The joy of short films

The phrase most often heard during a four-day short film festival is that film-making, in particular short films, is a ‘labour of love‘.By that, the film-maker means he/she/they did not make a bean out of it – in fact probably lost money. Gympie’s Heart of Gold International short film festival was held last weekend after a two-year hiatus through the Covid pandemic. Festival director Jackson Lapsley Scott waded through 914 short movies from Australia and…

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