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Fantastic Short Films 2

Olli

Jack Rath

Germany2005 10min 35mm color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

With a strict mother who never lets him chew gum, an selfish older sister who has to have everything that she wants and a scornful father who forces rigorous rules upon him, Oli yearns to escape from all this. To be free from all of it, he wants to go a place where he feels no weight….

Diretor

Jack Rath

Jack Rath graduated from film school with a Bachelor of Media Arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He worked as an editor for production companies in Melbourne and Sydney while writing and directing several short films. He was then asked by film making collegues to join them in making the film “HURT” which won appraise and recieved a nomination for best editing at the Australian Film Institute (A.F.I) Awards and won the Best Non-feature Film Award.
Jack has lived in Berlin since 2001 and works in film, television and theatre as director and writer. He has taken part in the Berlinale Talent Campus and in 2004 & 5 worked with the Australian Film Commission in the European Market at the Berlinale Film Festival.