Sunshine Coast film director Tom Noakes brings his film Nursery Rhymes to this year’s Flickerfest short film festival at The J Theatre this month as part of its national tour.
Growing up on the Sunshine Coast Tom didn’t have film studies at his high school, so he was self-taught and pursued filmmaking as an art class project.
“I mostly bummed around Alex skate park where I filmed mates skating. I carried a backpack and camera everywhere, filmed everything and honestly had no idea what I was doing,” he said. “I still don’t. I lived between Maroochydore and Buderim till I moved out of home and studied film at QUT in Brisbane, whereupon I met the same wonderful collaborators Will Goodfellow and Lucy Gaffy, that over 10 years later, produced Nursery Rhymes together in Sydney.”
Nursery Rhymes tells a curious tale of a bizarre encounter on the side of a rural highway and is the Flickerfest winner of the John Barry Award for Best Cinematography in an Australian Short Film.
Also featured is the delightful indigenous drama and first short film in the Ngandi language from the Northern Territory, Lil Bois, by Grant Thompson and Aussie actor Jack Thompson plays the lead in Home in which two men struggle to deliver terrible news to an innocent family in the adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck’s 1894 one-act play, Interieur.
Comedian and actor Paul McDermott makes a return to Flickerfest, with his beautifully crafted and haunting animation Ghostbear, which looks at the world’s disappearing species. A polar bear cub, the Ghostbear, wanders through the artic wasteland in search of his place in the world and his birthplace in the stars.
Flickerfest 2019 – Best of Australian Shorts will be shown on Thursday 14 March from 7.30pm at The J, 60 Noosa Drive, Noosa Junction.
Tickets $20 Adult / $18 Concession. Book at www.thej.com.au or phone 5329 6560.
