'Home' a winner at Show Me Shorts

We had a fantastic time last night at the Show Me Shorts awards, a wonderful celebration of New Zealand's filmmaking talent. This local short film festival gets bigger and better every year!

It was particularly exciting to see two awards go to a documentary short. Congratulations to Thomas Gleeson whose film Home won the SDGNZ Best Editor NZ award and the Film Commission Special Jury Prize.

Gleeson's film explores the notion of home on many levels. As we follow the precarious journey of a house being relocated through some of New Zealand's most spectacular southern landscape we become intimately acquainted with the house, which takes on a character of its own. Home demonstrates how powerful a simple story can be, and how much can be said without words.

 

Here's a trailer for the film:

 

And here's an interview with Home director Thomas Gleeson from the Encounters Short Film and Animation festival (Bristol, UK).

You can see Home alongside an outstanding selection of New Zealand short films in the Our Place sessions at the Show Me Shorts film festival at locations throughout New Zealand this month (locations and dates here).

posted: 6th Nov 2013 by