the spider result in the red-back undertaking a course of revenge. Director: Robert Stephenson Writer: Robert Stephenson Cousin Running Time: 4 min Year: 1998 Format: SP Betacam Country: Australia Synopsis: 'Cousin ' is the childhood remembrance of a little boy born with cerebral palsy. Being of the same age, the narrator tells of their antics together as children; their attempts to fly off the chicken shed roof, out of control shopping trolley rides and games of violent cricket in the backyard. We meet his newest pets and visit the graveyard of the old ones, as well as glancing his many assorted collections of tee shirts, pet rocks and toenails. We observe how he copes with his disability using safety pins and finger breaking, and follow him to the depths of the ocean where he contemplates his world. Director: Adam Elliot Love Song Running Time: 7 min Year: 1999 Format: 35mm Country: Australia Synopsis: A small rat tries his luck in the great game of love Director: Bruce Currie Writer: Bruce Currie Slim Pickings Running Time: 4 min Year: 1999 Format: SP Betacam Country: Australia Synopsis: On a hungry planet a friendship is tested. Elastic clay animation, expressionistic lighting and 'Little Prince ' pathos tells the story of Snork and his best friend, a little green plant. Director: Anthony Lucas Ward 13 Running Time: 14 min 34 sec Year: 2003 Format: SP Betacam Country: Australia Synopsis: What price would you put on your health ' Ben is about to find out ' Ward 13 's newest admission faces medical attention of an unwanted kind ' and no amount of apples will keep those doctors away ' Director: Peter Cornwell Cane Toads Running Time: 3 min 57 sec Year: 2002 Format: SP Betacam Country: Australia Synopsis: 'Cane-Toad: What happened to Baz ' ' takes us on a four minute journey into the lives (and deaths) of two cane toad mates. Soaking in a dog 's bowl with a cold beer in his hand, the overweight, uncouth Dazza ponders the possible fate of his adventurous but nave friend Bazza, in a land where man versus toad presents an ongoing sporting challenge. Various fatal scenarios are played out in glorious technicolour as the unsuspecting Baz wanders into human territory. Director: Andrew Silke & David Clayton Writer: Andrew Silke & David Clayton Democracy Leunig Running Time: 1 min Format: SP Betacam Country: Australia Synopsis: Rest assured, your vote really does count... Director: Andrew Horne Writer: Michael Leunig Darra Dogs Running Time: 10 min Year: 1993 Format: SP Betacam Country: Australia Synopsis: Using his own voice and without rotoscoping from live-action, Dennis Tupicoff animates his memories of the dogs of his childhood. Director: Dennis Tupicoff Birthday Boy Running Time: 9 min 30 sec Year: 2004 Format: 35mm Country: Australia Synopsis: Korean War, 1951 Little Manuk is playing on the streets of his village and dreaming of life at the front where his father is a soldier. He returns home to find a parcel on the doorstep and, thinking it is a birthday present, he opens it. But its contents will change his life. Director: Seejong Park Writer: Seejong Park TISM Everyone else has had more sex than me Running Time: 4 min Format: SP Betacam Country: Australia

Leisure Running Time: 13min 20sec A fast-paced, humorous and thought-provoking film using animation by Australian newspaper cartoonist Bruce Petty. The film emphasizes the use of leisure time as an important aspect of life in our society today. Planning for recreation and leisure time should be undertaken both on a personal and on a public level. Director: Bruce Petty Producer: Suzanne Baker

Crust Crust follows on from Germ of An Idea (1984). This mad and bad story unravels a situation where two half made, half-baked protagonist Ropeshair and Evanrude engage in a battle of ill will to be the most polite. The film is a gradual build up of tension and psychic status as hallucination takes on hallucination. Director: John Hughes

Union Street Union Street tells the story of a typical inner-city street, opposite the train line and underneath the flight path. None of the residents see eye-to-eye, but when the Armstrong-Taylors decide to renovate it sets off an unexpected chain of events, which changes the face of Union Street forever. Director: Wendy Chandler Producer: Anna Grieve

Tiga A stunning animation about the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger, based on documentary footage shot in Hobart in the 1930's. The soundtrack is both whimsical music and a voice over of various people recalling sightings of the Tiger. Director: Lucinda Clutterbuck

One Man's Instrument One Man's Instrument deals with the way a farmer lives with his bananas and copes with a changing environment... a man attempting to reclaim a world that has gone forever. Director: Max Bannah

Redback A man with a compulsive cleaning disorder discovers a red-backed spider inside his home. His attempts to kill the spider result in the red-back undertaking a course of revenge. Director: Robert Stephenson Writer: Robert Stephenson

Cousin Cousin' is the childhood remembrance of a little boy born with cerebral palsy. Being of the same age, the narrator tells of their antics together as children; their attempts to fly off the chicken shed roof, out of control shopping trolley rides and games of violent cricket in the backyard. We meet his newest pets and visit the graveyard of the old ones, as well as glancing his many assorted collections of tee shirts, pet rocks and toenails. We observe how he copes with his disability using safety pins and finger breaking, and follow him to the depths of the ocean where he contemplates his world. Director: Adam Elliot

Love Song A small rat tries his luck in the great game of love Director: Bruce Currie Writer: Bruce Currie

Slim Pickings On a hungry planet a friendship is tested. Elastic clay animation, expressionistic lighting and "Little Prince" pathos tells the story of Snork and his best friend, a little green plant. Director: Anthony Lucas

Ward 13 What price would you put on your health? Ben is about to find out... Ward 13's newest admission faces medical attention of an unwanted kind and no amount of apples will keep those doctors away... Director: Peter Cornwell

Cane Toads Cane-Toad: What happened to Baz?' takes us on a four minute journey into the lives (and deaths) of two cane toad mates. Soaking in a dog's bowl with a cold beer in his hand, the overweight, uncouth Dazza ponders the possible fate of his adventurous but naïve friend Bazza, in a land where man versus toad presents an ongoing sporting challenge. Various fatal scenarios are played out in glorious technicolour as the unsuspecting Baz wanders into human territory. Director: Andrew Silke & David Clayton Writer: Andrew Silke & David Clayton

Democracy Leunig Rest assured, your vote really does count... Director: Andrew Horne Writer: Michael Leunig

Darra Dogs Using his own voice and without rotoscoping from live-action, Dennis Tupicoff animates his memories of the dogs of his childhood. Director: Dennis Tupicoff Birthday Boy Korean War, 1951 Little Manuk is playing on the streets of his village and dreaming of life at the front where his father is a soldier. He returns home to find a parcel on the doorstep and, thinking it is a birthday present, he opens it. But its contents will change his life. Director: Seejong Park Writer: Seejong Park

TISM Everyone else has had more sex than me Running Time: 4 min

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 14 February, 2012.