A TIMELESS TALE OF THE IMAGINATION
A regional competition for young Swedish filmmakers Dalarnas Film Festival took place on 16th of September 2011 screening a total of 51 short films. The SFS thesis film ‘Broken Wings’ screened in the middleweight category (age 17 -21) winning the Best Film Award and a cash prize of 3000 Swedish Kronas.
The 9 minutes long animation, produced at the Sydney Film School in June this year, was previously recognised as the Best Thesis Film at the 14th SFS Film Festival in July 2011.
Beautifully crafted and emotionally brave, Broken Wings is the story of two broken souls fallen from a world above.
“The intention was to create a story about something most of us unfortunately experience, falling in love with someone who is already taken. At the same time I wanted to create a world that you would want to go to,” said 19 year-old Jonathan, born and raised in Sweden. Jonathan enjoyed telling stories from a young age and started making films at age 14. Two months after finishing high school in Sweden he moved to Australia to study film at Sydney Film School.
At the recent Dalarnas Film Festival, his SFS graduating film was described as ‘out of ordinary’ and ‘a timeless tale of imaginative environment’.
Following the screening at the Dalarnas Festival, the film will screen at the Swedish number 1 film festival for emerging filmmakers – November Festival - where up-n-coming Swedish filmmakers connect across age and regional boundaries.
November Festival is a national final for the films that have earlier in the year been selected at one of the 19 regional competitions around the country, Dalarnas being one of them.
The 2011 November Festival will take place from 18th to 20th November at the People's House of Culture in Trollhättan. In 2011, the festival celebrates its 16th consecutive year and will present more than 60 of Sweden's best short films by young filmmakers.
The festival works in close contact with the film industry and is part of an international network of other international short festivals and forums for young filmmakers. The winner of last year’s Best Film Award at the November Festival was ‘It Happened One Night’, a short film by another Sydney Film School graduate, Ludvig Hedlung.
More about the November Festival at: http://novemberfestivalen.se/
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